123 degrees in India

The poor animals who have to labor in that heat. 😥

They can't escape into air conditioning. Abused and hungry. Like the horses hauling carriages in Cozumel.

It's Friday. I'm making a donation. Thanks, OP.

The shape of things to come.

The smell of the shit and piss and garbage in the streets, the burning bodies, the great unwashed........

No r3 not San Francisco, it's India!

The electricity bills will probably be astronomical. Imagine having the A/C all day with those temperatures?

Reminds me that in California is starting to heat up. Ughh, please weather stay as you are now.

It regularly reaches that temperature in Death Valley and parts of the high desert in California.

Soon there will be certain areas of the world that will be totally uninhabitable because of the heat. I think the line has been crossed with climate change and nothing is now going to stop it.

R4 is the only reason I still come here.

[quote]The electricity bills will probably be astronomical. Imagine having the A/C all day with those temperatures?

Think of the millions upon millions upon millions who have no access to a/c. Ughhh.

Soon coming to live in your nice temperate neighborhood.

Lois Nettleton predicted this

They never should have changed the name of Bombay!

[quote]Think of the millions upon millions upon millions who have no access to a/c. Ughhh.

Indians don't have air conditioning? Here in California it can get really hot in some parts, now with the homeless people arriving daily to the state it feels like heatstroke might be a more common occurrence in Los Angeles.

Children dying from heat and dirty water - but yeah, poor animals

Poor Apu!

R15 Did he go back there?

[quote] but yeah, poor animals

Animals have as much right to live well as any human.

Everything Apu!

[quote] Animals have as much right to live well as any human.

Maybe the dingo ate your babby.

Why don't they just move?

[quote]Why don't they just move?

They can't just up and leave their careers in the manufacturing of haute-couture!

^ Where Antarctica? India is a hopeless backwards country, the country is run by the upper caste who control the economy, they say they are a democracy and the they have the biggest income inequality. All the political changes the rest of the world did 300 years ago were not done in India. Climate change will affect India the most due to its location, prepare for more floods and disasters. And the people still believe in nonsense from the middle ages.

i feel sorry for the indian government, such a hard country to rule, it should be broken up into small countries like the Soviet Union.

Children have UNICEF etc. An entire UN agency and more. Animals have almost nothing.

if you are the leader of india what would you do

[quote] Children have UNICEF etc. An entire UN agency and more. Animals have almost nothing.

Who will be the spokesanimal for creating a UN agency for animals? Thanksgiving Otter is too rude.

123 degrees? Sounds like a Tuesday.

ODOR

Here in La Quinta/Thermal CA, the high will be 116 on Tuesday. Thus begins our summer.

[quote] La Quinta

That's pronounced La Keenta. Like Keenwa.

Well, on Tuesday, it will be pronounced HELL ON EARTH.

The 2015 heat wave in India killed 2500 people.

I wonder if Belinda Carlisle is in the country during this heat wave?

She's crazy for this country for some reason.

BC does however donate time & $ to some animal groups in India.

Eat. Pray. Broil.

Hopefully everyone will be chillin' in their pool.

Damn, can you just imagine the stink factor? Ripe.

Well maybe I can finally get a table at NOBU Mumbai

I was curious so looked it up, the hottest it has hit in Phoenix is 122 r27.

If the name of Bombay is now Mumbai, do we call Dr. Mumbai, call Dr. Mumbai when we have an emergency to come right away?

[quote] If the name of Bombay is now Mumbai, do we call Dr. Mumbai, call Dr. Mumbai when we have an emergency to come right away?

Sorry for the suffering. But India to me is a perpetual reminder of how lucky I was to be born in the US - however horrible it’s problems, at least it’s not India.

What is 2500 deaths in a country with over a billion people ? They have more than enough to spare.

126 is the record in Thermal. 123 in Palm Springs. You get used to it.

Records.

....

That is nothing

I've seen hotter areas.

Please give to my charity, which provides air conditioners to needy barnyard animals in India.

And here I am bitching of the 78 degrees here today in Toronto

And here I am complaining about 95 degrees with 62% humidity in Houston. And I will be here complaining about it tomorrow as well.

You know there will be some Indian college coed whining to her boyfriend, "I knew I should've brought a sweater ... can I put on your hoodie?"

Remember the time the thermostat broke & I got the air conditioner to work nonstop blowing out cold air?

It was my genius plan to snuggle up to the other 3 roommates & show them how we prayed to God before going to sleep BACK IN ST. OLAF.

Good times for me & my bunny slippers.

Nature has a way of culling the herd, as unpleasant as it may be.

R53 The herd will be up to 8 billion soon.

Nature isn't exactly doing its job.

I experienced those kind of temps visiting my buddy who was a Border Patrol agent in El Centro, CA. This was in May.

It was a dry heat, but still pretty damn hot, like a sauna. I don't know how the residents endured it.

Well, yeah, air conditioning, but you have to go out sometimes.

[quote] Well, yeah, air conditioning, but you have to go out sometimes.

Not when you can use AmazonPrime, AmazonPrimeNow, AmazonFresh, and Amazon Restaurants.

Everybody's all immigrating to America and Europe, they all need to be immigrating to Canada and Greenland.

[Quote]The herd will be up to 8 billion soon.

Not if this shit keeps up, it won't.

R58 The Earth will hit 8 billion humans sometime in 2024.

Holy Hamburger.

[quote] Holy Hamburger.

No beef, please. We're Hindu.

It's the desert part of India - very low humidity. It's about 8-10 degrees above their normal highs.

Just stay inside with the AC on and cool off by the pool. That's how we do it in Palm Springs. It's really not that bad.

R62 It's not just "the desert part of India".

The heat wave is an issue for almost 55% of the nation's human population.

I've been to PHX on several occasions and the nights were terrible if you're out and about and then you have those loud AC units humming all night. San Antonio had some of those days during the summer when I visited but they have humidity. Those conditions sound awful but extreme weather conditions around the globe is nothing new.

[quote]They never should have changed the name of Bombay!

It will always be Bombay to me. And Ceylon always Ceylon. This is what happens with the British leave! If India was still part of the Empire, things would be running properly.

[quote] This is what happens with the British leave!

Upper Volta!

[quote]Think of the millions upon millions upon millions who have no access to a/c. Ughhh.

Or deodorant

Hmmm? Aren’t excessive A/C units and their use, part of the global warming issue? Everything we do in order to live comfortable lives, while people in shitholes like India die from sweltering heat, or live and work like slaves until they die in places like China, so that we can continue living comfortably, led us here.

We aren’t making it on earth. We will have to go elsewhere to survive, or we will almost completely wiped out of existence and those of us left, will wish for death.

Neither you, nor I, or anyone alive at this very moment, will be alive to see this. Let’s consider ourselves lucky.

A significant part of our population is just too fucking stupid, and selfish to persevere. You could be one of those, and move forward, but you cannot be both, and I promise you that too many people are both.

I have no idea why we became, but we won’t last forever. It’s too late. And yes, I was naive enough to think differently 10 years ago.

I hate A/C and never use it in my car unless it's raining and I can't open the windows. I was in Phoenix this past Wednesday where according to my car's thermometer it was 106. It was so hot that my cell pone stopped charging because of the heat but it was pretty tolerable.

When it is that hot telecom cannot work, right? Also, all those bugs that carried parasite infections. So yes, poor humans and poor animals.

Fatal Outbreak of Nipah Virus in India

(poor animals and poor humans)

Nipah a virus you probably never heard of may become a the next pandemic.

Thank your local and global OIL and FOSSIL FUEL Industry for their complete incompetence, greed and nihilism.

r68, I loathe the drama-queeniness of your standard leftist rant. Of course we won't last forever; 99% of the species that have existed on earth through the eons are extinct.

We will make do as best we can in our time.

You are delusional if you think we can alter the orbit of the planet or the output of the sun to facilitate, or prevent, the next efflorescence of the ice age we are in.

R41, watch The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir to see who is unlucky.

R73, I don’t give one flying fuck if you loathe or love what I say.

I, in no way, believe that at this moment in time, we are prepared, have conceived, or can ever carry out a plan to live elsewhere. Earth IS the last house on the block for us.

And I agree 100% that we are to go the way of other forgone species. I’m not a fucking idiot, despite your attempt to verbally cut me down to size.

I am on board with EVERYTHING you wrote, because it is the truth.

You’re an asshole, R73. But that’s OK, because I’m quite the cunt, which makes us neighbors.

Now go fuck off in your air-conditioned home, and I’ll go fuck off in mine.

This is why Trumpian raving about borders and walls is nothing but hot air. Climate change over the next hundred years will render huge swathes of the planet inhospitable, necessitating human migration on a scale we have yet to comprehend.

Where are climate migrants supposed to go? If humanity has any hope of surviving, we will have to abandon the idea of the nation state and accept it for what it always was - a historical anomaly.

Very apt, and definitely our future, r76.

if population isn't controlled , i think humans might go extinct in the next few centuries. Governments should ban stupid people from reproducing, it is for the greater good.

Very off-off topic, but maybe there will be a breakthrough with clean energy. I mean....did anyone foresee the advent of tech reshaping our lives? I think not. So staying on the bright side, the idea of Carbon Capture is fascinating. Perhaps it can go as far as to reverse extreme temperatures.

[quote]123 degrees in India

But it’s a dry heat.

Bombay - Mumbai

Calcutta - Kolkata

Madras - Chennai

R65 Where is the great sewer system the British gave the people of India?

They should go back to it pronto.

[quote]It regularly reaches that temperature in Death Valley and parts of the high desert in California.

Do you mean the low desert? That's the hottest. I live in the high desert in Nevada (elevation 5,600 feet) and it was 45 F when I got up this morning.

Plant trees & bushes

The trouble is, we need a great pandemic to kill off half the world's population so they'll stop polluting the world and making it uninhabitable for everyone.

Not just India ... the heat index in Brownsville, Texas was 128 degrees F yesterday (53.33 Celsius).

India and a lot of places in the middle east are going to become unbearable and people will start migrating north.

R38, remind me to invite you to my next party.

[quote]India and a lot of places in the middle east are going to become unbearable

They’re not already?

They need more linen. So cool to the skin.

[quote] India and a lot of places in the middle east are going to become unbearable and people will start migrating

I will build a wall on Cape Cod and get the Indians to pay for it!

they could move to Canada

those temps are fairly regular occuarances in parts of the desert in california in summer and in most of the middle east. Buck up as the thermometer is going to start going up even more globally in the coming decades.

20% or people in India don't even have electricity

Only 5% of people in India have air conditioning

r46, are you one of the four gays in the village, in Tecopa?

[Quote] India is a hopeless backwards country, the country is run by the upper caste who control the economy, they say they are a democracy and the they have the biggest income inequality.

Wow, sounds exactly like the US

At certain times there are more than 4 gays in Tecopa, if you know what I mean.

[quote]The trouble is, we need a great pandemic to kill off the 1%

Fixed.

The earth is alive. We are a harmful virus. It is heating up to kill us just like when you have the flu and you get a fever.

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[quote]those temps are fairly regular occuarances

They’re what now?

I read a few years ago that global warming was going to start heating the equatorial regions up so badly it would create a migration of epic proportions — it’ll make the migrations that ended the Roman Empire look like a field day by comparison.

And oh hey look, it’s 125 degrees in India.

Did someone upthread really not know that most Indians don’t have air conditioning?

So what humans have never lived on such a hot planet, I, for one, welcome the opportunity to fry an egg on the sidewalk if I want a quick, tasty snack.

stop reproducing then, i don't have the need to reproduce

[quote] they could move to Canada

A better idea would be to exterminate all the Russians and relocate the climate refugees to the Motherland.

Yeah, people, if we just stopped reproducing everything would be hunky dory.

These Indians are bringing out the wrath of God! That's why it's so hot. They worship their damn filthy monkeys and elephants. What do you expect?

R108 Don't be so sarcastic! Stopping human reproduction is a GREAT first step!

dr mumbai, dr mumbai, come on the sly, and don't ask why

That sounds like hell on earth

This is why we have to close the borders. When shit like this happens and more places become uninhabitable we will be overrun.

R113 And yet we still have dumb fuckheads who claim that we need heterosexuals to keep the world populated. Because the earth’s population apparently needs even MORE people.

I bet India smells absolutely disgusting right now.

[quote]I bet India smells absolutely disgusting right now.

It's not just one big bed of roses under the best of circumstances.

It's also not like show biz.

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