Data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction shows that the average global temperature reached 17.01°C, or 62.62°F, on Monday—making it the hottest day ever recorded.

The record lasted just 24 hours.

  • @delial
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    21 year ago

    Begins? We’ve been doing this almost every summer for years (except that one time there was a volcano eruption that helped a bit).

      • @delial
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        31 year ago

        Yeah, like some cheese! (I think right now we’re just dumping fruits, vegetables, and tofu into the volcanoes to help with their GERD)

    • Sir_Kevin
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      41 year ago

      Indeed but the masses have been looking away or ignoring it the whole time. This is the beginning of society starting to get fucked. Soon the migrations will start. And the ones that can’t relocate will suffer and become desperate. Desperate people do desperate things. There will be a snowball effect to this and it ain’t gonna be cold.

      • @delial
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        21 year ago

        We can only hope the masses are waking up. The migrations, chaos, and death have been a forgone conclusion for a very long time (possibly since Kyoto; certainly since Paris).