Question It's hot
Just HOW did human beings survive this climate before electricity/fans/HVAC?
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u/Purlz1st Jul 03 '26
Work early and late, rest in the hottest part of the day.
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u/Mr_Strol Jul 03 '26
We’re at the beach
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u/freezing_circuits Jul 03 '26
Take notes from the crab. Bury yourself and hope the tides don't catch you.
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u/Tkrumroy Jul 03 '26
Well, climate change has made these last five years the hottest five years ever recorded.
This is not normal and most absolutely man made.
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u/jdptechnc Jul 07 '26
Last 5 years of July Temps as ranked since recorded Greensboro weather history from 1892
Year Rank High (°F) Low (°F) 2025 6 89.6 72.4 2024 23 88.3 70.7 2023 25 88.9 70.0 2022 20 89.0 70.1 2021 62 87.7 68.4 Last 5 years overall:
Year Rank High (°F) Low (°F) 2025 23 69.9 50.0 2024 5 71.3 51.0 2023 12 70.7 50.4 2022 32 70.0 49.3 2021 19 70.5 49.9 Top 5 hottest Greensboro years ever recorded (one of last 5 years)
Year Rank High (°F) Low (°F) 1921 1 73.5 50.4 2016 2 71.8 51.4 2007 3 72.3 50.8 2019 4 71.1 51.2 2024 5 71.3 51.0 -64
u/PanthersJB83 Jul 03 '26
Y'all act like climate change raised temperatures 10-15 degrees. The average temp has only increased like 2.4 degrees at most since the late 19th century. This is from NASA and NOAA. If you think you can even tell a difference between 98 and 100 you're delusional.
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u/Tkrumroy Jul 03 '26
You’re referencing overall temperatures. But spikes this these heat waves are huge
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u/PanthersJB83 Jul 03 '26
Average 4th of July temps are mid to upper 9os when accounting for the heat index. Today's high was 99 maybe 103 with the heat index so in par to about t degrees warmer... Cry me a fucking river. If youve lived in the south long enough this isn't that fucking bad.
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u/Tkrumroy Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
Yesterday’s highs was 102 with a heat index of 111.
Yes, you can actually go references the record books and look at how much we are warming. We can also go far further back and see we’ve never warmed this fast in such a short period ever before. Extreme weather is become more frequent and more severe.
If you cared, you could see for yourself.
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u/PanthersJB83 Jul 03 '26
The graphics from WGHP literally said 99 yesterday not sure where you got 102 from. Also it's back down to 90 degrees by Monday. It's a fucking heatwave keep whatever your shirt on.
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u/PanthersJB83 Jul 03 '26
"if you cared, you could see for yourself..."
That's the fucking weather forecast for the next 7 days. Oh no 99 degrees whatever will I do? H. E. A. T. W. A. V. E.
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u/justanotherguy677 Jul 03 '26
don't offer the believers of the gore hoax facts and realities. it just triggers more inane outbursts
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u/PanthersJB83 Jul 03 '26
Inmean climate change is a real thing. But summer heatwaves aren't proof of that. It's just a regular US summer.
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u/justanotherguy677 Jul 03 '26
if you go back into the record books there have always been periods of extreme temps. climate change is real, there has always been changes in the earth's climate. the issue is that the left has co-opted the issue to the point of absurdity in order to advance an anti capitalist agenda.
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u/flashpb04 Jul 03 '26
Climate change is not a political issue. It’s a scientific issue. It’s only political because the right are dumbasses and deny that it even exists. If we all had a little common sense then it wouldn’t be a political sticking point at all.
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u/Tkrumroy Jul 03 '26
Exactly. No where else in the world is it a political issue. Somehow the far right wing have been convinced those funded by fossil fuels that the scientists across the globe are all somehow conspiring together in some grand scheme to manipulate the masses into green energy lol.
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u/PanthersJB83 Jul 03 '26
I'll be honest... I don't give a shit about left or right agendas. People should try making politics less of their personalities in the first place
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u/justanotherguy677 Jul 03 '26
many people do make political movements their raison d'etre because they have little else in their lives. their virtue signalling give them a purpose.
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u/Tkrumroy Jul 03 '26
This has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with science. But you keep sticking your head in the sand and broadcasting your ignorance for all to see
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u/s731b first flair kinda nervous Jul 03 '26
I was born at the right time, I love AC and the ceiling fan on high at night 😭🙏
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u/Ok-Accident-3892 Jul 03 '26
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u/T-Madj Jul 03 '26
Florida 11 out of 12 months per year
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u/raezin Jul 04 '26
I mean, it was cold until just about June this year, which is also not normal. We had snow on the ground for about 20 days, also not normal. I worry about this upcoming hurricane season.
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u/Uberdriver2021 Jul 03 '26
I hate to be “ that guy”. I do think it’s hotter, and more reactive now than it was when I was growing up. It didn’t cool off last night till after 10….
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u/Jenn_FTW Jul 03 '26
I mean, they didn’t, because it didn’t get quite this hot usually until humans fucked up the environment with climate change.
Enjoy it though, because it’s the coolest year we’ll ever have!
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u/UncleDave74 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
I work at Home Depot on Brassfield Rd......heat index was 109 yesterday....never felt temps that high since a trip through Death Valley years ago.....stay cool....
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u/Soft-Macaroon4146 Jul 04 '26
The month of August 1900 in Greensboro the high temperatures were well into the upper 90s much of the month. I don’t know how they did it back then. So many layers of heavy clothes and no a/c. Must have been miserable.
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u/videogamegrandma Jul 03 '26
We played outside all day when I was a kid. It rarely ever got hotter than in the high 80s degrees on even the hottest days. We played softball all day in a field with no shade. Drank water from the hose. It would rain in the evening almost every other day. We didn't have to water the garden. Not even got sunburns in those days, the ozone layer was thicker. We didn't have to have sunscreen. We'd never even heard of it.
It was the late 50s, early 60s. It's so different now I can't believe people's memories are so short. I guess my generation will be the last to remember what it was like before the earth got so much hotter.
I remember most families only had one car and we had tiny windows in our houses so they'd be warmer in winter. We had more snow in winter but not the extreme low temperatures we get now sometimes. There were 4 distinct seasons then. Berries ripen a whole month earlier now than back then. Children got out of school in the summer to be able to work on farms and in gardens. It's where the practice started of having kids out of school until after harvest.
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u/videogamegrandma Jul 03 '26
My family didn't get A/C installed until the late 90s. Anyplace with AC was an anomaly until Malls, office bldgs and theaters started having AC. Not many people had air conditioning in their homes. They opened windows and had fans and it was cool enough at night to sleep.
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u/New-Investigator-409 Jul 04 '26
It's insane I hope you're safe Look into cooling centers or if "you" have a few bucks bring a book and sit in a library or a Starbucks until the peak of the heat passes
Assuming you're asking for others or in general...either way, this heat is unbearable
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u/Illustrious_One_4356 Jul 04 '26
Box fans in the window and it wouldn’t stay hot like this all day. at night there was a significant drop (like down to 82 or so) that made it tolerable.
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u/Illustrious_One_4356 Jul 04 '26
I feel like I’m living in that Twilight Zone episode that earth is heating up to dangerous levels. O Rod Serling, why did we think it was just your wacky imagination?
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u/SwitchedOnNow Jul 03 '26
On average it used to be cooler, but they were also tougher back then.
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u/Stay_at_Home_Chad Jul 03 '26
I tend to be pretty skeptical when someone says something like "we were tougher back then".
So I looked it up, and what do you know, of course there are tons of examples of people in ancient times who complained about the heat, to the extent that the "siesta" that people of the Mediterranean practice to this day, exists explicitly to avoid the oppressive midday heat and has done so, it seem, at least since ancient greece. Meanwhile, there were plenty of people in my neighborhood in 95° heat in suburban NC, who were happily working outside on their lawns and gardens. So, while people certainly didn't enjoy many of the luxuries we have today, they were still people, and they were still affected by the heat as much as many of us are today.
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u/SwitchedOnNow Jul 03 '26
My depression era grandparents didn't have AC and that was in East Texas. They couldn't afford it. They were tougher in that they were used to not having the luxuries we have today on many levels.
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u/Stay_at_Home_Chad Jul 03 '26
There are plenty of people who don't have AC today. The majority of people, actually. Your grandparents were plenty tough, but the circumstances that made them tough persist to this day for billions of people.
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u/SwitchedOnNow Jul 03 '26
Yeah. I've visited the third world and also Mississippi.
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u/Stay_at_Home_Chad Jul 03 '26
So, you already knew that the idea that "we used to be tougher" was nonsense. Cool.
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u/KulaanDoDinok Gib Jul 03 '26
People died because of minor scraps and abrasions. Hell, 80 years ago they cried about drinking at the same water fountain as black people.
Yeah, they were pretty fucking tough.
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u/thepointydildo Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
When you spend your life in ac you get soft
Edit: dang why all the down votes?
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u/Massive-Block-9343 Jul 03 '26
And there you have a textbook case of delirium brought on by heatstroke.
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u/CaledonPolaroid Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
Cold opening an incomprehensible story with "No steroids." 😂
edit : Glad I screenshoted it.
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u/Mac-And-Cheesy-43 Jul 03 '26
Sleep during the hottest part of the day, go swimming, kick the bucket from heatstroke more often than now