The mercury hit the above-human temperature of 41.2 C in the city of Tanba, Hyogo Prefecture, as authorities urged people to take precautions to avoid heatstroke.

Japan recorded the highest ever temperature of 41.2 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, beating the previous high of 41.1 C marked in 2018 and 2020. Authorities are strongly urging people to take precautions to avoid risks of heatstroke.

The mercury hit the above-human temperature of 41.2 C in the city of Tanba, Hyogo Prefecture, at 14:39, while two cities — Fukuchiyama in Kyoto and Nishiwaki in Hyogo — also recorded extremely high temperatures of 40.6 C and 40 C, respectively.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    392·
    22 hours ago

    “Take precautions” = Run A/C = Problem gets worse.
    We’re really here, aren’t we. Hope humans get good at terraforming or building tunnels, real fast.

    • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      20·
      16 hours ago

      From 2016 to 2022, 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions were produced by just 57 companies.

      https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/since-2016-80-percent-of-global-co2-emissions-come-from-just-57-companies-report-shows-180984118/

      Emitted 3.2% of total greenhouse gas emissions when refrigerants are included.

      https://ourworldindata.org/air-conditioning-causes-around-greenhouse-gas-emissions-will-change-future

      A/C is a negligible amount of the problem and in these type of weather is a necessity, lest vulnerable people like seniors die from heat stroke. You could 10x AC usage and it still wouldn’t even match what corpos emit. We have way bigger issues than more AC use.

      • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        16 hours ago

        One thing doesn’t negate the other.

        I’m honestly shocked that it’s already at 3+% Think about how it changes in the future when it further warms. Also, it has local effects, of further firing the situation, i.e.it get’s measurably warmer in cities. Take Phoenix for example, in the future, there may be times, if you don’t have an extremely well working respiratory system, that you’ll die outside because of heat stress…

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        15 hours ago

        Meh, not like we humans aren’t buying and burning those company’s products. Maybe I’m doom and gloom, but I put the issue at our ridiculous population.

        FFS, there were 3.7 billion of you apes when I was a kid. Now we’re at 8 billion with no sign of slowing soon. Is no one else shocked this happened within a human lifespan?!

        Is the immigration hate any wonder? All we’ve seen is more and more people, and the immigrants are, GASP, different people. “Send 'em back!” That policy will fail on a couple of levels, but that’s where our emotions are at. Any sort of mammal population will freak out and go violent when there’s too many of 'em.

        There isn’t any answer but Malthusianism. Y’all gonna have to die back until things get better. But not me and mine! :)

      • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        I didn’t mean to imply it’s the biggest problem, just pondering on the irony of the current advised defense also contributing. I could imagine such a jump as climate control is increasingly demanded for survival.

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      19 hours ago

      Hope humans get good at terraforming or building tunnels, real fast.

      …at this point it’s looking like the best case scenario is for humans to hurry up and go extinct so the damage can stop and minimize the number of other species we drag down with us.