re: It didn’t used to be this hot

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I don’t believe in climate change or global warming or any of that, but I’m 42 and I just don’t think it was this hot when I was growing up. It was hot, but I remember playing outside all day. I remember not having AC in school til 3rd grade. Some older folks when I was growing up would just use fans and wouldn’t run the AC. This heat I just feels different, I don’t know if the government is doing this or what.

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I don't know how true this is, but I recently read a book and there was a chapter on "global warming". Forgive me for not putting it in the most scientific way, but evidently from the 60s to the late 90s there was some type of layer that kept Earth cooler. When it lifted or dissolved.. Whatever. Earth became hotter, more like the weather before some point in the 60s. This is the reason hurricanes have been active in the 21 century.

So yes the weather was a little different when you were growing up.

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I don’t know if the government is doing this or what.

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Why would the government make it hotter? Whose best interest is being served by it being hotter?

The weather pattern is different than when I was a kid. It seemed like during the summer there was always threats of an afternoon thunderstorm, but I also know it has always been hot AF in August. From June to mid September its hot AF in South Louisiana. Its humid AF and that impacts the heat index.

I grew up in rural central Mississippi. And we didn’t get AC in school til I was in 3rd grade. Probably 89.

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It didn’t used to be this hot

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Indeed not. We are experiencing record high temps

You just didn't constantly hear about like you do now. You are being conditioned to believe.

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This heat I just feels different

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I run outside 10Ks 5x a week and have all summer long, so I’m well adjusted to it and conditioned for it. This heat is frickin miserable and I don’t remember it ever being like this. A lot of pussys in the world, sure. But this summer has been brutal.

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but evidently from the 60s to the late 90s

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So they pushed to stop using spray cans and save the ozone layer and now look.

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They were playing a mostly Hispanic team and a few of their fans were sitting next to us and a couple of them had on sweat shirts. It's all about acclimation.

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amazing..

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Where in the hell did you grow up? AC has always been a necessity in my neck of the woods. But I do agree this is the longest 100 plus streak here in south LA that I can remember. Plenty of mid 90 summers with high humidity (oh and rain).

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I don't know about K-2 grade, but in 3rd grade we went to a different school that was 3-5.. We didn't have AC. From 6-8 grade I went to a small catholic school that had no AC, this was late 80s and early 90s. The middle part of the walls in each class were windows, it was like 5 or 6 windows in each classroom.

When it started getting hot, the windows stayed open all day, but if there was a sudden rain storm, the people who sat on that side of the class room had to hurry up and shut the windows and they would always stick their head out the window first to get their head wet to cool off.

Back then it was just how it was. But right now, thinking about if I ever had to go to a meeting or take some type of test in.. Lets say late August and it wouldn't have any AC and the only air flow there will be is from the windows that will be open, it sounds completely miserable.

Summer 1980 in Texas was way worse. But we all had AC and still managed to play outside, mostly in the community pool. The summer of 2011 was also a beast.

Attributing those summers or this one directly to climate change isn’t a correct analysis and isn’t looking at the issue through the correct lens.