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Earth had its 6th-hottest July and year to date on record

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Re: Earth had its 6th-hottest July and year to date on record

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At this point i feel so much guilt for driving (on weekends now and then) a guzzler that i’d rather throw it to the bin and never look back. Either way i am never again driving an ice car.

Nothing you do individually makes any difference at all. Don't feel guilty. Manufacturing a new EV with all the attendant impact from raw materials processing and manufacturing vs keeping an older ICE car where all of that is sunk costs not a clear win in my view.

Same reason no one should bother voting.

Re: Earth had its 6th-hottest July and year to date on record

#42

At this point i feel so much guilt for driving (on weekends now and then) a guzzler that i’d rather throw it to the bin and never look back. Either way i am never again driving an ice car.

Nothing you do individually makes any difference at all. Don't feel guilty. Manufacturing a new EV with all the attendant impact from raw materials processing and manufacturing vs keeping an older ICE car where all of that is sunk costs not a clear win in my view.

A win is replacing the trips you can with a bike.

Re: Earth had its 6th-hottest July and year to date on record

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't apply south of the border??? Every day at lunch I Google: "Mexico City temp" Always in the 70s... August 15, 2022 71°F°C Precipitation: 14% Humidity: 51% Wind: 6 mph Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico Monday 12:00 PM Mostly cloudy

Are you seriously trying to cherry-pick a single outlier to refute a planet-wide data set? FWIW: if your point was that you were expecting Mexico City to be hot like Cancun, you need to check a map. The city is in the middle of a mountain plateau at 7000' MSL!

Cherry picking a single event is exactly what happens all the time trying to convince me climate is change is real. Every news article I read about basically any weather "anomaly", whether a flood, drought, hurricane, fire, heatwave coldsnap or tornado, blames the event on climate change. If you're against argument from anecdotes, the pro climate change side of the isle has a huge mote to remove from their own eye.
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