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kamalhusta10 Mar 20, 2026 +213

March used to be mild. This is just the new baseline now.

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myislanduniverse Mar 20, 2026 +86

"In like a lion, out like a lamb" was always the saying. But still, wild swings between 85° one day and 21° the next is not usual.

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rraattbbooyy Mar 20, 2026 +4

https://youtu.be/znFY7PYomEA 🙂

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Bosworth02 Mar 21, 2026 +1

Yep, we had a high of 30 and dipped into the low 20’s earlier this week. Today we hit 90…. I’d say those swings happen but it’s becoming more and more common these days.

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GumbySquad Mar 20, 2026 +105

First 100+ day of the year yesterday in southern Arizona. Previous earliest 100 degree day was April 11th

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LookingForChange Mar 20, 2026 +32

It hit 104 in Texas in February.

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totallynotat55savush Mar 20, 2026 +41

We’ve been over 100 degrees for the past few days in Desert Hot Springs CA. Nearby Palm Springs is forecast to be 107 today.

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rnilf Mar 20, 2026 +173

> “We built communities on about 100 years of past weather and assumed that was a good guide going forward. That assumption is starting to break. And the clearest signal isn’t the science debate. It’s insurers walking away.” When the insurance companies deems it unworthy to cover, that's when you know you're fucked. I enjoy watching old episodes of Top Gear, but one of the jokes they loved to make was about global warming (being in a cold environment and joking about global warming, revving their engines and joking about contributing to global warming, etc.). Probably their worst take, and it has aged like milk. Ditto with South Park. Humanity is paying the price for not dealing with this, if anything, we've just continued to ignore it and contribute to it.

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organik_productions Mar 20, 2026 +87

South Park at least admitted they were wrong

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Shady_Merchant1 Mar 20, 2026 +25

Well one good thing about this iran war is if you ignore all the death and suffering many countries are realizing perhaps relying on a unstable region for energy is an unwise plan India for instance is quadrupling their solar capacity

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hoytmandoo Mar 21, 2026 +2

There was a recent report that while India is still in the middle of industrialization, it has already hit or nearly hit peak oil usage. India is going to be the first nation to industrialize with primarily renewables.

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CarRamRob Mar 21, 2026 +3

Sure, but people will point at the Top Gear example and then five minutes later start planning their next trip to Spain. This isn’t a few misaligned people causing it, it’s our entire society.

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Ralphredimix_Da_G Mar 20, 2026 -18

You’re right it’s the common man’s fault , not Exxon and Saudi Aramco and Coca-Cola and Pepsico and Nestle and Gasprom.. and.. and..

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Systakovich Mar 20, 2026 +31

The person you’re replying to didn’t say full responsibility for climate change fell on individual drivers, nor did they say it isn’t on the oil companies/etc. They’re likely pointing out that the celebrity presenters on a motoring show watched globally shouldn’t have discredited global warming/climate change as that lessened pressure on the public and politicians to actually do anything about emissions.

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FirmFaithlessness212 Mar 20, 2026 +7

Who do you think consumes the products made by these companies? Everybody in the capitalist system.

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Tzazon Mar 20, 2026 +3

Wheres the affordable alternatives to this for the average consumer? That is such a bullshit argument currently you've made. I don't have the option to change my energy provider from anything locally but the coal-fired power plant churning on without uprooting my entire life. I also don't get paid enough to seek alternative methods like Solar Panels, which is a responsibility put individually on the consumer, and even if I did I do not own my own housing. EVs hadn't been affordable for most of my life, being deemed a luxury product the auto industry is reluctant to invest in, which means none of that trickles down to the consumer. I can't just go out and make my own car, the one I do have is nearing 15 years old, and I got it off a used lot in the first place. The cheapest, most economically accessible thing to the majority of consumers, isn't eecologically viable, It's coal burning electric, gas guzzling cars, and the consumers neither have the savings, the line of credit, nor the income coming in to be able to save to make those climate saving purchases. There needs to be a collective effort for this pushed by those in power, and those who have the capital to make these changes. Until then, the only option I have to power my apartment is the coal burning power from the only energy company in town, and the only vehicle I can afford to have is a gas guzzling car that is 15 years old. If you have 60,000 dollars to spare to install Solar and buy me an EV go ahead.

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frmr000 Mar 20, 2026 -5

How do you propose people in northern climates heat their homes? Or farmers fuel their machinery to produce food for the world?

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duncandun Mar 21, 2026 +2

Electric heaters, boilers, heat pumps, electric vehicles don’t exist

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frmr000 Mar 21, 2026

Yes because everyone has enough money to convert their homes to electric heat, including backup generator and fuel storage in the event that you lose power in the dead of winter. And electric vehicles on the farm eh? Wow it sounds like you've really thought this all thought out.

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duncandun Mar 21, 2026 +2

Okay man. I didn’t say it’d be f****** c****. It’ll never happen. You just said ‘how do you think northern people will heat their homes’ as if electric based heat systems or heat pumps don’t exist. You didn’t say ‘whose gonna pay to modernize all these homes’

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frmr000 Mar 21, 2026 +1

I'm talking about the real world, not some hypothetical world where money is not an issue. I am aware those things exist, they are not currently a feasible option for most people in cold climates. People do not have a choice but to consume fossil fuels. Read the context of the thread, it's about how global warming is all of our faults. It's not my fault my home is heated with fossil fuels. I's what I have available to me, and it's how I survive. Your comment ignores the spirit of the discussion.

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DrXaos Mar 21, 2026 +1

> And electric vehicles on the farm eh? where they can be refueled every day with a cord instead of hauling back into town or hauling out expensive fuel?

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Low_Pickle_112 Mar 20, 2026 +22

Yeah okay but how is the Dow doing, is Line still going up, this isn't going to affect anything important is it?

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DizzyDjango Mar 21, 2026 +7

You’ll never believe this, but it’s under 50-thousand doll….. 50 thou.

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EH_Operator Mar 20, 2026 +17

One day last week in Alabama it was 70 degrees in the morning and snowed overnight into the next day. It’s like we’ve fucked the delicate balance of the global climate

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291837120 Mar 21, 2026 +7

Here in my town a homeless person died because it was 70f one day up until 11pm or so, and then 14f the next morning

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jazzhandler Mar 21, 2026 +3

Here in Denver we still had some snow on the ground Monday morning. It got up to seventy, then passed eighty on Tuesday.

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FOTY2015 Mar 20, 2026 -3

Takes a lot to keep 8B people housed, fed, and busy.

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Th1rte3n1334 Mar 20, 2026 +74

Followers of the Republican religion would have you believe there is no such thing as climate change or that the change we’re experiencing is normal. It is not, and do not give in to the “alternative facts” that these lecherous people present you with. These “facts” are nothing more than delusional ravings of a mad man.

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Wayelder Mar 20, 2026 +37

Get ready for the 'Drill Baby Drill' crowd to complain that this isn't what they voted for.

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GirlNumber20 Mar 20, 2026 +27

The air conditioner has kicked on every day this week, and I'm at 5,300 feet in the foothills of a huge Utah mountain. It used to snow even in May here. It's going to be 83 degrees today. I've used a snow shovel once in the past two years.

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Permanenceisall Mar 21, 2026 +9

93° in San Diego with 40% dewpoint. It’s so expensive and so congested, please I’m not even kidding stop moving here. It is not the San Diego of the 2000s. It’s like Florida exported Destin.

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brnccnt7 Mar 21, 2026 +2

Agreed, the 805 is terrible

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HypocriteGrammarNazi Mar 21, 2026 +1

What does 40% dew point mean

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Permanenceisall Mar 21, 2026 +1

40% humidity*, dew point is something different

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IconOfFilth9 Mar 20, 2026 +27

We go from 70s to 20s within a day up here in Ohio

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HolyLiaison Mar 21, 2026 +3

It was -12F here in Minnesota a week ago with a blizzard that dropped 12 inches of snow. They're now predicting 75F tomorrow. Shit is crazy here.

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BadAsBroccoli Mar 21, 2026 +1

This see-sawing affects trees. They start to bud out in the warm weather, then the buds die as it swings back to cold. We had that happen one spring a few years ago and it ruined some of our flowering trees.

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Bec_son Mar 20, 2026 +27

"but I should be allowed to cause natural harm to environment for money!" - mfrs when you're fighting them in the water wars.

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TheGrumpyCisco Mar 20, 2026 +11

It's not just this particular heat in the southwest now. This pattern has persisted in the entire west this winter, and here in southern Idaho, they predict some farmers may run short of water as early as July.

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WarDildo Mar 21, 2026 +11

Just wait until the next El Nino cycle dumps a bunch more heat into the system and it ratchets up to another level again. Which it will, and people will still act shocked, as if we haven't known this was coming for a really, really f****** long time, and we've just stuck our f****** heads in the oil sands collectively as a species. It will be our end. It will be the end of most living things on this planet. Thankfully, the planet will go on without us, and eventually the damage we did will correct itself, and if complex life survives, I hope the theory that the housecat will take over formerly human occupied areas as the dominant species proves accurate. I hope the Kittyfolk archaeologists in a few hundred thousand years laugh at us when they find old archives of cat memes. Anyway, we're all fucked and it's only going to get worse and worse from here on and technology isn't going to save us. Hold onto your butts.

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howdudo Mar 21, 2026 +5

Nah dont be so negative. What if tomorrow everyone agrees to stop fighting, share resources and get along. Like, maybe tomorrow morning is the day

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WarDildo Mar 21, 2026 +6

lol thanks, I needed that laugh. Feeling a tad bit of the darkness today.

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Far_Radish7752 Mar 20, 2026 +16

From the article in AP News: >WASHINGTON (AP) — The dangerous heat waveshattering March records all over the U.S. Southwest is more than just another extreme weather blip. It’s the latest next-level weather wildness that is occurring ever more frequently as Earth’s warming builds. >Experts said unprecedented and deadly weather extremes that sometimes strike at abnormal times and in unusual places are putting more people in danger. For example, the Southwest is used to coping with deadly heat, but not months ahead of schedule, including a 110-degree Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) reading in the Arizona desert on Thursday that smashed the highest March temperature recorded in the U.S. >“This is what climate change looks like in real time: extremes pushing beyond the bounds we once thought possible,” said University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver. “What used to be unprecedented events are now recurring features of a warming world.” >March’s heat would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change, according to a report Friday by World Weather Attribution, an international group of scientists who study the causes of extreme weather events. >More than a dozen scientists, meteorologists and disaster experts queried by The Associated Press put the March heat wave in a kind of ultra-extreme classification with such events as the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave, the 2022 Pakistan floods and killer hurricanes Helene, Harvey and Sandy.

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mr_oof Mar 20, 2026 +20

There it is, again That funny feeling.

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InfinityCent Mar 20, 2026 +10

That unapparent summer air in early fall The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all

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FunboyFrags Mar 20, 2026 +3

One of the most poignant and chilling songs I’ve ever heard

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mokivj Mar 20, 2026 +9

I wish the Democrats would stop the hoaxing with this 100 degree F weather here in So Cal in March! /s

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addictedpunk Mar 20, 2026 +5

My birthday is 3/14. Last year on my birthday, it was raining and freezing. So much so, that I had to turn on the heater. This year on my birthday, I had to blast the AC.

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math-yoo Mar 20, 2026 +8

Consider summering in the mild temperatures of Idaho.

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CatrionaShadowleaf Mar 20, 2026 +25

Too many Nazis in Idaho.

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Japples123 Mar 20, 2026 +7

Current admin ignores this and only mentions climate change when it snows

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aldur1 Mar 21, 2026 +2

Not sure this will become a political issue until people can see the price of climate change as separate line item in the price tags of everything they buy.

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time_drifter Mar 20, 2026 +4

Spring training is going to be moved to Maine at this rate.

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petersrin Mar 20, 2026 +4

I've moved a lot in the last decade. 3 different states. Every time, I would discuss weather patterns with the locals, and every time, it was abundantly clear that they never updated their mental map to fit the new model. I get that the cognitive load for changing your beliefs is high, but we just bury our heads in the sand.

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Dariaskehl Mar 20, 2026 +4

Don’t forget, whatever the weather is, every day is the best weather you’ll have for the rest of your life!

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No-Cat-6830 Mar 20, 2026 +2

Let’s go back to calling it by its real name “global warming” Climate change was a buzz word that conservatives used to make the process sound less frightening so you don’t give a shit.

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prettystandardreally Mar 20, 2026 +16

I actually think it’s the opposite. Global warming is a symptom of the root cause, which is climate change. Conservatives like to say “global warming isn’t real” when there’s snow in Texas or severe winter storms, because you know- it’s not getting *hotter*. They know severe storms are yet another symptom of climate change but they use global warming literally when it’s convenient, to disprove climate change as a whole.

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snowshoeBBQ Mar 21, 2026 +3

Yeah it's absolutely the other way around. They hate hearing about "climate change" because it takes away one of their favorite strawmen.

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FunboyFrags Mar 20, 2026 +9

I only say “catastrophic global warming”anymore

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No-Cat-6830 Mar 20, 2026 +4

Even better.

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CanadasNeighbor Mar 21, 2026 +1

Here in California we've already hit our normal temps for July. I might actually move back to Alaska if we end up with more than 3 months of 90+ degrees

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Iohet Mar 21, 2026 +1

The local news had a factoid that we've had something like 45 days of 90+F since record keeping began in 1878 and about 20% of those days occurred this year

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Spamgrenade Mar 21, 2026 +1

It's like full on summer in SW UK at the moment.

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Imaginary_Toe8982 Mar 21, 2026 +1

thank god we wage wars across the world so we can stop it.. right? gtfo..

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oneonus Mar 21, 2026 +1

When will Americans wake up and start changing their habits.

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invalidpassword Mar 20, 2026 +1

But the Earth warms and cools down in cycles. Yeah, in millennium cycles, not mere decades. Maybe man didn't enable global warming to happen (I don't agree with this) but if we can slow it down — for the sake of the continuous of human life — then we sure as hell should. However, it seems Trump wants the planet to have temps to match Mar-a-Lago.

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Records shattered as summer heat hits Southwest in March; 'This is what climate change looks like'

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