It's just depressing, every year it feels worse.
I'm resisting the urge to buy AC because I feel like AC makes the problem worse, not better. Especially as electricity in Italy is 90% gas produced, I just think it's such a nonsense to buy AC and then make global warming worse. But I'm frying since 2 weeks at this point.
I barely remember a week or two of cold weather this year in winter.
The difference in winter temperatures and amount of snow in Poland is just gigantic. I remember every christmas having snow in Poland, I remember up to -30 degrees temperatures in southern poland, lately it's been rainy and warm 7/8 degrees C.
The only thing that can save the planet is a fair carbon tax, because the situation feels more and more desperate every day, we need to slow this thing up.
Heat is not the only problem, both the countries I have more family (Italy/Poland) are short in water and it is getting desperately worse every year. Climate-change driven disasters are getting so common here in Italy, we've had just a disaster flood in northern Italy 2 months ago after such a long draught. I've never ever in my life seen 38 days of rain over a 43 days span from May to June in southern Italy.
I am seriously considering emigration as an answer to climate changes. I seriously cannot even fathom the pain tourists visiting Italy in summer (at least those going to historical cities like Rome or Naples) endure.
I'm resisting the urge to buy AC because I feel like AC makes the problem worse, not better. Especially as electricity in Italy is 90% gas produced, I just think it's such a nonsense to buy AC and then make global warming worse. But I'm frying since 2 weeks at this point.
I barely remember a week or two of cold weather this year in winter.
The difference in winter temperatures and amount of snow in Poland is just gigantic. I remember every christmas having snow in Poland, I remember up to -30 degrees temperatures in southern poland, lately it's been rainy and warm 7/8 degrees C.
The only thing that can save the planet is a fair carbon tax, because the situation feels more and more desperate every day, we need to slow this thing up.
Heat is not the only problem, both the countries I have more family (Italy/Poland) are short in water and it is getting desperately worse every year. Climate-change driven disasters are getting so common here in Italy, we've had just a disaster flood in northern Italy 2 months ago after such a long draught. I've never ever in my life seen 38 days of rain over a 43 days span from May to June in southern Italy.
I am seriously considering emigration as an answer to climate changes. I seriously cannot even fathom the pain tourists visiting Italy in summer (at least those going to historical cities like Rome or Naples) endure.