Only 6 years after the weathermen needed a new color for just one spot of extreme temperatures on the map, this is how it looks when that color needs to be used for over 30% of the Australia's area. And that for 3 days in a row, starting today, Dec 18 2019 (like, meh, just a balmy 40C in Melbourne at 18:30, she'll be apples).
[40C is 104F and 50C is 122F --ed.]
Coverage:
BBC - Australia heatwave: Nation endures hottest day on record
Guardian Australia heatwave: records forecast to be broken as temperatures surge past 40C
AFP Australia has its hottest day on record, more to come
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PiMuNu on Wednesday December 18 2019, @06:15PM
> what happens when someone digs it up in 500 years in a civilization where Geiger counters no longer exist?
They might get cancer a bit early, but when Geiger counters no longer exist they are more likely to die of childbirth, plague, war, starvation, or indeed lung disease from mining 1 km underground.
Meanwhile what is the impact *now* from global warming.
> Fusion on the other hand would be a different story.
Alas, global warming is happening *now*. Fusion is in "50 years".
Stop mucking about and prevaricating. There is a solution that works *now*. Do it.