• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
    735·
    9 months ago

    Not really though — from NPS:

    The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley (Furnace Creek) was 134°F (57°C) on July 10, 1913. During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached 129° F (54°C) or above.

    I think the dinosaur moment would be more of a global phenomenon, e.g., rising ocean temperature. My understanding is that Death Valley is obscenely hot with or without humans. The rising ocean temperature and melting ice caps, on the other hand…🦖🌎💥

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      9 months ago

      There’s doubt about that 1913 temperature being reliable. More likely the 130°F in July 2021 is the actual record.

      Also, what’s remarkable is not the record high temperature, but the fact that these temperatures are consistently returning each year.

      Not even Death Valley is spared by global warming.

    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
      12·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, global warming was kind of a bad name for it. Because yes, it will get warmer globally on average, but also colder, drier and wetter at certain places. Northern Europe might get a lot colder when the Gulf Stream is gone for example.

      • SoleInvictus@lemmy.world
        16·
        9 months ago

        The term “global warming” first appeared in print in a scientific journal article authored by an American geochemist in 1975. I think the mistake isn’t the naming, as it’s an accurate name that succinctly describes the issue. I think the mistake was not realizing how profoundly science illiterate the American public was at the time and still continues to be.

        • jadero@slrpnk.net
          2·
          9 months ago

          I’m not questioning the sad state of scientific literacy, then or now, but it really wouldn’t have been all that difficult for the news media to properly explain the issue.

          I graduated high school the year before that article was published.

          While in high school, I wrote reports on the “greenhouse effect”. I later found myself helping my parents and others grasp the actual effects of “global warming.” Poles heating faster than the tropics. Shifting weather patterns that would cause some regions to at least temporarily see a period of cooling, etc.

          If I could do it, getting it right was certainly within the capabilities of university trained journalists.

        • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          When I first heard about it in school in the 90s, the preferred term seemed to be “global greenhouse effect”, which still implies warming but better describes the underlying physical principle.

          But now we should really call it “global climate catastrophe” or “global climate extinction event” to communicate how dire the situation is.

  • wise_pancake
    52·
    9 months ago

    I would be so sweaty standing there that you could white water raft down my ass crack.

  • thefartographer@lemm.ee
    23·
    9 months ago

    How’s that ranger on the right smiling??? She’s got a fucking cable through her leg!

    (I know, confusing perspective, but it took me forever to figure out what I was looking at.)

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      52·
      9 months ago

      Of course it’s difficult. Having a FUPA is living life on hard mode. I wonder if government jobs would ever consider offering a mumu option for their uniforms.

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
    19·
    9 months ago

    Come on, boys! The way you’re lollygaggin’ around here with them picks and them shovels, you’d think it was a hundert an’ forty degrees…! Can’t be more than a hundert an’ thirty five!

  • _sideffect@lemmy.world
    181·
    9 months ago

    I was there 16 years ago and I remember it said 43 degrees (Celsius) (I remember because my ex at the time said it was too hot for her, but I loved it. But of course I had to leave)

  • cygon@lemmy.world
    5·
    9 months ago

    You can pay $130 to run a marathon there: https://raceroster.com/events/2024/72825/2024-death-valley-marathon-half-marathon-and-10k

    Had that one filed away in my mind because I once watched a documentary about Scott Juarek (a runner popular for being able to manage such feats) where the runners explained that they had to run on the white paint on the road so the soles of their shoes wouldn’t melt. Humans are crazy (and I’d love see how far I could go in such heat myself :D).