I hope your electric grid is able to meet the demand in this heat.
In response to my last dispatch, it was said “well it’s only one day” and “the increase is cumulative.” More graphs from Tony Heller’s exhaustive data set of dates and places:
Every temperature over 100 °F ever recorded at Yosemite National Park
Here’s a comparison of heat waves in 1936 and 2023:
And for a really long historical perspective from long, long before the Industrial Age:
Additional information:
The Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, the petition signed by more than 31,000 scientists, and a searchable list of signatories: www.petitionproject.org.