Posted on Jun 22, 2023
Extreme heat is coming. What is St. Louis doing about 'the silent killer' of climate change?
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Jeff Gray arrives home on a late Tuesday afternoon as the temperature outside hovers around 90 degrees, hotter than average for early June. After entering, he sits in a chair positioned directly in front of an air conditioner blowing cool air into the room.
Gray has lived in his two-story brick home near Cherokee Street for more than 20 years. He grew up in the infamous Pruitt-Igoe projects and eventually moved into his current house, where he raised his kids. They’re now grown up and moved out.
He keeps the doors to his second floor shut and doesn’t open his first-floor windows because of crime in the area. Plastic sheeting lines the windows year-round to trap in the heat during the winter and cool air during the summer. As in most of St. Louis’ historic brick houses, the sweltering summer heat and humidity amplify and stay around longer without proper insulation.
Gray has lived in his two-story brick home near Cherokee Street for more than 20 years. He grew up in the infamous Pruitt-Igoe projects and eventually moved into his current house, where he raised his kids. They’re now grown up and moved out.
He keeps the doors to his second floor shut and doesn’t open his first-floor windows because of crime in the area. Plastic sheeting lines the windows year-round to trap in the heat during the winter and cool air during the summer. As in most of St. Louis’ historic brick houses, the sweltering summer heat and humidity amplify and stay around longer without proper insulation.
Extreme heat is coming. What is St. Louis doing about 'the silent killer' of climate change?
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel The heat can literally kill me. It also kills babies and animals left in cars. We’ve hit summer, I’m a bit worried about how much my electricity bill will go up.
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Electric rates gone up mostly because of Climate Change Policy that has been recently passed the last 20 years or so. The companies and people who advocate for Intermittent energy sources (solar and wind) need energy prices to stay sky high do their products can remain competitive.
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Extreme heat is a killer. Attributing this and basically everything that happens in weather to "manmade climate change" is why people are increasingly looking at most of the Climate Activists as idiots and the "your all going to die if you don't do what I say!" as garbage.
Considering if any of the "Big Climate Predictions" had come true, the polar caps would have melted by now, the Eastern seaboard would be under water, we'd be experiencing world-wide famine the likes of which we've never seen before, and the population of the earth would have been reduced by about 20%.
SHOULD we focus on doing a cleaner environment? Absolutely. Should we find better ways of using renewable energy into the grid? Absolutely? Should be bankrupt this country because of some of the far-left extreme ideas? Tell you what - You can all put your money where your mouth is and write a check if you believe in it so much. However, those that whine about it most only want someone else to write a check and they rarely ever practice what they preach.
By the way, here are the average temperatures for Missouri for June, July, August, and September.
Considering if any of the "Big Climate Predictions" had come true, the polar caps would have melted by now, the Eastern seaboard would be under water, we'd be experiencing world-wide famine the likes of which we've never seen before, and the population of the earth would have been reduced by about 20%.
SHOULD we focus on doing a cleaner environment? Absolutely. Should we find better ways of using renewable energy into the grid? Absolutely? Should be bankrupt this country because of some of the far-left extreme ideas? Tell you what - You can all put your money where your mouth is and write a check if you believe in it so much. However, those that whine about it most only want someone else to write a check and they rarely ever practice what they preach.
By the way, here are the average temperatures for Missouri for June, July, August, and September.
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Cpl Vic Burk
Part of my childhood summers were in Southern Illinois about 90 miles southeast of St. Louis. It regularly got into the triple digits and I remember the thermometer at the bank at 109 degrees (how accurate was it I don't know but it was damn hot). Add to that the fact I was working on the roofs both shingle and hot tar and you better believe we broke sweat. My grandfather, three brother and me went through ten gallons of water a day. We didn't have air conditioning and just had to deal with it!
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