<story><title>US-Canada heatwave &apos;virtually impossible&apos; without warming</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57751918</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisco255</author><text>Not only is it possible but the worst heat waves on record were experienced in the 1930s:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.weather.gov&amp;#x2F;arx&amp;#x2F;heat_jul36&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.weather.gov&amp;#x2F;arx&amp;#x2F;heat_jul36&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>necrotic_comp</author><text>What I don&amp;#x27;t understand is what people who argue against climate change stand to gain.&lt;p&gt;The argument for climate change is: &amp;quot;humans are polluting the planet and it&amp;#x27;s causing a change in the environment and will have a disastrous effect on the climate.&amp;quot; The arguments I hear against climate change always seem to concede that humans are polluting the planet, but argue in different ways (natural cycle&amp;#x2F;not really happening&amp;#x2F;etc.) that this pollution has no effect.&lt;p&gt;Even if this were true, why would it be a bad idea to reduce the level of pollution in the environment ? We know we&amp;#x27;re screwing up, why don&amp;#x27;t we do our best to clean it and make it usable for the next generations ?</text></comment>
<story><title>US-Canada heatwave &apos;virtually impossible&apos; without warming</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57751918</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisco255</author><text>Not only is it possible but the worst heat waves on record were experienced in the 1930s:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.weather.gov&amp;#x2F;arx&amp;#x2F;heat_jul36&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.weather.gov&amp;#x2F;arx&amp;#x2F;heat_jul36&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jameshart</author><text>The dust bowl heatwaves are not a good argument against the idea that human activity can have dramatic climate impacts in a short time, though.</text></comment>