A stationary jet stream is fueling intense heat worldwide
It&#x27;s just depressing, every year it feels worse.<p>I&#x27;m resisting the urge to buy AC because I feel like AC makes the problem <i>worse</i>, not better. Especially as electricity in Italy is 90% gas produced, I just think it&#x27;s such a nonsense to buy AC and then make global warming worse. But I&#x27;m frying since 2 weeks at this point.<p>I barely remember a week or two of cold weather this year in winter.<p>The difference in winter temperatures and amount of snow in Poland is just gigantic. I remember every christmas having snow in Poland, I remember up to -30 degrees temperatures in southern poland, lately it&#x27;s been rainy and warm 7&#x2F;8 degrees C.<p>The only thing that can save the planet is a fair carbon tax, because the situation feels more and more desperate every day, we need to slow this thing up.<p>Heat is not the only problem, both the countries I have more family (Italy&#x2F;Poland) are short in water and it is getting desperately worse every year. Climate-change driven disasters are getting so common here in Italy, we&#x27;ve had just a disaster flood in northern Italy 2 months ago after such a long draught. I&#x27;ve never ever in my life seen 38 days of rain over a 43 days span from May to June in southern Italy.<p>I am seriously considering emigration as an answer to climate changes. I seriously cannot even fathom the pain tourists visiting Italy in summer (at least those going to historical cities like Rome or Naples) endure.