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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Democrats and even the medical associations always put racism with roads, body mass index, Etc or come up with climate changes and climate change that when there's a big fire or what temperatures go up when we know climate change is inevitable even if we all stopped using anything that produces carbon dioxide. Here's a meme from a long time ago. Justin Trudeau tried to convince the Chinese to add a little bit of democracy into their trade deal and they got rebuffed. So do you expect weak and inept President Biden to put pressure on China to cut back on its continuous construction project of building Coal Fired power plants? Even to this day, soldiers who go to South Korea are given a online course about pollution coming in from China and no, it's not the fine dust from their desert that happens on occasion, no we are talking about pollution coming from there equivalent of the Chinese Ruhr industrial area that puts out so much pollution that covers North and South Korea. President Biden's already a fool but he's really going to be stupid if he tries to put pressure on China to cut back when you know they won't!
In the meantime, our dumb president lied to us about the inflation reduction act and he keeps bragging now that it is law that he wants to spend $360 billion dollars plus to buy other countries to switch away from fossil fuels and go green and that means buying Hardware made in communist China that uses electricity from coal fired power plants to make them. Democrats, greenpeace, the Eco left and the science of stupid!
One more thing, if they're talking about the third world war coming between the US and communist China over taiwan, you're going to have 20 years of cooler weather so why not invest into Weaponry instead of paying and bribing other countries to switch to Green energy which China makes money off of?
SFC John Davis SGT Jim Arnold
In the meantime, our dumb president lied to us about the inflation reduction act and he keeps bragging now that it is law that he wants to spend $360 billion dollars plus to buy other countries to switch away from fossil fuels and go green and that means buying Hardware made in communist China that uses electricity from coal fired power plants to make them. Democrats, greenpeace, the Eco left and the science of stupid!
One more thing, if they're talking about the third world war coming between the US and communist China over taiwan, you're going to have 20 years of cooler weather so why not invest into Weaponry instead of paying and bribing other countries to switch to Green energy which China makes money off of?
SFC John Davis SGT Jim Arnold
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