Man Living Inside Heat Dome Still Denies Climate Change
UNITED STATES — The most extreme heatwave ever recorded in the Pacific Northwest has been shattering temperature records up US coastal states for the past week, but some residents of the affected areas are skeptical whether it’s actually related to climate change.
“Yeah, I mean, it’s hot,” Darren McConville, 40, wrote in a post on Facebook, “but it gets hot all the time. Democrats will use anything to prove their point about climate change or whatever else. BIG LIE BIDEN’S SWEATIN NOW!!!” The post received middling praise from a handful of Republicans who make up the majority of McConville’s friend list.
The “heat dome” is basically a mountain of warm air built into a very wavy jet stream with extreme undulations. When the jet stream becomes wavy and elongated, pressure systems can pinch off and become stuck in places they typically would not be. A ridge of high pressure has become lodged in the Pacific Northwest, creating the heat dome and causing life-threatening high temperatures that most people have described as feeling like living inside of an oven. It’s a phenomenon that most weather experts are unable to compare to any other weather event in recent history.
Although climate change is difficult to blame on a specific cause, human activity on the planet has without a doubt led to an increase in extreme weather events, like the heat dome, that will only increase in frequency if there is no significant change in the way that particularly big businesses abuse the regenerative capabilities of Earth.
McConville did not respond to people who challenged his post and only gave ‘likes’ to people who supported his point, but sources close to him say that he does not have a history of backing down from his “bull shit.” Despite sweating in his office while writing outrageous things on the internet, McConville is scheduled to continue believing that climate change is a hoax until he inevitably lives a long life and dies comfortably.
