It's bull shit that these temperatures haven't been reached before. Back in the 30's and again in the early 60's we had some hellish hot summers... people are retarded.
On top of it all, the majority of people didn't have air conditioning, and instead would sleep outside... I'm old enough to remember the hot summer in the 60's and sleeping out under a makeshift tent.
around 1990 I remember a record setting summer, over 3 weeks 100f in continental US and Alaska reached 100F 2 weeks straight.
I was just talking about that summer today. I went on a road trip to Florinda, and cars were just catching fire, I saw more than half a dozen burning cars along the trip.
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