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DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month agoThe problem with your rant is that the “extreme” label is applied by researchers in temperate climates and could very easily, and almost certainly will be thanks to Trump, be replaced by “tropical”
Deme@lemmy.world 1 month ago
An extreme value is always only extreme in relation to some baseline. For temperatures it’s usually a value that departs far from the local average. With WBT it could mean values that approach the limit of what the human physiology can handle, a value that is quite universal due to us all being of the same species. The body cannot adapt beyond the limits set by thermodynamics.
Tropical and extreme aren’t mutually exclusive. +30°C in Antarctica would be both tropical and extreme. Both are used where applicable. A temperature can also be extreme without being tropical. No matter what Trump thinks, he doesn’t have the power to redefine words.