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Currently in San Francisco — October 5, 2023: Thursday will be hotter
Plus, Pope Francis issues an urgent call for climate action.
Eric Holthaus & Britta Shoot
October 04, 2023
The weather, currently.
A very hot Thursday
Thursday will be one of those rare fully hot days in SF, a city where most of us don’t have any sort of artificial air-conditioning to help us endure high temperatures. Daytime highs will be in the 80s with some neighborhoods hitting 90 or higher in the sun. Very little wind will come through as a natural A/C, though overnight, temps will drop back into the low to mid-60s.
If you can, take care of yourself these next days. Drink lots of water. Stick to the shade. And me? I’ll be taking a quick dip in the nice cold bay waters.
— Britta Shoot
What you need to know, currently.
Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of more than a billion Christians worldwide, has issued a forceful new call for bold climate action.
The document is addressed specifically to the world’s wealthy and privileged, particularly in the US and Europe, to show compassion for people around the world who have done little to cause the climate emergency and who are already feeling its effects profoundly.
“Our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point,” he wrote.
The Pope called for a transition away from lifestyles of consumption and extraction and towards a more ecologically-focused society. His message is timely as the world prepares to gather in Dubai for the latest global climate negotiations next month.
In 2015, Pope Francis made a similar appeal in advance of the Paris climate accords, and was widely credited at helping steer the conversation away from the impersonal numbers and scientific debate towards justice and social progress.
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