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yes, there is clearly not a worldwide famine if everyone in my city is eating lasagna

'global' is ambiguous between 'worldwide' and 'somewhere in the world', but 'worldwide' unambiguously means 'everywhere in the world', and in fact literally half the world is not experiencing intense heat right now



Name 5 phenomena that are worldwide by this definition. I suspect that the set of things that are worldwide might be so tiny as to be useless to converse about.


sunlight, the internet, rainfall, aging, and idiots who think that their immediate surroundings are the entire world


Sorry, no sunlight currently in half the world.

No internet in rural India.

No rainfall in many places in the world.

No aging in HeLa present all over the world.

And it appears the last one is only present in your original comment, eh? Tragic, mate, though a valiant and hence amusing attempt.


Argentina is experiencing a hotter-than-normal winter and we just came through with the biggest drought in 60 years. Don't be pedantic.


according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires#Climate the average low in july in buenos aires is 7.5 degrees and the record low is -5.4. last night it was -1. maybe our winter has been hotter than normal, though that isn't my perception, but the supposed worldwide intense heat isn't purported to be a months-long phenomenon, but rather a phenomenon of the current week, which has in fact been a much colder week than normal

i don't think it's being pedantic to point out that actually half the world is in the middle of winter, not experiencing intense heat, and that actually people live here too


It totally irrelevant for the purpose of large-scale climate observations to observe local weather for a single month for a small region of the planet, and personal perception is less than useless.

It is also the case that winter in Argentina was and is expected to be warmer than usual, per https://www.smn.gob.ar/noticias/%C2%BFc%C3%B3mo-ser%C3%A1-el... .




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