Trump vows to ‘drill, baby, drill’ despite rally attendees wilting in extreme heat

Supporters hospitalized following rallies in Las Vegas and Phoenix, where temperatures have broken records

Dozens of Donald Trump’s supporters have been requiring medical help at his rallies in the scorching US south-west but it seems lost on him that his plans to reverse climate policies and “drill, baby, drill” for fossil fuels will only worsen extreme weather, campaigners say.

A total of 24 people at a Trump rally in Las Vegas on Sunday required medical attention due to the heat, according to the Clark county fire department, with six taken to hospital for treatment. The hospitalizations come after a further 11 people needed to be admitted to hospital for heat exhaustion as they waited for Trump to speak at a rally in Phoenix on Thursday.

Trump himself noted the severe heat during his speech on Sunday, with the Las Vegas rally starting around noon when the temperature was about 90F (32C) and climbed to around 102F (38C). The rally was held in a park with little shade, although organizers provided water and cooling tents, and allowed attendees to hold shading umbrellas.

silence7, (edited )

I’ll note that they’re not dead of heat stroke because Phoenix has just rolled out a system of ice-filled body bags in ambulances. Still doesn’t sound pleasant

But cold water immersion can bring down body temperatures eight times faster, with little risk of triggering other issues, particularly if body temperature is monitored closely with a rectal thermometer, said Douglas Casa, who studies heat-related illnesses and is the chief executive of the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut.

abcdqfr,

Well probe my butt and call me fucked

rebelsimile,

If you can’t be brought water when you’re in line to vote then you shouldn’t be able to get water at a moron rally for dumbfucks to vote later. (Sorry I dont know if that’s what they call it.)

confusedbytheBasics,

Oil makes the AC work. Duh. Cheaper AC is what these people want.

partial_accumen,

Cheaper AC is what these people want.

They should put up solar PV on their homes then. The more sun I get, the cheaper my AC is.

troglodytis,

Logic. Hahahaha. Yeah, that should work on them 🙃

dhork,

Sounds like a washed-up rock star who can’t stop touring and only plays his Greatest Hits while on tour because his fans don’t like his new stuff

partial_accumen,

“Do ‘Repeal and replace’ again, then an Encore of ‘Lock her up’. No no! Not ‘lock HIM up’ Do it like it is on the record. Also, do ‘Mexico will build the wall and pay for it’” /s

Rapidcreek,

The more salient point is that the US is already producing more oil than any country ever.

bstix,

And they keep going “what about Gina?” Heard that shit as late as yesterday.

China is the fourth most oil producing country in the world, and that’s bad, but they’re pretty fucking far from being in top three. China could triple their oil production and not make the top three.

The top three is in order from top to bottom: USA, Saudi Arabia, Russia.

Ranvier,

Usually the people screaming what about China also forget that per capita the US is still producing more greenhouses gases, and that much of the greenhouse gases emitted in China are to manufacture things used in other countries or arguments about historical emissions burden.

China has work to do too, but per capita there are a whole bunch of countries that emit more per capita.

US is at 256% global average emissions per capita, China is at 157% global average. So China is still above average, but not as bad as the US, Russia, Australia, Canada, or many Middle eastern countries right now. Though also should be noted the US is on an improving trend whereas China is on a worsening trend, though looks like hopefully China may be reversing this trend soon, they seem to be at least plateauing.

…wikipedia.org/…/List_of_countries_by_greenhouse_…

anticolonialist,

Those ignorant enough to attend one of his campaign rally are too ignorant to know the US is already the world’s largest oil exporter.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

And oil production is up under Biden:

www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61545

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