[News] Heat emergency declared in England

[Lyndhurst 14]

It's all starting to feel a bit like that movie "Don't Look Up!"

 

[hart's shirt]

Mass hysteria. A couple of days of hot weather and the country goes mad. A bit similar to our reaction to a dusting of snow. Madness.

This aged well.

 

[Weststander]

It would seem perhaps the media weren't being quite so hysterical, after all.

Ummmm, a difficult one, who to believe:

a) Scientists with super computers from different meteorological groups; or
b) Climate change deniers and/or those who don’t give a toss if others suffer?

 

[A1X]

“Hysterical media” update

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[Stat Brother]

Ummmm, a difficult one, who to believe:

a) Scientists with super computers from different meteorological groups; or
b) Climate change deniers and/or those who don’t give a toss if others suffer?

Clearly not NSC...









...who knew!

 

[A1X]

“It’s just summer, enjoy the sun” latest

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[Weststander]

Clearly not NSC...









...who knew!

I detect one of James O’Brien’s venn diagrams with a large overlap.

“Trump, he talks sense” fanboys with “They’re lying about forecast UK record temperatures and loss of life”.

Brains Trust.

 

[LamieRobertson]

“It’s just summer, enjoy the sun” latest

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Just had that come through on a D Telegraph notification…showing even more dramatic photos ..a row of houses ablaze…fire starting in scrubland close by

 

[A1X]

“This is all just woke snowflakes, we were fine in 1976” just in

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[StonehamPark]

Climate change is real, and it’s happening fast.
You’d have to be massively ignorant or downright stupid to not acknowledge it.

Here in Western Canada, summer 2021 saw record temps in many towns and cities, including one town which entirely burnt to the ground.
Less than 5 months later, we had record lows in the winter.

Record temps, wildfires and general climate disasters are happening much more frequently and affecting parts of the world which aren’t prepared or equipped for the extremes.

Politicians across the world must up their game on climate very quickly as this is going to continue until real hard change is implemented globally as it affects all of our lives.
Infrastructure, agriculture, health, environment, wildlife and human life.

 

[Silverhatch]

I’ve stayed away from this thread for many reasons, but working in the sector I do ... I can tell you all that by 2080 vast swathes of the south east will be a scorched desert littered with the sun bleached bones of climate change deniers ...

The end is nigh.

Well, of the world as we know it.

One off my arse.

All of this, all of it mark me, is an absolute tragedy.

Climate change is a fact over the geological life of our planet. Our (human) actions in warming the planet since the industrial revolution is a key factor in speeding a climate change event

 

[mikeyjh]

This aged well.

Indeed, I do hope those who mocked the situation, (#it's summer), those who laughed and said it doesn't happen abroad, be it France, USA, Greece, Germany have the decency to recognise how pathetic and offensive their comments are.

 

[BNthree]

Indeed, I do hope those who mocked the situation, (#it's summer), those who laughed and said it doesn't happen abroad, be it France, USA, Greece, Germany have the decency to recognise how pathetic and offensive their comments are.

Of course they won’t as if they were that type of person they wouldn’t be coming out with the nonsense in the first place.


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[Eric the meek]

Climate change is a fact over the geological life of our planet. Our (human) actions in warming the planet since the industrial revolution is a key factor in speeding a climate change event

Very well said.

I'm a geographer by choice but not by profession. In all my studies, I have never come across such an accurate and succinct description of the issue.

 

[TomandJerry]

https://twitter.com/networkrail/sta...atwave-forecast-temperature-today-latest-live

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[TomandJerry]

The UK's record temperature has been broken again after the mercury reached 40.3C in Coningsby in Lincolnshire, according to the Met Office.

The provisional figure, as of 16:00 today, surpasses the earlier peak of 40.2C recorded at Heathrow.

Temperatures are still at that same high this afternoon at the London airport, as well as in St James's Park in the capital.

Kew Gardens was 40.1C as of 16:00, with Northolt at 40C and Cambridge at 39.9C.

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[Kosh]

I’ve recently been involved with climate change modelling, via certain projects I’m delivering, and the 2050 models are already looking outdated - these take into account expected climate change trajectory... ultimately we should be looking to plant olive groves in the Simonside hills and producing wine in north Northumberland ... except, of course, we won’t be able to due to mass migration (to escape inhospitable regions) and land pressure created in part by our bloated and out of control population.

Whichever way you slice it we’re ****ed.

And people are still arguing about tax and bloody voodoo economics... Jesus wept.

 

[Eric the meek]

The UK's record temperature has been broken again after the mercury reached 40.3C in Coningsby in Lincolnshire, according to the Met Office.

The provisional figure, as of 16:00 today, surpasses the earlier peak of 40.2C recorded at Heathrow.

Temperatures are still at that same high this afternoon at the London airport, as well as in St James's Park in the capital.

Kew Gardens was 40.1C as of 16:00, with Northolt at 40C and Cambridge at 39.9C.

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Update I heard on the BBC: the previous record was broken at 29 observation sites.

 

[Silverhatch]

I’ve recently been involved with climate change modelling, via certain projects I’m delivering, and the 2050 models are already looking outdated - these take into account expected climate change trajectory... ultimately we should be looking to plant olive groves in the Simonside hills and producing wine in north Northumberland ... except, of course, we won’t be able to due to mass migration (to escape inhospitable regions) and land pressure created in part by our bloated and out of control population.

Whichever way you slice it we’re ****ed.

And people are still arguing about tax and bloody voodoo economics... Jesus wept.

Utterly irresponsible now. ****ing tax cuts and immigration!!! Just wait until entire swathes of the planet are uninhabitable. Good luck Farage holding back the billions of climate immigrants. You’re going to need a bigger plane Priti. All of this generation of politicians are DINOSAURS. Bin them all off.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I’ve recently been involved with climate change modelling, via certain projects I’m delivering, and the 2050 models are already looking outdated - these take into account expected climate change trajectory... ultimately we should be looking to plant olive groves in the Simonside hills and producing wine in north Northumberland ... except, of course, we won’t be able to due to mass migration (to escape inhospitable regions) and land pressure created in part by our bloated and out of control population.

Whichever way you slice it we’re ****ed.

And people are still arguing about tax and bloody voodoo economics... Jesus wept.

How can we stop the Brazilians destroying rain forest, and the Russians, Chinese, and Indians (there are others but this is a massive proportion of the planet's land mass and population) burning and slashing everything at hand?

The US, EU (and UK) are soooooo weak when it comes to leadership and resolve, now. Look at Ukraine. Look at Johnson/Truss/Sunak/Mordaunt. Look at Sleepy Joe. And I can't even name the man who is current king of the EU!

I suppose that India, China and Russia my get their finger out when the crops fail and people are dropping like flies. Maybe. They will probably call it fake news, though, or blame it on America

And when did America cease to be the world's policeman? It was obvious it had become the world's Cartman once Trump got it. But it lost the leadership role decades ago. The rule breaking, the obsession with no-platforming lefties, the nasty and silly little wars it sponsored, the obsession with money, cocaine, god, abortion...

I date America's demise to when Reagan equivocated over our spat with the Argies. "It's sad to see two friends of Americky at war". He helped a bit after someone wobbled his head, but still. OK Thatcher should have nipped it in the bud (like Callaghan had done) sooner by wafting some of our navy in when it started rumbling in Buenos Aires. But, no. She thought Galtieri was our friend in the war against socialism facepalm.

Useless, useless leaders. Reagan and Thatcher. And when Gorby took over in Russia we missed a trick - if we had really helped out we could have seen off the batshitmental succession after Gorby, ending with mad-dog Putin. As for Chia? We are clueless. We might have had traction with India, but decided to ignore them after independence - 'too smelly' no doubt.

****ing narcissistic right wing numpties. Mind you, the left (Labour and Democrats) offered little (apart from Blair, but he was still almost newly-hatched throughout his three terms, semi-detached from any firm doctrine - and ironically the nation loved that).

Well, we gets what we deserves, innit. That, my friend, looks like it's going to be heat. And death.