1. Southern and eastern Europe is expected to get even hotter this week, with 46C (115F) forecast in Sardinia
2. In Greece, 1,200 children were evacuated from holiday camps as wildfires broke out, while Italian authorities have issued red alerts for 16 cities
3. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe was 48.8C (120F) in Sicily in August 2021
4. The UN weather agency has said the European heatwave could continue into August and such weather was happening more due to global warming
5. China provisionally recorded its highest temperature ever on Sunday - 52.2C in Xinjiang, the UK Met Office says
6. In the US, a heat dome over the south-west has left tens of millions of people under extreme heat warnings
7. Death Valley in California hit 53.9C (128F ) on Sunday - the hottest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth is 56.7C (134F)

 

FULL STORY

 

I made the mistake of opening up the BBC website first thing this morning.

 

From the first few stories you'd think the planet was about to implode in a fiery ball of man made iniquity.

 

I turned it off, opened my curtains to hear birds tweeting from my Bangkok balcony. A balmy 27 degrees.

 

No wonder so many people are suffering mental health issues with this type of alarmist reporting. They may as well be walking around screaming "The End is Nigh" from their loudspeakers. It really has become a doomsday cult. I feel sorry for kids growing up now, some of whom no doubt believe the planet only has 5 years left, or whatever the climate alarmists latest prediction is.

 

The picture kind of sums it up. Drama queen in the foreground, reality in the background.

 

Nothing new, I've played baseball many times over the years in 115-118f.....

I learned VERY quickly not to use the stadium handrails 

5 hours ago, JonnyF said:

I made the mistake of opening up the BBC website first thing this morning.

 

From the first few stories you'd think the planet was about to implode in a fiery ball of man made iniquity.

 

I turned it off, opened my curtains to hear birds tweeting from my Bangkok balcony. A balmy 27 degrees.

 

No wonder so many people are suffering mental health issues with this type of alarmist reporting. They may as well be walking around screaming "The End is Nigh" from their loudspeakers. It really has become a doomsday cult. I feel sorry for kids growing up now, some of whom no doubt believe the planet only has 5 years left, or whatever the climate alarmists latest prediction is.

 

The picture kind of sums it up. Drama queen in the foreground, reality in the background.

 

Absolutely, its almost like they have an agenda?????

 

 

32 minutes ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

Absolutely, its almost like they have an agenda?????

 

 

Alarmist news sells... 

It is no surprise that people think of climate change according to the weather in the place they reside. But if you look at how the global temperature has risen over a hundred years, it begins to make sense.

 

 

10 hours ago, JonnyF said:

I made the mistake of opening up the BBC website first thing this morning.

 

From the first few stories you'd think the planet was about to implode in a fiery ball of man made iniquity.

 

I turned it off, opened my curtains to hear birds tweeting from my Bangkok balcony. A balmy 27 degrees.

 

No wonder so many people are suffering mental health issues with this type of alarmist reporting. They may as well be walking around screaming "The End is Nigh" from their loudspeakers. It really has become a doomsday cult. I feel sorry for kids growing up now, some of whom no doubt believe the planet only has 5 years left, or whatever the climate alarmists latest prediction is.

 

The picture kind of sums it up. Drama queen in the foreground, reality in the background.

 

Was the BBC claiming that outside your window the weather was blazing out. If not, why do you think that the weather where you happen to be has any relevance to that report? You've got nothing

4 hours ago, Purdey said:

It is no surprise that people think of climate change according to the weather in the place they reside. But if you look at how the global temperature has risen over a hundred years, it begins to make sense.

 

 

Even better how about over a 10,000  years:

Using this ancient evidence, scientists have built a record of Earth’s past climates, or “paleoclimates.” The paleoclimate record combined with global models shows past ice ages as well as periods even warmer than today. But the paleoclimate record also reveals that the current climatic warming is occurring much more rapidly than past warming events.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/GlobalWarming/page3.php#:~:text=As the Earth moved out,Celsius over about 5%2C000 years.

 

 

 

5 hours ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

Absolutely, its almost like they have an agenda?????

 

 

Thank you for your conspiracy suggestion.

3 hours ago, Purdey said:

It is no surprise that people think of climate change according to the weather in the place they reside. But if you look at how the global temperature has risen over a hundred years, it begins to make sense.

 

 

Sure enough the newspapers in the UK and in Europe are splashing photographs of Greece, Switzerland, Italy and California on fire and headlines aimed at shocking it's potential readers.  The news channels have reporters on the ground in the worse affected areas doing live reports and asking locals what they think about it all.  So nothing new in that.  Newspapers need to grab your attention and the news channels need the viewing figures.

 

However anyone still in denial about climate change being real or that it is nothing to worry about are living in cloud cuckoo land.  The truth is that the effects are here now and accelerating much faster than the scientists predicted, meaning they are having to revise their previous assessments.

 

There were several conversations in the pub last night about Spanish holiday homes and upcoming Mediterranean family holidays.  Some knee jerkers there but in the main it was the concern of long term  property investments.  Many people around here retire to Spain, Italy and France and quite a few have already bought their retirement homes. I suspect there will be many changing their plans any time soon!

 

Meanwhile here in Southern England the weather is fine although a little chilly for the time of year.  We were threatened with a heatwave reaching 40% but that now appears to be inaccurate.  So a pretty standard English summer is expected.  Southern Europe is a different story altogether.

 

The point is that whilst the media exaggerate things as usual and we are most influenced by what is happening in our own location, but you underestimate the severity of the climate changes at your peril! 

39 minutes ago, dunroaming said:

There were several conversations in the pub last night about Spanish holiday homes and upcoming Mediterranean family holidays.  Some knee jerkers there but in the main it was the concern of long term  property investments.  Many people around here retire to Spain, Italy and France and quite a few have already bought their retirement homes. I suspect there will be many changing their plans any time soon

Actually, climate change may have a significant impact on properties in more tempered regions,  when houses are build on clay soil.

https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-millions-of-homes-at-risk-of-subsidence-by-2070-warns-british-geological-survey-12310644

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Let's start with the last thing first. It's typical of your attempt to make things personal that you call Greta my my "childhood deity". On the one hand you accuse the media of engaging in empty emotionalism, and on the other you engage in it yourself.

 

As for your claim that  "Huge changes in climate appeared long before humans dominated the planet. You may have heard of the Ice Age?"

What is it about Anthropogenic Climate Change deniers, that they don't understand the concept of rate? If you were to be offered 2 bonds that were equally secure but one offered in interest rate of 1% and the other 10% would you say that the difference in rate doesn't matter because both are offering interest?

 

Global Temperature Reconstruction Over Last 24,000 Years Show Today’s Warming “Unprecedented”

The study, published Wednesday (November 10, 2021) in Nature, has three main findings: 

It verifies that the main drivers of climate change since the last ice age are rising greenhouse gas concentrations and the retreat of the ice sheets.
It suggests a general warming trend over the last 10,000 years, settling a decade-long debate the paleoclimatology community about whether this period trended warmer or cooler.
The magnitude and rate warming over the last 150 years far surpasses the magnitude and rate of changes over the last 24,000 years.

https://scitechdaily.com/global-temperature-reconstruction-over-last-24000-years-show-todays-warming-unprecedented/

 

As for people "ignoring your message", .. got any independently confirmable proof of that?

 

One in six UK adults doubt human link to climate change - report

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61965581

On 7/18/2023 at 9:00 AM, Purdey said:

It is no surprise that people think of climate change according to the weather in the place they reside. But if you look at how the global temperature has risen over a hundred years, it begins to make sense.

 

 

I do wish that people wouldn't introduce empirical evidence into the discussion!????

9 minutes ago, RayC said:

I do wish that people wouldn't introduce empirical evidence into the discussion!????

As Stephen Colbert once remarked "And reality has a well-known liberal bias..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_White_House_Correspondents'_Dinner

Going to the Greek islands August 14th , AirBnB has been reserved, Car has been rented for the month. People from the US who have made similar arrangements are meeting us there.There is no turning back.

Hope this heat brakes up in the next four weeks . 

 

22 hours ago, candide said:

Actually, climate change may have a significant impact on properties in more tempered regions,  when houses are build on clay soil.

https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-millions-of-homes-at-risk-of-subsidence-by-2070-warns-british-geological-survey-12310644

One of my neighbours is an architect working with two of the biggest house builders in the UK.  For the last three years they have been developing new ways to build and insulate houses to cope with the increased heat and cold that climate change will bring.  He often goes to Sweden where they are leading the way in the new technology.

 

He believes that many of the large Victorian and Georgian  central London houses will need significent alterations to survive i the future

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