Swiss tourist saved from the heat as survey shows 72.6% of Thai people worry about weather

[John Drake]

Too many Euros come here without any experience with how to deal with high temperatures. Not to mention that none of them are acclimatized to it.

[Olmate]

18 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Wait a minute, PLEASE, and do not say such things about us elderly.

I am slightly under this Swiss guy's age.

But, I have no problems walking 10 kilometers in the Noon-day Sun.

At noon, the humidity is lower, due to the higher temps, and THIS is the way I like it.

 

What I do is to enjoy more soy sauce on my food, and then drink water, before venturing forth to enjoy my long hot walks.

 

Start slow, and after a few years, you will be just like me.

 

Some, like me, like it Hot.

 

 

 

 

Mad dog and English too, Pity you, nah not a chance, just another bull$hitta.

[John Drake]

5 hours ago, quake said:

Stay indoors, Air con on,  set at 28, Beer fridge full of Leo

and Youporn on the Tv.

Sorted.

 

You're just asking for a power outage.

[Excogitator]

5 hours ago, Pesche said:

"coping with the growing challenges posed by climate change."

 

THERE IS NO CLIMATE CHANGE!

Stop it!

 

We have El Niño and it is peak of the hot season.

This is NOT the "climate change"!

 

[Dmaxdan]

3 hours ago, RobU said:

Headache, cramps and constipation are the result of dehydration. Drink plenty of water/fluids and stay hydrated.  The many drinkers of Pattaya  who drink copious amounts of beer shouldn't have a problem there. 

Alcohol, including beer dehydrates you. It has the complete opposite affect to drinking good old H2O.

[Pesche]

3 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

Oh, yeah? All lies then? All thermometers rigged?

 

 

So, @tomazbodner you definitely are not aware that your graphics are based on wrong models buddy! See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Tfxiuo-oM

 

And this one in just 4 minutes: https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1654244932763123712

 

[GammaGlobulin]

38 minutes ago, Olmate said:

Mad dog and English too, Pity you, nah not a chance, just another bull$hitta.

 

In fact, I was not joking.

These days, I wear a hat, one of those hats with a strip of netting near the top, but not on the top, to release the heat from my head.

I do not walk when the temp gets above 37.

However, 37, or below, and I usually feel quite comfortable walking at any time of day.

I hydrate during the hours before I go out for walks. And I carry 1.5 liters of water in case I get thirsty.

 

37 degrees in the sun in Thailand is still quite comfortable for me, when the humidity is low.  At the moment, this morning at 11:30AM, the humidity is about 20 percent.  Extremely comfortable, and a nice time for a walk.

 

 

[dinsdale]

7 hours ago, nglodnig said:

Eh yeah - it's hot season.  Tuesday was in 40 degreees of heat and flew to Switzerland - bloody snowing! Three degrees at best. Often in the summer the weather in Switzerland is hotter than than it is in Thailand. Any chance we can stop OVER-REACTING when it gets a little warm?

Hottest day on record in Switzerland was 41.5°C in 2006. As for a little warm high 30°C and up is HOT Very Hot and should be acknowledged and respected as such. Hydration is essential.

[sammieuk1]

The good news was no one gave him a good kicking 🤔

[RobU]

1 hour ago, Dmaxdan said:

Alcohol, including beer dehydrates you. It has the complete opposite affect to drinking good old H2O.

True, I was trying to be sarcastically funny which obviously failed. Another point to note is that the body will not rehydrate until the alcohol is excreted so drinking copious amounts of water immediately after you have dehydrated from alcohol has no effect for at least 4 hours

[jonclark]

57 minutes ago, Pesche said:

 

So, @tomazbodner you definitely are not aware that your graphics are based on wrong models buddy! See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Tfxiuo-oM

 

And this one in just 4 minutes: https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1654244932763123712

 

 

But your graphics and videos are not. They are based on the right models. The models that fit your PoV.

 

The average temperatures across Thailand (and remember that averages have extremes at either end) are not normal. Yes,  we have El Nino, but science does not full understand the dynamics and complex interplay of factors that lead to El Nino strengths or formations, so dismissing global warming/climate change as a significant factor for El Nino would be very poor science as both are impacted by and affect the atmospheric system. 

 

However, rising global temperatures are not the only effect of climate change - increasing ocean temperatures (mass bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef), increased ocean acidification (due to the formation of carbonic acid as CO2 dissolves into the oceans) more extreme and frequent extreme weather events - (currently 1 in 100 years flooding going on in China for examples), melting of ice sheets especially Greenland and Antarctica leading to rising sea levels (arctic ice sheet is melting but does not impact sea level rise) shrinking glaciers, loss of biodiversity. 

 

Earth's climate has always changed due to biological processes - remember plants and autotrophic organisms provide all the oxygen in the atmosphere, and also physical factors - milankovich cycles, sunspot cycles, and volcanoes. However, what is alarming is the rate of change. So dismissing human activities as a causal factor in climate change is very short-sighted, when it is know that speices can impact climate and our atmospheric systems.

 

Climate deniers will always rebuff climate change - which is fine, as disagreement drives scientific discourse,  but wouldn't it be wiser in the absence of definitive proof, which is the counter arguement in the videos presented by yourself, to take a more precautionary approach? we have a population of near 8 billion people most of whom are relatively poor and cannot adapt to any potential climate-driven events - a precautionary approach would be wiser, even if you fundamentally disagree with it. 

 

The average Bangkok temperature data for the past 12 years in April is 34C - currently for April 202 its 42. An 8-degree divergence from the average is an abnormality so significant that it cannot be pinned on El Nino alone. 

 

[Olmate]

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

In fact, I was not joking.

These days, I wear a hat, one of those hats with a strip of netting near the top, but not on the top, to release the heat from my head.

I do not walk when the temp gets above 37.

However, 37, or below, and I usually feel quite comfortable walking at any time of day.

I hydrate during the hours before I go out for walks. And I carry 1.5 liters of water in case I get thirsty.

 

37 degrees in the sun in Thailand is still quite comfortable for me, when the humidity is low.  At the moment, this morning at 11:30AM, the humidity is about 20 percent.  Extremely comfortable, and a nice time for a walk.

 

 

Almost credible! In Oz they wear hats with netting  too, but thats to keep the flies off ya! Hence the saying.. "no flies on" me!!  

[GammaGlobulin]

39 minutes ago, Olmate said:

Almost credible! In Oz they wear hats with netting  too, but thats to keep the flies off ya! Hence the saying.. "no flies on" me!!  

 

Wow.

That this the one of the most ugly-adze hats I have, so far, seen on this forum.

 

"NO, I would not be caught dead in a hat like that", says this Cat in My Hat!

 

Here are the hats I buy.

The site says 100 percent cotton.

But, actually they are 100 percent polyester.

 

So, I bought 18 of them.

I always buy a few extras when I find something I really like on Lazada.

I gave a couple to friends, too.

 

very cheap price.

I LOVE THESE because they do the job, and are super cool, and Cool!

 

 

I will not need to buy more hats till the day I die.

18 hats.

2 for friends

16 left.

One hat per year, maybe.

 

So, maybe I will need more hats in this life, actually.

 

I never get hot with a hat like this one.

It's good up to about 55 degrees C....

 

(No flies on me: I am a genius shopper when it comes to selecting hats.)

 

[PJ71]

8 hours ago, Denim said:

in the cool season it was often really cold and in the mornings it was not unusual to see any puddles frozen with an ice crust.

In KK, total BS.

 

 

[Denim]

7 minutes ago, PJ71 said:

In KK, total BS.

 

 

 

Which part is BS. The temperature 40 years ago or the ice on the puddles ?

 

Both are true . I lived in a village ( Prayuen ) 25 k outside KK.  Even now parts of Thailand get hail storms and villages are temporarily covered in icy hail stones.

 

Dito for the temperature. Whilst I was there , never hotter than 35 in the shade.

 

Even when we lived in Nonthaburi 14 years ago, woke up one day IN MARCH and it was 17 degrees when the sun came up. Totally freak weather for that time of year.

 

Again , back in 1984ish I had to wade up Sukhumvit Soi 24 with water halfway up to my knees to get to my apartment at Peter Court

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

One thing I do not understand about this man topping over in the heat:

 

The story tells us that this was such a "poignant moment".

But, I have been thinking:  In what way?

 

 

It's like that guy who was reportedly practicing his swan dives off the tower in  Surat Thani, recently.

I mean, I would not exactly refer to his falling like a rock as a poignant moment.

What is this world coming to?

 

A hot dude keels over and lies unconscious on the pavement.

And this is the thing that evokes in us feelings of sadness and regret?

If it had been a Hot Chick who keeled over, then I might have felt sadness and regret.

But a hot dude?

No way.
I just feel that he should have been more aware of signs of over heating that were creeping up on him.

Heat exhaustion and such is no joke.

This is why it pays to stay in shape.

The more overweight we are, then the harder our poor old hearts must work to circulate the blood that helps to keep our brain temps from going into the red zone.

 

Stay in shape, if you want to "go out in the Noon-Day Sun".

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

10 hours ago, Denim said:

 

Ask any elderly Thai if the hot season was as hot as this 40 years ago. They will answer no.

 

40 years ago I was living in a village outside Khon Kaen. If the temperature hit 35 that was already thought to be seriously hot . Never saw any day hotter than 35. 

 

Conversely,  in the cool season it was often really cold and in the mornings it was not unusual to see any puddles frozen with an ice crust. You don't see that either these days.

 

I have listened to people who live close to CMU, ages around 40 to 50, speak about the much cooler temperatures they experienced, at all times of the year, several decades ago.

 

CMU, at that time, was surrounded by heavily forested land.

These people seem nostalgic for the days when they did not fry in the heat, and also the days when they could enjoy crisp cool low-humidity air, much of the year.

 

Those days are long gone.

 

Instead, we can take a look at this graph for a LOOK BACK or a LOOK FORWARD to what has gone before and what is ahead concerning the temperature anomaly in store for us.

 

Not a particularly rosy picture is painted by these graphs:

 

https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/15853-WB_Thailand Country Profile-WEB_0.pdf

 

Note that the rate of change will continue to increase, as well, which is something referred to as intensity. And, this can't be good.

 

NOTE:  Unfortunately, although the report was published in 2021, the above graphs seem to have been based on data collected before 2005.  And, since this rosy picture continues to become even bleaker, as time goes by, I suspect that the newer data may look even less appealing to the average Thai citizen, not to mention the Farang lurking about here.

 

NOTE 2:  I guess it's NOT our imagination that, in the near past, temps actually WERE cooler:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Thailand

 

 

[owl sees all]

12 hours ago, quake said:

Stay indoors, Air con on,  set at 28, Beer fridge full of Leo

and Youporn on the Tv.

Sorted.

Get the sun on yer back. Good for you.

 

Ditch any air-con. If you must; then a small fan. Alcohol is not good. Iced lime tea the bizzo.

 

YouPorn is addictive. Tom and Jerry better.

 

[Olmate]

3 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Wow.

That this the one of the most ugly-adze hats I have, so far, seen on this forum.

 

"NO, I would not be caught dead in a hat like that", says this Cat in My Hat!

 

Here are the hats I buy.

The site says 100 percent cotton.

But, actually they are 100 percent polyester.

 

So, I bought 18 of them.

I always buy a few extras when I find something I really like on Lazada.

I gave a couple to friends, too.

 

very cheap price.

I LOVE THESE because they do the job, and are super cool, and Cool!

 

 

I will not need to buy more hats till the day I die.

18 hats.

2 for friends

16 left.

One hat per year, maybe.

 

So, maybe I will need more hats in this life, actually.

 

I never get hot with a hat like this one.

It's good up to about 55 degrees C....

 

(No flies on me: I am a genius shopper when it comes to selecting hats.)

 

These are banned in Australia, "knob hats" is the official name, pretty well sums up the wearer too!! 

[quake]

39 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

YouPorn is addictive. Tom and Jerry better.

 

 

How do you know.

Former addict,  were we. 

[owl sees all]

2 minutes ago, quake said:

 

How do you know.

Former addict,  were we. 

Been in a few Quakee. Long time ago. Didn't like it. Women are over-rated.

 

Preferred fishing.

[quake]

5 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

Been in a few Quakee. Long time ago. Didn't like it. Women are over-rated.

 

Preferred fishing.

 

Fishing is cheaper that's for sure.

 

 

 

[kickstart]

14 hours ago, Pesche said:

"coping with the growing challenges posed by climate change."

 

THERE IS NO CLIMATE CHANGE!

Stop it!

 

We have El Niño and it is peak of the hot season.

This is NOT the "climate change"!

Up to about 10 years ago, not many people had heard of El Nimo those that had said it happens every so many years, now every one knows about El Nimo it seems to come more frequent now. ...................Explain.

[kickstart]

3 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I have listened to people who live close to CMU, ages around 40 to 50, speak about the much cooler temperatures they experienced, at all times of the year, several decades ago.

 

CMU, at that time, was surrounded by heavily forested land.

These people seem nostalgic for the days when they did not fry in the heat, and also the days when they could enjoy crisp cool low-humidity air, much of the year.

 

Those days are long gone.

 

Instead, we can take a look at this graph for a LOOK BACK or a LOOK FORWARD to what has gone before and what is ahead concerning the temperature anomaly in store for us.

 

Not a particularly rosy picture is painted by these graphs:

 

https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/15853-WB_Thailand Country Profile-WEB_0.pdf

 

Note that the rate of change will continue to increase, as well, which is something referred to as intensity. And, this can't be good.

 

NOTE:  Unfortunately, although the report was published in 2021, the above graphs seem to have been based on data collected before 2005.  And, since this rosy picture continues to become even bleaker, as time goes by, I suspect that the newer data may look even less appealing to the average Thai citizen, not to mention the Farang lurking about here.

 

NOTE 2:  I guess it's NOT our imagination that, in the near past, temps actually WERE cooler:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Thailand

 

 

Interesting graph, when I first come here in in 1993, I was told Thailand had by then, cut down 75 % of their forests, in my area cental Lopburi, it was all wooded the wife can just remember that, older people can remember hearing elephants trumping.

Now, it just an agriculture area, where cassava, corn, sugar cane rules the roost.

The wifehas said a lot when she was younger it never got this hot, and she has been in farming for a lot of years and would know. 

[ikke1959]

It is very hot indeed even too hot, but Thai people don't care much I believe.... Lot of blacksmoke cars, burning things every day in the countryside, even take motorcycles for a distance of 100 m to go to the 7/11. and many many more.... No 72,6% I don't know where they live but I believe the question is do you think it is very hot nowadays?

[Startmeup]

 

[Startmeup]

I wonder when the climate change vaccines will be launched to protect us from "global warming" oh no wait its not global warming anymore they had to change that its climate change now lol. Brilliant

[quake]

7 hours ago, Startmeup said:

 

 

This is all wrong, I should be in the bar drinking in soi 6, on the other side of town, not talking to you.

How dare you. 

 

The girls are not going to like this one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[rexpotter]

20 hours ago, Pesche said:

 

So, @tomazbodner you definitely are not aware that your graphics are based on wrong models buddy! See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Tfxiuo-oM

 

And this one in just 4 minutes: https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1654244932763123712

 

If we pave the entire earth with cement and asphalt, it will be hotter.

[superal]

21 hours ago, John Drake said:

  On 4/22/2024 at 5:35 AM, quake said:

Stay indoors, Air con on,  set at 28, Beer fridge full of Leo

and Youporn on the Tv.

Sorted.

You're just asking for a power outage.

 

22 hours ago, John Drake said:

 

You're just asking for a power outage.

The mind boggles , power cut right at  the climax time . ☹️ ,     🤣