The Hot Weather Madness

Funky_Chicken said:
Ffs it’s pathetic - give it a few months an people will be moaning it’s too cold an cancelling stuff for half an inch of snow
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Anybody who doesn’t understand the huge significance of 40 degrees C in the U.K. either has their head in the sand or is a little bit, well, ignorant/naive.
The temperatures in Europe this past couple of weeks and next aren’t just simply a bit of nice sunny weather.

It’s really fairly simple….Our infrastructure is not designed for this heat. Our roads, railways, buildings, hospitals, homes, working practices, even people, are not designed for this heat. The more frequent this heat becomes, the more problems we are all going to have to adapt to.
It’s so foolish to dismiss it all as just media hype.

It’s also really interesting how many people who thought covid was no big deal and vaccines weren’t required etc also think extreme weather events are also no big deal. Hmmmm. 🤔
What’s that old saying again? Ignorance is bliss…
 
FabioPorkpie said:
….. with beaches and accessible sea and air conditioning and everywhere geared up and acclimatised to the weather and engineered to meet the demands of the heat. And generally you wouldn’t take 80 yr olds out of the U.K. and into that heat because….
In the U.K., the 80/90 yr olds etc are already here, and not acclimatised.
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The way the media has gone on the past few days they've made it sound like this world ending. The elderly amongst us aren't stupid.

Anyways, the weather reports are only right 50% of the time. It'll probs just **** down all week after all the fuss.

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FabioPorkpie said:
Anybody who doesn’t understand the huge significance of 40 degrees C in the U.K. either has their head in the sand or is a little bit, well, ignorant/naive.
The temperatures in Europe this past couple of weeks and next aren’t just simply a bit of nice sunny weather.

It’s really fairly simple….Our infrastructure is not designed for this heat. Our roads, railways, buildings, hospitals, homes, working practices, even people, are not designed for this heat. The more frequent this heat becomes, the more problems we are all going to have to adapt to.
It’s so foolish to dismiss it all as just media hype.

It’s also really interesting how many people who thought covid was no big deal and vaccines weren’t required etc also think extreme weather events are also no big deal. Hmmmm. 🤔
What’s that old saying again? Ignorance is bliss…
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We haven’t had 40 degrees heat, and aren’t likely too either - switch the tv off an give yourself a break from fear porn, you’ll be a lot happier for it 👍🏻 I remember my mum telling me about the long hot summers they had in the 30’s and 40’s when she was a kid an complaining about the crap ones we had in the 80’s and 90’s. No one knows what temperatures we’ve had in the past here or anywhere else because temperature gauges hadn’t been invented. Climate change is normal, this country was covered in ice not that long ago (in relative terms) - nothing we do can to halt changing weather patterns, and it’s absolutely naive to think we can stop it
 
Randy said:
The way the media has gone on the past few days they've made it sound like this world ending. The elderly amongst us aren't stupid.

Anyways, the weather reports are only right 50% of the time. It'll probs just **** down all week after all the fuss.
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I hope it does to be honest. Never thought I’d miss cold miserable rain 😂
I’m in Cambridgeshire which seems to get it’s fair share of the brunt of the heat, and it’s been 28/29 degrees in our bedroom on a nighttime recently, apart from last couple of days. Going to bed for sleep is a waste of time
 
Glover_elbow said:
What's odds would you get on before the year 2030 we will have a reading of 50 degrees somewhere in the UK.
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Probably already has (easily) in the sun, but I think air temps are measured in the shade.

Can't see 50 degrees in the shade anytime in my lifetime here mind, the chance of getting one degree hotter was like 1 in 5, per year or something like that, doing that 10 times in 7 years would be some going. It's almost impossible for us to hit that, unless other places are going up loads more, the sea stops us getting out of control.

Increasing the climate by a couple of degrees will do strange things mind.
 
Randy said:
Only so much the extraction fans can do, it just is what it is.

The way some of the media are going on though is ridiculous. Telling people to stay at home? I don't recall seeing anything like that on a plane ticket abroad to sunnier climates.
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Probably sensible for the elderly or those that aren’t used to the heat
 
Funky_Chicken said:
We haven’t had 40 degrees heat, and aren’t likely too either - switch the tv off an give yourself a break from fear porn, you’ll be a lot happier for it 👍🏻 I remember my mum telling me about the long hot summers they had in the 30’s and 40’s when she was a kid an complaining about the crap ones we had in the 80’s and 90’s. No one knows what temperatures we’ve had in the past here or anywhere else because temperature gauges hadn’t been invented. Climate change is normal, this country was covered in ice not that long ago (in relative terms) - nothing we do can to halt changing weather patterns, and it’s absolutely naive to think we can stop it
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Dude, I appreciate what you are saying but I’m afraid the real science just doesn’t back it up. The climate change we are going through is not normal, no matter how much money big oil companies and big business keep spending on trying to persuade people that it is. Some of the people you are listening to are lying to you. Some of the people you think are lying to you, or overreacting, have your best interests at heart.
Anyway, whatever, cold beer always helps so cheers 🍻
 
FabioPorkpie said:
Dude, I appreciate what you are saying but I’m afraid the real science just doesn’t back it up. The climate change we are going through is not normal, no matter how much money big oil companies and big business keep spending on trying to persuade people that it is. Some of the people you are listening to are lying to you. Some of the people you think are lying to you, or overreacting, have your best interests at heart.
Anyway, whatever, cold beer always helps so cheers 🍻
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You can’t prove it’s not normal - there is literally no way anyone can. What we do know is this is going to be used as a very big stick to beat is with though. Net zero carbon by 2030 is a pipe dream and even if it was achievable do you really think the climate would go back to “normal”, whatever normal is
 
Funky_Chicken said:
We haven’t had 40 degrees heat, and aren’t likely too either - switch the tv off an give yourself a break from fear porn, you’ll be a lot happier for it 👍🏻 I remember my mum telling me about the long hot summers they had in the 30’s and 40’s when she was a kid an complaining about the crap ones we had in the 80’s and 90’s. No one knows what temperatures we’ve had in the past here or anywhere else because temperature gauges hadn’t been invented. Climate change is normal, this country was covered in ice not that long ago (in relative terms) - nothing we do can to halt changing weather patterns, and it’s absolutely naive to think we can stop it
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Well you've really put a stop to internationally accepted research findings. They could've just asked you and not bothered 😉
 
wilkos_perm said:
Well you've really put a stop to internationally accepted research findings. They could've just asked you and not bothered 😉
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Ok then let’s say we do everything they suggest - stop flying, stop driving petrol an diesel cars, stop burning any fossil fuels of any kind, net zero carbon in effect, and when we’ve done all that nothing changes - then what ?
 
Funky_Chicken said:
You can’t prove it’s not normal - there is literally no way anyone can. What we do know is this is going to be used as a very big stick to beat is with though. Net zero carbon by 2030 is a pipe dream and even if it was achievable do you really think the climate would go back to “normal”, whatever normal is
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But it’s not about returning it to normal.
 
Funky_Chicken said:
Ok then let’s say we do everything they suggest - stop flying, stop driving petrol an diesel cars, stop burning any fossil fuels of any kind, net zero carbon in effect, and when we’ve done all that nothing changes - then what ?
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