Abnormally high UK temperatures continue

[Munroast]

Heatwave - down to 19 this morning, got the vest back on

 

[pete01]

No one really knows if climate change is real, but whatever is happening it's bloody boootiful...

 

[ericmark]

Heatwave - down to 19 this morning, got the vest back on

Your lucky, here 33ºC outside, 29.6ºC in bedroom no AC, and 26.5ºC in living room AC running.

 

[ericmark]

No one really knows if climate change is real, but whatever is happening it's bloody boootiful...

Climate change has always gone on, as far back in time as we can detect, there have been ice ages etc. What is important is if mankind is changing it. Since we kill animals to eat, and they emit CO2, eating meat must help the planet, unless to eat that meat we protect animals from other predators.

Burning coal and oil, is simply recycling, trees grow, trees fall, get compressed, and then we burn the compressed fuel, it is simple recycling. What is a problem is when we chemically alter things, so we cut down wood and turn it into plastic, so the natural process can't break it down.

So we alter the way plastic bags are made so they will break down, then we return to old stuff to make bags for life.

 

[pete01]

 

[blup]

I had doubts about full blown climate change theories until I realised that the increases in temperature that happened over thousands of years were not comparable to the significant increase since the industrial revolution. Simples.

 

[noseall]

I had doubts about full blown climate change

The doubters will tell you it has occurred previously. What they always seem to forget is it killed most of life on the planet.

 

[Mottie]

I haven’t stopped sweating, even in my sleep. If it carries on like this, I’ll end up showering twice this week!

 

[yorksbuilder]

There's no doubt there's been a big change in the past twenty years in daily maximums. Four days of 30C+ here in Yorkshire was unheard of back then. These spells are 3C to 4C higher than we used to get. The mechanism proposed is that the Arctic is warming much faster than the tropics, which causes the jet stream to lose power. It kinks and we suck in hot air from the south or east.

Don't you remember August 2003?

 

[yorksbuilder]

Reform type

Highest accolade from weary of life. I've made it

 

[King Billy]

Burning coal and oil, is simply recycling, trees grow, trees fall, get compressed, and then we burn the compressed fuel, it is simple recycling. What is a problem is when we chemically alter things, so we cut down wood and turn it into plastic, so the natural process can't break it down.

It's the difference in stuff breaking down naturally, and us growing stuff or mining for stuff specifically to turn into other stuff that might or might or might not breakdown naturally.
And in that processing of the stuff, energy is consumed.

What we should also remember is that it's the old and the young that are particularly vulnerable during heatwaves, not just the already sick.

 

[aveatry]

So going by that logic, I assume that you would agree the same should have applied a few years back to people who were very ill/terminal but had contracted the 'virus' however severe or not and then died?

Because for some time it was simply recorded as a 'virus death' without taking their medical situation into account, as opposed to the 'virus' being a 'contributing factor'.

Were those death figures at the time safely quotable?

No

 

[warey4life]

Heatwave - down to 19 this morning, got the vest back on

32c outside here in Devon at the moment.

 

[Koolpc]

140c inside my fur here in South Wales!!!!!

 

[warey4life]

Don't you remember August 2003?

The omega block. Wasn't quite as hot as this heatwave, although about 2000 people died for heat related issues.