This heatwave really is showing how dysfunctional our country is becoming.
We are fighting to be allowed AC.
The trains have been cancelled and/or we are being told not to use them (what, to work in our non-AC homes?)
Someone passed out on a Tube I was on - unsurprising as it is a sauna.
And now we’re being told to limit water use and being slapped with hosepipe bans because we’ve failed to build enough reservoirs.
It’s been hot for less than a week. And our national infrastructure has basically already collapsed.
Let’s treat this as a wake up call
In September 1990, my village in Valencia hit 46°C.
It was the exact kind of natural climate volatility this ancient planet has unleashed for billions of years.
Today, Valencia, Rome, and Athens are actually sitting well below their seasonal averages. Yet, the media is in a coordinated meltdown over a standard two-week warm patch in the UK, France, and Belgium.
As a geospatial engineer who wrote a thesis on climatology, I’m positioned better than many to talk about the topic, the entire narrative relies on a broken view of data systems.
The formula is simple: zoom in on a tiny slice of geography, filter out the cool regions that ruin the story, and label a hot afternoon a global catastrophe.
The funniest part is the sheer hubris of the solution.
We are told the Earth's massive climate system operates like a living room thermostat, that if humans just stop CO2 emissions, we can magically freeze the weather at our preferred temperature.
Pretending we can micromanage global macro-cycles with carbon taxes.
But as long as panic funds the machine, and people don’t think by themselves, they’ll keep selling the front-row tickets.
I went into a castle earlier and it was about 14 degrees in there. Felt like the whole place had aircon. Of course, it didn’t. It was just well built. Built in the 1400’s btw.
the worst kind of misogynists aren’t moustache twirling villains it’s guys like Declan Rice
they’re the biggest percentage of the group, and with his voice, his platform, his position of power, he’s acting as if nothings happened
his silence encourages others to ignore it too.
As this post says, you would never get away with this in the Gulf. Just as you would never see this in Morocco, Turkey or Albania either. That’s why extremists come to the UK - because they can practice this freely here. Women and gays should be scared.
As a real Arab Muslim: this backward nonsense has nothing to do with Islam and is illegal in the Gulf, the cradle of Islam.
Pure ignorant cultural backwardness and the West is now the perfect breeding ground for this disgusting plague.
Why does the West love extremist political Islam so much? 🤔
@Wingerlar@JustHelens Do dogs like sitting underneath a table for hours in a busy pub, nearly getting trampled on while they have to smell everyone else’s food and watch everyone else eat?
@SouthernRailUK thank you, I will do. I’m now stuck waiting for a delayed 8:10 when I could have easily been on the 8:01 had your driver stuck to your regulations.
@SouthernRailUK why has your 8:01 to Victoria from Streatham just departed at 7 seconds past 8?? Missed it by a literal second. You can’t just make up the times as you go along? It’s bad enough you’re always late, now you’re just making up departure times too?