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[drogulus]

     There's no way temperatures are this high. It's time for an audit.

This so-called "heat dome" seems extremely suspect and is driving temperatures up artificially, when they should be in the balmy 70s or, at most, the sweltering 90s. These thermometer readings are clearly skewed in some way, no doubt because of the indoctrination of our children in schools where they are taught that human actions can impact the planet's climate. Altering the temperatures is just a quick fix; to truly help future generations put this problem out of mind, we must change what children are taught about heat and the planet.

     

[Brahmsian]

     There's no way temperatures are this high. It's time for an audit.

This so-called "heat dome" seems extremely suspect and is driving temperatures up artificially, when they should be in the balmy 70s or, at most, the sweltering 90s. These thermometer readings are clearly skewed in some way, no doubt because of the indoctrination of our children in schools where they are taught that human actions can impact the planet's climate. Altering the temperatures is just a quick fix; to truly help future generations put this problem out of mind, we must change what children are taught about heat and the planet.

   

??

Are we now suggesting thermometers are rigged upwards?

Well, in any case BC Canada just broke a Canadian record two days ago, at 46.6C.

In any event, anything above 30C is unbearable for me. I'd rather have - 30C.

[drogulus]

     We need bipartisan thermometers.

??

Are we now suggesting thermometers are rigged upwards?

     I'm just asking questions.

[steve ridgway]

     We need bipartisan thermometers.

     I'm just asking questions.

LOL you need to switch to French degrees like we did, now it's not so obvious what the real temperature is.

[MusicTurner]

Sticking to a basement cellar with a fan, plenty of food/drinks and a computer is probably the only good environment to maintain a conspiracy theory in this case ... unless you're residing somewhere very far away from the alleged 'hot spot', of course.

[MusicTurner]

Erwin Schulhoff - Hot Sonata

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEINXjjcsNw

[vandermolen]

??

Are we now suggesting thermometers are rigged upwards?

Well, in any case BC Canada just broke a Canadian record two days ago, at 46.6C.

In any event, anything above 30C is unbearable for me. I'd rather have - 30C.

Me too re: 30C - I hate hot weather and prefer Winter to Summer.

By the way, Happy Canada Day to you and fellow Canadian GMG members. As I have a new Canadian son-in-law I am very clued up on these issues now!

[Madiel]

Are we now suggesting thermometers are rigged upwards?

I don't know about "we", but the author of the article is dripping with irony.

[SimonNZ]

I was listening to a podcast on Rachel Carson today and they were talking about the book she was working on about rising temperatures when she died - in the early sixties - and what action might have been taken if she'd finished it and it had been published.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

20C or lower sounds good to me!  I can handle it a bit warmer if the humidity is low, but I hate hot and sticky!  I wilt in it.  Temps are a bit cooler today after a storm moved through yesterday; the humidity, however, is still up there so the a/c is on.  Speaking of which, are either portable or window a/cs getting to be more popular in the UK with the increasingly hot summers that you've been experiencing?  What about in Canada?

Can't believe the temps that I've been hearing about in the Pacific NW--well, yes, I can (as in I don't believe that I am being lied to), but in another sense, it's so friggin' crazy and unheard of there!   

PD

p.s.  And I'd love to be at Wimbledon right now eating strawberries and cream and enjoying the cool weather!  Oh, yes, and watching tennis. 

[Brahmsian]

Me too re: 30C - I hate hot weather and prefer Winter to Summer.

By the way, Happy Canada Day to you and fellow Canadian GMG members. As I have a new Canadian son-in-law I am very clued up on these issues now!

Thank you, Jeffrey! Very thoughtful and kind of you. 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I was listening to a podcast on Rachel Carson today and they were talking about the book she was working on about rising temperatures when she died - in the early sixties - and what action might have been taken if she'd finished it and it had been published.

Sounds like an interesting podcast!  Can you provide a link to it?

Thank you, Jeffrey! Very thoughtful and kind of you. 

And Happy Canada Day to you O.N.!  Any special celebrations at your end?  Sunday is our big celebration. 

PD

[Szykneij]

I was listening to a podcast on Rachel Carson today and they were talking about the book she was working on about rising temperatures when she died - in the early sixties - and what action might have been taken if she'd finished it and it had been published.

Unfortunate that it never made it to print. Silent Spring had a huge impact.

The Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge in Maine is a place I frequently visit. It's a beautiful place to cool off!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Unfortunate that it never made it to print. Silent Spring had a huge impact.

The Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge in Maine is a place I frequently visit. It's a beautiful place to cool off!

Nice and nice tribute to her!

PD

[SimonNZ]

Sounds like an interesting podcast!  Can you provide a link to it?

I've been catching up with last year's season of historian Jill Lepore's The Last Archive.

Here is the episode on Rachel Carson:

For The Birds

[André]

Me too re: 30C - I hate hot weather and prefer Winter to Summer.

By the way, Happy Canada Day to you and fellow Canadian GMG members. As I have a new Canadian son-in-law I am very clued up on these issues now!

Thank you Jeffrey !

Your latest clue on the matter should be that this year dozens of cities have cancelled celebrations, all canadian government flags are at half-mast and nobody is in any mood to celebrate...


https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-day-political-reaction-1.6087370

But we'll gladly take hugs all the same   

[Karl Henning]

Gosh!
Hugs all 'round!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Gosh!
Hugs all 'round!

+1

[André]

As of July 2 pm, 719 deaths have been attributed to the heat wave in British Columbia.  🥵

[Daverz]

We seem to have escaped dangerously high temperatures here in inland San Diego so far, but our summers are muggier than they used to be.  I could only take about 15 minutes or so of 80F in the sun with a 60F dew point.

https://www.10news.com/news/san-diego-humidity-on-the-rise-in-recent-years#:~:text=San%20Diego%20is%20more%20humid,and%20anomalous%20high%20moisture%20values.&text=Relative%20humidity%20is%20the%20difference,NWS%20expert%20Alex%20Tardy%20explains.

Still nowhere near as bad as I remember the oven-like North Carolina summer humidity, though.