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  • FirenzeAddick
    FirenzeAddick Posts: 88
    Leuth said:
    Would that be the China that is completely and manifestly at the forefront of green technology and alternative energy? https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/china-tests-worlds-first-megawatt-class-flying-wind-turbine-it-generated-enough-energy-to-power-a-house-for-2-weeks

    Yes, who remain one of the three largest polluters on the planet and have contributed heavily to the current situation.

    It's very good news they are changing behaviors.... hence point number 2 in my post.
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,952
    ME14addick said:
    FirenzeAddick said:
    For all of the anger on this thread it amounts to "man shouts at cloud". Both of these things are true:

    1. Global warming is real, and it is happening.
    2. We have never been more aware about man's impact on this and we are addressing it.

    Shouting and putting up graphs doesn't change a thing. We each have an individual responsibility to do the right thing and make conscious choices which don't damage the planet on a daily basis.... simple as that. Go about your lives with awareness and enjoy yourself!

    Unless you have the ability to personally lobby China, the US and India, then sadly your righteous anger is wasted. 
    If only this were true, but there are so many that don't believe that man has an impact on global warming, that is the problem. As others have pointed out, social media is a big problem for spreading mis/disinformation. 
    Well hopefully your strategy of boring them to death works and they stop polluting the planet. 
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,952
    cantersaddick said:
    Getting back on topic. Lovely Breeze this morning. Great for airing the house out. Dropped the temperature a good 6 degrees inside. Gonna close up before the sun comes round an hope we can keep it cool today
    I do the same. How do you decide when the right time is to "close up?"

    I've been using the method of stepping outside, feeling it's hotter than inside and then doing that.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,297
    Leuth said:
    Would that be the China that is completely and manifestly at the forefront of green technology and alternative energy? https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/china-tests-worlds-first-megawatt-class-flying-wind-turbine-it-generated-enough-energy-to-power-a-house-for-2-weeks
    Yeah that argument is 15 years out of date and has been use to excuse poor policy and for the UK and others to abscond from its responsibilities on the climate. 

    Every individual has power to influence government and industry through their purchasing decisions. Through purchasing decisions (every choice to turn down fast fashion or similar and choose a more sustainable option will lead companies to move towards those) through voting, through activism, through the choices you make. 

    This book is great on this. It doesnt fall for the "individual responsibility means your carbon footprint" argument but demonstrates how your decisions can build towards true systemic change.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/278102223534?_ul=GB&rb_itemId=278102223534&rb_pgeo=GB&ff=11&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5339059258&toolid=10044&customid=Cj0KCQjwo_PRBhDNARIsAEcVALVqw6a1qDgSNKDUmXziiLAvEUprqs17_MMGgq7unC9sfCZ7SoPObScaAo6QEALw_wcB&gclid=Cj0KCQjwo_PRBhDNARIsAEcVALVqw6a1qDgSNKDUmXziiLAvEUprqs17_MMGgq7unC9sfCZ7SoPObScaAo6QEALw_wcB&wbraid=CkEKCQjwgO7RBhDyARIwAKUTHon2oR76mE3BKzyoKulc6s55BqirMtFWtN0n7behBEtoaG6_lX0GqEqye9dWGgKSNw&gbraid=0AAAAADA7Q_LO00JyEfius8B9bGHBKB0o4&adtype=pla&loc_physical_ms=9222618&loc_interest_ms=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20506529270&gbraid=0AAAAADA7Q_LO00JyEfius8B9bGHBKB0o4

  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 10,021
    Huskaris said:
    ME14addick said:
    FirenzeAddick said:
    For all of the anger on this thread it amounts to "man shouts at cloud". Both of these things are true:

    1. Global warming is real, and it is happening.
    2. We have never been more aware about man's impact on this and we are addressing it.

    Shouting and putting up graphs doesn't change a thing. We each have an individual responsibility to do the right thing and make conscious choices which don't damage the planet on a daily basis.... simple as that. Go about your lives with awareness and enjoy yourself!

    Unless you have the ability to personally lobby China, the US and India, then sadly your righteous anger is wasted. 
    If only this were true, but there are so many that don't believe that man has an impact on global warming, that is the problem. As others have pointed out, social media is a big problem for spreading mis/disinformation. 
    Well hopefully your strategy of boring them to death works and they stop polluting the planet. 
    This is a thread about a record breaking heatwave, talking about the causes of that is perfectly justifiable. If just a few more actually start to think that there may be something in this 'man made global warming talk', then the discussion is worth it. There are still far too many believing the lies of those with a vested interest in continuing to damage the climate and all the life on the planet.
  • stoneroses19
    stoneroses19 Posts: 7,672
    Emergency warning in Bangkok today, as they’ve said it could feel 52 degrees! 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,297
    Huskaris said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Getting back on topic. Lovely Breeze this morning. Great for airing the house out. Dropped the temperature a good 6 degrees inside. Gonna close up before the sun comes round an hope we can keep it cool today
    I do the same. How do you decide when the right time is to "close up?"

    I've been using the method of stepping outside, feeling it's hotter than inside and then doing that.
    Yeah I do similar. I also track movement of the sun, first thing in the morning its at the front of the house and then by about 10:30 it appears around the back so I make sure I am shut up before then as it will just blaze the back of the house until it sets. 
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,952
    cantersaddick said:
    Huskaris said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Getting back on topic. Lovely Breeze this morning. Great for airing the house out. Dropped the temperature a good 6 degrees inside. Gonna close up before the sun comes round an hope we can keep it cool today
    I do the same. How do you decide when the right time is to "close up?"

    I've been using the method of stepping outside, feeling it's hotter than inside and then doing that.
    Yeah I do similar. I also track movement of the sun, first thing in the morning its at the front of the house and then by about 10:30 it appears around the back so I make sure I am shut up before then as it will just blaze the back of the house until it sets. 
    Yeah I've also been doing the curtains in like with the sun, makes a massive difference. 

    Wind just blew a bit and for the first time it felt "warm" so think I will close up now, at 26.7 degrees ffs...

    Definitely feel like the baseline for temperature in the house is higher each day like it's baked into the bricks, so it doesn't even need to keep getting hotter for the heat in the house to be higher if that makes sense...
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,297
    stoneroses19 said:
    Emergency warning in Bangkok today, as they’ve said it could feel 52 degrees! 
    Whats happening in India is bad as well. Many left without water and power. Wells that have run for hundreds of years are running dry, large numbers of excess deaths. Scary how much of the world is experiencing these things all at the same time.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,297
    Huskaris said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Huskaris said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Getting back on topic. Lovely Breeze this morning. Great for airing the house out. Dropped the temperature a good 6 degrees inside. Gonna close up before the sun comes round an hope we can keep it cool today
    I do the same. How do you decide when the right time is to "close up?"

    I've been using the method of stepping outside, feeling it's hotter than inside and then doing that.
    Yeah I do similar. I also track movement of the sun, first thing in the morning its at the front of the house and then by about 10:30 it appears around the back so I make sure I am shut up before then as it will just blaze the back of the house until it sets. 
    Yeah I've also been doing the curtains in like with the sun, makes a massive difference. 

    Wind just blew a bit and for the first time it felt "warm" so think I will close up now, at 26.7 degrees ffs...

    Definitely feel like the baseline for temperature in the house is higher each day like it's baked into the bricks, so it doesn't even need to keep getting hotter for the heat in the house to be higher if that makes sense...
    Agree. House is definitely holding the heat more each day. Have seen things saying to hose off the outside of your house late in the evening to drop the temperature of the walls but cant bring myself to do that as feels like a waste of water. Will need some rain to do that, hopefully some of what is forecast friday night and saturday materialises and resets indoor temps. 

    Today I am monitoring but as there is more of a breeze I may open some windows at the front to let some fresh air in but depends on how hot it gets.

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  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 3,067
    Huskaris said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Getting back on topic. Lovely Breeze this morning. Great for airing the house out. Dropped the temperature a good 6 degrees inside. Gonna close up before the sun comes round an hope we can keep it cool today
    I do the same. How do you decide when the right time is to "close up?"

    I've been using the method of stepping outside, feeling it's hotter than inside and then doing that.
    If you got the ability to look at the inside and outside temperature then when the outside temperature is 2c lower than the inside then at night open the required windows, during the day you reverse it so shut the windows, however as Cantrsadick say if you get strong sunlight coming through a window then shut the curtains / blind regardless whatever the temperature is. 

    Hope that helps, another tip is when the house is shut up, if you got a fan running place a bowl of water in front of it, or better if available an ice block.
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,952
    cantersaddick said:
    Huskaris said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Huskaris said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Getting back on topic. Lovely Breeze this morning. Great for airing the house out. Dropped the temperature a good 6 degrees inside. Gonna close up before the sun comes round an hope we can keep it cool today
    I do the same. How do you decide when the right time is to "close up?"

    I've been using the method of stepping outside, feeling it's hotter than inside and then doing that.
    Yeah I do similar. I also track movement of the sun, first thing in the morning its at the front of the house and then by about 10:30 it appears around the back so I make sure I am shut up before then as it will just blaze the back of the house until it sets. 
    Yeah I've also been doing the curtains in like with the sun, makes a massive difference. 

    Wind just blew a bit and for the first time it felt "warm" so think I will close up now, at 26.7 degrees ffs...

    Definitely feel like the baseline for temperature in the house is higher each day like it's baked into the bricks, so it doesn't even need to keep getting hotter for the heat in the house to be higher if that makes sense...
    Agree. House is definitely holding the heat more each day. Have seen things saying to hose off the outside of your house late in the evening to drop the temperature of the walls but cant bring myself to do that as feels like a waste of water. Will need some rain to do that, hopefully some of what is forecast friday night and saturday materialises and resets indoor temps. 

    Today I am monitoring but as there is more of a breeze I may open some windows at the front to let some fresh air in but depends on how hot it gets.
    Hosing the walls? Yeah I see what you mean about a waste of water, but I'd be more worried about my neighbours seeing and thinking I was going insane!  :D

    Seen some good tips on here, I think I'll be doing the set the parasol up thing to block from the back windows. 
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,952
    CharltonKerry said:
    Huskaris said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Getting back on topic. Lovely Breeze this morning. Great for airing the house out. Dropped the temperature a good 6 degrees inside. Gonna close up before the sun comes round an hope we can keep it cool today
    I do the same. How do you decide when the right time is to "close up?"

    I've been using the method of stepping outside, feeling it's hotter than inside and then doing that.
    If you got the ability to look at the inside and outside temperature then when the outside temperature is 2c lower than the inside then at night open the required windows, during the day you reverse it so shut the windows, however as Cantrsadick say if you get strong sunlight coming through a window then shut the curtains / blind regardless whatever the temperature is. 

    Hope that helps, another tip is when the house is shut up, if you got a fan running place a bowl of water in front of it, or better if available an ice block.
    Brilliant, thanks for that!
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,670
    This Spring has been the warmest on record in the UK.  

    This June has had the highest-ever recorded June temperature in the UK. 

    But... this June is not (yet) the hottest on record in the UK.  For that, you have to go all the way back to 2025. 
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 3,067
    Huskaris said:
    CharltonKerry said:
    Huskaris said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Getting back on topic. Lovely Breeze this morning. Great for airing the house out. Dropped the temperature a good 6 degrees inside. Gonna close up before the sun comes round an hope we can keep it cool today
    I do the same. How do you decide when the right time is to "close up?"

    I've been using the method of stepping outside, feeling it's hotter than inside and then doing that.
    If you got the ability to look at the inside and outside temperature then when the outside temperature is 2c lower than the inside then at night open the required windows, during the day you reverse it so shut the windows, however as Cantrsadick say if you get strong sunlight coming through a window then shut the curtains / blind regardless whatever the temperature is. 

    Hope that helps, another tip is when the house is shut up, if you got a fan running place a bowl of water in front of it, or better if available an ice block.
    Brilliant, thanks for that!
    What you got to remember is the air can only move from high pressure to low pressure, (high pressure - high temperature and vica versa) therefore if the air in the room is higher than outside air will transfer from hot to cold via a window or door, this works well and from memory the theory goes back to the ancient Egyptians.
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,794
    edited 11:41AM
    My top tip is to just sit in your car for 10 minutes with the a/c on. Cools you right down!

    Diesel cars ideal for this as they barely use any fuel idling.
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,609
    Leuth said:
    Would that be the China that is completely and manifestly at the forefront of green technology and alternative energy? https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/china-tests-worlds-first-megawatt-class-flying-wind-turbine-it-generated-enough-energy-to-power-a-house-for-2-weeks
    This is true. China are miles ahead of everyone in developing green technology. Nevertheless, their emissions are going up year on year (in total and per person and as a share of global emissions). By contrast, UK carbon emissions are at their lowest since 1879 (with a much bigger population). On a per capita basis carbon emissions in China are more than twice those in the UK.  

    Incidentally, India's emissions are low on a per capita basis - half of the UK's - but unfortunately rising rapidly. 
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,999
    London is dreadful in the heat. Didn't seem to bother me as much when I was younger and fitter.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 23,442
    Leuth said:
    Would that be the China that is completely and manifestly at the forefront of green technology and alternative energy? https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/china-tests-worlds-first-megawatt-class-flying-wind-turbine-it-generated-enough-energy-to-power-a-house-for-2-weeks
    The same China that has planted 78 Billion trees in the last 50 years. 
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 13,480
    cafcnick1992 said:
    My top tip is to just sit in your car for 10 minutes with the a/c on. Cools you right down!

    Diesel cars ideal for this as they barely use any fuel idling.
    Need to work on your wind ups. They lack subtlety 

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  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 10,021
    Jints said:
    Leuth said:
    Would that be the China that is completely and manifestly at the forefront of green technology and alternative energy? https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/china-tests-worlds-first-megawatt-class-flying-wind-turbine-it-generated-enough-energy-to-power-a-house-for-2-weeks
    This is true. China are miles ahead of everyone in developing green technology. Nevertheless, their emissions are going up year on year (in total and per person and as a share of global emissions). By contrast, UK carbon emissions are at their lowest since 1879 (with a much bigger population). On a per capita basis carbon emissions in China are more than twice those in the UK.  

    Incidentally, India's emissions are low on a per capita basis - half of the UK's - but unfortunately rising rapidly. 

    We outsourced a lot of our emissions when companies moved their manufacturing abroad. We pushed it onto other countries. Companies like Dyson now manufacture abroad so that they can use cheap labour. 
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 10,021
    Red alert for Kent and surrounding areas for tomorrow, so it's forecast to be even hotter on Friday, than it is today. It should then cool off through the weekend. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 24,084
    Seeing rumours we might get the mother of all thunderstorms tonight
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,297
    Leuth said:
    Seeing rumours we might get the mother of all thunderstorms tonight
    Would love that but I cant see anything forecasting rain until the weekend.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,727
    edited 1:54PM
    ME14addick said:
    Jints said:
    Leuth said:
    Would that be the China that is completely and manifestly at the forefront of green technology and alternative energy? https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/china-tests-worlds-first-megawatt-class-flying-wind-turbine-it-generated-enough-energy-to-power-a-house-for-2-weeks
    This is true. China are miles ahead of everyone in developing green technology. Nevertheless, their emissions are going up year on year (in total and per person and as a share of global emissions). By contrast, UK carbon emissions are at their lowest since 1879 (with a much bigger population). On a per capita basis carbon emissions in China are more than twice those in the UK.  

    Incidentally, India's emissions are low on a per capita basis - half of the UK's - but unfortunately rising rapidly. 

    We outsourced a lot of our emissions when companies moved their manufacturing abroad. We pushed it onto other countries. Companies like Dyson now manufacture abroad so that they can use cheap labour. 
    Not to mention all the shit we buy from the far east, the associated manufacture and transport of it and the waste it produces - which is invariably shipped BACK to the far east at some point as well. Consumerism is globalisation's dirty little secret
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 18,459
    edited 2:00PM
    Leuth said:
    Seeing rumours we might get the mother of all thunderstorms tonight
    It was a rumour but Cawley said it's not happening
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 100,136
    edited 2:13PM
    All the schools round here in Strood appear to be closing down tomorrow
    Of course my Son's school isn't one of those at present.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 22,214
    ForeverAddickted said:
    All the schools round here in Strood appear to be closing down tomorrow
    Of course my Son's school isn't one of those at present.
    My daughter’s was closed Wed & Today but they’ve just announced they’re closing tomorrow as well. She’s very happy as she’s going to see Harry Styles tomorrow and was going to have to make an excuse to leave early 
  • fenlandaddick
    fenlandaddick Posts: 2,189
    edited 3:41PM
    Not so balmy here today. A NNE breeze that is still warm but makes it quite pleasant compared to earlier in the week.
    Looking to be getting hotter again for next 2 days  but if we have a breeze it won't be so bad.
    Top tip is a cup of tea, very refreshing and an excuse to have some cake from the fridge 😋 
  • CheshireAddick
    CheshireAddick Posts: 1,373
    edited 5:16PM
    A friend of mine who lives in Oxford said he is looking after his grandson today. Apparently his school said its optional if the kids want to go in for lessons. Surprise surprise the 10 year old opted to have the day off. 

    Thats bloody ridiculous and one I've not heard of before 🤷‍♂️

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