Heat Wave - Weather Watch

DaveMehmet said:

soapy_jones said:

Certainly bolloxed up my plans for Thursday, too hot for dogging!

Never too hot for that mate 

stoneroses19 said:

Emergency warning in Bangkok today, as they’ve said it could feel 52 degrees! 

Leroy Ambrose said:

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

sam3110 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

The same China that has planted 78 Billion trees in the last 50 years. 

R0TW said:

Leroy Ambrose said:

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

Must be the heat, but for once I agree with you.

tallboy said:

Leroy Ambrose said:

tallboy said:

Leroy Ambrose said:

valleynick66 said:

Leroy Ambrose said:

valleynick66 said:

Rothko said:

cantersaddick said:

TD_Addick said:

Rather than a meme (with wrong data) here is some actual data on this comparison oh and summer 2025 was a lot cooler than 2026 has been already. From University of Reading (one of the best climate data departments in the world). They are all on the same scale so you cannot claim its a case of presenting colours differently. 

yeah but someone on boomer facebook got this from their mate in St Peterberg, who they share their bank details with 

Or it was just a bit of fun?

If there is a point at all it’s just TV graphics were somewhat primitive in 1976 and heat maps weren’t really a thing. Many of us still watching in black and white after all !

Ah, the standard response to a stupid shared post - 'it was just a joke'.

Sadly, it's not 'just a joke'. Same as those 'remember when Britain was great and you could actually get a 99 Flake for 99p' posts which are invariably shared by the same alt-right account based in Bagalore/Cambodia/Russia simply for the purpose of sowing discord amongst the elderly. And, like the Manchurian Candidate, en masse, they all stand up as one to pronounce that Britain was better 'in the good old days' (the subtext being, even if they don't realise it, that IMMERGRUNTS have ruined the country) 

It's truly tragic how much of a disease social media is. 

Only if you want to perceive it that way. 

Just a funny to me. 

No one is denying the science. I see it as ‘how’ it’s reported not the underlying story. 

The defence of a like for like heatmap proves the science but they were not how we reported weather back then.  

As I recall we likely didn’t much show weather beyond the UK either!

The problem isn't you. You have a bit more common sense and appreciation for what social media is trying to do to you. It's for the generation that grew up without it being all encompassing in their daily lives, and don't have the necessary experience to see where they're being exploited. I've seen this first hand - being literally right on the edge of that generation. The people affected by this are the same people who forwarded emails twenty years ago saying Bill Gates was going to give them 20 dollars each time they did so. Being responsible for antispam/mail security in the late 2000s, I can tell you that cohort of people is absolutely vast. They're the same people who still clicking obvious phishing emails at work. Just because you have the faculties necessary to suss it out, doesn't mean everyone does. 

And the next step in your thought process is to decide that because the masses are so pig ignorant someone with superior thinking skills (guess who that might be?) will decide what is good for them.

Unfortunately, it's been tried before (Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Nicola Sturgeon et al) and it doesn't normally work out in the long run.

Oh just fuck off

Your right and including Pol Pot on the 'naughty' list was a mistake, but I stand by the other names!

Leuth said:

Seeing rumours we might get the mother of all thunderstorms tonight