By Jo Nova
The apocalypse has arrived — the worst ever heatwave means 1,000 schools were closed as temperatures “soared” to 36 degrees C in the UK. The Met Office has issued a red “risk to life” report.
The solution to this, obviously, is to go gangbusters drilling for gas in the North Sea so that Britons can put air conditioners in every home and school, (and also afford to run them.) Only 3% of British homes have air conditioning.
Unfortunately the Net Zero Zealots in some town councils have been doing their own version of “Net Zero” where they badger homeowners to take their air conditioning down. The Telegraph reported that some councilors have ordered homeowners to tear out air-conditioners and open their windows instead.
Air conditioning torn from homes under net zero clampdown
Climate change regulations prioritised despite soaring temperatures
In one of a string of cases uncovered by The Telegraph, a resident living in North London was forced to “permanently remove” two air-con units from the back of their home.
Planning inspectors working for Camden council said there was “no justification” for the air-con units and that they failed to comply with the local authority’s so-called “cooling hierarchy”.
In an appeal, the resident was told to open the windows and balcony doors of their first-floor flat to ventilate the property “by natural means”.
Their concerns about security were dismissed, with inspectors saying the risk was not “as great as those associated with ground floor windows” and that the windows could be shut at night.
The UK government, by the way, responded to the social media outrage by declaring that there were no such rules, and it was flat out incorrect, but people should speak to their council “just in case” and they are reviewing the legislation, which suggests the social media outrage might be justified but the government dont’ want to admit things are that stupid.
The Guardian discovers a new level of inanity and word-slop:
What is interesting here is how inaccurate the words are. Almost like they are trying to gas-light the audience:
With the country in the grip of the worst heatwave ever recorded in western Europe – a direct result of global heating – the chair of parliament’s environmental audit committee warned ministers of the urgent threat and said the UK was falling “far short of what is needed”.
What is this global heating? Are they trying to say “climate change” and missed?
Flossie Boyd, of Global Witness, said: “It’s frightening to think of teachers and pupils trying to work and learn in swelteringly hot classrooms. This heatwave is a reminder of why we need climate adaptation now – to cool down our schools, and keep children safe.
Frankly, it’s amazing Australian children were not vaporized every summer in the first 150 years here without air conditioning. We could have lost the first five generations.
Oh wait, Flossie didn’t mean using air conditioning to cool children, she meant renewables. She wants to cool the kids with solar panels now, then wait 100 years for them to work:
“Investment in climate-friendly cooling measures, renewables that don’t heat our planet, and shade for our playgrounds, is vital. These measures should be funded by taxing the fossil fuel polluters who drove this extreme heat crisis.”
She calls this “climate adaption”, but until five minutes ago it was called climate mitigation.
Nothing they are saying makes even the slightest sense.
New Scientist is just barking mad:
Michael Le Page is terrified:
I’m finding the heatwave hitting Europe really scary. It’s bad enough in itself, with many records being broken, especially for the higher nighttime temperatures that make it so much harder to cope. But I just keep thinking, “If it’s like this now, what’s it going to be like in 10, 20 or 30 years’ time?”
The answer, of course, is hotter and hotter and hotter. In the UK, national weather service the Met Office has just warned that, by 2056, there could be nine days in a row with temperatures above 40°C (104°F), with some places hitting 45°C (113°F). In just 30 years! I’ve seen at least one piece asking “is this the new normal?” about the current heatwave, but we’re never going to have normal in our lifetimes again – just ever more extreme heat.
It must be hard being so much smarter than millions of people.
Why close schools?
Healthy kids are the least susceptible to heatstroke and the like. Almost all ‘heat deaths’ are among the aged and infirm. They should be more concerned with making sure nursing homes and palliative care facilities are equipped to provide some relief rather than worrying about schools. And enlist the help of home health care workers to provide information on any home care situations that might require assistance. The kids will be alright.
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In ’76 we had crittal windows floor to ceiling in a small square frame pattern. Periodically the metal frame expansion would cause a pane to explode. Rather than closing school, they shifted the desks over a bit. It was south facing so like a greenhouse. Full uniform, no compromise, except you could put up your hand and ask permission to remove your blazer.
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Amazing how we survived ’76 without all these retards around or was that because people like Flossie and Le Page were safely locked away for our safety. My form room was one of the temporary huts that schools had in place for about 30 years. The fire escape door was opened and ‘shirt sleeve’ order given meaning no jackets or ties.
As I child I suffered from sunstroke and still do such that being in the sun will have me with a sick headache before too long if I do not where a hat. Surprisingly, every time I do go out I wear a hat.
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Do the schools have a summer break, as they do in the USA?
Why do I feel these are problems from the 1800s; long since solved?
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Despite ‘flaming June’, it’s not usually the hottest month, summer break is later.
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Screw Britain, I hope it hurts. Seriously, they voted for this idiocy. The people are the only ones who can fix it, and they have an election every five years. If they want to believe – they have to believe because the “proofs” are not science – that it’s Global, wait, HEATING now, then they are welcome to the consequences. Hopefully Australian Electors will get a grip partially as a result of seeing how stupid Brits are and where they are now, and partly from seeing we are on the same road. Somehow I doubt it. Hansonism is likely only to be a bump in the road to the green apocalypse, it isn’t bad enough here yet for the pain to properly teach.
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” Hopefully Australian Electors will get a grip partially as a result of seeing how stupid Brits are “.
Mate, we haven’t a hope with the number of people, especially the ones who should know better, wandering around with masks on.
We’re doomed.
Wait, hang on!
Maybe, just maybe, FIRE THE LIAR might work.
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As Labor used against Prime Minister Scott Morrison branding him The Liar From The Shire – Sutherland Shire part of his electorate.
The liar tag is of course appropriate for Albanese Labor Government, but not an original.
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It’s remarkable the number of people still wearing their obedience masks, even when alone on their car.
Almost certainly Labor/Green voters.
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Apparently France is having the same sort of argument between the climate cult followers and people with common sense who want to AC hospitals and age care facilities. Hard to believe it’s 2026.
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During the 2023 hot European summer, when temps also hit 36-39 and more, asked the locals why they didn’t invest in air conditioning. They said the extra heat didn’t occur very often, and they were happy anyway with more warmth.
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I am so sick of global boiling and the hysteria it creates. The Global Average Temp, GAT, today is the lowest its been for the last 65 million years, just after the big rock got rid of the big lizards. And to prove this Hansen et al have provided the graph:
https://x.com/EcoSenseNow/status/539210419047776257/photo/1
55 million years ago, during the Paleocene- Eocene Thermal Maximum the GAT was 20C above what it is today. And during this period, with no South or North pole, life on this planet abounded. Warmth is better for life. So what was CO2 doing during the warmest period on the planet: nothing consistent with temp as the famous Scotese and Berner graph shows:
https://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html
Over shorter periods CO2 follows temp:
https://joannenova.com.au/global-warming-2/ice-core-graph/
But just as frequently CO2 and temp go in opposite directions.
Global boiling is a lie.
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As a boy, living in Tasmania, we all knew that when the Temp hit 40C we could go home, because the schools we went to did not have air conditioning.
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Unfortunately … we never got to go home early in all my school daze.
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Ha Ha Ha, was just going to post the same thing. We all believed that the magic 100 meant the day off, then it became 105, then 110. Like you we never got to go home. We did get into trouble for messy work when the sweat dripped off your nose and smudged whatever you were writing.
Strange, even if it got hot enough to send us home we wouldn’t have gone, it would have been riding the bike or swimming in the river or belting a ball around. No one stopped for anything back in the day.
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A lot of our classrooms were set in “demountables” and were sweatboxes during summer. Girls fainted often, but foolishly we didn’t complain. One such building had a peppercorn tree shading it and was bearable.
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Just scarper at lunchtime, you’re already on the roll as present.
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Same working in WA in the hot summers. And with the Perth measuring station situated on Mt Eliza above Perth, a few degrees cooler than elsewhere, the “official” temp wasn’t as hot as the suburbs.
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I terminated my subscription to New Scientist many years ago when they went woke.
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Back when it became known as “The Nude Scientist” I’d guess?
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So did I.
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I wonder which thermometers are being used to measure these “extremes”, and exactly where they’re located.
Also, I do have to wonder how my great grandfather and his brother coped with the “extremes” they experienced here in central Queensland after they emigrated from Ireland’s very temperate climate. The contrast would have been considerable. Another Irish branch settled on the Hay plains area, where it’s also more than a tad warm in summer.
Prior generations on my maternal side started out in Tasmania but ended up in Queensland also.
They all survived – or I wouldn’t be here. I even survived Queensland summers in un-airconditioned schools.
I wonder if this sudden push to panic over a hot summer is due to the failing scares about nasty viruses.
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The clue is in NoScience’s headline:
“ t e r r i f i e d “.
How did all those wool-wearing pipe-smoking moustachioed tallyho adventurers survive the dastardly ‘heating of the global kind’ in Africa, Arabia, India, Burma, and no please no no, not Australia! It’s so terrifyingly heatwavish most of the locals get around practically naked: please no…
Operation Terrifying Heatwave causes 97% of world’s population to burst into spontaneous laughter.
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For your enjoyment,
When his hopes of a colonelcy faded away
He retired to the colonies, still on half pay,
Preferring to Cheltenham a Gulf country run
And a heat of a hundred and ten in the sun.
He kept the fair flag of the Empire afloat
By wearing a tunic done up to the throat
And the style of his most conversational speeches
Had its thumbs well in line with the seam of its breeches.
Chillianwallah Station, authored by John Manifold. from the days when they used to teach colonial poetry in school.
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Never forget that the UK had prolonged heatwaves 50 years ago that lasted for a couple of weeks in 1976 and co2 levels then were much lower than today.
Here’s the MET office link to think about.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/syndication/syndicated-articles/2025/june/the-longest-heatwave-events-in-the-uk
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The Met still believes CO2 causes global warming, so they don’t bother looking back to the LIA in the hope of finding the same phenomenon. Winds from the Sahara caused by blocking, I think something happened around the 1740s.
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Of course there were terrible heatwaves in the UK, Europe and North America etc hundreds of years ago and many people died from drought over many hundreds of years.
Even Wiki lists some of the worst killer droughts and heatwaves over many hundreds of years.
BTW co2 levels were only 280 ppm during many of those killer events.
Why don’t they look up the data and learn to think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heat_waves
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June – September 1741 ‘a prolonged heat/drought set in around 12th June and lasted until 2nd September, whence general rainfall. Autumn noted as particularly warm.’
Keep in mind that 1740 was the coldest year on the CET for over 600 years.
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While we are there, a Scandinavian block was the catalyst for the 1740 cold spell.
https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/20/2219/2024/
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Love how all the European visitors to the US for the FIFA World Cup love the following. Free drinks with meals, frequent relatively cheap flights between cities, large shopping centres with carparks and finally air conditioning. But not just aircon, really cold aircon that feels like you could store pears in buildings.
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Even Lomborg lists the fact that deaths from all extreme weather events have fallen by 99% over the last 125 years.
Dr Pielke jr, the co2 Coalition Scientists etc and anyone who can read and understand simple graphs and sums have also agreed with Lomborg as well.
And deaths from moderate and extreme cold are still the biggest killers compared to deaths from moderate and extreme heat.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/30/deaths-in-climate-disasters-declined-99-from-a-century-ago/
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It’s ‘climate brain’. The equivalent of ‘baby brain’ in pregnant women.
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And/or ‘long covid brain’ in jabbees:
“I don’t know what made me do it…”
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Dr Pielke jr was able to state that 2025 was the safest year for Humans in our recorded history.
Deaths from extreme weather events have reduced to the lowest levels while co2 levels have increased.
So when will they start to THINK and wake up?
https://climatecosmos.com/climate-news/2025-achieves-historic-low-in-global-natural-disaster-fatalities
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So when will they start to THINK and wake up?
Maybe when the media STOP indoctrinating the masses. The constant climate change nonsense is causing much fear & uncertainty.
Had a perfect example today! A really ( outwardly )sensible neighbour was in a flat panic
about the appearance of microplastics on the bottom of her electric kettle. Microplastics are poisoning us all she said. It’s everywhere! After all the TV told her, the newspaper told her & she believes them??
She’s not interested in my explanation that the deposit is actually calcium carbonate. ( lime). I showed her how to clean it off using a mall amount of white vinegar which being acidic cleans it off. It dissolves the CaCo. She cannot understand that vinegar doesn’t dissolve plastics. She doesn’t question why the vinegar comes, packaged, in a plastic bottle either!????
This is a direct consequence of media indoctrination!!
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I use vinegar and bicarbonate soda to clean my the kettle, bicarb first then splash on the vinegar, the chemical reaction and a scrub works a treat.
Unfortunately the media won’t stop indoctrinating the masses until majority of the masses wake up and demand it. That is the frustrating paradox any regular reader of this blog faces.
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I take it that all the ground floor windows at 10 Downing Street have been left open each day?
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Our evaporative airconditioner when we were kids was a wet towel placed in front of a swinging fan. Otherwise we jumped in our dam to cool off while being toasted in the sun. Great fun.
Poor Europeans having a week of nice weather for a change.
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Africa is a very hot place and very poor and yet Africa’s population has increased by 1300 million people since 1950.
And their life expectancy has increased from 36 years then, to about 64 years today.
So where is the climate emergency, or crisis or stupid Biden’s EXISTENTIAL threat since 1950? And this is the World’s hottest and poorest continent and yet they are flourishing today compared to the last 76 years.
https://www.macrotrends.net/datasets/global-metrics/countries/afr/africa/population
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Some say that traffic increases as road capacity increases; that the latter causes the former. Wouldn’t it be funny if CO2 increases as the temperature increases; in other words, if temperature increases cause CO2 increases. Actually, now that I think about it, increasing temperatures cause more vegetation, which causes more CO2. We’d better chop down some rain forests, just to be safe.
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Higher water temperatures have a lower gas solubility……
don’t give the Brazilians any more incentives please
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Been travelling in the UK for 2.5 weeks. None of our accommodation rooms has had air conditioning. Doesn’t matter if it’s a £50/night Travelodge or a more expensive £250/night place.
None of them have a bar fridge either. Can’t even keep a drink cold.
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Just think what that would add to your room price given we have the highest energy costs in the World.
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Perhaps climate alarmism is starting to lose its grip? We can only hope for logic, reason and data to show us the way ahead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm1UDdxA90k
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“Planning inspectors working for Camden council said there was “no justification” for the air-con units and that they failed to comply with the local authority’s so-called “cooling hierarchy
I recall that, long before air conditioners and solar panels became suitable for houses, houses were built to better withstand the heat, large open spaces between the houses, large verandahs, eaves, and perhaps the little vent things on the inside walls up near the ceilings allowed heat to escape. Trees which provided shade would be growing close to houses. Now houses are built close together, little or no eaves, small verandahs, no vents up near the ceilings, solar panels that do do not work as well in shade, so no trees.
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In the UK, and northern Europe in general, houses are built to retain heat because the default weather situation is cold.
So when they do get hot weather the housing soaks up the heat and just keeps getting hotter.
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Well my house is always warmer for a day of sunshine and if required the heat from the conservatory can be allowed in. What we have had in the last week is high humidity and a lack of cooling overnight making sleeping hard.
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With the country in the grip of the worst heatwave ever recorded in western Europe – a direct result of global heating – the chair of parliament’s environmental audit committee warned ministers of the urgent threat and said the UK was falling “far short of what is needed”.
The country is actually in the grip of a weather pattern called an Omega Block, which disrupts the normal airflow and brings hot air north into Europe from northern Africa.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/what-is-omega-block-causing-europes-intense-heatwave-2026-06-23/
Despite valiant efforts, as with the ENSO, climate science can’t bring itself to explain these phenomena as a result of ‘global heating’ or anthropogenic changes. So misinformation and disinformation abound in all the usual places.
Having noted that, the UK indoors is dreadful in hot weather. My London based son is essentially living outdoors in the balmy 35° weather, rather than in the furnace of their flat.
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What do we do when the folk running things have gone stark raving mad?
Just askin’.
For a friend.
I say ask them if all their needs are being met.
And show them understanding.
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If we choose a clown to lead us, then it’ll end up being a circus.
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The French are in a similar funk. France 2 news is preocupied with la cannicule with the main part of their programming hyping the terrible uncomfortable and potentially deadly conditions due to the heatwave. It’s doom reporting designed to propagandise the cause of global warming, put people off balance and keep them in a state of perpetual hoplessness so the government can control their miserable lives. People used to be resilient but there’s no need now because the government will save them as long as they trade individual freedom for government securuty.
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The peak sunshine over UK is still falling. All the present heat is coming from the south.
The lowest maximum daily average sunshine at 60N will be 467.3W/m^2 in 2186. This year peak on June 20 was 0.5W higher than it will be in 2186.
Despite the maximum sunshine being behind for this year, Europe is still warming. The Med will go into monsoon within weeks and that will bring cooling rain to southern Europe.
There will be nothing that stops Europe getting warmer than Australia is in summer until the snow is advancing down and south. Still centuries away.
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In the meantime, CO2 is not responsible for the heatwave.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/06/26/2025-study-cloud-effects-reduce-downwelling-longwave-radiation-overriding-the-co2-impact/
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Moderate heat like 36C is not a problem. Such heat is not harmful, unlike excessive cold which can easily kill.
British people should enjoy the heat while it lasts and engage in some outdoor activities like going to the beach.
But by all means, the UK should continue to shut down the energy supply and cooling systems of non-Elites.
It will motivate non-Elites to rise up and elect a conservative pro-energy party.
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It certainly can be harmful, especially with high humidity that we have had, and the lack of time for the body to adapt when the weather heats up suddenly.
The heat doesn’t react well with many health conditions and medications. I’ve had periods of zero pulse pressure which isn’t ideal.
25C in the UK is pretty sweaty weather, after the last few days, I’m feeling quite chilly.
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What is this “global heating”?
The usual scary term is “global warming”.
They must be trying to refresh the vocabulary to keep the scare alive.
In the marketing industry, changing the language in this way is related to a brand refresh and specifically reframing or a semantic shift.
Gulag AI says:
Don’t underestimate the evilness or advanced propaganda techniques of those who are running the agenda.
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Is anyone else sufficiently curious enough to ask about the source of the “global heating”?
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In August 2025 I was on Israel, as I am now, and the temperature reached as high as 49.7C in the Jordan Valley and similar high temperatures elsewhere in the country.
It was surprisingly tolerable, I was surprised.
Also, air conditioning is just about universal here and there is no fanatical obsession with “renewables”. Apart from gas and coal, solar power accounts for most of the remaining 10-15%, with a small amount from wind, biomass and diesel.
Electricity is therefore significantly cheaper at avg. cost per kWh USD $0.17 vs Australia at USD $0.26.
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In the late 1990s I was in London for a few very hot days and warm nights and the Tower Bridge Hotel had the windows open to the Thames River to catch any breeze possible, the air conditioning was not cooling sufficiently. Later in Amsterdam the room water heater system would not turn off.
https://weatherspark.com/h/s/45062/1997/1/Historical-Weather-Summer-1997-in-London-United-Kingdom#Figures-Temperature
I also remember 1976 and heatwaves in the UK …
The 1976 heatwave in London was part of a significant heatwave that affected the British Isles from June 23 to August 27, 1976, with temperatures reaching 35.6 °C (96.1 °F) on June 28, marking it as one of the hottest summers in UK history. The heatwave also led to severe drought conditions, prompting water rationing and significant impacts on agriculture and health.
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So Europe has just about shut down its energy supply and they still get nice weather they don’t want?
Fancy that.
It’s almost as though CO2 has nothing to do with the weather…
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To clarify: there are no *national* regulations against air conditioning in Britain, but councils have power to ban it under some planning regulations and therefore in some buildings.
The obvious solution where that is the case is to install an air conditioning unit that is completely internal to the residence (and therefore hidden) except for the hot air exhaust hose, which you put out of a small window and seal with masking tape and cardboard until the heatwave is over.
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A hessian sheep’s wool bag or similar soaked in water hung across a doorway or window can help cool people.
It used to work in Australia.
sarc.
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Called a wool bale 🙂
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I assume you are referring to portable air conditioners.
They are extremely inefficient, noisy and ineffective.
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And still better than nothing at all.
You goes with what you can get.
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Anybody remember the hessian water bag used for water that was hung from the front of a vehicle to provide cooled water for country people?
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https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/507df2be2162ef014495f50f
https://padlangsnamibia.com/padlangs-namibia/the-good-ol-water-bag
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Found that locating the water bag down low on the front of your vehicle in the dusty country wasn’t a good idea – was quickly covered in dust and useless.
We used to have a large cylindrical water bag inside a building to provide cool water.
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It gets hot everywhere in summer, especially Northern Latitudes. A friend left London decades ago because of three days of 100F. I have endured days of 37C in Moscow. It has passed this in the Arctic circle. Colorado days of 37C and the nights hotter at 38C. New York was famous for heat waves and without airconditioning, the movies showed men with their shirts soaked in sweat as normal. Everyone flees August in Paris as it is unberable.
This pretence that the world is much hotter is make believe. Nothing has changed. But it is amazing the way the weather bureaus cooperate, starting with the World Meterological Society who partnered with the UN and Al Gore to create the IPCC in 1988.
The penguins are fine. The polar bears. The caribou. The Great Barrier Reef. And it’s the longest day in teh Northern Hemisphere. The same day Al Gore and James Hanson told Congress it was unbearably hot and would get far worse. In 1988! In fact the story is that they climbed into the roof of the Congress building to open the windows and defeat the air conditioning. Just for effect.
It’s a fraud. But even Australia is spending over $2Trillion to change the climate (in Australia presumably) and it makes no sense at all.
And how do you get cool? How do desert people stay cool? What is needed? Water. Water. Water. And only Donald Trump is turning the fountains back on again. The promoters of Climate Taxes had turned them all off.
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Murmansk, a big Russian city of 320,000 people at 69 Degrees North, inside the Arctic circle has a summer of up to 33C and 24 hours of sunshine.
Which makes up for 24 hours of night and temperatures as low as -40C in winter.
But at least it is on the water, like most of the world’s cities, and this moderates both summer and winter temperatures. It gets much colder in the middle of Russia, down to -70C in Yaktusk in Sibera which has reaced 38.4C in summer. None of this happens in the tropics, which should be hotter, but are water moderated.
Singapore has a temperature range of 31C to 32C. And meterologists know this.
If people really want constant temperatures, they can always move to Singapore or Darwin. If they don’t mind the humidity.
So this is all a beatup. Moving 100k can change the temperature 1C. If people want different temperatures, they can always move a little and do their own Climate Change. The Scottish highlands for example.
For Australia, it would be much cheaper than the National Grid and windmills and solar panels. $2Trillion would buy 2 million new homes at $1,000,000 each. So wouldn’t that be cheaper? A million brand new homes in the right area with the best weather? Who need jobs with free houses?
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So for example, 5Million people now live in Melbourne. 83% of the State of Victoria. Little Victoria’s nearly twice the size of England! And now they want the weather changed to their liking? Why not move to the country and grow your own food?
So now we need more windmills and solar panels and no coal to power the airconditioners so we can all live in the one big city and don’t want Climate Change? We are spending our post war inheritance on nothing at all, destroying what was built for a fantasy pushed by the United Nations.
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I’m voting for regional Victoria to secede from Melbourne, and let them source their power from within their own environs.
Meanwhile the rest of us can settle down and get our power, coal, gas, and oil, from Gippsland and the Otway Basin, and hydro from the north east rivers.
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On 4 January, 2020 Penrith, at the foot of the Blue Mountains in Western Sydney in Australia officially recorded 48.9Deg C. Nobody was shouting “Climate Change” back then!
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The Persians solved the summer heat problem two thousand years ago. But they didn’t have Climate Change to blame for their 40C daily weather.
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Stunning !
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Double Brick Houses. And how come the people in Hot Countries are not moaning. Is the West weak??
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The fact is that the atmospheric CO2 over the UK is absorbing and re-radiating in all directions of the 3 dimensional universe a small fraction of the incoming Sun’s radiation thereby keeping the temperatures lower than they would be if there was less CO2, as it does the World over. CO2 does not cause global warming or climate change. It is a simple molecule, is matter and has mass. Heat is energy, an entirely different entity which is absorbed and passed on by all molecules via conduction, convection or radiation.
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‘The powerful “Omega Block” pattern has now shifted its center towards Germany, Central Europe, the Baltic States, and the Balkan states. This unrelenting thermal trap is migrating across an already very dry landscape, with temperatures striking even harder than any predictive model anticipated.’ (Severe Weather Europe)
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“Planning inspectors working for Camden council said there was “no justification” for the air-con units”.
Shouldn’t that read “Planning inspectors working for Camden council in the council’s air conditioned office said there was “no justification” for the air-con units”?
By the way, I don’t know for a fact that Camden council’s offices are air conditioned but I’d be very surprised if they weren’t.
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Camden Council [Far Left] is located in the buildings around Kings Cross Station that were part of the regeneration of the old goods yard and so being modern most likely will have aircon. Of course now, planning restrictions would likely rule out a proper cooling system in the name of Net Zero.
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Dodgy solar panels cause school fires.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/solar-panels-at-80-suffolk-schools-to-be-switched-off-after-fire/
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Like most folks in most places from time to time I rail against my government and business leaders. But somehow they’ve muddled through, and life is good here in Florida.
Jo’s site here is illuminating why, leaders the world over are setting the bar impossibly low then failing to reach it, while we still have a few folks in both government and business who listen to the “customer”, and are getting more all the time thanks to flight from California & New York. Ya don’t know what ya got until someone from a supposedly advanced country is amazed at going to a grocery store and fast food joint, both nicely cooled during the summer, that are repeated hundreds of thousands over in every corner of the US.
I worry that we elect the same kind of clowns thw rest of the world does, but power is far more iffuse in most of the US so so far they’ve done less damage.
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The UK is running short of electricity, which is their real motivation for appliance rationing. They are attempting to bring in wartime measures under the radar hoping nobody notices.
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I was in london in 2003, the first time they had recorded 100F (38C), this was before the scare campagne had hit fever pitch. There wass no hysteria just a sense of novelty by the locals and everyone went about their business as usual. Then it rained
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