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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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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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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