"But Global Warming is a HOAX!!!"

The Don said:
On Sunday Mrs Don and I were supplying music for a "Save the Wye" event in Monmouth. The River Wye faces a number of challenges like low and warm water (it's hotter and drier than decades ago) and sewage discharges from water companies but the biggest single issue appears to be effluent from industrial chicken farms that have sprung up in the Wye Valley.

A lot of effort has gone into criticising the farmers and agribusinesses but the Great British consumer is IMO also at fault for their demand for cheap chicken and cheap eggs. Chicken used to be a comparatively rare treat, even as recently as 50 years ago. These days it seems to be the default meat and many British consumers have meat in two or three meals a day.
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I can confirm that. It may be a poverty thing. But chicken went from once per year (Christmas treat) when I was a child, to a once per week thing (Sunday roast) when I was older. We counted ourselves as well off because we could have chicken once per week.

And we definitely didn't have meat (or fish) every day.
 
arthwollipot said:
Here in Australia we're already bracing for the impact of El Niño. It's going to be a bad year.
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Was planning to post the same thing.

In recent years, Australia has set new heat wave records every El Niño year. And we have catastrophic fire seasons too. Especially if an El Niño summer follows a mild and wet winter. (Lots of new growth dies and becomes tinder).
 
lobosrul5 said:
We actually used to have a shower at the office I work in. A remodel was done about 5 years ago and it was taken out. So, maybe thats more common in Europe?
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I think it's a legal requirement if the workplace has more than X number of employees. I know it definitely is for workplaces that regularly receive deliveries as part of their requirement to provide rest facilities for hauliers.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
bruto said:
Motorcycle helmets are useless too.
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And most car crash victims die from choking on their seat belts.
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30 years ago, ABATE actually argued that helmets caused fatalities by breaking the necks of motorcyclists in accidents. I don't know if statistics just weren't very good back then, but according to this Wikipedia article they appear to have given up on that argument in favor of the "dubious premise that they violate individual rights or invade privacy."

The argument is very similar to the current MAGA argument for gas stoves - except that fractured skulls don't cause much CO2 emission ...
 
bruto said:
If the penalties weren't so severe, it would be amusing to hear the deniers denying. Having served on my town's Planning Commission for many years, I had to listen to debates about flood zones from people who protested rules that rely on the "hundred year" flood level. One could not get it through their heads that this did not mean why worry, because such a flood only occurs every hundred years or so, but that it is sure to happen at least once every hundred years.

In one of our Vermont towns, I forget which one now, the town officials were remarking that they not too long ago raised their office buildings, on the advice of the Army Corp of Engineers, to surpass the 500 year flood level. Two days ago they flooded. That's a couple of days after the hottest day recorded on earth, in what bodes to be the latest in a series of hottest years ever.

But this has nothing to do with climate change, nothing to see here, keep moving.
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It wasn't that long ago my area experienced a "100 year flood" and a lot of the general attitude afterwards was, 'Well that won't happen again for a hundred years, why rush to fix it now?'
 
In balmy S Wales it's currently 14C (57F) outside. I'm running a fan heater in here at the mo. In ******* July!!

(Irrelevant to the discussion I know, I just want some sympathy ;))
 
GlennB said:
In balmy S Wales it's currently 14C (57F) outside. I'm running a fan heater in here at the mo. In ******* July!!

(Irrelevant to the discussion I know, I just want some sympathy ;))
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this suggests the obvious solution to Climate Change:

place Heat Exchange tubes all over the globe, and thus keep the temperature everywhere perfect and constant all the time.

Simples.
 
novaphile said:
I can confirm that. It may be a poverty thing. But chicken went from once per year (Christmas treat) when I was a child, to a once per week thing (Sunday roast) when I was older. We counted ourselves as well off because we could have chicken once per week.

And we definitely didn't have meat (or fish) every day.
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I'm reminded of a Bernard Malamud story about his poor childhood, noting they didn't starve, but nobody ate chicken unless they were sick or the chicken was.
 
GlennB said:
In balmy S Wales it's currently 14C (57F) outside. I'm running a fan heater in here at the mo. In ******* July!!

(Irrelevant to the discussion I know, I just want some sympathy ;))
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Put a jumper on!

Remember where sympathy is in the dictionary, according to the old nursing aphorism I trot out every now and then (**** and syphilis...)
 
A weekslong heat wave will intensify this weekend and push temperatures close to 130 degrees

An already dangerous weekslong heat wave will only worsen this weekend as a heat dome intensifies and reaches peak strength over parts of the Western United States.

The heat dome is so formidable the National Weather Service in Phoenix called it “one of the strongest high pressure systems this region has ever seen.” Around 100 heat records could fall today through the weekend as it intensifies, piling onto the more than 1,000 high temperature records broken in the US since June.

More than 90 million people are under heat alerts after the heat dome expanded into places like California, which is now experiencing its first extreme heat wave of the year.
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Even the hottest place on Earth, California’s Death Valley, could reach rare highs, with 130 degrees possible Sunday, forecasters at the National Weather Service told CNN. It has only happened a handful of times, one of which is the all-time global record high temperature of 134 degrees.
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