A heatwave isn’t the end of the world
By Paul Homewood
h/t John Thorogood
As I write this, in my favourite local café in Rome, the temperature outside is close to 40°C. So yes, it’s hot. Yet, thanks to a relatively old invention — air conditioning — I’m able to work in comfort. The 10-minute bike ride back home will be tougher than usual, but it won’t kill me. Like most people here, I consider these temperatures to be a nuisance — but that’s about it.
According to the news, however, I should be terribly concerned — terrified, in fact. Everyone’s running headline stories about the “extreme”, “record-breaking” and “deadly” hot weather sweeping across Asia, the US and, most notably, Europe. Here, the heatwave was unofficially named Cerberus, the multi-headed dog that guards the gates of Hades, before being replaced by Charon, the man who ferries the dead there. Rome is being called the “infernal city”. To be honest, I can think of several much more hellish places around the world at the moment — cities plagued by poverty, terrorism and war. And yet we are told that the current heat waves are a taste of the “hell” that awaits us as a result of climate change.
Full story here.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Adaptation is the way forward. Dreaming of manipulating the climate to a cooler state is just that – dreaming.
I note Athens touches 41 next Sunday.
The most telling comment in this article is the reference to these people wanting to save the earth more than save human beings. It then describes how this thinking needs to change.
Unfortunately this thinking is at the heart of the problem. They don’t want to save human beings, in fact they are perfectly happy to sacrifice human beings for the well being of ‘nature’ and ‘the planet’. Its a mindset, a philosophy, a religion if you like. Vast numbers across the wealthy western world put animals, inanimate natural resources above the welfare of humans. They want less people, frankly they don’t give a damn about anyone else , just their fixation.
And a lot of the wealthiest, most powerful people on earth are in this ‘club’.
They want to save the planet…. for themselves.
The bigger the fib, the harder the fall.
It is, on behalf of a media bought and paid for, a gross manipulation of the
peasant’staxpayers’ minds. Done by the masters of spin, indeed the climate modelling merchants of BS. Note, imperial, ucl statistical data finagling doom laden what ifs and its climate pornography.They do panic, wef et al and because they know they’re about to be found out. That, the whole global screaming is just a scam, hence the ramping up of the alarmism. But the boiler – lie machine is about to blow.
Now if we can just head him off the idea that increased CO2 causes increased temperatures we might have someone who is talking sense.
Of course adaptation is the answer. As it will be in 50-100 years time when the next downturn is under way.
It’s a hot summer. My temperature reading last week was exactly 5° more than the same week 13 years ago. Nothing in between has given any indication of a trend. This year will turn out to be an outlier just as summer 1976 was.
Yes, far too accepting of the conventional narrative. Trying to deflect criticism probably but ultimately a self defeating and mistaken strategy.
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I don’t understand the current hysteria – other than to ‘nudge’ us into being told there is a crisis. If I search the actual weather data for Fumicino Rome airport (as an example of a mediterranean location) I can find daily temperature values pretty quickly for the last 10 summers. At the moment, for the summer of 2023 there have been 9 days with a maximum of 32C or more (approx 90F) and the warmest day so far has just exceeded 34C (about 93-94F). But just looking at the last decade 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2022 have all had 9 or more days with a maximum of 32C, and 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 have all had their hottest day with 34C or more (the same as this year). The highest temperature of the decade was 39C last year, but 37C was recorded in 2019. I understand that at other stations in Rome 40-41C has been recorded. Why are journalists not doing the research? And a quick look at places like Athens, Catania, Cordoba, Venice all find something similar – currently it’s hot – a bit hotter than normal but this is the ‘Dog days of summer’, as the classical writers referred to it: the hottest time of year. In short the sort of heat being experienced this last week is experienced every few years in these cities in the mediterranean. What we are seeing here appears like a coordinated propaganda exercise because the authorities know that the public is starting to waken up to the implications of Net Zero.
We also make a big issue about most UK record temperatures being set at airports and RAF stations (Coningsby, Cranwell, Heathrow, Hawarden, Charter Hall etc,) but in Italy their meteorological office is actually run by the airforce!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servizio_Meteorologico#:~:text=The%20headquarters%20of%20the%20Meteorological,well%20as%20the%20mass%20media.
I think I am correct in saying today’s high was set at the “Francesco Baracca Military Airport.”
I see the expected temperatures have been lowered. They were very confident of a new European record 2 days ago, even 49/50C.
A few days ago they were predicting the heat moving to the UK. Much disappointment.
David Whitehouse was warning of the hype a few days ago.
“Beware the habitual El Niño hype”
https://www.netzerowatch.com/beware-habitual-el-nino-hype/
“The world is once again in the grip of a semi-regular climate alarm. I’m not referring to the latest onset of the El Niño cycle, declared in action on July 4th by the United Nations, but the amplified rhetoric about the pace and scale of warming temperatures that always accompanies such El Niño periods.
Do you remember what happened last time we had a record El Niño in 2015/16? Global temperatures increased rapidly – as they do during such an event – and, according to some, it was full speed ahead to a runaway thermal apocalypse … until global temperatures started to fall again.
Earlier this month, the world broke global temperature records for several days, inevitably leading to renewed speculation about the onset of runaway global warming. The Guardian asked if we have entered a more erratic and dangerous phase with the onset of an El Niño event on top of human-made global heating.
…looking at the events of the past few months, and the records broken, you would have to say it’s complicated and best left to a post-El Niño analysis. No such caution for the Met Office and the Guardian however: “If a few decades ago, some people might have thought climate change was a relatively slow-moving phenomenon, we are now witnessing our climate changing at a terrifying rate,” they quote Prof Peter Stott, who leads the UK Met Office’s climate monitoring and attribution team.
Given the complexity and disparity of recent events I look forward to the Met Office’s post-El Niño analysis of such extreme and rather premature hype.”
Hey, Paul!
What on earth is the current drivel about “wet bulb” temperatures that the eco loons have suddenly started talking about?
Call me when there are hippos in the Thames like the Neanderthals had.
And 9 inches of sea level rise in 140 years is not a climate crisis – the graph is from NASA/NOAA itself:
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-sea-level
I’ think it time some MPs and newspaper editors paid a bit more attention to the data and not the activists.
“Yes, climate change and global warming are real — and yes, they are largely a result of human activity…”
Good article —apart from “…and yes, they are largely a result of human activity…”
Here is an antidote to the culture of climate catastrophism by Andy West. It is freely downloadable. https://judithcurry.com/2023/07/13/the-grip-of-culture-the-social-psychology-of-climate-catastrophism/#more-30325
Thanks to GWPF for making it available.
Get a grip of this!
On BBC PM earlier they interviewed some ‘scientist’ from the WMO (an Aussie by the sound of it) and he was blaming a lack polar ice for the change in the jet stream – and there was me thinking it was pretty much the same as ever was. But then, once he’d done with scaring the kids it would have been good, in a fair-minded society for the program to offer an opposing view from a scientist who disagreed.
And then I woke up….
This is just a modern version of Priests threatening the peasants with hellfire if they didn’t behave themselves
Yeah, right, all due to human activity. There is no chance that the Keeling Curve will be affected by Net Zero activity – not the slightest chance. So let’s keep quite calm