Monday, June 29, 2009
Heatwave!
Pah!
I see that Nanny has issued one of her regular warnings about something that we need to be afraid of, lest we "risk our health" ignoring her.
This time Nanny is telling parents to keep babies and young children indoors, as our ever "accurate" and "world class" weather forecasters predict that temperatures will rise to the high 20's or beyond.
My gosh, how do people who live in places such as India, Africa and the Med ever cope with temperatures that go way beyond that???
For good measure Nanny also warned people over 75, and people with heart problems, not to go out as well.
Hospitals have been put on standby to deal with sunstroke victims, as the Met Office issued its first ever heatwave warning amid fears that it could become "dangerously" hot and humid.
OK folks, here are a few factoids:
1 High 20's low 30's is not that excessive, try living in eg Africa, India or eg Beijing/Seoul in the summer if you want to experience real heat/humidity.
2 We pay carbon tax, which is allegedly being used to reduce "global warming", let us now get value for money for that tax by enjoying the heat.
3 This is just part of Nanny's "global warming" scare story strategy, designed to justify her raising taxes even more.
4 Why does Nanny not also warn parents about the dangers of taking their kids to hot countries (eg Spain) for their holidays?
5 When have the weather forecasts ever really been that accurate? It is high time forecasters were fined for misleading forecasts, then we would see a change in attitude!
In short, make the most of any sun or heat that comes our way; Nanny Brown's Britain is a pretty damp and miserable place normally.
Remember, we managed to run an Empire in some of the hottest parts of the world with little more than a pith helmet and a bottle of gin. Nanny, had she been around then, would never have even let us board the ferry at Dover.
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Ken:
ReplyDeleteThis is all about brainwashing the dumbed down general public in to believing the new religion of climate change.
We have always had some summer days when temperatures have reaced into the high seventies, eighties or even the nineties. (Sorry to any modern yes sheep; I don't speak celsius!!)
I personally feel it is abuse not to let a child out to play on a fine summers day.
Last week, I mentioned our local primary school having kids walking down the street in crocodile fashion in high-viz vests; One of my grandsons attend that school and my daughter tells me that the hi-viz vest forms part of the PE kit for safely walking to and from the local authority's sports centre....If only they had not sold off the school's sports field and other facilities nor closed the school swiming pool on 'elf'n'safety grounds but, hey ho, I digress.....Back to the story at hand and over reaction.....The same school requires, as part of the uniform, that a school "Beau Jest" hat is supplied for out door playtime in the summer....This is a french foreign legion style Kepe with a curtain that covers the neck and shoulders.....I suspect it should be worn with either the bubble wrap suit or cotton wool suit!!!
The world has gone mad!!!
One final amusing tale that I read on another website describing the green lobby:
They are like watermelons....They're green on the outside but, when when you look inside, they are red (communists/socialists) and we all know that reds want to control everything and everybody.
Yet there have been some recent reports from medical experts suggesting that sunshine is extremely beneficial!
ReplyDeleteNow we have had a few days of sunshine, I'm expecting the water companies to impose a hosepipe ban any day now, with draconian punishments for anyone who dares to disobey!
I don't like to disagree with you, Ken, but I put it to you that the mad dogs are those ruining, er sorry, running the country!
Tonk said..."Last week, I mentioned our local primary school having kids walking down the street in crocodile fashion in high-viz vests; One of my grandsons attend that school and my daughter tells me that the hi-viz vest forms part of the PE kit for safely walking to and from the local authority's sports centre....If only they had not sold off the school's sports field and other facilities nor closed the school swiming pool on 'elf'n'safety grounds but, hey ho, I digress.....Back to the story at hand and over reaction.....The same school requires, as part of the uniform, that a school "Beau Jest" hat is supplied for out door playtime in the summer....This is a french foreign legion style Kepe with a curtain that covers the neck and shoulders....."
And I bet the kids feel right plonkers wearing such 'trendy' clothing!!
Lord:
ReplyDeleteI don't think they do because they've been programmed to accept blindly such rules....Just as nanny wants....People unable to think for themselves.
The water companies will hope that they can have a period of dry weather so they can declare a drought order with the aid of the courts.....This will allow them to fit water meters to ALL properties that don't have one. I spoke to someone at OFWAT and he said that the metered supplies are currently subsidised by the non metered supply customers as there are fewer on meters....As the number on metered supply increases, so the subsidy will not be possible to justify and thus metered supply bills will rise sharply.
Call me a cynic but, when a company whose sole purpose is to make money for its shareholders tells me they want to save me money and thus make less profit, I become rather sceptical. I suspect that once our foreign owned untilities achieve their goal of 100% metered supplies, then our bills will rocket upwards and, as is the case with gas and electric, they will use our rip-off tariffs to subsidise customers in their own country.
I just thought I'd mention that during the summer, midday is not actually the hottest part of the day. That occurs around 4-5 o'clock when the sun is still high, but also heat that has been absorbed by the ground is being released back into the air.
ReplyDeleteA useless bit of information I felt like sharing..
Just for the sake of comparison, I grew up in Georgia (the American one, not the Soviet one) and all of my siblings and parents still live there. It may not the hottest or most humid place in the world, but it'll do. Temperatures in the 90s in May are not uncommon, and long streaks of 90+ temps, day after day, are typical of midsummer, with the occasional excursion into the 100s. Plus, it's humid as hell.
ReplyDeleteWhy do I mention all of this? Well, I've heard of "sunstroke" and "heat exhaustion" and even "heat prostration" but I've never known even one single person to have sufferdd such a malady. As kids, we would play outside from morning to night on days that routinely went into the 90s. So long as you drink water, or even better, lemonaide, you'll be fine.
My uncle spent the last 20 or so years of his life living in London, and he used to chuckle about how the British media would carry on about a heat-wave whenever the temperatures crept dangerously close to the 80s.
We are not a race of penguins or polar bears. A little heat won't do us in. Nanny, as always, seeks to induce a sense of fear and helplessness so as to keep the flock timid and compliant. Plus,she needs to justify the ongoing carbon-terror campaign.
Hot weather "dangerous" my arse. I'm 59 and have suffered a heart attack but that doesn't stop me going out and sunbathing all afternoon in just my Speedos. No, I don't take any notice of the other health fascists' scare either: skin cancer. That scare is promulgated by Big Pharma in order to sell sunscreens, themselves full of carcinogenic chemicals.
ReplyDeleteDeapite closing swimming pools right left and centre, the small-minded little Town Hall Hitlers are ruthlessly enforcing swimming bans in all waters under their control, even in situation where no such ban is actually enforcible. Why is it British local authorities are so intent on wringing the last bit of plaesure out of the lives of those who pay for their inflated salaries and pensions?
BASTARDS!!!!
Tonk,
ReplyDeleteHas anyone thought of referring to the little one's kepes as Hoodies - for they are in effect quite similar (aren't they? Yes of course they are.)
What might the teaching staff (are they still called that?) make of such a name?
As for your comments on the Water Companies - you are, sir, a cynic. But undoubtedly a very accurate one.
BTS:
I suspect that the the mid afternoon will generally be the hottest period of the day but late afternoon in Urban Heat Island areas are likely to be the most airless on still days and have the highest temperatures for the longest time as buildings, roads and other structures re-radiate the recently captured heat. This if course is why temperature readings are so often captured in these locations by the strategic placement of recording equipment.
Black Sea.
I once spent 24hour just outside Atlanta in mid June. It was indeed quite warm and humid as I recall, though having spend the previous 4 days or so in Florida I was partly acclimatised.
The next 2 days were spent just outside Chicago where it was 106F. And no aircon in the cabs. The Limo driver taking me to the airport mentioned that it had been -26F and lower he previous February - just 4 months previously. Living in the UK we understand nothing about weather and climate.
Disgusted of TW:
Surely there is no other reason to enter into any branch of politics except to exercise some personal drive to have power and influence over the lives of others. Likewise civil servants have the same motivation, the most remarkable example being the unelected crowd in Bruxelles.
Lord of Atlantis - whilst the hoo-hah about banning burkhas has been doing the rounds, it transpires that Muslim women suffer a high incidence of Rickets, due to lack of expose to the sun.
ReplyDeleteGrant, thank you for explaining it rather more eloquently - I did also forget to mention that it applies to urban areas.
ReplyDeleteIt must be this heat..