The Pixel Pro series have a built in thermo-camera app.
Middle son was born on a previously highest UK temp of 37.1C in August 1990, we took fans & ice packs into the labour ward - his middle name references the time.
Twister?
Fab?
Cornetto?
Feast?
Cider lolly?
There is an all pervading pretense that we can stop global warming without lifestyle change. That there are technological so9lutions.
The trouble is you're right, you can't, but also you can't.
In very broad brushstrokes the sustainable level of carbon emissions per person is ~1500kg/year
1500kg/year is also roughly the carbon emissions of:
The average amount of driving
The average amount of meat eating
The average amount of heating a home
An average return flight (1 return trip to a a city in eastern Europe)
So you can have one of those, which is it, a warm house, a holiday, meat, or a car? Tell people that and they'll look at you like your mad. And it's why the UK emits about 1% of global CO2 despite only being about 0.1% of the population. Telling people to change their lifestyle sufficiently to actually achieve the goal is futile.
Basically we're f****ed, because there's no one beyond few hippies and hermits who can, could or will actually commit to doing that.
Governments are relying on big changes at their end to solve it, Miliband is unpopular with gammons, but whether you like him or not, your home still hopefully ends up powered by solar, wind and nuclear. Doesn't matter who you get your energized electrons from, they'll be green in the future.
Same with electric cars*.
Same with heat pumps*.
And like it or not at some point someone is going to propose a carbon tax on carbon intensive foods like meat.
Flying is the odd one out on that list, there's fundamentally not much that can be done to green it. Hydrogen is slowly dying off as an idea in the publics mind thankfully, it was always a stupid idea that never stood a chance of working in any application. You can't grow enough rapeseed in the world for fuel and electric planes are probably going to be a fantasy in all but very niche applications for decades if not centuries.
I think the unspoken hope at a policy level is that whilst renewable energy is still not exactly cheap under the CfD scheme, the cost of building it will continue to fall. So governments are forced into paying for tomorrows energy at todays prices in the hope that at some point the economics of it make it so that the replacement cost for the next generation of generators (or the generation after that) don't require the same subsidy. Or at least the economics of it gain inertia like oil and gas has (people drill for oil because our houses are heated with gas, and our cars run on petrol, and our houses run on gas because there's gas in the pipes being extracted etc). So once we've gone electric with a decarbonised grid, the cost of going back to gas and oil will look just as prohibitive as buying a heat pump and a tesla does today.
*both obviously require cheap green electricity to be both cheaper and greener than fossil fuels.
Middle son was born on a previously highest UK temp of 37.1C in August 1990, we took fans & ice packs into the labour ward - his middle name references the time.
Kazansky?
In very broad brushstrokes the sustainable level of carbon emissions per person is ~1500kg/year
1500kg/year is also roughly the carbon emissions of:
The average amount of driving
The average amount of meat eating
The average amount of heating a home
An average return flight (1 return trip to a a city in eastern Europe)
So you can have one of those, which is it, a warm house, a holiday, meat, or a car?
Some of this is a little unfair though, in that you're comparing per-person with per-household. Or are you accounting for families when you talk about averages?
My partner and I share a house and it doesn't cost any more to heat a house for two, so that's halved your per-person figure. Similar with driving, and we're surely below average mileage anyway as she works from home and I'm out of work. I don't eat meat. So by these metrics I'm easily carbon neutral at least, unless I go on holiday. 😁
(I appreciate that this was an oversimplification)
Well, at least we try in this country to be greener. Even China is massively investing. US, oil baby.. and they have had some extreme weather.
I've seen a few places saying you should open loft hatches to help cool upstairs bedrooms. It's 45 deg C in my loft, I presume the advice is BS and i'm just going to be releasing that hot air into the house if anything? There's no significant ventilation up in the loft and is insulated in loft floor / bedroom ceiling.
My point about lifestyle change was not so much on an individual level but that politicians the world over pretend that global warming can be combated without lifestyle change. Add in developing nations and it just gets worse - we cannot tell them they cannot have fridges and cars while we have them 🙂
Whats needed is to make me world dictator. I'll shoot 90% of the worlds population and feed that meat to the remaining 10%
Basically we're f*ed
This.
The change is accelerating and the further into it, the greater change needed. Collectively our society is like a smoker who's fine for 40+ years and lives in denial, then gets that fatal illness.
"The Age Of Stupid" is 17 years old. No-one listened or acted. People still fly all over the place and DGAS. We still buy imported fruit and 'fresh' fish from Vietnam wrapped in plastic. Every product imported too. I can stop flying and eat little meat etc but those with the highest impact lifestyles don't change, there's *s with private jets and whatever change happens it's 20+ years too late. Probably more.
Bad weather makes me grumpy.
And it's why the UK emits about 1% of global CO2 despite only being about 0.1% of the population.
As with most European countires you can double that to 2% when you consider the embedded carbon in imports.
The average amount of driving
The average amount of meat eating
The average amount of heating a home
An average return flight (1 return trip to a a city in eastern Europe)
You can divide the CO2 of your driving by five if you use a (preferably small) electric car running on renewables or nuclear.
You can reduce your meat eating without going full vegan and buy local produce
You can sacrifice a little internal space and properly insulate your home so your house requires very little heating.
Trains and busses across Europe work well, hire a bike at destination. It'll take a little longer but the journey becomes part of the adventure.
I've reduced our family CO2 emissions to a tiny fraction of what they were with next to no impact on lifestyle. In fact on the contrary, the leccy car is a delight, the house more pleasant to live in (no air con, 39°C to 41°C over the last few days and it's 29°C inside at 19h), my diet objectively healthier so I feel better, my holidays are adventures rather than being dumped somewhere by plane.
31.1° here in kirkcudbright and this is inside, I’m cooked and it’s playing absolute havoc with my SPMS 😐 despite having a fan on setting 10 whilst blowing over a bag of ice in a basin.
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If your fridge is inside the house then making the ice will have heated you house. Fridges and especially freezers need to be outside the envelope when it's hot and inside when it's cold. If you use a fan it needs to be a big slow moving low power thing that doesn't heat the room.
The lab peaked at 33.8 degrees today and we have to wear lab coats at all times!
The flies are pretty bad and there's been quite a lot of maggots found on the agar plates. These are patients samples we've cultured onto various plates, to see what's growing. But not today mrs.wotsit, can't tell you what's infecting your diabetic leg ulcer because the maggots have eaten it.
Couple of our incubators and the walk in cold room all had massive spikes over the allowed temperature in the last couple of days, and because that knackers stock which costs a few quid I think the big bosses are finally going to relent and install air con.
If your fridge is inside the house then making the ice will have heated you house. Fridges and especially freezers need to be outside the envelope when it's hot and inside when it's cold. If you use a fan it needs to be a big slow moving low power thing that doesn't heat the room.
The fan is that £40 Lidl thing you see in the pic and whilst I think I may have a tray of ice cubes in the freezer I doubt 6 cubes would really make much difference 😉 but I couldn’t move to get them out anyway as what little ability to move that I have in cooler weather is now gone till my body cools down and my nerve signals recover
Earlier on my mum popped down the fish factory in town and brought over a bag of crushed ice in her panniers, then she buggered off for a ride round the coastline and have a paddle…..humph…….sort’a thing I would’ve done a few years ago, my bro is bringing more ice over later which I’ll probably need for my feet as they are swollen up to **** and look ready to go pop
edit - why is f e c k bleeped out?, if it is acceptable to be used/allowed on broadcast media at all times then why does stw deem it to be worthy of the **** treatment?
36c hot? All over the news FFS!🤣
Inside our house temperature in Borneo is around 26c everyday (24c if you are lucky on rainy days), and outside is constant 32c to 34c (many days on 36c to 38c).
Hot does not kill you, it is cold that can kill you.
Hot weather you can escape, cold weather you have no where to hide.
I was outside my office this afternoon sitting on bench with steel railing and it was not even BBQ grilling hot. You want fried egg hot!
I hope this weather last until the end of summer.
As a kid my friends and I used to fish midday 34c under the sun without any sun shade etc. Sunscreen? What is that? LOL!
Wear something appropriate like T-Shirt, Shorts, sarongs and flipflops ...
Duplicate.
Hot does not kill you, it is cold that can kill you.
Congratulations on the most inane utter ****ing bollox to emerge from your mouth/arshole
Congratulations on the most inane utter ****ing bollox to emerge from your mouth/arshole
Well, what do you do now? You stay in the shade to avoid the sun is it not? No need to spend money to cool down (well, not for me anyway - don't need air condition)
Cold weather, nowhere to hide unless you switch on your central heating. No money? Freeze!
A fair bit of activity in the channel, difficult to see where it’s going to go at the moment…
36c hot? All over the news FFS!
The 4 Borneo men sketch.
Man 1 "We grew up in a blast furnace, and lived on kebabs of Carolina reaper chillis on red hot pokers and drank flagons of molten lava".
Man 2 "you were lucky".
Etc.....
As you have friends/family coming around to help another idea is water, somafunk. Tap water is often around 10-12°C. Fill buckets (£1 a bucket from the DIY store) in the morning then water the garden with them or use them for toilet flushing in the evening.
"Cold weather, nowhere to hide unless you switch on your central heating. No money? Freeze!"
An Inuit might disagree. In France many more people die from extreme heat than the cold. As many homeless die in Summer as Winter.
Hot does not kill you, it is cold that can kill you.
There’s this thing called ‘heatstroke’, there are a number of other ways that heat can disrupt the human body and cause it to shut down, perhaps looking up cases of children dying as a result of being left in a locked car. Also, Allied Prisoners of War in Japanese camps were tortured by being shut in a tin box in the sun.
You maybe should rethink your statement, as it’s clearly hopelessly wrong!
Cold weather, nowhere to hide unless you switch on your central heating. No money? Freeze!
You add extra layers of insulating clothing.
Just for our little pet Borneo troll
https://bsky.app/profile/mikeachim.bsky.social/post/3moxatbxnq223
Looks like the bullies are in tonight...
Quick calculation on 5 x 10l buckets of water left in a hot room and warming from 12°C to 27°C before being used for other things is 0.75kWH removed from the room.
my bro is bringing more ice over later which I’ll probably need for my feet as they are swollen up to **** and look ready to go pop
You could try putting isopropanol, or rubbing alcohol as the Americans call it; put it on your feet with the fan blowing across them. Or a wet towel, that’ll help a bit as well.
I have loved educating the kids on the source of ‘Scorchio’
down a rabbit hole of fast show clips..
You could try putting isopropanol, or rubbing alcohol as the Americans call it; put it on your feet with the fan blowing across them. Or a wet towel, that’ll help a bit as well.
Bro says he's coming over after he gets back in from a farming/grass fire call-out (retained firefighter) to help move me and he's bringing over a 20litre sack of crushed ice and a big plastic tub so that'll help loads, I have a few litres of iso but I'd not put that anywhere near my feet - not that I could in my current condition as if I tried to move I'd end up on floor....gawd knows what iso would do to the blistered skin on feet.
Don't ever choose spms folks, its not much fun..... 😀
Looks like the bullies are in tonight...
Well.....if you talk stupid and ignorant then don't be surprised at the responses
why is f e c k bleeped out?,
Because a small selection of people thought "aha, loophole!" and completely took the piss, which is why we can't have nice things.
One of the primary culprits (IIRC) was banned years ago, it's very much a legacy thing.
Pop, bang, flash outside as a storm rolls in from the mountains. The film finished just before the volume of water in the air cut of the sat signal. Humidity has risen somewhat and the temperature is pleasant while the garden gets some much needed water. Just hope it doesn't hail.
why is f e c k bleeped out?,
Because a small selection of people thought "aha, loophole!" and completely took the piss, which is why we can't have nice things.
One of the primary culprits (IIRC) was banned years ago, it's very much a legacy thing.
Ahhh, heck…….. 😉
(now you mention it, I vaguely remember the hoo-hah at the time)
Aren't official MET office/Meterological recorded temperatures measured 10m from the ground in still air and shaded?
I think it is (or maybe was) more like 2m from the ground in a thing called a Stevenson Screen But in principle you're bang on.
I’ve been meaning to make one of those for years… but my kids have shown zero enthusiasm
Boooo 😏 , I thought I had the hottest recorded Scottish temp on Thursday but it appears that Threave Gardens (8miles up the road) bet me by .1°…damn……I almost “won” 😉
It’s still 28.3° here but as it’s darkish outside it feels cooler
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg7zrn61klo
For the few among us who don’t seem to quite grasp why the U.K. in particular has issues with very hot weather.
https://theconversation.com/heat-humidity-and-housing-why-british-heatwaves-hit-differently-286064?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/greatbritain
You’re welcome.
Seeing a few bright flashes, seems it isn’t just the South that’s getting storms tonight…
Still sat up watching the explosions in the night sky, loads of noise and flashes across the entire sky but nae rain at all, must be all up in the galloway hills
We've got it in Midlothian now, it's like a light is flickering on and off, so many flashes. And heavy rain.
It was pretty impressive. I don't think i have seen anything quite that big up here before.
That was an awful night. Hottest I’ve ever known. The dog really struggled and then thunderstorms meant Windows couldn’t be left open
Got to go to a funeral this afternoon 2.5hrs drive away ☹️
That was an awful night. Hottest I’ve ever known. The dog really struggled and then thunderstorms meant Windows couldn’t be left open
My hairy lump of a dog spent the entire night including storm upside down snoring 🤣
I'm feeling trepidatious about heading for Kings Cross this morning. 2 hours on a train yesterday with no air-conditioning was brutal - and it's 5.5 hours home....
Is that a gritting lorry ? Snow / ice on the way in the next 24 hrs?
