It is hot over here!

[Master]

I did say it was hot over here. Runways and tracks are melting. People are hot and bothered. We are going to hit 40 degrees for the first time ever!

[Mark TKO]

The end is nigh

[NoSavingByTheBell]

it's 44 degrees Celsius here in South Texas so I dont really think that is hot over there.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

[Memphis]

it's 44 degrees Celsius here in South Texas so I don't really think that is hot over there.

We ain't in Texas Toto. Which is why it is seriously hot over here.

I know it's a cliché but it's not like being on holiday is it. No pool to dip in and out of as and when you fancy. No air conditioned hotel room. We're no better equipped on home soil to deal with the heat than we are to deal with ice/cold/snow.

It rained whilst I was out this afternoon. It was awesome.

[Spicoli]

Figured they'd be off loading pallets of ice on every other corner over there by now. It's funny seeing the headlines all over social media and the following "well it's sweltering hell here in (enter random U.S State here) so there. Our acs have us spoiled . Lots of diy things you can try if the heat lasts. Don't laugh below, we do what we gotta do to get a good nights sleep

[Kirkland Laing]

Going to get worse in the coming decades too. We need a massive WW2 style debt financed spend into new energy tech. The US, EU and the top next few economies issue a few trillion dollars worth of investment bonds to fund new technologies with a return on the investment on top of interest. It would cost governments nothing in real terms in terms of interest payments and return on investment would come from the profits made by the technologies that ended up working and producing clean energy.

We could sell this in every country, even to American Republican voters as a national security issue and also a future of abundant cheap energy. Being able to charge your vehicle for a few hundred miles for a few dollars would go down well with voters right now. Not to mention millions of new jobs etc.

That's the least worst option we have. If we do it we're less fucked in the future this way.

JUst as an example Americans were asked if they were worried about the long term effects of global warming. About eighty percent said yes. Then they were asked what level of taxes they'd be prepared to pay to combat the problem. Only fifty percent would pay a dollar a week. Only twenty percent would pay ten dollars a month.

There's no way to do this without new tech and we need it yesterday. We have to find out a way to sell the big investment to rich country voters or we're fucked.

[TIC]

harden up cupcakes

[Spicoli]

I did say it was hot over here. Runways and tracks are melting. People are hot and bothered. We are going to hit 40 degrees for the first time ever!

Just be glad you don't have the constant 75 percent humidity to go with it. What's the rough average of folks with central a/c in the UK? Wanna see society lose its mind, crash the grid and take our precious acs in this heat. People forget how to act real quick.

[palmerq]

Air conditioning is pretty rare in Britain, a lot of people will gett cooked, 40 degrees is just hot anywhere...add in people living in blocks of flats made with miserable British weather in mind and not many air-conditioners and it'll be a miserable time..


Lucky for me this part of Canada after the 45 last year has only gone past thirty for three days this summer, low 20s right now

[Mark TKO]

We're not equipped for it over here

We don't have air conditioning - maybe in hotels and the top 1%ers have it installed in their 7\8 figure homes but I'd say even that is just 2% of UK homes at best.

I live in a town house. Top floor was 32 yesterday, middle 29. Have relocated to bottom which was bearable.

considered sleeping in garden at one point

Crazy to think its going to drop 15 degrees tomorrow.....

[Master]

It is the not sleeping that is the worst aspect of it. I am in air conditioned office so can survive in the day.