You could almost sense climate campaigners willing those thermometers in Sardinia to nudge into the unknown – a reading above 48.8°C would have marked a new European record and unleashed yet more forewarnings of climatic Armageddon.
But alas, they don’t appear to have got their way – at least not today. As of 6.30 p.m., the highest reported temperatures measured today were in the region of 45ºC, on Sardinia. [emphasis, links added]
There was a consolation prize in that the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) did finally verify the reading of 48.8ºC in Sicily made on August 10, 2021.
Prior to that, the European record was established way back in 1977, which was beginning to look a little inconvenient for the narrative of an Earth which is ‘on fire’.
The all-time global record for temperature, however, was measured at Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California on July 10, 1913, (although, hardly surprisingly, there are campaigners lobbying the WMO to have this kicked out of the record books on the grounds that it might have been measured during a sandstorm, whyever that should make it invalid).
Nevertheless, there are many signs that the heat is getting to some people’s heads – those who report on climate for various news organizations.
Here are a few of the symptoms that they are beginning to lose a sense of objectivity.
The weather maps that are used to show where it is hot don’t always use intense red to denote temperatures above 40ºC (that shade is so 2022).
They have started using an intense, scary pink – or even white – instead. White heat, by the way (when all kinds of materials start to glow white) starts around 1,800ºC, approximately 1,755ºC higher than the temperature in Sardinia today.
Sky News’ Kirsty McCabe told viewers who were hoping to fly off to the Med for a holiday this week: ‘You won’t be able to have the traditional beach holiday, you want to be staying inside.’
Actually, while inland temperatures reached up to 45ºC in a few areas, temperatures at the coast, as usual, were more moderate. Only in a small patch of Northern Majorca did they reach 40ºC.
The BBC has suggested Britain’s cool July might have something to do with global warming.
This time last year we were in the grip of a Mediterranean-style heatwave, blamed on climate change.
But this year’s below-average temperatures are also, apparently, a symptom of the same thing.
In an online explainer entitled, Where has the UK summer gone?, the Bee asserts that our chilly weather is all down to a blocking pattern in the air circulation over the North Atlantic, and that ‘some studies suggest climate change might make blocked patterns more common’.
Note the word ‘might’.
So, there. Whether it is hot, cold, or somewhere in between, it is all a sign of rapidly accelerating climate change. Curious.
Read more at Spectator UK
Nobody is glad and happy for the extreme heat. That headline is pure red meat.
Meanwhile my household and electric cars are powered by the California Sun. The PV system paid back in three years in gasoline savings alone.
Do you still have to pay for electricity and gasoline?
Did you somehow escape the months and months of wet weather that California recently had, where it was overcast, windy, and rainy? Someone told me that their solar panels powered their ‘entire home’ and charged their EVs. Turns out they don’t in the winter (I asked and the answer was “it’s complicated”) and the solar panels cover a field that once grew crops. The property was purchased by a doctor and the panels cover the entire field out back and the roof of the house. To call it an eyesore is an understatement. But glad you somehow escaped all that bad weather that went on for months and affected the West Coast.
No high temperatures no record breaking high on their thermometers they may have to resort to holding a lit match under their thermometers