Obvious point, but it's a mass media problem at least as much as a political problem that, somehow, whatever is happening today must be more dramatic than whatever happened yesterday. I roll my eyes at clickbait while, at the same time, I must acknowledge that apparently it's producing the desired result upon a whole lot of people.
Exactly. 20 years ago (has it been that long?) any weather event with spectacular footage produced big television audience ratings for The Weather Channel, which in turn produced big ad revenues. They also found that even better than weather porn was widespread fear. The programmers weren't stupid, and started hyping even potential storms as the 'storm of the century'. That has evolved into the weather websites' pursuit of clickbait.
Absolutely right. I don’t know when the phrase “severe weather “ became common (20-30 years ago?), but to me it connotes fear and danger. In the 70s & 80s, a typical on-the-hour report lasted a few seconds and an anonymous voice gave you the day’s high & low temps, and maybe said something about high humidity, frost, and the chance of rain / snow . . maybe a thunderstorm.
Then came the word “severe”, and along with it, personalities, fear, warnings!, marketing, and a profit center.
The advent of cable TV and The Weather Channel contributed quite a lot. How else could you fill up 24 hours of weather news without, like, inventing some weather news?
"A few weeks ago, our Health Ministry partnered with the German Olympic Sports Confederation to produce a truly delusional “heat protection plan” for recreational sport. This bizarre document urgently advised Germans to avoid alcoholic, sugary and caffeinated drinks at sporting events, and also to refrain from such ordinary activities as barbecuing – all “to better protect participants and spectators … from heat-related health risks.”
Let's just say it got to triple digits Fahrenheit, I don't remember (playing baseball or any other activities during summer) when we were growing up for that to be a huge deal. We literally just drank more water and found shade if it was really bad. Nobody had to be told that.
I mean, im pretty sure we didn't need to be told that when we branched off from chimpanzees 7 mil years ago.
When the sun went largely without sun spots in the 1600s, the earth got colder. This was the Maunder Minimum, in the middle of the Little Ice Age that started in the 1300s. Then both reversed and we’ve gotten this intense warming since the mid-1800s, but no warmer than it was 1,000 years ago. (Greenland ice core readings indicating that Greenland is still much cooler than 1000 years ago.) For a thoroughgoing deconstruction of climate-change alarmism, readers might be interested in this Substack in The Menelaus Gambit https://ernestdlieberman.substack.com/p/climate-change-alarmists-ignore-how
In my part of Canada we have 2 days of 32c coming and then back to the 25’s. It’s been cooler summers and terrible springs for the past few years. Though nature balances it out with nice weather into November. There are fires out west and there is even talk in the media that it’s from 150 years of experts suppressing forest fires because -experts said so-. Along with the obligatory your road trip last week contributed.0000000004% to the planet’s overall temperature rise 🫠 zzzzzzz
Out West on the Canadian Prairies, nature balances summer heat with a few weeks in January-February of temps in the -40C range. Went to -50C a few years ago.
This year, I've appreciated that you all up there have shipped less of your eastern forest fire smoke down here. I guess nobody can afford the tariffs.
We used to just call this....summer. An accepted part of reality.
For years now, every little thing has to be twisted into some kind of crisis. Every blooming normal aspect of life on earth is now some kind of dramatic fear-moment, where we must run to Mr. Authority for "safety".
Which is the whole point of this tactic. In terms of Evolutionary Psychology, if a predator-type human induces fear (or anger or grief) in a vulnerable type human who has not moved beyond their dependency needs yet....they will run to the supposed Authority and the attached herd, seeking safety by bowing to that authority and their narrative.
This is a highly manipulatable evolutionary program in the human psyche. Wasn't it targeted with aplomb during COVID-mania....h-m-m-m?
In the modern age, this is what Nudge Units get paid handsomely to advise on.
Agreed. This is the case. A constant drumbeat to keep people anxious and therefore easier to manipulate. All helped along by the fact the media naturally focuses on catastrophe anyway.
The only defence is to ignore it all. I now get my news from memes 😜
I will put on my Evolutionary Psychology hat here.
They find it hard to let these fears go because the designated Authority figure + narrative + herd are catering to their survival mechanism of the psyche. The hangers-on are convinced that survival depends upon following these persons/rules, to the letter.
Which is why spies and snitches appear in abundance at such times -- they are watching for anyone who supposedly puts the herd survival at risk by not following the rules in an absolute fashion.
This is how cults operate, btw. Or any totalitarian group.
Absolutely ! In the media no news is good - all disaster and drama. But the memes tell the truth with a chuckle. Laughing is good for you. I remember these big tummy laughing Buddhas.
I roll my eyes so much when I hear the breathless murmurs about how dangerously hot it is at 80 degrees F or what not. Now, don't get me wrong, I hate heat and self-select for a climate that rarely reaches 100 let alone 115 (and I have lived and worked in both) but even I don't think 80 degrees is going to hurt anything. In fact, its good for the garden. Just deal with it.
The whole weather-crisis thing is about controlling your perception so that they can induce fear. Then if you are one of the vulnerable dependent types, they will control YOU. To their benefit.
I agree, and the target is the young- people who have not had the years nescessary to recognize the cycles and realize that most years the weather is relatively consistent in a cyclical way.
They also catch older folk who watch a lot of TV and still trust the crazy weatherpeople when they put red warnings where the normal summer temps used to be.
LOL, I'm with you. Best compliment ever came to me back in the day: I was acclaimed jokingly at a party for being the only person in the room with a 'Kill your Television' bumper sticker that didn't actually own a TV.
I did get one a few years later, but even then, it was just to watch videos.
If they get bored with using weather events to induce fear, I have seen the use of bug-fear too. Such as "OMG....we found a dead bedbug in your home/office. Do you know what this means...!!!
And of course, we all know how they use the "Viral Pandemic" variant.
Speaking of bugs in the modern age, you do remember that Cricket facility in Canada that the Troodo govt. poured its heart and soul (and taxpayer bucks) into?
"London, Ont. cricket plant ordered into receivership amid $41M debt bill to creditor"
Yes the dreaded “emerging diseases”…..until you understand that they are indeed emerging…..from the fine humans at DARPA and other altruistic organizations.
The Daily Mail Online was wonderful about this the other day. "...warns residents of these three states that drinking coffee [during the heatwave] can result in death within minutes!" And with there being no coincidences in life, that Star Trek episode about the salt-seeking monster that desiccated its victims in an instant was just on too!
Even when I was a kid, a long long time ago, we had these things called hot summers and one could buy romper suits in all sizes from toddler to adult because that's what you wear when it's scorching out and in the summer it was always scorching out even in the Northeast and that's why everyone who could went to the bungalow colonies in the Catskills to enjoy the scorching summers properly.
The entire history of social grouping of humans is basically anything you want to do, and anything happening anywhere, is bad. Somehow, some way, we'll find the way to call it bad. That's why language was invented. To say "bad!"
🙂 Some merit in that idea, except that some things actually are "bad" -- why we have "edible" and "poisonous". Awareness of that dichotomy goes back a long ways into many "lower-order" species.
In a note from our sponsor ..., y'all might have some interest in my post, circa 2018, on The Imperative of Categories:
Language is all about signs and meanings we attach to them -- semiotics if I'm not mistaken.
"bad face and pukes" is simply a sign from one cat to another that whatever Felix ate should probably be taken off the menu for the rest of the tribe.
If I'm not mistaken, I've linked to the article on "taxonomy is the oldest profession" in that Categories post, and which you indicated some appreciation for.
Once upon a time, even in places such as Chicago and NYC, apartment-dwellers used to sleep on balconies or in the parks on very hot summer nights. No AC then, of course.
Yes, really. Normal part of their lives at the time.
Yes, and in Missouri, whole families would sleep in city parks in he hottest summer days prior to practically everyone having air conditioning. (Also, BTW, at swimming pools, people would change clothes in tree shade.)
I remember as a kid, after digging up the potatoes we ran barefoot on the hot soil, in our bathing suits. Later we bathed in a large laundry tub mom put out in the sun. And in 1996 or 97 on holiday in Bavaria it was in the mid 30s.
Think of the horrible dystopian world I came from where all the little kids wore rubber beach shoes (not flipflops, ballet-like slip-ons) because the sand was scorching.
I read that Daily Mail article and I was chuckling throughout. Someone better tell Cubans that their cortaditos (espresso shot with sugar) are now lethal in the summer lol
And the Turks and the Greeks and the entire Middle East, etc. etc. I lived for awhile in South Asia and the summers regularly hit 110-120F and we drank hot tea all day.
IN documentaries of the Saharan nomads, you see them boiling water and then drinking the coffee almost boiling! I think it is the opposite - ice cold drinks in hot weather seem to be way worse.
Historically, older people moved to warmer climates whenever possible, to improve their quality of life. See Florida. It’s incredible how they gaslight us about summer deaths while ignoring the winter deaths as they kill off pensioners with energy price increases they cannot afford.
I’m also going to have to listen to Glass Animals now lol.
When I become president ,I will mandate that every home must have a windmill outside .The wind will blow the snow away in winter ,and cool the house in summer . Hot air driving the wind mill ,will come from the government building down the street .
They’ve succeeded in making people so anxious they can’t even enjoy a good old fashioned heatwave anymore. We used to love them, they always meant a perfect day at the lake or something else along those same lines. And people are afraid of the sun, the thought of daring to step out into it without a gallon of sunscreen on is just too much. Yet, skin cancer rates have increased since all the emphasis on sunscreen and avoiding the sun, but that obviously is the fault of the sun that hasn’t changed in a billion years. Who knew people would fall for every fake crisis so easily.
A subsidiary freakout that seems to always accompany the general climate freakout is the water usage freakout. This type of freakout is quite prevalent in the southwestern United States, which is largely desert and subdesert. There is no end of freaking out about how we are all going to die of thirst because the Earth is running out of water. No one ever seems to notice that fully three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water, and it's several miles deep in places. Desalination is actually quite prevalent and scalable. But let someone suggest tapping into the vast oceans to satisfy the coastal cities and you trigger yet another subsidiary freakout about killing all the crabs and starfish in the ocean. There can never be a solution, because eNvIrOnMeNt.
The Earth does not have a climate problem, and certainly not a water problem. It does however have a retard problem.
Where I live, we have plenty of water, and we get the same water-is-scarce propaganda. On the other hand, until a year or two ago, the Colorado River watershed was undergoing a possibly cyclic decrease in water, & that really was a political and economic problem in the US & Mexico.
In my current thinking, there are too many people in North America, and bringing in more from other overpopulated regions is not helpful.
Last week an Italian newspaper reported a heat-death, from a farm worker. At the end of the article the reporter was kind enough to state, that the man was from Africa.
Remember also, that in 2022 not only you had a heat wave but also a jab wave. Although hot weather is tiresome (I am from Belgium but now living in GA, USA) I don't think it is deadly at all. I think cold weather is in fact more dangerous for frail old people. I hear from family back in Belgium that they have no airco in the rooms in the elderly home, but the dining area and the kitchen do, so everyone either is out in the shade, or in the diner. Many Meme-ists have posted the UK map from 25 years ago with temperatures in the high 20s in green, and last year's with exactly the same temperatures, all in red. I also read an article just days ago, that the pole cap is bigger than it was in 1979. The author seemed to think we are in between ice ages, and we are now having the nice weather and then it will go down.
"We now live in a secular world, but we still have a deeply religious approach to many things, including the weather."
The religion is Communism. Climate hysteria is just its holiest sacrament.
Clumsy as it may be, this is all propaganda to someday justify taking away our right to travel by air, to drive a car, to run or work in a factory, etc.
Germany experienced this directly once before. Only communist governments build walls to keep their own populations imprisoned so they won't escape to somewhere else. In Germany it was built in 1961 and called the Berlin Wall.
Ahhh, but the *official* name (translated from German, of course) was "The Antifascist Protection Wall". It was for protection. Of the East Germans. From the horrible fascism of West Berlin. Because, you see, anything that isn't Soviet Communism is "fascism", in their parlance.
Keep that in mind the next time you hear about Antifa.
Oh I agree. Totalitarian governments lie about just about everything all the time. Admittedly, all governments everywhere are in the business of lying about everything to everyone. But with complete control of all media via censorship, there is no one and nothing to challenge their "Prava". This is exactly why the current German government is so determined to control various non-standard media outlets like access to websites and restrictions or outright control of things like X. This is why they, like Starmer's government in Britain, is arresting hundreds for speech not approved by government.
As for Antifa, amusing that you bring that one up. Their name is humourous to say the least. They wear black uniforms and in tactics, ideology they are identical with the Sturmabteilung of the 1930s. Even more, in their anti-Jewish protesting in various western cities, they have adopted the official antiSemitism of the NSDAP.
The argument from the climate alarmists is "so you don't care if people die" when you point out that the old and sick have to die sometime, as do we all. They also talk about "needless deaths" as if this were something meaningful.
I was in England for about a week until yesterday. Yesterday and the day before were pleasantly warm. Paddling pool/sprinkler weather, for those with younger offspring.
Instead, the government propaganda channels targeted at those who still watch them were filled to the brim with "amber warnings".
In the american southwest it gets above 100f in May and stays that way daily until early October with almost no relief, routinely reaching above 110f in the hottest months for weeks on end.
When I was a kid, we had track meets and other sporting events all day long out in that heat and the only precautions we took were iced water. Nobody died.
As a young adult I worked 12 hour shifts, outdoors, in the same weather. I hated it, but again nobody died. We did have an older German immigrant woman get heat stroke once. I'd say maybe you all are weak to heat, but I'm around a quarter German (most of the rest from yet colder climates) and while I hate the heat, I survived.
'They want everyone to know that “model calculations” are suddenly threatening us with temperatures in excess of 40 degrees'
Most people seem unaware of the unreliability of modeling, especially climate modeling. The test of a model is its ability to make accurate predictions, and climate modeling has notoriously fallen far short.
Any time you hear the word "model", you should reach for a generous helping of salt.
I remember some of the really hot days when I lived in Israel. The worst ones coincided with a "khamsin" or "Sharav" which involved tiny, microscopic grains of sand from the Arabian peninsula crossing the Middle East and making breathing more difficult even when indoors. To combat this phenomenon, once indoors I soaked my straw mattress in the room of the boarding house I lived in so that when I lay down the moisture from the mattress would make breathing easier. I once came back to my room and there was a young woman whom I did not know lying on my bed. I figured she must have been pretty hot. I wasn't that hot so I left her alone.
Obvious point, but it's a mass media problem at least as much as a political problem that, somehow, whatever is happening today must be more dramatic than whatever happened yesterday. I roll my eyes at clickbait while, at the same time, I must acknowledge that apparently it's producing the desired result upon a whole lot of people.
Exactly. 20 years ago (has it been that long?) any weather event with spectacular footage produced big television audience ratings for The Weather Channel, which in turn produced big ad revenues. They also found that even better than weather porn was widespread fear. The programmers weren't stupid, and started hyping even potential storms as the 'storm of the century'. That has evolved into the weather websites' pursuit of clickbait.
Absolutely right. I don’t know when the phrase “severe weather “ became common (20-30 years ago?), but to me it connotes fear and danger. In the 70s & 80s, a typical on-the-hour report lasted a few seconds and an anonymous voice gave you the day’s high & low temps, and maybe said something about high humidity, frost, and the chance of rain / snow . . maybe a thunderstorm.
Then came the word “severe”, and along with it, personalities, fear, warnings!, marketing, and a profit center.
The advent of cable TV and The Weather Channel contributed quite a lot. How else could you fill up 24 hours of weather news without, like, inventing some weather news?
Right - same on steroids re CNN, MSMBC, etc. To paraphrase: the medium must generate a message.
Its quite amazing.
"A few weeks ago, our Health Ministry partnered with the German Olympic Sports Confederation to produce a truly delusional “heat protection plan” for recreational sport. This bizarre document urgently advised Germans to avoid alcoholic, sugary and caffeinated drinks at sporting events, and also to refrain from such ordinary activities as barbecuing – all “to better protect participants and spectators … from heat-related health risks.”
Let's just say it got to triple digits Fahrenheit, I don't remember (playing baseball or any other activities during summer) when we were growing up for that to be a huge deal. We literally just drank more water and found shade if it was really bad. Nobody had to be told that.
I mean, im pretty sure we didn't need to be told that when we branched off from chimpanzees 7 mil years ago.
I find funny the now-prevalent use of the term "atmospheric river" to describe a hard rainstorm, which, of course, they blame on climate change.
When the sun went largely without sun spots in the 1600s, the earth got colder. This was the Maunder Minimum, in the middle of the Little Ice Age that started in the 1300s. Then both reversed and we’ve gotten this intense warming since the mid-1800s, but no warmer than it was 1,000 years ago. (Greenland ice core readings indicating that Greenland is still much cooler than 1000 years ago.) For a thoroughgoing deconstruction of climate-change alarmism, readers might be interested in this Substack in The Menelaus Gambit https://ernestdlieberman.substack.com/p/climate-change-alarmists-ignore-how
In my part of Canada we have 2 days of 32c coming and then back to the 25’s. It’s been cooler summers and terrible springs for the past few years. Though nature balances it out with nice weather into November. There are fires out west and there is even talk in the media that it’s from 150 years of experts suppressing forest fires because -experts said so-. Along with the obligatory your road trip last week contributed.0000000004% to the planet’s overall temperature rise 🫠 zzzzzzz
Same in Southern Ontario.
Forecast for Monday is 34°C.
It won't happen.
31° tops.
My advice; don't go jogging on Monday, get some cold beer and enjoy it b4 we go back to -30°C in January.
The Canadian summer is a brief and beloved interlude. I share your sentiments.
Out West on the Canadian Prairies, nature balances summer heat with a few weeks in January-February of temps in the -40C range. Went to -50C a few years ago.
And life went on.
Just don't think you can get away with driving an EV in those parts, in those months!
Funny, I see plenty of Teslas in the summer...
Zero from January thru March.
This year, I've appreciated that you all up there have shipped less of your eastern forest fire smoke down here. I guess nobody can afford the tariffs.
It's amazing that those forests survived hundreds of millions of years without fire suppression... 🤣
It'll hit 37 C here today. Fortunately, at only 10% humidity.
To add to the fearporn, "humidex" values are increasingly being used interchangeably with actual temperatures in the Great Lakes basin.
Or the old, It's 25 degrees....but it FEELS LIKE 35."
We used to just call this....summer. An accepted part of reality.
For years now, every little thing has to be twisted into some kind of crisis. Every blooming normal aspect of life on earth is now some kind of dramatic fear-moment, where we must run to Mr. Authority for "safety".
Which is the whole point of this tactic. In terms of Evolutionary Psychology, if a predator-type human induces fear (or anger or grief) in a vulnerable type human who has not moved beyond their dependency needs yet....they will run to the supposed Authority and the attached herd, seeking safety by bowing to that authority and their narrative.
This is a highly manipulatable evolutionary program in the human psyche. Wasn't it targeted with aplomb during COVID-mania....h-m-m-m?
In the modern age, this is what Nudge Units get paid handsomely to advise on.
Agreed. This is the case. A constant drumbeat to keep people anxious and therefore easier to manipulate. All helped along by the fact the media naturally focuses on catastrophe anyway.
The only defence is to ignore it all. I now get my news from memes 😜
This is a cheap and easy way of controlling the masses.
And yes....media/internet is the tool.
Media=Mind Virus
Mass media is a time-honoured means of travel for any mind-virus.
Yes I agree. What amazes me is how difficult people find it to let go.
I will put on my Evolutionary Psychology hat here.
They find it hard to let these fears go because the designated Authority figure + narrative + herd are catering to their survival mechanism of the psyche. The hangers-on are convinced that survival depends upon following these persons/rules, to the letter.
Which is why spies and snitches appear in abundance at such times -- they are watching for anyone who supposedly puts the herd survival at risk by not following the rules in an absolute fashion.
This is how cults operate, btw. Or any totalitarian group.
Absolutely ! In the media no news is good - all disaster and drama. But the memes tell the truth with a chuckle. Laughing is good for you. I remember these big tummy laughing Buddhas.
Some memes target the meaning -- spot on -- in just one phrase. Terrific!
I roll my eyes so much when I hear the breathless murmurs about how dangerously hot it is at 80 degrees F or what not. Now, don't get me wrong, I hate heat and self-select for a climate that rarely reaches 100 let alone 115 (and I have lived and worked in both) but even I don't think 80 degrees is going to hurt anything. In fact, its good for the garden. Just deal with it.
The whole weather-crisis thing is about controlling your perception so that they can induce fear. Then if you are one of the vulnerable dependent types, they will control YOU. To their benefit.
I agree, and the target is the young- people who have not had the years nescessary to recognize the cycles and realize that most years the weather is relatively consistent in a cyclical way.
They also catch older folk who watch a lot of TV and still trust the crazy weatherpeople when they put red warnings where the normal summer temps used to be.
I gave away my TV set years ago.
But everyone has their choices. Its just that the choices come with repercussions.
LOL, I'm with you. Best compliment ever came to me back in the day: I was acclaimed jokingly at a party for being the only person in the room with a 'Kill your Television' bumper sticker that didn't actually own a TV.
I did get one a few years later, but even then, it was just to watch videos.
You are right about choices.
If they get bored with using weather events to induce fear, I have seen the use of bug-fear too. Such as "OMG....we found a dead bedbug in your home/office. Do you know what this means...!!!
And of course, we all know how they use the "Viral Pandemic" variant.
Speaking of bugs in the modern age, you do remember that Cricket facility in Canada that the Troodo govt. poured its heart and soul (and taxpayer bucks) into?
"London, Ont. cricket plant ordered into receivership amid $41M debt bill to creditor"
(May 2025)
Yes the dreaded “emerging diseases”…..until you understand that they are indeed emerging…..from the fine humans at DARPA and other altruistic organizations.
Yes, they never really mention from whence these disease are emerging. Do they?
The Daily Mail Online was wonderful about this the other day. "...warns residents of these three states that drinking coffee [during the heatwave] can result in death within minutes!" And with there being no coincidences in life, that Star Trek episode about the salt-seeking monster that desiccated its victims in an instant was just on too!
Even when I was a kid, a long long time ago, we had these things called hot summers and one could buy romper suits in all sizes from toddler to adult because that's what you wear when it's scorching out and in the summer it was always scorching out even in the Northeast and that's why everyone who could went to the bungalow colonies in the Catskills to enjoy the scorching summers properly.
Geez, I mean seriously..
"The sky is falling!! Extra! Extra! Read all about it!!" 😉🙂
The entire history of social grouping of humans is basically anything you want to do, and anything happening anywhere, is bad. Somehow, some way, we'll find the way to call it bad. That's why language was invented. To say "bad!"
🙂 Some merit in that idea, except that some things actually are "bad" -- why we have "edible" and "poisonous". Awareness of that dichotomy goes back a long ways into many "lower-order" species.
In a note from our sponsor ..., y'all might have some interest in my post, circa 2018, on The Imperative of Categories:
https://humanuseofhumanbeings.substack.com/p/the-imperative-of-categories
Yes. But we didn't need language for it. [Cat makes bad face and pukes all over the primeval foliage.]
Language is all about signs and meanings we attach to them -- semiotics if I'm not mistaken.
"bad face and pukes" is simply a sign from one cat to another that whatever Felix ate should probably be taken off the menu for the rest of the tribe.
If I'm not mistaken, I've linked to the article on "taxonomy is the oldest profession" in that Categories post, and which you indicated some appreciation for.
The immediate question at hand is whether "feh!" counts as a word...
Hello? Is that Al Gore?
Once upon a time, even in places such as Chicago and NYC, apartment-dwellers used to sleep on balconies or in the parks on very hot summer nights. No AC then, of course.
Yes, really. Normal part of their lives at the time.
Fire escapes. They wuz for sleeping in the summer.
I began life just that way -- sleeping on an urban fire escape on very hot summer nights. Ah...memories.
All the best people did it...😁.
Even the worst people did it too!
Yes, and in Missouri, whole families would sleep in city parks in he hottest summer days prior to practically everyone having air conditioning. (Also, BTW, at swimming pools, people would change clothes in tree shade.)
It was all so normal then.
I remember as a kid, after digging up the potatoes we ran barefoot on the hot soil, in our bathing suits. Later we bathed in a large laundry tub mom put out in the sun. And in 1996 or 97 on holiday in Bavaria it was in the mid 30s.
Think of the horrible dystopian world I came from where all the little kids wore rubber beach shoes (not flipflops, ballet-like slip-ons) because the sand was scorching.
oh I remember these too. They came in all kind of bubble gum colours, some kind of see- through rubbery substance. A nice slide into memory lane SCA !
Jelly shoes! We had these in the 70’s and 80’s and I had completely forgotten about them until now.
They were nicely embossed too with floral or arabesque designs to match the swim caps, weren't they?
Not sure if we had the same ones... ours were jelly like. I did not wear a swim cap at the time. I have to look that up LOL
Swim caps were required for girls in public pools. I guess they were worried about the drains clogging with hair.
I remember thin opaque rubber.
We just had flip-flops. Your beach shoes might be an East Coast thing.
Or a generational or half-generational thing. I started out being a kid in the '50s and finished being a kid in the '60s.
We're the same age 😎
Yeah, but when in the '50s?
I read that Daily Mail article and I was chuckling throughout. Someone better tell Cubans that their cortaditos (espresso shot with sugar) are now lethal in the summer lol
And the Turks and the Greeks and the entire Middle East, etc. etc. I lived for awhile in South Asia and the summers regularly hit 110-120F and we drank hot tea all day.
IN documentaries of the Saharan nomads, you see them boiling water and then drinking the coffee almost boiling! I think it is the opposite - ice cold drinks in hot weather seem to be way worse.
We must teach them literacy so they can read the Daily Mail Online and save themselves before it's too late.
I know! Savages!
And people think there's no need for white saviors.
Historically, older people moved to warmer climates whenever possible, to improve their quality of life. See Florida. It’s incredible how they gaslight us about summer deaths while ignoring the winter deaths as they kill off pensioners with energy price increases they cannot afford.
I’m also going to have to listen to Glass Animals now lol.
And half of Europe going on holiday in Spain, Portugal, Greece and other hot countries during summer vacation.
What's the problem? Aren't there any beer gardens in Germany anymore?
This is a great opportunity to mandate air conditioners in every home and office in Germany. Powered by windmills and solar panels.
When I become president ,I will mandate that every home must have a windmill outside .The wind will blow the snow away in winter ,and cool the house in summer . Hot air driving the wind mill ,will come from the government building down the street .
They’ve succeeded in making people so anxious they can’t even enjoy a good old fashioned heatwave anymore. We used to love them, they always meant a perfect day at the lake or something else along those same lines. And people are afraid of the sun, the thought of daring to step out into it without a gallon of sunscreen on is just too much. Yet, skin cancer rates have increased since all the emphasis on sunscreen and avoiding the sun, but that obviously is the fault of the sun that hasn’t changed in a billion years. Who knew people would fall for every fake crisis so easily.
A subsidiary freakout that seems to always accompany the general climate freakout is the water usage freakout. This type of freakout is quite prevalent in the southwestern United States, which is largely desert and subdesert. There is no end of freaking out about how we are all going to die of thirst because the Earth is running out of water. No one ever seems to notice that fully three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water, and it's several miles deep in places. Desalination is actually quite prevalent and scalable. But let someone suggest tapping into the vast oceans to satisfy the coastal cities and you trigger yet another subsidiary freakout about killing all the crabs and starfish in the ocean. There can never be a solution, because eNvIrOnMeNt.
The Earth does not have a climate problem, and certainly not a water problem. It does however have a retard problem.
The planet is *completely* polluted with retards. I bet if we cleaned all of them up, the climate would cease to be a concern...
Where I live, we have plenty of water, and we get the same water-is-scarce propaganda. On the other hand, until a year or two ago, the Colorado River watershed was undergoing a possibly cyclic decrease in water, & that really was a political and economic problem in the US & Mexico.
In my current thinking, there are too many people in North America, and bringing in more from other overpopulated regions is not helpful.
Last week an Italian newspaper reported a heat-death, from a farm worker. At the end of the article the reporter was kind enough to state, that the man was from Africa.
Remember also, that in 2022 not only you had a heat wave but also a jab wave. Although hot weather is tiresome (I am from Belgium but now living in GA, USA) I don't think it is deadly at all. I think cold weather is in fact more dangerous for frail old people. I hear from family back in Belgium that they have no airco in the rooms in the elderly home, but the dining area and the kitchen do, so everyone either is out in the shade, or in the diner. Many Meme-ists have posted the UK map from 25 years ago with temperatures in the high 20s in green, and last year's with exactly the same temperatures, all in red. I also read an article just days ago, that the pole cap is bigger than it was in 1979. The author seemed to think we are in between ice ages, and we are now having the nice weather and then it will go down.
The south pole cap is larger & the north pole cap smaller.
https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/cryo/data/current-state-sea-ice-cover
thanks !
"We now live in a secular world, but we still have a deeply religious approach to many things, including the weather."
The religion is Communism. Climate hysteria is just its holiest sacrament.
Clumsy as it may be, this is all propaganda to someday justify taking away our right to travel by air, to drive a car, to run or work in a factory, etc.
Germany experienced this directly once before. Only communist governments build walls to keep their own populations imprisoned so they won't escape to somewhere else. In Germany it was built in 1961 and called the Berlin Wall.
Ahhh, but the *official* name (translated from German, of course) was "The Antifascist Protection Wall". It was for protection. Of the East Germans. From the horrible fascism of West Berlin. Because, you see, anything that isn't Soviet Communism is "fascism", in their parlance.
Keep that in mind the next time you hear about Antifa.
Oh I agree. Totalitarian governments lie about just about everything all the time. Admittedly, all governments everywhere are in the business of lying about everything to everyone. But with complete control of all media via censorship, there is no one and nothing to challenge their "Prava". This is exactly why the current German government is so determined to control various non-standard media outlets like access to websites and restrictions or outright control of things like X. This is why they, like Starmer's government in Britain, is arresting hundreds for speech not approved by government.
As for Antifa, amusing that you bring that one up. Their name is humourous to say the least. They wear black uniforms and in tactics, ideology they are identical with the Sturmabteilung of the 1930s. Even more, in their anti-Jewish protesting in various western cities, they have adopted the official antiSemitism of the NSDAP.
The argument from the climate alarmists is "so you don't care if people die" when you point out that the old and sick have to die sometime, as do we all. They also talk about "needless deaths" as if this were something meaningful.
What is a "needful death?"
These are the same people who didn't mind offing all the old folks during the covid hoax.
Maybe a few of the overlords?
I was in England for about a week until yesterday. Yesterday and the day before were pleasantly warm. Paddling pool/sprinkler weather, for those with younger offspring.
Instead, the government propaganda channels targeted at those who still watch them were filled to the brim with "amber warnings".
Do you mean 'we're all going to die'? Wasn't that in Nostradamus?
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In the american southwest it gets above 100f in May and stays that way daily until early October with almost no relief, routinely reaching above 110f in the hottest months for weeks on end.
When I was a kid, we had track meets and other sporting events all day long out in that heat and the only precautions we took were iced water. Nobody died.
As a young adult I worked 12 hour shifts, outdoors, in the same weather. I hated it, but again nobody died. We did have an older German immigrant woman get heat stroke once. I'd say maybe you all are weak to heat, but I'm around a quarter German (most of the rest from yet colder climates) and while I hate the heat, I survived.
Point being, pretty sure you'll be fine.
'They want everyone to know that “model calculations” are suddenly threatening us with temperatures in excess of 40 degrees'
Most people seem unaware of the unreliability of modeling, especially climate modeling. The test of a model is its ability to make accurate predictions, and climate modeling has notoriously fallen far short.
Any time you hear the word "model", you should reach for a generous helping of salt.
Which is actually kinda good for you with the right kind.. Considering we are made up of it too!
More than just "kinda". Gary Taubes, 2013: Salt, We Misjudged You
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/we-only-think-we-know-the-truth-about-salt.html
I know.. Thanks for the link though.
Other people might not be aware how politicized the subject is :-)
True that!
Gotta pay to read it looks like.
I remember some of the really hot days when I lived in Israel. The worst ones coincided with a "khamsin" or "Sharav" which involved tiny, microscopic grains of sand from the Arabian peninsula crossing the Middle East and making breathing more difficult even when indoors. To combat this phenomenon, once indoors I soaked my straw mattress in the room of the boarding house I lived in so that when I lay down the moisture from the mattress would make breathing easier. I once came back to my room and there was a young woman whom I did not know lying on my bed. I figured she must have been pretty hot. I wasn't that hot so I left her alone.
She was hot? You missed your chance bro.
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