“Don’t Look Up” in Real Life
July 20, 2022
I’m going to try to find the original source for this.
For now, a synopsis.
The maximum temperature reached Tuesday in Coningsby, England — 130 miles north of London — was unlike anything the village had ever observed. It was an outlier in the truest sense: about 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) above the previous highest temperature.
That high temperature, 104.5 degrees (40.3 Celsius), shattered the national temperature record for Britain by a lofty 2.9 degrees (1.6 Celsius).
Ordinarily, when temperature records are broken during heat waves, they do so in a few places and by fractional degrees. But on Tuesday, records in the United Kingdom toppled over a vast area and by enormous margins.
The magnitude and extent of Tuesday’s temperatures underscored the exceptional nature of this extreme event — which scientists say would have been impossible without a boost from human-caused climate change.
Climate Denial Crock of the Week 
July 20, 2022 at 8:02 pm
Such temperatures may be normal in places like Kuwait, but the U.K is not geared up to it at all, and is a lot more flammable. Still there are the mad-heads trying to convince the populace everything is normal (they are certainly not firefighters).
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“Such posts typically include messages suggesting that the colour of the maps has been changed to red by media or authorities seeking to create panic. ”
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220719-climate-deniers-sow-weather-map-heatwave-misinfo?fbclid=IwAR3t2aLukGAsIgJvEaDxUpU4d7i8fMdiPfGqLDr2zElJRQa_TkF-CWuaH4Q
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‘”This is the caption of a post which has gone viral on social media showing two maps of the UK – one purportedly during a previous spell of hot weather, and one apparently ahead of the current record heatwave.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/met-office-heatwave-weather-viral-b2125893.html?fbclid=IwAR0Ie24ehrWL7E29NloxfJjY4X62ox2ZyM10yV8M0k5niskt9VCArLqVpV8
July 21, 2022 at 1:19 am
I wonder how many dogs will die from the heat, and how many people don’t understand how much hotter it can get in a car than the outside temperature.
July 21, 2022 at 2:31 am
Plenty who should know much better >
“Furious police smash window of car with dog trapped inside on ‘hottest day of the year’
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/furious-police-smash-window-car-27509558
July 21, 2022 at 1:28 am
Here’s an unrolled twitter thread from Aidan McGivern, a color-blind UK meteorologist. “I created the Met Office temperature colour scale with help from a colleague.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1548603410785730560.html