UK Heat Wave Often Rubbished but...

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Thought I'd post this as we're currently in a 40 C heat wave and many from other hot countries rubbish it and say they have this every week.

Well hear it from a few people who've moved to the UK:




From an Indian Citizen (Interesting as I work with 3 Indians from different parts of the Indian continent where 50C is common, and they were complaining at 25 C the other day - today it's 40)!!!!




From a doctors persepctive:




I guess British & European,. Australian & American heats just different. Our bodies don't react well to yours and no-one reacts well to ours!! Our houses also aren't built for it.

I'm Typing this at 11pm and it's 29C in my bedroom!!
 
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looney2ns said:
I didn't live in a house until 1984 that had AC, grew up with no AC. So the first 30yrs of my life, was without AC.
It was no biggy.
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Was born around then (1980s), and went 30 years without AC. I can take it or leave it. We have running water and fans exist, so...
 
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I didn't live in a house until 1984 that had AC, grew up with no AC. So the first 30yrs of my life, was without AC.
It was no biggy.
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I think the trouble is UK homes are designed to keep heat in.

They're made of brick that absorbs and then gives heat back later like an oven, a typical loft has to have 11 inches of low emission insulation by law trapping the heat in.

A house used to be built with cavity walls - 2 layers of brick with an air gap in between, but modern standards now require this to be a minimum of 6 inches wide and full of high value (usually solid) insulation foam (older homes are retrofitted with insulation, doors and windows are double or triple glazed with Argon filled air gaps of around 1 inch wide. Doors are thick, insulated and fit air tight into frames helped by multi point locking all around the frames holding them tightly shut.

In addition, homes are made air tight. Drafts and air ingress is virtually zero.

Air con is virtually non existent as it was never needed traditionally, UK electricty is expensive - around 36 Cents a KW / hr + a 76 Cent a Day usage charge (charged once everyday) + 5% VAT.

Then there's the fact UK is just different. When the Indian guys at work tell you 25c is unbearable in this country, you know somethings different.
 
I haven't been following "the story" that has been conjured up by left-wing "news" (the left wing generates the topics, and the right responds), so my comments are generic. "News" about it being too hot, or something is burning that shouldn't be, or some animal has migrated to a place not yet seen before are always global warming propaganda. It might be 100% factually true too, that some temperature hasn't been seen somewhere before, or some creature hasn't been found in some location before.

It's the oldest, most effective sales tactic in history. Get someone to agree with a few basic premises, then they are primed to agree with the complex supposition. "You love your wife don't you?". "She's been so thoughtful, loving and kind toward you, right?". "How could you put a price on a diamond ring expressing your affection toward such a caring soul?"... they've got you thinking past the sale. It's a sham form of "If B is greater than C, and A is greater than B, then A is greater than C". It mimics the form of reason while being entirely unreasonable.

No interest in what Big Corporate Media wants me to pay attention to, or thinks I'll click on.
 
Not hard to disprove it's not propoganda when the thermometer says 40 C.

In fact it's so hot the gritters are out spreading granite dust on the roads as the tarmac is becoming liquid as road temperatures are hitting over 155F:

Kids captured this on video next to an excavation cover:

 
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