Heat in Europe
How are the AI members in parts of Europe coping with the heat wave? I am curious how the weather is for Powerdoc etc. I noticed this story and I have seen other stories on news networks such as DW of Germany and others.
Heat in Europe
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Heat in Europe
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Originally posted by X X
What part of DFW are you from?
Grew up in Grapevine and now live in North Richland Hills
Originally posted by FellowshipChurch iBook
How are the AI members in parts of Europe coping with the heat wave?
In short: We sweat...
I'm living in the southern part of Germany, so it's not as bad as in Italy and other mediterranean countries, but it's still very hot. This week, a construction worker died of the heat in my city. We aren't very well prepared for the heat wave: The concept of "siesta" (a break for the hot noontime) is not familiar to many people and therefore socially not accepted (yet). Many office buildings do not have air conditioning (including the one where I work, built last year ) (Reason: The controllers said: Air conditioning wouldn't be worthwile for those few hot days in Germany ... Obviously, they didn't take the global heating into account)
On the upside, I bought an old Miata two months ago, and until now, I've only had to close the top a couple of times 8)
Originally posted by segovius
In Paris it's been 40 -45 at 5 pm !!! on the thermometer in my garden for the last 2 weeks or so. That's 104 - 110 or so I think.
Wow,
Given the high levels of humidity in Europe it must be intolerably like a sauna..
At least here when we get heat its usual dry heat so temperatures like your are common but much more bearable..
Originally posted by segovius
Seriously though, why are the 'authorities' in denial about this global warming ? Maybe because they'd have to take responsibility and take action. It's even full-on heat NOW as I type this (8.25 am).
You're right about one thing, global warming exists. So does global cooling. Consider written history only goes back so far, it's really tough to tell if the trend is a direct result of pollution or just a blip. We get hints of huge periods o drought from growth rings in trees and stuff like that, but we of course can't know for sure. Last winter was one of the coldest I can remember here.
As for dealing with the heat, for a while I lived on the top floor of an apartment which also happened to be where the laundry machines were. Coupled with the presence of a skylight in the hallway and me sitting in a room full of computers, it got pretty hot in the summer. Definitely consistently in the 100s for the summer I spent there. That's mostly the reason why I moved out so quickly, but would it put me in the hospital? That's hard to imagine.
Originally posted by FellowshipChurch iBook
How are the AI members in parts of Europe coping with the heat wave?
Sitting at my desk with the curtains drawn all day, in my underwear, drinking copious amounts of ice cold sparkling water. Driving my motorcycle too (though it's too hot for that), and going to the beach, hanging around my grandparents all day, who live in a coastal city, where it's at least 5 degrees (celsius) cooler than in the rest of the country. Still 37° in the shade last week.
However, I don't agree with this:
Seriously though, why are the 'authorities' in denial about this global warming ?
This is one of those freak things. However hot it got, no heat records were broken in my country (still remains 1946 and 1911 if I understand correct). It's the exception to the law (which likes averages). We have had dreary, cold and wet summers lately too, and we have had "hot" winters, and extremely cold winters. I'm not sure, in any case, if global warming is something that will be noticed by any of us soon too soon. The icebergs on the other hand...
One thing that IS linked to pollution is the high ozon (03, and make that a small, subscript three) levels, which I, for one, as a moderate lung patient, do suffer from, though only when trying to do some sports or something like that.
As to our human influence..probably a tiny bit..It's all a matter of conjecture & highly arguable one way or another.
Personally, I think our human influence on the global warming scenario is a bit akin to a flea biting an elephant's arse in order to make it change direction...
It's an industry that keeps all the doomsayers, and radical greenies etc busy pumping out their anti capitalist spiel....
Originally posted by Aquafire
Wow,
Given the high levels of humidity in Europe it must be intolerably like a sauna..
At least here when we get heat its usual dry heat so temperatures like your are common but much more bearable..
No - the weather he said was in F, not in C. If it was 80 C it would be an intolerably "cold" sauna.
The only place I have felt this HOT even at 11PM is in Las Vegas in the summer!!! Thats how hot it is.
At my company we had to shut down half the lighting, slectively shut cooling in offices that were empty, and even had a day without email.
was a really weird social experiment. To see how people cope without email/internet. Heh
Originally posted by Aquafire
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Seems like somebody hijacked Aquafire's AppleInsider account. Am I the only one who noticed the 180 on a lot of issues over the past few weeks?
Originally posted by der Kopf
However, I don't agree with this:
This is one of those freak things. However hot it got, no heat records were broken in my country (still remains 1946 and 1911 if I understand correct).
UK has just reached its highest ever recorded temp this week. ( just over 100 degrees.)
BTW--We actually had a drought last summer...
wow
Originally posted by Aquafire
Wow,
Given the high levels of humidity in Europe it must be intolerably like a sauna..
Huh? It's not humid in Europe. If you want humid, come to DC in the summer. Or, probably worse, Southern Florida.
Originally posted by FellowshipChurch iBook
How are the AI members in parts of Europe coping with the heat wave? I am curious how the weather is for Powerdoc etc. I noticed this story and I have seen other stories on news networks such as DW of Germany and others.
Heh, it's fun. You see lots of chicks with only the smallest sandals showing their delicate feet, lots of them are lying topless at the beaches and he heat seems to make everyone horny.
Apart from that, hydroelectricity generators have mostly shut down (thank god our power grid seems to be a bit more stable) and even nuclear power plants are having problems (not enough cooling water).
The roadsides of highways are full of trucks with burst tires or dead motors, temperature at the office is unbearable (only few buildings have aircon) and the aircon in the newest generation of high-speed trains keeps dying because it overloads (great fun to sit for hours in a train as hot as 40° because Siemens is to dumb to build strong cooling compressors).