Rolling blackouts with +45C temperatures, but my government wants to give even more special treatment to datacenters and cryptofarms, promising we won't bare the costs of such "generosity".

I'm literally melting like Pizza The Hutt from Spaceballs.

#rant #climatechange #heatwave #ai #datacenters

Never to old to learn.

Some days ago, I suddenly fell very unwell, debilitatingly so. As I raced to understand the cause, I frantically searched for any hint that it wasn’t a heart attack. Not that it frightened me, but it just didn’t make sense, I’ve never had any problems in that area. Though a lot of the symptoms pointed that way, others definitely didn’t. It took a couple of days to triage all of the pain I was feeling and what caused it to be less or more intense. After trialing various things, it eventually emerged that I suffered severe dehydration due to the heat wave and a lack of drinking.

All of which is perfectly logical and natural in my advanced years. You see, I had to learn that I no longer feel as thristy as I once did — a common characteristic in the over 65 apparently — and that I must force myself to drink whether I am thirsty or not, up to 2.5L or more each and every day, hot or not.

Five days ago I suddenly stopped eating and drinking due to the pain it casued in my chest and upper belly (as well as various other muscle spasms, neurological pinches, and other bodily disfunctions), Three days ago, I started forcibly drinking. Today I started eating again, though with no appetite not very much to start with, and I’m happy to say the diagnosis was correct and the cure is working. I am recovering.

What casued it all, was a ‘lack of thirst’ over a number of days prior to this heat wave. Not the hot weather per se.

I thought I’d bring this up as a reminder not to underestimate the need for water. Please drink throughout the day, and avoid alcohol, coffee and sugary foods during the hot season. Stay healthy.

My challenge now is not to forget this episode and continue to drink lots of water every day whether I feel thirsty or not. It might have to be a permanent entry in my journal 😉

#Heatwave #Hydration #OlderGeneration #Thirst

Friends in the path of the heatwave: if you’ve got laptops or power banks please make sure they are charged now. You’ll want them full in case you lose grid power and need to draw power to keep your phone topped up. #heatwave #australia

Friends in the path of the heatwave: if you’ve got laptops or power banks please make sure they are charged now. You’ll want them full in case you lose grid power and need to draw power to keep your phone topped up. #heatwave #australia

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/you-have-100-energy-slaves

Try to be EXTREMELY mindful when you are getting rid of something or purchasing something casually. The embedded #energy for everything - regardless of how cheap it is - can be mind-boggling.

#climatechange #humanrights #justice #adaptation #migration #hurricanes #drought #flood #heatwave #oil #coal #gas #methane #solar #wind #EV #batteries

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/you-have-100-energy-slaves

Try to be EXTREMELY mindful when you are getting rid of something or purchasing something casually. The embedded #energy for everything - regardless of how cheap it is - can be mind-boggling.

#climatechange #humanrights #justice #adaptation #migration #hurricanes #drought #flood #heatwave #oil #coal #gas #methane #solar #wind #EV #batteries

On the plus side, my laundry dried instantly overnight in the dark due to the extreme lack of humidity around here. #CAwx #heatwave #RedFlagWarning

There’s been fury in Spain over the tragic death of a street cleaner in 35C heat. It’s not hard to imagine something similar playing out in the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/18/outdoor-workers-extreme-heat-risk-lives-politicians-spain-street-cleaner

#ClimateCrisis#WorkingConditions#Heatwave

There’s been fury in Spain over the tragic death of a street cleaner in 35C heat. It’s not hard to imagine something similar playing out in the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/18/outdoor-workers-extreme-heat-risk-lives-politicians-spain-street-cleaner

#ClimateCrisis#WorkingConditions#Heatwave

“The prolonged Nordic #heatwave in July was supercharged by the climate crisis and shows “no country is safe from #ClimateChange”, scientists say.

#Norway, #Sweden and #Finland have historically cool climates but were hit by soaring temperatures, including a record run of 22 days above 30C (86C) in Finland. Sweden endured 10 straight days of “tropical nights”, when temperatures did not fall below 20C (68F).”

Norway #Oil, #gas exports and high temperatures.

#ClimateEmergency 🔥 <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/14/nordic-heatwave-climate-crisis-sweden-norway-finland>

“The prolonged Nordic #heatwave in July was supercharged by the climate crisis and shows “no country is safe from #ClimateChange”, scientists say.

#Norway, #Sweden and #Finland have historically cool climates but were hit by soaring temperatures, including a record run of 22 days above 30C (86C) in Finland. Sweden endured 10 straight days of “tropical nights”, when temperatures did not fall below 20C (68F).”

Norway #Oil, #gas exports and high temperatures.

#ClimateEmergency 🔥 <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/14/nordic-heatwave-climate-crisis-sweden-norway-finland>

‘An analysis of housing stock by the Resolution Foundation has found nearly half (48%) of the poorest fifth of English households have homes liable to get too hot – three times as many as among the richest fifth (17%).’

#SocialHousing
#SocialInequality
#Retrofit
#OverHeating
#Heatwave

"The peak intensity of the heat dome was record breaking for the SE US in late July. It peaked at 3.7 standard deviations, based on statistics from the past climate records we have, which means this heat dome is rare, if not virtually impossible, in our former climate of the 1900s. But human-caused climate change now makes these extreme heat domes much more likely."

~ Jeff Berardelli

#Trump #climate #environment#GlobalWarming#OilandGas #petrochemical #heatwave
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https://www.instagram.com/weatherprofjeffberardelli/p/DMtQSnrRyUC/

"The peak intensity of the heat dome was record breaking for the SE US in late July. It peaked at 3.7 standard deviations, based on statistics from the past climate records we have, which means this heat dome is rare, if not virtually impossible, in our former climate of the 1900s. But human-caused climate change now makes these extreme heat domes much more likely."

~ Jeff Berardelli

#Trump #climate #environment#GlobalWarming#OilandGas #petrochemical #heatwave
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https://www.instagram.com/weatherprofjeffberardelli/p/DMtQSnrRyUC/

"Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for US action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule rescinds a 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare."

~ AP

#Trump #climate #environment#GlobalWarming#OilandGas #petrochemical #heatwave
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/29/trump-zeldin-epa-greenhouse-gas-emissions

I heard from Caroline who was on a writing retreat in France during the extreme heat. The aircon failed in her room, so one of her fellow writers offered her the spare bed in her own room for the first night whilst the a more permanent solution was found.

Extreme weather always leads to an influx of stories of kindness, so let us know what kind acts you’ve seen during the latest heatwaves.

Photo credit: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

#Heatwave #Writers

I saw a handfull of posts by US Americans, detecting backward-ness in Germany's and/or Europe's lack of air conditioning in homes.
They explained it with an alleged fear of technology.

Well, Germany's southernmost latitude in the Alpes(!), is about on the US border to Canada. Range from 47°N to 54°N.
Extreme warm temperatures simply weren't the rule here, before 2018, except for areas in the far South-West.
I grew up on 51°N = Calgary, Canada, in a 2-storey terrace house built 1961 with double glazing, outside blinds, and cellar. We never had hot summers but long, cold winters galore. A ski lift just up the hill.

The US are more like Southern Europe, L.A. or Texas are Northern Africa...

So why do Southern European homes not have AC (yet)?
People in these old-world latitudes had thousands of years of experience with high temperatures and built their houses, villages, cities accordingly.
Thick walls for proper insulation, outside blinds, narrow alleys and backyards keep out the midday sun, awnings across streets or alleys, arch ways along city blocks for shopping streets and the like.

The comparison to US suburbia with thin-walled, low-quality houses makes it clear why some sort of cooling seemed "necessary" already in the cooler past.
And living "in Northern Africa" – without heat-adapted building codes? 🤷🏽‍♀️

#heat #ExtremeHeat #heatwave #ClimateChange #ExxonKnew