UK Breaks 40C. Brits Warned More to Come.

 

It's toasty in Great Britain. Heathrow hit 40.2 Celsius, a national heat record.

Where there's heat, there's fire. The London fire brigade has a Major Incident in response to a "huge surge in fires across the capital."

It's thought the heatwave could last into August.

Across the UK, flights are suspended and planes unable to land due to runways melting. RAF Brize Norton, Britain's largest air base, has suspended flights in and out.


Meanwhile, president Biden is expected to declare a climate emergency tomorrow. Just wait until the stooges on the US Supreme Court get their teeth into that.

The Liberal government declared a climate state of emergency in Canada some time ago and then wasted no time pushing through their new and improved bitumen pipeline and Newfoundland's Bay Nord seabed oil project. Unless your head is up your backside you might notice a certain morbid disconnect between what Trudeau says and what Trudeau does. It's funny how he does that, eh?

George Monbiot hit that nail on the head with his latest column.


Our failure to prevent catastrophic global heating arises above all from the conspiracy of silence that dominates public life, the same conspiracy of silence that has, at one time or another, surrounded every variety of abuse and exploitation.

...They do so on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, animal farming, finance, construction firms, car manufacturers and airline companies, but also on behalf of something bigger than any of those interests: the power of incumbency. Those who hold power today do so by stamping out challenges, regardless of the form they take. The demand to decarbonise our economies is not just a threat to carbon-intensive industry; it is a threat to the world order that permits powerful men to dominate us.


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I thought we would miss this, Lorne.  Sure, the tropics would get hammered. The forecast was for that to develop in the early 2020s. Those in more temperate climes, the latitudinally advantaged, were supposed to be a good two decades behind. 

Conservtives, Liberals, even New Dems, have failed to act, allowing one option after another to be foreclosed. We've been betrayed.

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  1. LorneJuly 19, 2022 at 2:17 PM

    I've kind of reached the end of the hope line, Mound. If the horrific scenes we witness today don't move us to demand real action, nothing in the future will, either.

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