It is so hot society is ending, help!

[Aiken_Drumn]

Oh absolutely. Other than the occasional summer story about teen arson, fires never truly got out of hand in the past.

 

[E.man]

In those conditions in Australia there would likely be a total fire ban including things like bbqs, welders, anything that might make an ember or spark. I'm willing to bet the general populace's grasp of fire safety is not real strong over there having not experienced it before, it would be like expecting Australians in cities to know how to drive in snow. Also betting that emergency services aren't scaled to widespread simultaneous urban fringe fire risks. When people talk about "climate adaptation" it includes stuff like whole new swathes of the world having to understand fire weather, and meeting to resource emergency services to expand to handle it.

...and whole new level of fire warning systems, fire fighting services and especially public education.
When the bushfire advice warning level gets to "It is too late to leave" ... well.... screwed.

Having been in the middle of the Black Summer inferno our fire systems were overwhelmed too. What a bloody disaster. Buggered me right up.

 

[EgonSpengler]

In those conditions in Australia there would likely be a total fire ban including things like bbqs, welders, anything that might make an ember or spark. I'm willing to bet the general populace's grasp of fire safety is not real strong over there having not experienced it before, it would be like expecting Australians in cities to know how to drive in snow. Also betting that emergency services aren't scaled to widespread simultaneous urban fringe fire risks. When people talk about "climate adaptation" it includes stuff like whole new swathes of the world having to understand fire weather, and meeting to resource emergency services to expand to handle it.

I think I read something on one of the UK news sites warning people not to set drinking glasses or glass pitchers down outside. I remember a couple of years ago, during a Summer drought, I walked past a store that had one of those round, convex mirrors on the outside, and the outdoor flower bed in front of their display window was starting to smoke.

 

[Angst]

How hot is it, then?
Google says that it's 26C in London, which isn't that terrible.

Northern Europe is not built for heat like this. Our homes are made to contain heat. I've been in both Greece and Italy, and being inside a house even during the harshest of sun is usually pleasant and cool. It's not like that here.

 

[Takhisis]

it's already being forecast that the coming summer down here will be hotter than average again…

The worst part is that the crazy mismanagement of the economy will likely mean more blackouts.

In those conditions in Australia there would likely be a total fire ban including things like bbqs, welders, anything that might make an ember or spark. I'm willing to bet the general populace's grasp of fire safety is not real strong over there having not experienced it before, it would be like expecting Australians in cities to know how to drive in snow. Also betting that emergency services aren't scaled to widespread simultaneous urban fringe fire risks. When people talk about "climate adaptation" it includes stuff like whole new swathes of the world having to understand fire weather, and meeting to resource emergency services to expand to handle it.

That's exactly what my sfather was saying! The housing in northern Europe just isn't prepared for this.

 

[Grendeldef]

On a high point, they're dead, so it's not sad anymore. Once the last of them are dead, we won't have to worry about hurting them. The following generation won't even care what they're missing. Pinguwhats? Can't fly? Yeah, Dodos. Early European colonists were the worst.

That's closer to the view of religious nutcases adopting biblical view that animals and environment in general are for humans to (ab)use on daily basis and sideways up to rectum on Sundays. I don't agree with that.
I happily eat meat, I'm not against on limited hunting, I kill mosquitos like a champion & I'm all for preventing geese from eating crops and & crapping on every bit of land here by any means necessary. That's not the same as taking schadenfreude from someone's death especially when I don't think they've done anything to deserve it. I admit I've the common human bias for large eyes & general fluffiness and Linux ftw. Apples are good for throwing at Windows.

Next generation will care unless they're totally different to current & past ones. The problem in past was that masses started caring when it was too late. If none cared why did you mention dodos? Quite a few mammoth and whatnot now extinct fossil finds seem to break it even to international news. I gladly admit that not everything in the news is newsworthy but if it weren't an interest of someone it wouldn't be in the news ie this generation cares.

What if everyone displaced by climate change just moved to Antarctica?

That'd be awful. The Big A would be in even more trouble it is now and I don't think the peeps moving there would feel like home there either. I'm not sure they'd appreciate the local temps the same way I might.

 

[Farm Boy]

Deriving joy or satisfaction is much different than saying it's not sad anymore.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, I can't find (with a minute's worth of googling) any specific figures of number of dead in the UK due to the heatwave. Any locals can help?
The temperature there seems to be close (a little lower on average) to 2019, where apparently a few hundred may have died from heat-related causes, almost all in the over 65 years of age group.

 

[AmazonQueen]

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk-heatwave-impact-hottest-day-deaths-hospitalisations-1755138

Won't be known for several weeks but estimated at almost 1000 deaths more than those usually resulting from heat.

In 2019 there were approximately 900 excess deaths.

This is in addition to the usual 2000 or so who die from heat-related deaths every year.