Adaptation is so damn hard...
Posted on 06/09/2025 6:22:00 PM PDT by george76
To combat climate change, German towns and cities are busily implementing “heat plans”. Germany has ambitious climate neutrality goals, aiming to be climate-neutral by 2045. The lives of millions of people are at risk!
The so-called Heat Planning Act went into force in January 2024 and legally obliges municipalities to develop these plans. Larger cities (over 100,000 inhabitants) have until mid-2026 to do so, and smaller towns until mid-2028.
One key aspect is adapting to summer heatwaves and protecting public health. This includes measures such as public awareness campaigns about staying safe during heatwaves, establishing cooling centers and long-term urban planning measures to mitigate the “urban heat island effect.”
The town of Mühlacker (near Stuttgart) has taken the Heat Plan act seriously and thus have organized a Heat Action Day, scheduled for June 6th. The aim was educating the public about heat, drought and climate change and provide tips on how to protect against heat.
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It seems Germans, in the view of the country’s nanny leaders, are mentally not up to the task of dealing with summer weather. They need to be parented like little children and told to stay inside.
Ironically, the event yesterday had to be cancelled due to “forecast weather conditions,”,the above newspaper clipping reports.
The heat action day has been postponed to Friday, July 25, 2025. The weather yesterday, June 6, in Muehlacker was indeed rainy and cool, with highs not even reaching 20°C – obviously too harsh for the organizers!
We can only suspect that they are hoping more agreeable, hot weather will show up on July 25th event, so that the citizens and organizers there will be able complain about how heat makes it “too dangerous” to hold public events.
ROTFL! Everybody wants to be a TV weatherman. Heh.
The earth and its weather/climate is tough to coordinate with at times.
Sounds like what Rush referred to as the Al Gore effect.
Adaptation is so damn hard...
Still hasn’t hit 90 in Charlotte NC
I’ll trade a Texas summer for a German one, especially July and August.
No, in Texas you can always head inside and cool off at 70. When you hit a hot streak in Germany, you are going to stay hot. (Yes, the shopping malls are air conditioned, and maybe some hotels and high rise offices, but that's about it.)
It was the month of March when I went to Germany. Whats an average length hot streak over there? Texas has multiple weeks of high 90’s to 100’s. I get what you’re saying though about less usage of AC over there.
Al Gore is deeply saddened.
They had a bad heatwave in 2023, but most of the death tolls are from global warming propaganda sites, so I’ll not post those numbers here. Per AI: “The highest temperature recorded in Germany in 2023 was 38.8°C (101.8°F) in Möhrendorf-Kleinseebach on July 15.” That’s hot, even by Dallas standards. Looks like Cologne topped 104 back in July 2019.
On the other hand, I’ve driven in light snow in the Westerwald in April.
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