Posted on 07/15/2023 12:38:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In Italy today, the number of cities on red alert for extreme heat has climbed from 10 to 15.
The warning points to conditions that threaten the whole population, rather than just the vulnerable.
Italy's minister for the environment, climate change and energy security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, told me that Italy's geographic position means it must accept and adapt to generally hotter temperatures and more frequent and severe extreme weather.
He said that in recent years there had been an "explosion" of awareness of climate change among the Italian population as the country is increasingly impacted.
"Even if Italy is not the world's main polluter, we still need to do whatever it takes to achieve climate neutrality goals together with the European Union," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
What say you?
Oh yeah, I’m sure the (alleged) .01 degree temperature increase - compared to the 1950-1980 average - is responsible for this “crisis”.
I realize that for the last few years, the left and their media megaphones have panicked each summer and declared that the world was on the verge of burning to a crisp. However, this year their declarations seem to be louder and more constant. I expect upcoming “emergency” executive orders to deal with the “climate crisis” which will somehow require that Americans give up more of their freedoms.
Last winter they declared it was colder than ever due to the “climate crisis”. This spring they declared it was wetter than normal due to the “climate crisis”. Now that summer has arrived, as it does each year, they declare it is hotter than ever.
It’s ***Summer***!
It couldn’t have anything to do with the excess sunspot activity for the last 2 weeks!!!
Yeah...but next week its going to be over 100 for a string of days. [Supposedly]
Same with Firenze & Bologna. Thats abnormal even if not a record.
Venice has to be an absolute sauna.
No, its not the end of days but it is and has been and will be abnormally hot...even by 5-10 degrees. Not climate change to be sure, just l’ estate’
And many if not most of those people do not use AC.
But the crowds of tourists are still there...we view video cams because we miss being there...and places like the Rialto bridge are simply mobbed.
However...I did the Forum when it was in the 90’s and it is not fun at all. Can’t imagine what 100 is going to be like.
Italy has a Mediterranean climate? Shocking!!!
If this heatwave lasts 12 months I guess that could be said...but saying there are not 4 seasons during a heat wave in the summer is...not exactly a convincing argument.
I have been in Rome in the summer. It was hot as hell. I have been there in the Winter, it cool and pleasant. It will be cool and pleasant again next fall. I have been in Madrid, Spain in the summer. It was hot. One winter I froze my ass off in Madrid, Spain as it experienced the coldest weather in the last 50 years. Global warming was not mentioned.
It is called weather.
I have been in Rome in the summer. It was hot as hell. I have been there in the Winter, it cool and pleasant. It will be cool and pleasant again next fall. I have been in Madrid, Spain in the summer. It was hot. One winter I froze my ass off in Madrid, Spain as it experienced the coldest weather in the last 50 years. Global warming was not mentioned.
It is called weather.
Chicken Little theory!
“It couldn’t have anything to do with the excess sunspot activity for the last 2 weeks!!!”
Of course not - there’s no money in that!
That's too bad.
It was around in 1989 when I did my cross country motorcycle trip. On a whim I wanted to stop at an old friend's house in Mays Landing. I tried looking up his number, but the phone booth I was at had the phone book ripped out.
I yelled out something like "Why the hell is the phone book gone?" A random guy walking past turned his head and quipped, "Cuz you're in Joisey."
billet du jour
Rome may hit 111.
It’s a “counter cyclone” bringing air up from the Sahara Desert.
Man made global warming? Unlikely
I was at the Jersey shore almost 30 years ago when a heat wave brought it up to 112.
These things happen in Summer.
NEWS FLASH: Summer is hot.
“ NEWS FLASH: Summer is hot.”
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Yes. Not only that but, shockingly, it occasionally has “heat waves”.
This year we had a nice, mild spring and a very nice warm, but not hot, June, which is usually not the case since by mid June it's usually roasting.
The really hot weather, 90-105 degrees, arrived less than a week ago. It currently looks like we'll be between 95-100 for the next ten days or so. Big deal. Normal summer weather here and has been for at least the 14 years I've been coming here.
A few years back we did have a crazily hot summer which also featured the awful scirocco, (sand-filled African winds), for more days than usual. No scirocco yet this year and the evenings here recently have been around 70- 75 degrees with usually a comfortable breeze a few hours after sunset. But again, this year's been normally hot as far as I can tell.
Of course, now that Covid's a dead dog and proved to the globalist filth that most folks will willingly roll over for lockdowns, travel restrictions and muzzle training, they're ramping up the "climate catastrophe" rhetoric to prep the idiot sheep for the coming "climate emergency" restrictions and lockdowns. Just my take, but I'm betting that's the next play.
It is usually cold this time of year?
“that accent has died even on NY”
If true, none too soon.
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