Britain’s highest temperature ever was recorded on July 25 at Cambridge University’s botanical garden: 38.7 Celsiue, or 101.7 Fahrenheit. This beat the previous record of 38.5 C, in 2003 at Faversham in Kent.
The botanical garden staff “felt as if we’d melted”; or, in the words of the staff member who took the reading, “It felt like an out-of-body experience.” Her name was Katie Martyr.
My painting of the “Backs” at Cambridge.
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so relieved that no one actually died……yet
“Researchers believe that global warming is already responsible for some 150,000 deaths each year around the world, and fear that the number may well double by 2030 even if we start getting serious about emissions reductions today.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-warming-and-health/
I think the world’s front systemic problem at present is global heating (somewhat ahead of poverty, diseases, oppression of women…) and the front immediate problem is the slaughter of civilians and bombing of hospitals in northwest Syria (somewhat ahead of the slaughter in Yemen, Afghanistan, Cameroon…). Meaning that the priority is to get governments to use sanctions and whatever else they can against Assad and Putin.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/03/syria-idlib-child-deaths-airstrikes-assad-putin-russia
beautiful painting
Here is a link to a map of Europe to show how warm it is.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145377/a-second-scorching-heatwave-in-europe?src=eoa-iotd
Has anyone seen a map of probable ocean coastlines in, say, 2050?
Very punny.
It’s not nice to make jokes about someone’s name!
Sincerely,
Amanda B. Recondwith