Thursday 14th August 2025
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Sky'sGoneOut
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Re: Thursday 14th August 2025
Yay, it's still 26°at night and I'm loving it. It's like luxuriating in a nice warm bath of air. Except I hate baths. Swilling around in your own filth. A quick 5 minute shower once a week, that's all a man needs. Although I did notice a member of staff following me round Tesco yesterday spraying air freshener which seemed a bit suspicious...*
So we've got reindeers in Northern Scandinavia dying of heat stroke, wildfires across Europe, Mediterranean species of insects reaching Scotland, and me posting in my underwear. All totally normal. 'Ah but it was really hot in 1976', they say. Yeah it was, for one Summer when I was a kid, and it wasn't like this at night. In Sweden they're saying 10 days above 20° at night is tropical. Fuck knows what you'd call temperatures above that in Leeds then. I know we have other Yorkshire folk here who might be thinking I'm exaggerating, but cities are heat traps and get your chops round this.
*This genuinely happened to a friend of mine. It didn't come as surprise. A week before he told me he'd been in Iceland and a kid had said 'Mummy that man smells'. To be fair he was a roadie.
So we've got reindeers in Northern Scandinavia dying of heat stroke, wildfires across Europe, Mediterranean species of insects reaching Scotland, and me posting in my underwear. All totally normal. 'Ah but it was really hot in 1976', they say. Yeah it was, for one Summer when I was a kid, and it wasn't like this at night. In Sweden they're saying 10 days above 20° at night is tropical. Fuck knows what you'd call temperatures above that in Leeds then. I know we have other Yorkshire folk here who might be thinking I'm exaggerating, but cities are heat traps and get your chops round this.
*This genuinely happened to a friend of mine. It didn't come as surprise. A week before he told me he'd been in Iceland and a kid had said 'Mummy that man smells'. To be fair he was a roadie.
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Sky'sGoneOut
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Re: Thursday 14th August 2025
A couple more degrees and we're into Triassic mass extinction territory, a couple on top of that and were facing an extinction event like the end of the Permian where 95% of all life on Earth died on land in the sea.
Those were the result of the Earth having a single continent (Pangea) which severely fucked the climate and almost the entirety of Siberia erupting in a volcanic eruption lasting hundreds of thousands of years resulting in an area bigger than modern Europe covered in lava.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Traps
Yet we've managed to do one better. We've beaten continental drift and giant continent sized volcanos in fucking things up much more quickly than they ever managed.
Makes you proud doesn't it, defeating geological forces?
Those were the result of the Earth having a single continent (Pangea) which severely fucked the climate and almost the entirety of Siberia erupting in a volcanic eruption lasting hundreds of thousands of years resulting in an area bigger than modern Europe covered in lava.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Traps
Yet we've managed to do one better. We've beaten continental drift and giant continent sized volcanos in fucking things up much more quickly than they ever managed.
Makes you proud doesn't it, defeating geological forces?