Essay by Eric Worrall
In Australia and I’m sure in parts of the USA, we call temperatures above 100 a warm summer day. But this hasn’t stopped the BBC from trying to frighten their audience with a little warm weather.
Climate change: Vietnam records highest-ever temperature of 44.1C
Vietnam has recorded its highest ever temperature, just over 44C (111F) – with experts predicting it would soon be surpassed because of climate change.
The record was set in the northern province of Thanh Hoa, where officials warned people to stay indoors during the hottest times of the day.
Other countries in the region have also been experiencing extremely hot weather.
Thailand reported a record-equalling 44.6C in its western Mak province.
Meanwhile Myanmar’s media reported that a town in the east had recorded 43.8C, the highest temperature for a decade.
Both countries experience a hot period before the monsoon season but the intensity of the heat has broken previous records.
In Hanoi, climate change expert Nguyen Ngoc Huy told AFP that Vietnam’s new record was “worrying” given the “context of climate change and global warming”.
“I believe this record will be repeated many times,” he said. “It confirms that extreme climate models are being proven to be true.”
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65518528
Britain is a cold country, the UK MET defines temperatures above approximately 28C / 82F as a heatwave – which allows the BBC to write lots of scary stories when a warm part of the world experiences some summer heat.
Are such temperatures dangerous? Sure, if you’re old or infirm – though even in hot countries like India, far more people die from cold weather than warm.
Most people can tolerate and work in seriously hot and humid conditions for an extended period, providing you have a few months of gradual buildup to get used to it, and providing you stay well hydrated.
I know this from personal experience. In my late teens I worked in a poorly ventilated factory with a tin roof. In Summer in Melbourne, the shop floor temperature sometimes exceeded 130F. Due to the leaky hydraulic presses, and vast amounts of steam released by cooking rubber and plastic, there were always big clouds of steam floating around the shop floor and condensing on anything cold, like cans of soft drink.
I don’t know what the web bulb temperature in that factory was, but I’m guessing that according to climate alarmists we should all have been dead – except we weren’t dead. Everyone was fine. And the rest of the workers weren’t all teenagers. At the stations next to me were a bunch of elderly chain smoking East Europeans, a bit further on was a smoking hot pregnant Samoan woman, and the rest were an eclectic mix of people of all ages.
Management did get a little worried sometimes, on really hot days they toured the factory floor, bringing us rehydration fluid drinks every 5 minutes, which I thought was nice. We certainly needed them.
One advantage of working in such extreme conditions, when I walked outside into 110F heat after work, it was like a blast of cold air. I felt cool and comfortable – no distress whatsoever from outside heatwave temperatures.
So when I read reports of what a dire threat to health 110F is, written by scientists or journalists who spend most of their time in air conditioned offices, let’s say I find such claims unconvincing. And I’m guessing most people who have ever worked in a factory or bakery feel the same.
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It’s a big planet. It’s a guarantee that every single day will have some extreme weather somewhere.
Yes, and it is guaranteed that climate alarmists will try to attribute the extreme weather to being caused by CO2.
You can bet money on it.
110F is no problem at low humidity. At 100% humidity it is lethal.Don’t do a guardian and talk temperature alone. It’s meaningless
First we are living in a period of modest warming that spans a few hundred years and began without the help of automobiles. Second as the population and urbanization rapidly increased the situation of most surface temperature measurements became urban heat islands. Finally the increases in temperature recording stations, changes of instrumentation and the higher frequency of sampling along with the points above ensure that there will be increasing numbers of record temperatures (both warm and cool) as time passes. It proves nothing.
Warehouse that I worked in back in the 90’s regularly got to 120F in high humidity New Orleans, La metro with a few spikes higher than that. Working at the airport there, i did suffer a case of heat exhaustion (I got to the point of not sweating and an inability to do basic math or transfer numbers). That was not fun. no stars, Do Not Recommend!
My berthing compartment in the US Navy was right over a boiler room and had a catapult steam line running through it. A thermometer hung from the overhead, low enough you had to walk around it, but still high enough to provide biased temperatures, I am sure. It was always 120F at sea. Flip flops had to be lifted from the deck every few minutes *snick* *snick* as they tack-welded themselves to the deck if you were sitting around. Mattresses never dried out. We were homeported in Yokosuka Japan. I sure didn’t like it, but it didn’t cripple anybody, we just dealt with it.
I lived on Guam for a year. We used to throw our sheets in a dryer every night before sack time to dry them out. I was in U.S.C.G. at the time. We were berthed in an army barracks on a Navy base. Weird story but true.
I was in Vietnam over 50 years ago and I remember temps of 111F. It wasn’t the temp I was worried about
I looked at the article, but it does not even name what date or specific location in Thanh Hoa Province that this “record” is alleged to have occurred. I would presume this happened in the last two weeks to be reported as a current event. Hide the date and location, and nobody can easily check your assertion.
So I looked up the city of Thanh Hoa near the coast, who recorded the peak reading for the last two weeks as 97F (36.1C) on May 6th, bracketed by 91F the day before and after. Since that city has coastal effects, I looked 100 Km inland at Lang Chang, who recorded 105F (40.6C) on the 6th. So I suppose some village somewhere in the mostly hilly and rural province may have had a three-day “heat wave” where a poorly sited, non-standard weather station could have recorded 111F.
However, aside from the big coastal city, most folks in the province live in very small towns and villages, so I doubt that officials warned people to stay indoors as the article states.
It really boils down to this (Cliff Mass can be counted on as an elite source for using objective, authentic science)
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-golden-rule-of-climate-extremes.html
The Golden Rule
Considering the substantial confusion in the media about this critical issue, let me provide the GOLDEN RULE OF CLIMATE EXTREMES.
Here it is:
The more extreme a climate or weather record is, the greater the contribution of natural variability.
Or to put it a different way, the larger or more unusual an extreme, the higher proportion of the extreme is due to natural variability.
My high school offered a class in journalism back in the 1970s I signed up for. It was all about how to write the most sensational headlines in a limited space. Ask the most provocative misleading questions. How to purposely give a false impression then cover yourself tacking on “allegedly , might possibly be” etc. None of it was about truth and accuracy. It was really a business class on maximizing readership for ad revenue when it came down to it.
“Myanmar’s media reported that a town in the east had recorded 43.8C, the highest temperature for a decade.”
So ten yrs ago it was hotter … that proves the climate is cooling … we’re doomed !!