From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
On a sunny day in mid-May, Bobby Hunt fell asleep by the side of a gas station in Phoenix. Hunt says he was waiting for a friend to pick him up.
“Next thing I know, I wake up in the hospital.”
Hunt was in a burn unit. He doesn’t remember much, just the bright lights.
“What am I doing here?” he recalled asking.
Almost three months later, Hunt stands in the empty chapel of Circle the City, the central Phoenix medical shelter for unhoused people where he’s been recuperating. He lifts his white T-shirt to reveal a lopsided, round scar the size of a medium pizza.
The burn appears to be about an inch deep, and mars the swath of intricate, black-inked tattoos of skulls and faces that once covered his back.
Below the big scar, a bandage covers another wound on his lower back. Hunt pulls the leg of his khaki shorts up to reveal a large, red rectangle where skin from his thigh was removed and grafted on to his back. He’s still in terrible pain.
Temperatures in the city of Phoenix reached at least 110F (43.3C) for 31 days in a row this summer. But even on a 98F (37C) day, like the one when Hunt was injured, sustained contact with the sidewalk can result in third degree burns – and potentially kill a person.
The Guardian seems surprised that roads can get so hot in summer. Even here you would be advised not to walk barefoot on roads when it is hot. And the fact that this injury occurred in May when temperatures reached 98F says all you need to know about this latest pathetic little story. Phoenix temperatures tend to be at that level and a lot higher pretty much all summer:
The highest temperature there this year has been 119F, well below the record of 122 set in 1990.
The daily data profile is also noteworthy, as it shows that temperatures so far this summer have only been exceptionally high for about a two-week period in July, and a handful of days this month:
Of course, if Guardian journalists understood why roads and pavements get hot in summer, they would also appreciate why urban areas get much hotter than rural ones, and that the temperatures they regularly trumpet for cities like Phoenix are not representative.
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Pavement temperatures are overwhelmingly a function of radiation when the sun is shining, not air temperatures.
I find that every time I fall asleep by the side of a gas station in Phoenix I wake up to find that I had taken an exceptionally large dose of the intoxicant.
Guardian:
Becoming “unaware of your surroundings” in 40 deg temperatures can be Darwinian situation. Having large areas of black ink under your skin does not help.
The oceans are BOILING !
The Guardian is always good for laugh and they never disappoint on climate propaganda.
MODERATORS: please fix the edit button which constantly tells me I’m posting too quickly. Which I’m not because I can post this.
Radiation hitting black bitumen is what causes “globull warming”. They chosing Pheonix AIRPORT for the data ensures you are NOT on a green field sensor but measuring air temps near the runway.
Now see how much air traffic has increased there since 1942 and how the burn power of the aircraft has increased and you will know why the temperature has risen by about 4F.
I feel your pain but don’t lay down on hot pavement. Even the least of us should know that.
Drugs/alcohol.
from the grauniad article:““Patients oftentimes will suffer central nervous system injuries,”
Foster said. “The burns can cook their brains or spinal cord, peripheral nerves, cause liver failure, kidney failure, bowels not to work correctly. So we have to deal with that too, the systemic manifestations of that, which can be really severe and oftentimes end up causing more problems for patients than the actual burn does.”
(my underscores)
The Graun gives a lot away about itself and its staff..
Because all the things indicated in that quote are straight from the: Book Of Advanced Chronic Alcoholism
(Consumption of Sugar (all forms of carbohydrate ‘food’) does the same things = esp. very serious deficiency of Vitamin B
Folks with Type 2 Diabetes often do literally cook themselves, classically their feet)
Is Grauniad really trying to defend/advocate such behaviour?
The Real Problem here is not The Climate – it’s how that guy got into the mess he did, starting 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
He did not do it single-handedly either – he was relentlessly pushed.
By liars, cheats, hypocrites and the selfish greed of others.
“cooked brains” haha
If that ain’t climate science, what is.
But that’s where any similarity ends, cooked brains are incredibly nutritious foodstuff
All that Fat, you see.
Notice that article is “sponsored by Soros, Open Society Foundations !!
“Patients oftentimes will suffer central nervous system injuries,
cause liver failure, kidney failure”””
Did they get their report mixed up with the report for the Covid jab ?
Or was it long COVID? I heard long COVID can cause anything, even unrest *sshole syndrome.
Ahh, so the people stocking up on toilet paper knew what they were doing.
French MD Professor Didier Raoult says that more Americans have cirrhosis from too much sugar than from alcoholism.
Next from The Guardian:
“Trapped Atmospheric CO2 Causing Devasting Burns To Beach Goers!”
‘We’re entering a new climate paradigm’, say the climate scientists, ‘Our CO2 emissions mean that it’s no longer safe to go outside without coating your skin in a CO2-heat-ray resisting white creams. I recommend using CPF (Carbon Protection Factor) 15, at least.’
Symptoms of CO2 burns include redness, peeling, pain and severe sensitivity. They most often occur when clouds, which the scientists say appear to mitigate the harshest CO2-burn effects, are not present.
“Symptoms of CO2 burns”
ROFLMAO ! Now that is funny ! 🙂
“CPF (Carbon Protection Factor) 15”
???????????
Perhaps that is what a man needs when he can’t afford a diamond for his fiance.
And what the fudge is a “CO2-heat ray” when it’s at home? What Grauniad nincompoop wrote that bowlocks? They haven’t a clue!
Perhaps a clever entrepreneur selling a new product. Of course it works, no one has ever gotten a CO2 burn while wearing it.
Hurricane Idalia is moving north.
That is inaccurate and inconsistent. The minimum temperature is what is affected by urban heat island, while the maximum temperature is only marginally affected.
surely phoenix airport hasn’t changed much since 1972 but there is a definite increase in temperature, and certainly not enough to be caused by jet engines. so what is the cause
1970s
today
Phoenix-Sky-Harbor-International-Airport.jpg (3000×2000) (upgradedpoints.com)
Many more terminal gates.
MANY, many more aircraft. !
Massive runway expansions.
The whole of Phoenix has undergone rapid expansion.
One of the fastest growing cities in the USA.
Phoenix is fastest-growing city in U.S. for 5th year in a row – AZ Big Media
Air temperature. If we were discussing just the air temperature then I would likely agree with you but we are quite clearly not.
“while the maximum temperature is only marginally affected.”
Which is of course total BS !!
So, not only mad dogs and Englishmen then
Written in the 1960s… Drifters
The Drifters – Under the Boardwalk – YouTube
When the sun beats down
And burns the tar up on the roof
And your shoes get so hot
You wish your tired feet were fireproof……..
What do they know, they ain’t climate scientists!
Thank you
You wish your tired feet were fireproof
I could never make that line out
Mind you I always hear “she slipped on a tulip” in Summer The First Time by Bobby Goldsboro
if Guardian journalists understood why roads and pavements get hot in summer, they would also appreciate why urban areas get much hotter than rural ones, and that the temperatures they regularly trumpet for cities like Phoenix are not representative
The Phoenix district temperature record is not long, this is the Camelback Resort in Scottsdale AZ in 1937 now only about 8 kilometres from the downtown Phoenix.
No doubt it could get very hot during the day but also very cold overnight in 1937 so you would expect the average temperatures recorded today to be higher.
wow..
Must have been hot and with no CO2…
… even the cacti are grey !
Penguin fever….
“”Why it may be time to stop using the polar bear as a symbol of the climate crisis
…
other species are better suited as symbols of wildlife threatened by a warming world.””
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/30/why-it-may-be-time-to-stop-using-the-polar-bear-as-a-symbol-of-the-climate-crisis
They refuse to die out
Here in Britain, Just Stop Oil protestors glue themselves to the road.
Which rather proves there is no climate crisis in Britain this summer, or else they would all be in hospital.
What summer?
I think it was one day back in June…
Having worked daily with cyanoacrylate adhesive for around 40 years, I am of the opinion that it is near impossible to use it to glue yourself to a road surface. Almost nothing will successfully adhere to bitumen, but cyanoacrylate will react to any dirt or moisture on the surface itself, preventing the formation of a bond.
Written by a teenager who’s never heard the expression “the pavement (sidewalk) is hot enough to fry an egg”
Last year it was never hot enough to fry an egg on the tarmac in southern England. Yet in my youth the BBC reporters did it every summer.
Half the people in the world have below-average IQ.
A frightening thought, isn’t it, when you realise how low the average is…?
Most people have more than the average number of feet.
What is the average height of a human?
As I was a child, 60 years ago, molten asphalt on streets was a news theme in summer.
And not to forget railway problems because of dilatation.
You mean like this..
OIP.9KiQRFU2QK05VhK61gNGCwHaFj (436×328) (bing.com)
Which was one major reason the Hyperloop was not doable using existing tech. We don’t know how to make long safe rigid tubes with very low curvature.
(Unlike all the objections to the concept peddled by MSM which were minor or silly.)
Hurricane will strike south of Tallahassee.
https://www.accuweather.com/pl/us/tallahassee/32301/weather-radar/328170
The Guardian used to be called The Manchester Guardian. Anyone who has been to Manchester should realise why they don’t understand hot pavements!
True. Unfortunately the Grauniad relocated to London about 30 years ago and no longer has any understanding of real weather.
if the “No More Fossil Fuel” folks get their way asphalt burns will be no more. There will be no more asphalt.
They wouldn’t understand solar insolation effects even if it burned their feet.
My first real exposure to Climate Change was my first year in graduate school in 1976. I had and ACS (American Chemistry Society) conference in Tucson in June. I drove my black Barracuda from UC Irvine to Tucson through Phoenix. It was a black car with no AC. Remember, this was 1976 and AC was a luxury item then. Tucson was 117°F during the day and 98°F at night. And this was during The Coming of the Global Ice Age, or so it was said. But I survived as I drank a lot of water and kept the windows open (4 Window AC!) The sidewalks were so hot that you physically could not walk on them in tennis shoes. Shade was the only answer, or free beer!. Yes, the conference back then served free beer before the conference. What a treet for a broke grad student! But they cut that off when we started ordering Heineken Instead of Bud. Sad Day.
But even nearly 50 years ago, cement sidewalks were awfully hot in summer. Probably 160°F or greater.
I remember as a very young child (5 years old) in the summer of 1959 during a family trip to Dodge City, Kansas to visit relatives. I played outside in the hot sun, had my crayons and a coloring book, and when I finished coloring I left the crayons on the front porch stoop made of concrete. I came back outside an hour or so later and my box of crayons was a multi-colored puddle of wax and paper tubes. The melting point of a Crayola crayon is said to be 140-150 deg F, which is high enough to cause 2nd degree burns on a human after a mere 60 second contact time. The temperature of that concrete stoop could also have been higher than the melting point of the crayon.
I remember one time when I was about five years old, I walked across the street barefoot to the little grocery store nearby to get some candy, and the street was so hot, I couldn’t hardly walk on it.
I moved very quickly across the street, coming and going.
I knew laying down on something like that was not a good idea.
This recent study shows that cold weather we have every year causes about 4.6 million deaths a year mainly through increased strokes and heart attacks, compared with about 500,000 deaths a year from hot weather. We can’t easily protect our lungs from the cold air in the winter and that causes our blood vessels to constrict causing heart attacks and strokes.
‘Global, regional and national burden of mortality associated with nonoptimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study’
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00081-4/fulltext
This study from 2015 says that cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather and that moderately warm or cool weather kills far more people than extreme weather. Increased strokes and heart attacks from cool weather are the main cause of the deaths.
‘Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multi-country observational study’ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)62114-0/fulltext
I have a FLIR camera and have been studying how during the summer day the grass is cool whilst pavements get hot and radiate heat, and at night the grass is still cool and the pavement is still radiating heat. In spain recently the poolside was 50c during the afternoon. At 1am it was still 29.8c. This is infra red radiation and there are more roads, paths, and buildings today than there was 40 years ago…plus AstroTurf…CO2 is not the culprit for climate change…
The point of the Guardian article is that Phoenix experienced a continuous 31-day period in which maximum temperatures exceeded 110F for the first time on record. So incidents like getting 3rd degree burns from sleeping on the sidewalk, which is inadvisable anyway, if it can be avoided, are likely to rise.
“from sleeping on the sidewalk,”
You will have to pitch your swag/shelter somewhere else then, won’t you.
The 1991 day it was 121 F in Mesa, AZ [a suburb of Phoenix] I was in a tennis singles league that started at 6:30PM. The first half hour was pretty bad, till the sun went down.
It’s amazing how cool 110 F feels after that… and being 30 years younger helped ! LOL
It’s 107 F in the shade as I type this [3:56PM]. Using my laser temperature “gun” in the back yard facing the sun:
house [tan colored stucco] wall 117-123F
house wall in shade 107F
arms of outdoor furniture [dark brown] 135F
asphalt in street 147F
black metal grill 152F [and no, the propane was not on!]
Ahhh! Another lovely summer day in AZ, completely consistent with “climate change”.
And TG for A/C !
[electricity supplied by SRP: 69% fossil fuels (almost all via NG), 17% nukes, 12% renewables (includes hydro) and wait for it …. batteries! [Grid battery storage clocks in at 0.025 GWh out of a total of 31,711 GWh. ]
A Look At Phoenix Sky Harbor’s Biggest Updates In 2022 (simpleflying.com)
Phoenix airport 20-year plan approved: Double the capacity, bus gates (azcentral.com)
Nothing speaks “climate alarmism” quite like massive expansions to airports.
And of course, measuring temperatures at these rapidly expanding airports is oh so “accurate” and representative … and totally unaffected by such expansions.