By P Gosselin on 3. June 2025
Latest hysteria: preparing for heatwave-pandemics… the fake heat crisis… controlling people under the guise of protecting them.
“I don’t understand why I feel so hot and thirsty. The team doctor doesn’t know why, either. The government needs to tell us.” Image generated by Grok AI
With climate activists increasingly warning of killer heat waves every summer in Europe, the German government has drawn up a heatwave protection plan that calls for more draconian guidelines and bans for sports events on hot days.
Germany’s Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) is presenting three new heatwave safety plans in order to better respond to the health effects of heatwaves.
In doing so, the German authorities are expanding the “Health Heatwave Protection Plan” to include the areas of sport, pharmacies and psychotherapeutic practices, according to the BMG press release here.
Adults still haven’t learned how to conduct themselves when it’s summertime, the authorities appear to believe.
The BMG says the heat protection plans are intended to inform citizens about the health risks of heat and to protect people who are at an increased health risk. In particular, this includes older people, the chronically ill, pregnant women, young children and sports enthusiasts.
The heat protection plans are recommendations to protect and sensitize these groups of people against heat.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sportspeople are among the risk groups particularly affected by climate-related health risks. In cooperation with other organisations, the BMG has written up heatwave protection plan for organized sports in order to better protect all target groups in popular sport from heat-related health risks.
This plan, the federal BMG reports, is intended to help clubs and associations to protect athletes, full-time employees and volunteers, e.g. coaches, referees, officials and service staff, as well as spectators, from heat-related health risks.
BMG federal health authorities propose recommendations for event organizers to heed, such as (from page 5):
- Ensuring heat and acclimatization-friendly travel and event planning
- Determining whether and when competitions can be cancelled or postponed in extreme heat
- Placing start and finish areas as well as staging areas in shaded areas.
- Avoiding open fires/barbecues.
The proposed guidelines get pretty extreme, and also include:
- Refrain from serving alcoholic, highly sugary, caffeinated or taurine-containing drinks
- Offering mineral water, unsweetened tea and thin juice spritzers
- Providing free drinking water dispensers
- Distribution points for free sunscreen, headgear, loaner sunglasses.
Note that the German government here is presenting all this as recommendations that can be voluntarily followed. But we all know how such things develop later. We’ll have a heat-czar before we know it.
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There is a very interesting definition of extreme being used here
“The proposed guidelines get pretty extreme, and also include:
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In what way is that extreme? In Australia offering free sunscreen is common place
during the summer as it is in many other countries.
And as anyone who has visited a beach in the Mediterranean in the summer can confirm
a significant fraction of Adult germans (and adult Brits) do not know how to deal with heat
and they would benefit from this advice.
It’s Northern Europe, not the Med.
On Aug 24 2023 at 4 PM @ur momisugly Houston George bush the temp was 109 F humidity 27% with a heat index of 119 F
https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/us/tx/houston/KIAH/date/2023-8
how did that get i9n there?
Not extreme ?????
“Refrain from serving alcoholic,…..”
You seem to know basically “not much” about Australians.
Any real Aussie loves a nice cold beer after working hard on a hot day.
Perhaps you are one of those that only drinks “Bud light” !!
And avoiding BBQ’s …. how much more extremely leftist can you get in Australia
To people like Izaak,if there are 20 items in a list, and one of those items isn’t totally nonsensical, then the entire list has been justified.
Have you been to Germany in over the years and in recent summers? Nothing has changed. Its no hotter than it ever was, and that is just pleasantly warm, not in any way dangerous. There is no reason for Germans to change their approach in any way. There is no reason to abstain from beer or apfelwein. There is no reason to avoid barbecuing, if that’s what you like. There is no more of a summer heat issue with sporting events than there was in 1950, 1960, 1970….etc.
As for the British, yes, there is a minority who don#t know how best to behave in their summers, which will be mostly partly cloudy and pleasantly warm, with a long hot one every ten years or so.
These are people who come from countries where its traditional to wrap oneself from head to toe in black and to keep children out of the sun at all times. Which is probably completely rational if you’re in a genuinely hot sunny climate. But in a country in the latitude of the UK its a recipe for vitamin D deficiency.
There is a reason why the London parks used to fill up with Brits with as little on as possible as soon as the first warm days arrived. It greatly shocked Billy Graham. But it had a rational reason.
The idiocy, its European governments preaching hysteria about temperatures which are lower than those their populations escape to en mass every summer in search of warmth and sun!
You could see the dynamic at work a couple of years back in a very hot UK summer. Dire warnings on the weather section of the news about staying indoors, drinking cold fluidls, accompanied a few minutes later by footage of the beaches to which the entire country had flocked, and were enjoying themselves in the unaccustomed warmth.
And at 47 -53º North?
Why can’t people PURCHASE their sunscreen?
Once you get people to accept the idea that every necessity of life should be provided, free of charge by the government, then you have them by the short hairs.
Yeah. It’s called prison. And if all your needs are provided for your are a prisoner.
I can understand where a business might offer those things to bring in more clientele or a charity offering those things because they want to do so, but the Government?!?
Most people I now do buy their own sunscreen.
Free sunscreen is more a courtesy gesture at outdoor events.
The surf club I was a member of for many year used to send the nippers out with the stuff , asking if people needed it.
I’ve read that sunscreen isn’t great for your skin. I don’t need it- as I’m Italian American. 🙂
‘In what way is that extreme? In Australia offering free sunscreen is common place…’
As are complaints re. its effect on ocean life.
How does sunscreen help with cooling or avoiding overheating? It would seem to do the opposite.
“When travellers apply sunscreen before entering the water, even after waiting 20 minutes for it to dry, it can still wash off and seep into the water. The harmful ingredients then infiltrate nearby corals, disrupting their reproduction and growth. This process can lead to coral bleaching, which slowly kills the coral and displaces hundreds of marine species from their habitats.”
https://greatbarrierreeftourscairns.com.au/blog/how-does-sunscreen-damage-the-reef/
As every good socialist knows, it is the job of government to give away free stuff. Especially stuff that is cheap and readily available at every market.
Not just that, all individuals who do not work for the government are incapable of taking care of themselves and their every action must be supervised at all moments of the day so that they don’t hurt themselves.
So we need to treat adults as children in your world. What a confession.
I have no problem with giving these things out. But they have nothing to do with heat per se. They’re all used to combat increased UV exposure and sunlight, helping to prevent cancer and cataracts. The “need” for these products has nothing to do with some perceived apocalyptic increase of 1°C.
What temperature is used to define extreme heat? 25? 30? 35?
It’s 20c these days according to the Met office.
Surely you are joking!. I lived in Munich from late 1984 – early 1987. The summers were not hot, let alone extreme. Winters, on the other hand, were bearable. And many of my German colleagues would vacation in a desert area, such as North Africa. And they came home just fine.
I had moved there from Fort Worth, where I had been a FIFA-licensed referee. I would regularly referee two 90-minut matches on a Sunday afternoon, and on some occasions, the temperature reached 35C – but almost no humidity. Yes, it was hot. But we all had a good time. Our city league had a special rule that, at the ref’s discretion, we would take a hydration break about half-way through each half, when the ball was dead. We also had a local rule that games were cancelled when the temperature was below 40F and it was raining. That was considered extreme weather. But one can handle both 35C and 40F if one is prudent. Only a Government weenie would think that 35C is extreme.
Having grown up in Phoenix, Arizona I find most screaming about heat somewhat overwrought. I’ve been in Heidelberg, Germany when it was 35 Celsius and 95% humidity. Very uncomfortable describes it well. Extreme wasn’t close.
Well, here in the US, “25? 30? 35?” would hardly be considered a “heat wave”. 😎
They would better employed preparing for the coming colder Winters and power cuts.
Power cuts are the most dangerous, whether in colder winters or hotter summers. And a lot easier problem to tackle if the will were there.
More nonsense from the Goebbels Institute of Climate Hysteria.
Wot no beer? The insanity continues.
There is a potential problem regarding the stopping of serving of beer in Bavaria, as in that state it is legally considered to be a food.
In the US, it’s illegal for a commercial to mention the nutritional benefits of beer. Probably wine also.
And while it’s legal to advertise various drugs as sedatives, they can’t advertise Jack Daniels as a sedative. 😎
Since l have been keeping my own temperature recordings it’s confirmed what l already supected’ that the claimed maximum temperatures should not be trusted. Because having electronic thermometers housed in Stevenson screens during fine sunny weather overstate’s the daily maximum temperatures. Which this year’s spring has shown up very clearly.
Since February 1st l have been keeping a daily record of temperatures in Scunthorpe North Lincolnshire with a Six’s thermometer in open shade. So l have been able to compare the Met Office’s claimed maximum temperatures for England with my own record and the difference is noticeable, thanks to the fine sunny weather.
Here is the data for the mean maximum temperatures recorded this spring here in Scunthorpe and with the Met Office’s weather station in Waddington and along with their average figure for England.
Scunthorpe 14.7C
Waddington 15.7C
England 15.6C
This difference in recorded temperatures is down the fact that the Met Office records their daily maximum temperatures with electonic thermometers housed in Stevenson screens. Which in fine sunny weather overstate the daytime temperature highs by anything between 1C to 3C, when compared with a LiG thermometer in open shade. It’s this false warming of the temperature records which l believe is behind much of the warming since 1980. Alongside other factors like the UHI effect and the poor siteing of weather stations.
It’s been a cool dry year thus far in London. When it has rained its been very half-hearted – spitting in the wind, mostly. And only briefly. Right now it’s a burning 16C. That’s more than 1.5C below what it should be….
The Met Office has become wholly untrustworthy and it was the institution’s choice to become so; placing dogma over falsifiable science.
“The UK Met Office is Unable to Name the Sites Providing ‘Estimated’ Temperature Data For its 103 Non-Existent Stations”
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/05/14/the-uk-met-office-is-unable-to-name-the-sites-providing-estimated-temperature-data-for-its-103-non-existent-stations/
If you think it’s abnormally cool, it just shows how used to the warmed UK climate you have become. Greater London will be close to average for early June, that’s max/min 19C/12C.
London’s temperature is average, therefor all of England must also be average.
And that’s before one considers the affect of UHI contamination on the London readings.
If you place a thermometer outside in open shade, then quite frankly it will be a better guide to the true shade temperature then any weather station during fine sunny weather.
Using a screen is the approved scientific method, if you don’t, your readings are invalid.
Meteorological thermometers sample every X seconds and then average over a period Y. This reduces any spiking to an irrelevant error margin.
It is entirely plausible for locations very close together to have quite varied temperatures. As I’ve shown you before there are locations near Scunthorpe the MO records as warmer and colder than you.
This spring was patently very warm as my garden testifies. It has been exceptional. It’s been by far the warmest spring in my lifetime. It is the first time that the average maximum temperature has exceeded 16C in the CET.
If the dramatic warming in UK Springs was down to instrument changes, you would get a step change, not continued warming.
Well here is the data for the May max and min temperatures from Scunthorpe, Waddington and England.
England, max 18.4C min 8.4C
Waddington, max 18.4C min 8.6C
Scunthorpe, max 17.6C min 8.9C
Now maybe you would care to explain the reason why l should be recording lower daytime maximum temperatures from within a urban centre. Where the effects of UHI warming should be rising the temperatures l record, as clearly been shown in the mean minimum temperature data.
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Just to correct an error from above the temperature for this year’s England May mean minimum temperature should be 7.4C not 8.4C.
As every climate alarmist knows, everyone who calls himself a scientist can never be wrong.
As every good climate sycophant knows, there are no temperature spikes that last more than a minute or two.
“Offering mineral water, unsweetened tea and thin juice spritzers”
This clearly isn’t an American organization recommending this. Here, we have Gatorade, not “juice spritzers”, whatever those are…
Obviously not. I’m not sure if Americans would understand unsweetened cold tea.
As for spritzers, this is a pretty standard drink anywhere in know. Just add fizzy water.
The only tea I drink is unsweetened ice tea. It’s available everywhere. What few people understand is the difference between sweet tea and tea with a sweetener.
The idea to have to cold drinks isn’t a good one, as the body has to heat up the drink to body temperature, the result isn’t very refreshing.
According to all my physics knowledge, the easiest way to cool a large body is to cool the outside or inject something cooler into to middle of it. Cold beer and gelato are my favourites.
Having the body heat going toward heating up the drink is the whole idea. And yes, it’s very refreshing. I suppose you could get a cramp if you drink too much too quickly. I always enjoyed a great cold drink on a hot day.
While driving in Southern France, I prefered warm Bitter Lemon
There’s research that demonstrated that actually hot drinks have more of a cooling effect !
They induce more sweating, which is kind of self-evident.
It is like having a cold shower on hot days.
Also, changing from warm/humid (outside) to cool/dry (inside with air conditioner) all the time is bad for the body in my opinion.
Sun tea. Fill a milk bottle with water from the well, add several tea bags, let it sit in the hot sun to brew. Pour over ice. It’s not summer until you make sun tea.
OMG!
It’s coming up to 10 am (GMT+1) and it’s 14C – and with luck will get up to 17C
No need to dim the Sun, the clouds do that.
I’m sitting here overlooking the Mediterranean in southern Italy, and it’s now a ‘blistering’ 20C or so. Perhaps up to 25C today. I suspect that gelato and cold beers may have to be employed!
It’s horrific, but we’ll endure it so others don’t have to….
Sounds about right – my better half is a Trevisana, up norf – The crisis, as ever, is a really disappointing summer thus far and no sign of improvement.
They say we have a marine heatwave, but the wind coming off the North Sea would suggest otherwise.
Here in Barcelona inside the house 26.8ºC humidity 62%. Feels great.
There is “the data”, and there is “how that data is presented to the public”.
NB : The attached image file is almost 3 years old now. The “drip, drip, drip” approach of climate hysteria has been ongoing for a long time now, and not just in Germany.
Ahh yes. Why wouldn’t we show 19c to be a nice orange color?
How high the need to be for them to use infrared?
The color change of the temps is just PR.
(Public Reeducation)
These are the same folks who tried-and almost succeeded-to conquer the world? Those guys? What planet am I living on? No beer and no BBQ? Time to revolt, you poor benighted fools…fire and rope is in orden.
Do Germans really burn down their forests every dry spell? I kinda doubt it.
Quote:”Distribution points for free sunscreen”
Wow the German government must really hate the German people.
Two things to do in heat. Drink water. Don’t over exert. You will be fine, just don’t push.
Forgo the beer and brats when it gets hot? Finally, something for the German people to get mad enough about to challenge the renewable frenzy.
Want to shut the German Federal Ministry of Health down? Just send a copy of this article to every travel agency, warning them that Germany is so hot in the summer the government feels it must distribute this info to the public. Potential tourists should be warned that visiting Germany during the summer might not be an enjoyable trip. What’s the point of visiting Germany and not drinking beer?
Bunch of power hungry punks. I have no respect for them.
Makes me think of my daughter’s wedding. The reception was held outside at a local park. It was over 100 degrees outside. We were handing out bottles of water for people going into the church. We had a local bar handle all the beer, wine and liquor. We had soft drinks and water in horse troughs. We had plenty of beer, wine , liquor and pop but had to make four runs for more water. Nobody suffered any ill effects except maybe a little to much alcohol. It was a good time.
“climate-related health risks”
So, the 30 year average of all weather in my locality is going to overheat me on a particular day?
Idjits
So it’s no longer just mad dogs and Englishmen that go out in the midday sun.