By P Gosselin on 7. June 2025
Event to combat heat gets cancelled due to cool, wet weather
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To combat climate change, German towns and cities are busily implementing “heat plans”. Germany has ambitious climate neutrality goals, aiming to be climate-neutral by 2045. The lives of millions of people are at risk!
The so-called Heat Planning Act went into force in January 2024 and legally obliges municipalities to develop these plans. Larger cities (over 100,000 inhabitants) have until mid-2026 to do so, and smaller towns until mid-2028.
One key aspect is adapting to summer heatwaves and protecting public health. This includes measures such as public awareness campaigns about staying safe during heatwaves, establishing cooling centers and long-term urban planning measures to mitigate the “urban heat island effect.”
The town of Mühlacker (near Stuttgart) has taken the Heat Plan act seriously and thus have organized a Heat Action Day, scheduled for June 6th. The aim was educating the public about heat, drought and climate change and provide tips on how to protect against heat.
It seems Germans, in the view of the country’s nanny leaders, are mentally not up to the task of dealing with summer weather. They need to be parented like little children and told to stay inside.
Ironically, the event yesterday had to be cancelled due to “forecast weather conditions,”,the above newspaper clipping reports.
The heat action day has been postponed to Friday, July 25, 2025. The weather yesterday, June 6, in Muehlacker was indeed rainy and cool, with highs not even reaching 20°C – obviously too harsh for the organizers!
We can only suspect that they are hoping more agreeable, hot weather will show up on July 25th event, so that the citizens and organizers there will be able complain about how heat makes it “too dangerous” to hold public events.
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The easiest way to ‘adapt to hotter weather’ is to plant some flaming trees. Brad Lancaster in Arizona showed that trees which had been sited strategically to benefit from rainwater collection from cambered roads provided sufficient shade after several years that the temperature in the shade beneath them was 25C cooler than being in the hot, fully exposed sunlight.
It’s the lowest of low tech to plant some trees to provide some shade, be it an avenue of trees on either side of a road, be it a central ceremonial tree in a wide pedestrianised area.
There are trees whose primary purpose is to be the first line of defence against hot suns, allowing more sensitive trees to prosper in the under layer beneath.
Another way to reduce heat is to replace concrete walkways with wood chips. These will be created naturally by tree surgeons, they will turn gradually into topsoil and they are also good for those with sensitive joints as they are more forgiving as a surface to walk on than rigid concrete.
Another high tech way to cool down in the summer is to jump into the nearest river/lake and fully immerse oneself. OK, jumping in is probably not for the over 70s, but you get the point. Water is a good conductor of heat and a cool dip is extremely reinvigorating for the human physiology.
Another solution is simply to walk up a nearby mountain – for every 500m of vertical ascent you decrease the air temperature by about 5-6C. So if you ascend 1000m, it should be at least 10C cooler. That’s enough to go from 32C to 22C, which is what a pleasant summer’s day should be.
Finally, just go and sit in the shade, drink plenty of water to stay hydrated and don’t drink alcohol. Ensure you have sufficient salt intake to avoid cramp.
Simple and effective solutions have existed for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
No need for fancy expensive technology. Just a smidgen of human common sense.
In Arizona, virtually every building has AC. Of course, this makes it warmer outside from waste heat, but without it, the high temperatures in summer in Phoenix are very unpleasant. That’s why its population was able to grow from under 100,000 to 5 million in the past 100 years.
While wood chip walkways aren’t necessarily a bad idea it would be difficult for young kids (or anyone) to skate on them
And the rains eventually cause the Mud below to percolate to the surface and once again you start tracking mud all over.
Schadenfreude haha
I remember the days when hot weather was regarded as a nice Summer day. Now a rise of one degree from those days is apparently sufficient to cause spontaneous human combustion among the general population.
And the summer of ’76 still stands out…
Ah, yes, I remember it well…
A cooler than average June day day in a single town would indeed be humorous, if not for the fact that Germany as a whole just had its warmest spring since measurements began in 1881.
Oddly, this is not mentioned in the article??
Having spent the last few weeks travelling across Europe, I can tell you that the weather is completely and utterly…. normal. Yes, normal!
If this is what your predictions of thermageddon entail, nobody is going to notice. After 40 years of predictions of doom, and a great many ‘final’ nails in the coffin of CAGW, I think we can all rest easy.
Would you agree that singling out bad weather on just one day and in just one city, whilst studiously ignoring the fact that the past 3-months had been the warmest such months in that country in a record going back more than 140 years seems a tad ‘selective’?
Is that not what the climate alarmist have been doing to drive their narrative. As Bill Toland suggested “I remember the days when hot weather was regarded as a nice Summer day. Now a rise of one degree from those days is apparently sufficient to cause spontaneous human combustion among the general population.” I agree with Bill. I remember those hot summers. As a kid, teenager, and as a young adult we looked forward to hot summers. Good grief, it would not be summer without hot summers. These climate alarmists conflate weather with climate and vice versa. IMHO, these climate alarmists need to get a life and need to put their energies to better use like perhaps planting a few trees or advocating for less “urban heat islands” by changing these urban area footprints with more greenery.
They prefer to reduce the greenery by covering their nation with wind and solar “farms”.
No. Scientists have identified 30-year long periods of climatology and confirmed that, on a global scale, the most recent of these periods contain statistically significant warming tends.
What NoTrickZone has done here, on the other hand, is identify a single cool day at a single location.
Do you see any difference in those two standpoints?
Sorry, the understanding of what you read has to be improved so much, I dare not to write a percentage.
😀
30 year periods are nothing more than a convenient shorthand, they have never had any scientific meaning. Only those who know nothing about climate care about them.
There is nothing at all bad with a warming planet. I prefer warming to cooling or in other words the cold. The greening of the planet is a net positive. Historically, the planet has experienced warming periods which we are in now and periods of cooling or cold. These bloody alarmist would be in an utter panic, if our planet took a turn for the worst and a cold period set in. My wife’s parents are farmers and when there is literally a week late in planting in the spring, instead of two crops in a season there is just one. That reality is real. Moreover, weather is always a concern and a challenge faced each year. Stop sweating the trifling small stuff: improvise, adapt and carry on.
Since days it’s not hot in Germany and the outcalled draught totally drowned.
But as you are Green colored, the irony is s.th.out of your understanding and intellect.
Not draught but drought, sorry
No definitely draught, calling for the signature product of Quinault Indian Nation Brewery – Hyak Beer.
Really, expending all that flak because mirth was indicated in response to a heat protest being cancelled because that day’s was cold and damp.
It’s much the same as the year the February Fog Festival we hold around here was a total bust because we got no fog. I know it’s hard to believe, a beach on the northwest coast in February with completely clear weather and not a wisp of fog, but one year it happened.
Oh well, as Isaac Asimov explained in his essay, “Irony, the Two Edged Sword” some people just lack the genetic capability to appreciate irony.
As a well known comic cracked when he came off stage as my band was waiting to go on, “Careful girls, they took me serious.” 😉 😉
Germans do love their draughts.
No, I don’t agree at all as you show to have no understanding at all. 😀 else you wouldn’t type such BS.
It was the organisers who selected the day.
You don’t really understand humour, do you?
That’s not the question of understanding humour, it’s the absolute ignorance of it’s existence, even copying the word to the comment.
As If a blind man discusses about colours.
Of course pretending that the temperature records from 140 years ago are as accurate as current records and suitable for determining that temperatures to a few tenths of a degree isn’t selective, it’s exceedingly dishonest.
Well parts of Iberia have already exceeded 40C and large areas of Europe currently have a heatwave up to the mid 30s.
Yes France, Germany, UK have had a few days normal temps after the record warm Spring, but temperatures are set to rise rapidly in the next couple of days as the hot plume moves north.
Sorry if reality offends you.
Seems like it’s typically hotter in summer.
Where is the problem with some warmer days, it’s summer, and 40°C in Spain is not unusual.
And btw. it’s not warming by ,CO2 but by warm air blowing from Africa.
And again, perfectly normal summer weather. Do temperatures remain static in your view of the world, or something?
Sorry if normal weather offends you.
Dangerously static doldrums at sea the result of climate change. AI: “Some research suggests that climate change might be leading to slower global winds.”
Think you’ve found something NOT caused by climate change? Ha! Think again.
Like all Climate Caterwaulers, The Foolish Noodle doesn’t get irony. Or humor, for that matter.
Warmest spring since 1881?
That is impossible.
By 2023, the UK had reduced its territorial greenhouse gas emissions by 53% compared to 1990 levels
We were told by sincere truthful people that if Britain cut CO2 emissions then global warming would stop.
Are you calling climate activists liars?
I never lived in an interglacial period I didn’t like.
German drought
In spite of our cool wet spring, the current situation is nothing unusual for Colorado.
https://psl.noaa.gov/boulder/Boulder.mm.precip.html
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/de/bremen/EDDW
Two warm days in 10 is lovely,
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/de/voraltstadt
Check this address again on Thursday for reality check.
You’re so clueless Rusty! Don’t you see that God has a sense of humor and he’s not on your side?
“warmest spring since measurements began in 1881.”
If the surface stations in Germany are anything like they are in the UK, Australia, USA..
There is absolutely ZERO way they can possibly know that.
140 years ago, the stations were glass tubes that were read by eyeball and recorded to the nearest degree. Whether to round up or down was on most occasions done by best guess.
The average temperature was 10.8 C according to the link. Not exactly hot. Definitely not life threatening.
You do understand that the average global temperature hardly changes from year to year. Thus, if there is a hot spot at point A, there must be a cold spot at point B. This is how averages work.
They’d be better off holding Blackout Action Days.
Isn’t that the truth!
Mühlacker lies almost directly on the 49th parallel, which is also the dividing line between the US and much of Canada. That [places it north of the entire continental US, but for a few Walleyes and Pike in the surveyor’s notch in Lake of the Woods on the northern boundary of Minnesota. In most years the ice is still on the lake there well into May. A rational city located that far north would be celebrating global warming, not plotting to avoid it. Holding a “Global Warming Festival” in mid-July would be a better plan. They might even be able to swim in any nearby lakes or rivers during the festival.
The warmth from the Gulf Stream provides a much different climate in Europe than that for northern North America.
“cooling centers”? Really? They don’t have electricity for their industry and soon even for lighting, how the hell are they going to operate “cooling centers”?
https://www.drk.de/fileadmin/user_upload/02_Hilfe_weltweit/023_Was_wir_tun/Gesundheit/Community_Cooling_Centre_Manual.pdf
Propaganda from Red Cross, imagine that.
CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere. That means that 1 out of every 2,500 molecules in the atmosphere is CO2. CO2 only absorbs 15 micron LWIR, which is the wavelength emitted by Dry Ice. This entire nonsensical theory is that 1 molecule out of 2,500 vibrating the the energy of dry ice can somehow materially impact the kinetic energy of the other 2,499 molecules. That is literally how ridiculous this “science” is. This video highlights that point.
https://app.screencast.com/OWq7twX7ELhEa
I’m guessing you either didn’t read, or didn’t understand any of the recent articles on the physics how CO2 absorbs and thermalizes energy.
A CO2 molecule absorbs energy from a photon, transfers that energy to other molecules, then absorbs another photon and transfers that energy again. CO2 molecules don’t wear out and don’t get tired. They keep up this process for as long as there are photons of the correct wavelength and other molecules. BTW, CO2 molecules absorb at a lot of frequencies, not just 15micron.
June has also been rather cool in England as well. Here in Scunthorpe the maximum temp has yet to have reached 20C so far this month.
With the first 7 days of June only having a mean maximum temperature of 18.6C.
“Irony: German Town Cancels Climate Heat & Drought Event – Due To Cool, Wet Weather!”
Where was Al Gore that day? 😎
I was in the Army, and stationed in Flensburg, Germany (on the Danish border), in the late 1980s. It was always cold there. We used to joke, that if the temp got over 70 degrees, the Germans would be passing out from the extreme heat.
I don’t know how these crackpots can show their faces. They are pitiful.