THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST

JULY was the hottest month on record since records began.

The record was previously held by June.

Prolonged heat waves have been experienced around the world, the water in the North Atlantic is unusually warm, and Antarctica (currently in the middle of winter) has had sea ice extensions well below normal.

The climate change deniers have no credibility .

I recently read about a Danish critic of climate alarmism, Bjorn Lomborg, declaring that rising temperatures will reduce the number of deaths from the cold. What a narrow minded nutter.

Historically we labeled changes happening as ‘climate change’.

We then adopted ‘global warming’ as our go to term.

Make no mistake…..PLANET

EARTH IS WARMING.

The human race has not experienced this type of heat before. We are not prepared to

Vertical Solar

THE PORT of Valencia could become the home of Spain's first large-scale vertical solar energy park. Tests are being carried out for two months on part of a wall at the North Dock with the aim of exploring the feasibility to install a much larger unit.

A Valencian start-up firm called SunnerBOX has created a special matrix system named IT3 for the tests. It consists of solar panels arranged on tensioned mesh stretched with cables, and the array is said to be easy to install and cuts costs.

21 panels of 410 watts each have been erected for the pilot project and the amount of energy generated and the behaviour of the structure will be measured in real time.

cope with it.

Currently there are 30 million people living in areas of extreme heat. Scientists estimate that by 2070 there will be 2 billion people suffering these conditions. That’s not far off.

As hot areas expand, health and quality of life are impacted. Agricultural production is compromised. This affects us all.

WE ARE CREATURES OF HABIT

For example - everyday we flush the toilet (with the exception of my 12 year old son), we start the car, moan about the weather.

Yet we know very little about the detail behind most functions.

Our knowledge is largely superficial.

To illustrate this fact, look at nuclear energy. Most people have formed a view on whether this is a good thing or morally wrong.

Very few of us (me included) can actually describe the economic processes, or what happens in a nuclear reactor, or the phenomena of atomic physics.

Our opinions are formed by the media, politicians, and conversations within our peer and friend groups.

We have an illusion of understanding. One fact we need to understand is that the scientists are right, and we are not listening hard enough, nor are we acting with an adequate response.

(The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet written by Jeff Goodell will get you looking for your Valium!)

A resident of Chite, Lecrin, Gym, combines wit, irony, angst, and a ‘touch of anarchy’ for her life drawings and large paintings on canvas. She has recently completed a portrait of music producer, Youth – famous owner of the Space Mountain recording studio in Lecrin. She likes to observe the ‘human condition’ and ‘individual fragility’. She says: “My Godmother's faultless ink and watercolour sketches for fashion catalogues during the 50s and 60s influenced my desire to make art. Norman Rockwell’s lyrical caricatures and then the Pre Raphaelites stole my attention as a teenager. Life drawing became addictive to me.”