Ok bored now!

[i_kender]

Here's a link to another Guardian article:

Boiled Alive - about the effects of excessive heat on the body, about the trend towards warmer summers and the link to global warming, and lots of other interesting information.

It's a bit long though. And also quite Eurocentric in the beginning, so apologies for that. (If you skip to the end there are statistics that cover heatwaves around the world)

Comments

[cabarethaze.livejournal.com]

Interesting, thanks for linking. It hit 45 this weekend here in LA & being in a flat without an airconditioner and having to walk a lot with heavy packages is ... my icon says it all ;) It's the first time since I've lived here that the heat was so high for such a long time straight - hasn't even been getting cool at night like it used to.

I hope the eventual end of the world is preceded by ice cold water rain storms. Mmmm, freezing cold.

[i_kender]

I wouldn't mind so much, only London (and the rest of the UK) are so unused to hot weather. There's barely any air-conditioning in this country. And the roads are melting. And the train tracks are buckling.

Mostly I'm pissed about the air-conditioning ;)

[cabarethaze.livejournal.com]

Ooh yea, I used to work in London & the place I was training at was all excited to move across the street into a building with OMG A/C OMG OMGOMG...and it turned out to be a tiny floor box for the entire huge dance studio. *sends you some cold breezes*

I think there's a highway melting around here, but really, I lack the energy to care. & I think someone could very easily win for office right now with the platform of "Free A/C for all!"