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August 4, 2025 at 04:33PM
A comprehensive new data analysis (Walkowiak et al., 2025) involving European countries finds it takes less than 18 years for humans to adapt to a 1°C increase in mean annual temperature. Consequently, exposure to excessive heat has become less and less deadly.
Supporting this conclusion, a 2018 study involving 305 locations across 10 countries (1985-2012) affirmed “a decrease in heat-mortality impacts over the past decades,” as “heat-related mortality [fractions, AFs] decreased in all countries.”
Many heatwave or excess heat mortality studies fail to account for the human capacity to adapt to extremely hot temperatures via the expansion of access to air conditioning, heat-shielding structures and building materials, etc.
This (intentional?) failure artificially inflates modern heat exposure risks so as to make it appear heat wave mortality has become more and more of a problem.
The real risk is cold exposure. Since the 1980s humans have been 20 times more likely to die from exposure to excessively cold temperatures than to excessive heat.
So-called “green” policies that insist on adding heat pumps to homes (due to their lower dependence on fossil fuels) impose more risks to humans, as heat pumps notoriously cannot keep structures warm enough during cold spells.
As heating demand and costs rise, there will likely be more susceptibility to cold-related deaths in the future. In contrast, heatwave-related mortality will likely continue to decline.
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August 4, 2025 at 04:08PM
56.214342 -3.4129058 Met Office CIMO Assessed CLASS 5 Installed 1/11/1967
Kinross lies to the west of the M90 on the shores of Loch Leven midway between Dunfermline to the south and Perth to the north. Kinross Golf Club has two courses, one of which is home to the weather station. As would be expected from the nature of this site, the Screen and surrounding areas are well kept and the observation record of this manual site is very good.
Again the issue here is with the nature of the site but this is now actually unclear. The CIMO list I was supplied by the Met Office was from February 2025 and the Kinross site was shown as Class 5. However on deeper research I have discovered the site was actually relocated 8/4/2024 and I cannot verify if the Class 5 assessment took the move into account though I would expect it did/should.
Notes in the CEDA archives indicate:
The headline image is the relocated new site. The original long term site is as below much nearer the building and obviously subject to heavy shading. As can be seen the current site is 30 metres to the south, south west but realistically is still prone to heavy shade from the east blocking morning sunshine.
A further somewhat ironic point is an earlier archive note from 2010 stating
: SUNSHINE RECORDER WAS ADJUSTED TO READ CORRECTLY. IT HAS UNKOWN HOW LONG IT HAD BEEN PORLY ADJUSTED” {Ed note: interesting spellings}
It is difficult to see how accurate any sunshine recorder could have been in the heavily shaded location former location.
Again this site is almost certainly producing “well correlated” data for use in concocting data for long closed weather stations in the “gridded cell” such as Perth (closed 25 years ago) and Kirkcaldy (closed in 1979 – a mere 49 years ago). In fact despite showing Kinross itself as the nearest “climate station” on selecting the site, no information is available.
Another useful tool (though now out of date presumably through lack of upkeep since 2018) is an interactive map of Met Office sites that the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) offers. For the Kinross area, on selecting daily temperature recording sites, it offers this map. clearly the Met Office has several sites locally and currently operational that they can choose from over the 60 year rolling climate averages period. Why they refuse to divulge which ones were used can presumably only be to avoid divulging that they use data from unacceptably poor sites such as Class 5 Kinross.
In conclusion, though whilst a well observed and instrumentally well maintained site, Kinross suffers from a poor location compromising its readings. not a suitable candidate from which to reconstruct a national historical temperature record.
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August 4, 2025 at 03:01PM
By Jo Nova
The invisible shrinking solar industry
Quietly, the world manufacturing base for solar panels has been shrinking for nearly two years and yet hardly anyone knows. Especially not the Prime Minister of Australia who set up the the $1 billion Solar Sunshot a year ago to artificially create an Australian solar panel manufacturing industry, twenty years too late, and with the worst possible timing.
China has already captured the solar market and killed it.
Glut’s have consequences
The CCP is making twice as many solar panels as the world wants to buy. The latest trend is from bad to worse.
Let’s remember this story, the next time the propaganda media try to tell us solar panels are setting new records. Isn’t this the sort of thing our investigative sleuths at the ABC-BBC-CBC should have been digging out before elections were held? Doesn’t this change everything?
Australia is supposed to be going gangbusters “leading the world” and installing 44,000 panels a day, but no one else in the world is doing that.
China’s solar giants quietly shed a third of their workforces last year
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Over 40 solar firms have delisted, gone bankrupt or been sold […]
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August 4, 2025 at 02:45PM
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