38 thoughts on “If You Had A Huevo”

    2. karl martini

      I live in Andalucia. If you are Irish and coming here for your holidays (welcome all!) you will likely be hitting the beach in Costa Blanca or Costa del Sol. Don’t worry, it will be fine with the sea breeze. Look at that dark band around the coast of Spain. Thats the cool bit. It’s a very thin band however. Drive from Fuengirola (27 degrees now) 15 minutes inland to Coin where it is 36 degrees right now. Drive another 90 minutes inland to Cordoba and its 43 degrees right now. I live in Alhaurin El Grande (34 right now) and I can still go out in it if I have to but would rather not.

  2. ian-oG

    Grand, am off there in September, hopefully it cools slightly but I am good with up to 35c myself, think I was born for the very hot weather, sleep like a baby in it. I used to live in Arizona and I loved the heat, I especially love dry heat. While there took a trip to Florida but couldn’t stand the humidity and it was cooler there than Phoenix?

    However, all joking aside, its getting very alarming now, irrespective of whether you believe in it being driven by human activity or some sort of natural cycle the weather is getting more extreme and we have to really start to see how we can combat it.

    Parts of Pakistan becoming too hot for human habitation:

    https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-pakistan-jacobabad-crossed-a-temperature-threshold-too-severe-for-human-tolerance-7383104/

    Scary stuff indeed.

    1. Nigel

      We’re sheltered here for the time being, but if indications are correct and the NAC switches off, we’re screwed.

      1. ian-oG

        Forgive my ignorance but what is NAC? The acronym I know of is Network Access Control which wouldn’t be relevant?

        1. Nigel

          North Atlantic Current. Carries warm water from the Gulf Stream across the Atlantic to Continental Europe and parts of Africa. A major component in keeping our climate mild, threatened by cold water melting off the Arctic. Its collapse has been flagged as one of the major climate tipping points, and until recently wasn’t expected to happen this century, but now the forecast is getting more and more difficult to pin down, and it could be any time from two decades from to a century from now.
          https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/climate-crisis-scientists-spot-warning-signs-of-gulf-stream-collapse

          1. ian-oG

            Thanks Nigel.

            Yep, we have been blessed with it until now, if that changes we will see vastly different weather patterns and more extreme weather.

    2. andrew

      Not long before more than half of Spain will be a desert and uninhabitable. We in the West have caused it so have a moral obligation to open our doors to those fleeing the effects of it.

          2. Nigel

            And how many good things have been done for the greater good? And how many evils have been done through inhumanity? How much evil is perpetuated so some humans can live in comfort while the rest suffer? How do you think a thing like that can be sustained except through greater and greater act of evil?

        2. E'Matty

          “And just who is stipulating this “moral obligation”?” Why, it’s the very people actually responsible for the destruction of the world’s environment. Funny that. Most are blissfully unaware of the role played by Big Oil in nurturing and funding the global climate change movement. Global problems require global solutions. Sounds like we need more centralised supranational global governance! A nice synergy between private capital and the State (Stakeholders), on a global level.

          1. Nigel

            ‘Most are blissfully unaware of the role played by Big Oil in nurturing and funding the global climate change movement.’

            Because it’s a lie? Most people know what Greenwashing is at this point. Though the rationale of an industry nurturing and funding a global movement calling for the compete destruction that that industry must take some strange twists and turns.

      2. Nigel

        People really don’t seem to get this. The refugee crisis as it currently stands is going to be nothing compared to the flood of humanity as the equator becomes uninhabitable, with the accompanying wars and instability. Regardless of whether borders are opened to them or not, they’re coming, and if pandemic-truthers think the vaccine passport is a Big Brother measure, but it’ll be kid’s stuff compared to the crackdown on human rights and liberites and the surveillance and loss of privacy that could come about from reactionary nationalist crackdowns on climate refugees.

  3. Rosette of Sirius

    Hottest I ever experienced was 47c in Chad with almost zero humidity. That was 15 years ago and I’m sure that now I’m 50 I’d probably have to be medi-vacced. It was scary hot and absolutely, perilously dangerous for a fellah with my complexion.

      1. ian-oG

        I’m a secret ginger so shush about it!

        My hair is so dark brown as to be almost black but when I grow a beard – mostly ginger. But I hate beards, too scratchy for me and now if grow one it looks almost dirty; ginger, dark brown/black and of course mainly grey now too! My wife said it looks like I tried to dye it and made a mess of it so clean shaven for me!

          1. ian-oG

            Well there you go, thanks Janet! Always wondered about that, no red hair in either of my parents families and there is no doubting my Dad, we are the spit of each other and my grandfather as well so never knew where it came from?

          2. Fergalito

            Interesting, I often wondered why my feasóg was peppered with black, brown, ginger, grey and white hairs though these days it’s mostly white/grey. For the same reasons as Ian I dislike a full beard. Too much of a pain in the hoop, itchy filthy things. Less maintenance in a weekly shave. Fascinating, I know.

            According to an article I read somewhere, sometime about something, considerably less than 10% of Irish people people have Celtic genes. There you go, apropos of nothing much in particular.

          3. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

            oh yeah the Celtic thing is so misunderstood, it was a movement of culture rather than people

      2. Rosette of Sirius

        I’m actually blond. Tho my skin is very light and burn red raw. Got that from my mother. My father was blond too but would tan like an Italian. Was quite the combo.

  4. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

    I reckon the hottest I had to actually live in was the 2003 canicule, heatwave in France, 14.000 dead by the end of August, I was working in a bar, I ended up just letting people serve their own drinks while I stood in front of a fan and sprayed myself with water.
    I love the heat and get a great tan, even managed a nudist villa in Greece in August, but working in it …nah.

    1. Lush

      Remember it well J.
      I was working in the vineyards; we started at 6.30am and finished at 12; but some days it was simply too hot to go out in, even early in the day. Even the vines shut down; they, like us, need cool nights to recover from the heat of the day, and that just didn’t happen in the summer of 2003.
      Got an awesome tan though.

  6. Fergalito

    Interesting, I often wondered why my feasóg was peppered with black, brown, ginger, grey and white hairs though these days it’s mostly white/grey. For the same reasons as Ian I dislike a full beard. Too much of a pain in the hoop, itchy filthy things. Less maintenance in a weekly shave. Fascinating, I know.

    According to an article I read somewhere, sometime about something, considerably less than 10% of Irish people people have Celtic genes. There you go, apropos of nothing much in particular.

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