Killer heatwave

[t2016]

I understand that different countries have its own culture. I bring my own umbrella (for rain and especially for UV) to protect myself. I believe that protection may be necessary this time because of the super toxic sun ray.

I know very well that bring umbrella under the super good sunshine is very weird phenomena to many people especially to the view point of westerner. However, it is good to do some protections.

Watch the moment a car MELTS as killer heatwave sweeps Europe

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lat14NeHYgs

[grannyfranny100]

Wow, I am lost about this. Is this a temporary heat wave or a significant climate change? Is it in Hong Kong or a larger region? Do people have air conditioning in their homes and offices? Are more people carrying umbrellas as protection for their skin? What is this doing to local water supplies? Are people ending up in hospitals with heat stroke?

[Erich]

We went through this about 4 weeks ago. The air con could not cool the room and the motor eventually broke. My electric bill went up 400 percent.

[KiwiElf]

Posted by grannyfranny100 (here)
Wow, I am lost about this. Is this a temporary heat wave or a significant climate change? Is it in Hong Kong or a larger region? Do people have air conditioning in their homes and offices? Are more people carrying umbrellas as protection for their skin? What is this doing to local water supplies? Are people ending up in hospitals with heat stroke?

Allegedly, tampering with the weather by you-know-who using HAARP and other nasty technologies. However, astronomers have also noticed "climate change" occurring on other planets in our solar system too (which we Earthlings are blamed for here, but unlikely to have caused on say... Mars!)

[Selkie]

That's weird. The temperature used to go up to 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 degrees Celsius) in the Central Valley of California and none of the cars ever melted. What are the heat wave temps getting up to over there?

p.s. It looks more like microwave damage than heat damage. Just a thought.

[robinr1]

the sun is bad for your skin?

[grannyfranny100]

Robin1, I have to be very careful; I am a redhead with very pale skin and could never be part of the lay out and tan group. But like everybody, I need vitamin D too.

[Selkie]

Posted by robinr1 (here)
the sun is bad for your skin?

I'm not quite sure how you mean this, robinr1, but I would say that no, the sun per se is not bad for your skin. Too much sun is bad for your skin. Too much being an individual thing.

Back to topic...

[Wind]

I don't know if it's related, but Earth's magnetic field has been constantly weakening (and nearing the point of reversal) so it's probably letting more UV light through. Then again the Sun is losing it's solar irradiance and power constantly, which of course affects us. The Sun is the source of all life and we should respect it.

Ultraviolet Radiation: How it Affects Life on Earth

"The sun radiates energy in a wide range of wavelengths, most of which are invisible to human eyes. The shorter the wavelength, the more energetic the radiation, and the greater the potential for harm. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation that reaches the Earth’s surface is in wavelengths between 290 and 400 nm (nanometers, or billionths of a meter). This is shorter than wavelengths of visible light, which are 400 to 700 nm.

UV radiation from the sun has always played important roles in our environment, and affects nearly all living organisms. Biological actions of many kinds have evolved to deal with it. Yet UV radiation at different wavelengths differs in its effects, and we have to live with the harmful effects as well as the helpful ones. Radiation at the longer UV wavelengths of 320-400 nm, called UV-A, plays a helpful and essential role in formation of Vitamin D by the skin, and plays a harmful role in that it causes sunburn on human skin and cataracts in our eyes. The incoming radiation at shorter wavelengths, 290-320 nm, falls within the UV-B part of the electromagnetic spectrum. (UV-B includes light with wavelengths down to 280 nm, but little to no radiation below 290 nm reaches the Earth’s surface). UV-B causes damage at the molecular level to the fundamental building block of life— deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)



Electromagnetic radiation exists in a range of wavelengths, which are delineated into major divisions for our convenience. Ultraviolet B radiation, harmful to living organisms, represents a small portion of the spectrum, from 290 to 320 nanometer wavelengths. (Illustration by Robert Simmon)

DNA readily absorbs UV-B radiation, which commonly changes the shape of the molecule in one of several ways. The illustration below illustrates one such change in shape due to exposure to UV-B radiation. Changes in the DNA molecule often mean that protein-building enzymes cannot “read” the DNA code at that point on the molecule. As a result, distorted proteins can be made, or cells can die.



Ultraviolet (UV) photons harm the DNA molecules of living organisms in different ways. In one common damage event, adjacent bases bond with each other, instead of across the “ladder.” This makes a bulge, and the distorted DNA molecule does not function properly. (Illustration by David Herring)

But living cells are “smart.” Over millions of years of evolving in the presence of UV-B radiation, cells have developed the ability to repair DNA. A special enzyme arrives at the damage site, removes the damaged section of DNA, and replaces it with the proper components (based on information elsewhere on the DNA molecule). This makes DNA somewhat resilient to damage by UV-B.

In addition to their own resiliency, living things and the cells they are made of are protected from excessive amounts of UV radiation by a chemical called ozone. A layer of ozone in the upper atmosphere absorbs UV radiation and prevents most of it from reaching the Earth. Yet since the mid-1970s, human activities have been changing the chemistry of the atmosphere in a way that reduces the amount of ozone in the stratosphere (the layer of atmosphere ranging from about 11 to 50 km in altitude). This means that more ultraviolet radiation can pass through the atmosphere to the Earth’s surface, particularly at the poles and nearby regions during certain times of the year.

Without the layer of ozone in the stratosphere to protect us from excessive amounts of UV-B radiation, life as we know it would not exist. Scientific concern over ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere has prompted extensive efforts to assess the potential damage to life on Earth due to increased levels of UV-B radiation. Some effects have been studied, but much remains to be learned."

[Selkie]

@ Wind

I've been wondering about that. If its letting more UV light through, its probably also letting other kinds of radiation through, too, like microwaves, etc.

[Citizen No2]

I saw this also.

I think there is something else to this. Why only that car? Why localised? No other damage to anything else near, or around the area?

Thing's That Make You Go, Hmmmmmmmmm.............


Regards.

[Selkie]

Posted by Citizen No2 (here)
I saw this also.

I think there is something else to this. Why only that car? Why localised? No other damage to anything else near, or around the area?

Thing's That Make You Go, Hmmmmmmmmm.............


Regards.

I looked it up, and the guy who took the pictures sounds legit. But there are cars in the background that aren't melted, and 98 degrees Fahrenheit isn't really all the hot. So I don't know what gives.

[fourty-two]

To me, the melting stuff looks like really crappy after-market trim replacement The actual car does not seem to be melting

[Selkie]

Posted by fourty-two (here)
To me, the melting stuff looks like really crappy after-market trim replacement The actual car does not seem to be melting

There you go...I wouldn't be surprised if that's the answer.

[prc]

In Brazil we are facing a winter with temperatures of over 30 degree celsius. And a friend of Sweden said that her summer is unusually cold with temperatures of just 15 degree celsius.

[Agape]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0oXvMzcbZFY

They say Egypt have 47C, 21 dead , 66 hospitalised . Poland have 38C, lots of power cuts , in Portugal there are wildfires ..here they measured 40C near Prague.

I've not seen any cars melting . But you can occasionally observe road asphalt melting on hot days , is because surface temperature is much higher than air temperature ( even without wheel friction ). We have had apple baked under the car back window once when i was kid . Cars are like big cans , Faraday cage ; conserve energy .

Looks strange though.

It's impossible to do much in this weather really .

[Wind]

Posted by Selkie (here)
@ Wind

I've been wondering about that. If its letting more UV light through, its probably also letting other kinds of radiation through, too, like microwaves, etc.

We've been constantly bombarbed by cosmic rays and it's been happening for some time now, as time progresses it's only getting more intense. You might not see them, but yet they are there... Cosmic rays too mutate the human DNA among other things.

[KiwiElf]

We have had record-breaking cold in Kiwiland this winter and some significant storms for this end of the world.

[Earthlink]

<-- refrigeration mechanic. Anyway, part and parcel to what I call the technological dummies who run our industries on Earth these days, the same absentee owners who, through the 12 to 15 year cycle of crashing the stock market and then buying up controlling interest in all the biggest and most successful corps at pennies on the dollar, and then of course printing stories in their newspapers that everything is ok again, everything returns to normal while they consistently emerge as owners of everything.

They've never told you this, however I have no problem doing so, and this is a reality of conventional air conditioning: In order to do 100,000 btu's worth of cooling to inside space, a conventional air conditioner is a machine that runs, and when it does so it generates heat unto itself, in the first place, and secondly because they insist that cooling is done this way, and with these devices that they have selected we use as opposed to a myriad of other ways of cooling, they have insisted we all use air source heat pumps. The deployment of water source heat pumps would alleviate all this, but water sourced heat pumps will also heat space in the winter months, which would render gas and oil for heating and hot water production obsolete, so, they chose to go full on headstrong into these air sourced heat pumps which can not also heat, and, in order to do 100,000 btu's of cooling they need to shed more than double that, more than 200,000 btu's of heat must be shed to the outside air.

Therefore, the hotter it gets, the hotter it will get. No word of a lie.

And personally it looks to me like someone went at that car in the video with a magnifying glass or something.

Now, this is just data on air conditioners, it has nothing to do with all of the additional heat from the billions of internal combustion engines, nor the changed composition of the atmosphere because of those fuel motors and entering sunlight; this is just the air conditioners themselves.

[woodshreder]

Total BS @ 30 sec there's someone walking barefoot behind the car