Dangerous Heat

 Today and tomorrow might be the worst. This is extreme. This is the sort of heat wave that will become more frequent and more deadly in the future, as the planet heats up. You can't pump enormous amounts of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, generation after generation, without suffering catastrophic consequences. This is just the beginning, a little preview of what will be. Censorship and wishful thinking won't make it go away. The laws of nature are inexorable and they have no regard for human happiness, human hopes, human dreams, religious beliefs, or human survival. Hold a loaded gun up to your head and pull the trigger. You're dead. That simple. Cause and effect. 

More Record Highs

 Today and tomorrow will be really bad, but after that, maybe a bit of a change, maybe even past the worst. 

Another Hot Day

 On and on it goes. The heat is really oppressive now, with no end in sight. Next summer will be even worse, and the summer after that, and the summer after that... at least, that appears to be the established pattern. I still see some forecasters talking about an early invasion of arctic air. I'm skeptical about that. 

No matter what happens I always strive to keep my life free of complications. Simplicity is the goal, and frugality is its partner. 

Yet Another Hot Day

 The heat wave must end sooner or later. Let it be sooner! At least mornings are still quite comfortable. And the days are shorter, so less insolation, but it continues to be very hot. But also very dry. 

I have quite a lot to do today!

The Heat Settles In

 We got some relief last evening and it was pleasant on the patio, with heavy clouds and thunder and a few drops of rain, and then some cooling breezes. No real rain though, at least not at my location. But it was not bad at all. In the summer, in weather like this, I actually chill cabernet. And that's what I enjoyed on the patio. I'm surrounded by sunflowers, some up to twelve feet tall, but they are past their prime and the seeds are feeding finches. It's still possible to use the path I made earlier this year but it's like pushing through a jungle. I'm delighted to have bees outside, and spiders, and many other small insects crawling all over the sunflowers. I've never been stung. I'm not so happy with the mosquitoes, though. I see forecasts calling for an early onset of cool weather, and I hope they are correct. 2024 will probably be the hottest year on record, and I'm sure 2025 will top that, and so on and so on, until... the party is over. And it never was much of a party. More of a drunken, bloody, orgy. Death, destruction, and a lot of nonsense. Madness and unspeakable cruelty. 

What a bummer. Some party, eh?