There have been plenty of stories I wish I could have followed up on, and sometimes I'm lucky enough to get additional information later that gives me a chance to flesh out or expand on whatever the subject had been.
And then there are mornings like this, where there is a goldmine of additional information popping out of my feed that is screaming for posts of its own.
Yeah, this is one of those days.
Just yesterday, I indulged my bent for combining history lessons with another rant against the climate cult when I discussed the pretty intense heatwave that's got Western Europe all wrapped up at the moment.
They'[re not going to thank you for pointing out it's happened before.
— tree hugging sister 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) June 19, 2026
To expand on the technical reasons for the excessive heat, meteorologist Chris Martz had a really terrific (as he always does) explanation of the naturally occurring phenomenon, with the sexy James Bond spy-novel name for it causing it to sound like a non-weather type.
THE OMEGA BLOCK
Why is it hot in Europe this week?
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) June 25, 2026
Well, it has to do with the “omega block” in the jet stream. Omega blocks get their name because they resemble the Greek uppercase letter omega, Ω.
You can see that in the synoptic setup. The map below on the left shows the 500 mb… pic.twitter.com/D2KHo9cOv3
...You can see that in the synoptic setup. The map below on the left shows the 500 mb geopotential height anomaly at 18z. The contour lines resemble the Ω shape due to an enormous high-pressure ridge in the mid-troposphere that is sandwiched between two low-pressure systems to its east and west.
Hot Saharan air has been advected—that is, horizontally transported—northward into western Europe due to anticyclonic (clockwise) airflow, and as that air mass moves north, it is compressed adiabatically beneath the ridge where air is sinking.
This process is natural and has nothing whatsoever to do with climate change or greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, there are quite a few studies suggesting that reduced latitudinal baroclinicity (north-to-south temperature gradient) caused by Arctic amplification could reduce the frequency of mid- and high-latitude blocking events (e.g., Hassanzadeh et al., 2014; Woollings et al., 2018).
Our own family meteorologist, who is suffering through this ghastly heat in England right now, wonders what part the current ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation), as it's going into what's predicted to be a Super El Niño phase, might be playing in this.
Weather.
What isn't up for debate is that the temperatures the Europeans have been experiencing have been excessive for them and are truly dangerous, especially for a continent stubbornly air-conditioning-averse.
As John said in his post as the heatwave began, over 40 people had already drowned across France trying to cool off in pools and rivers. Europeans drop like flies from summer heat and being trapped in apartments with little ventilation choices adds to the heat stroke peril, even if there were a breeze to catch in the most average of circumstances.
...The total number of heat-related deaths has been quite high in recent years though these estimates aren't directly comparable.
The World Health Organization says more than 200,000 people across Europe have died from heat over the past four years.
Those numbers would seemingly point to a mortality rate not so different from 2003. But Joan Ballester, a research professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, said the death count from 2003 would likely be much higher if the same methodology were used as in more recent research of heat deaths.
Obviously, things become even more lethal as the mercury climbs, and yet, there is a furious, obstinate climate cult-driven resistance to chilling out and not just for comfort's sake, but actively reducing that mortality spike.
In the United Kingdom, that Malthusian crusade in favor of the Earth against the humans who occupy it has been taken to the granular, intrusive extreme by the authoritarian climate Nazis that the British people have allowed to usurp their very right to the means for survival.
Please note that 40°C is 104°F. The UK's Met Office has issued 'RISK TO LIFE' temperature warnings.
Now, please proceed to read the following Xweet. Do mind your jaw when it hits the floor.
You could bruise.
Britons ordered to remove air conditioning from homes in 40C heat under Net Zero crackdownhttps://t.co/mfU6pLEtUP
— GB News (@GBNEWS) June 25, 2026
It's 104°, you are really comfortable in your humble flat or cottage, and there's a knock on the door.
It's not some dystopian Twilight Zone episode, where you woke up after too many martinis in a different dimension.
Air conditioning torn from homes under net zero clampdown
Climate change regulations prioritised despite soaring temperatures
Homeowners are being forced to tear out air conditioning from their private properties under climate laws, despite rising temperatures.
Council planning officers ordered residents to remove air-con units over fears they produce too much carbon dioxide, stating they should only be used as a “last resort”.
The net zero clampdown is part of building regulations that state “active cooling” should only ever be allowed when all other means of “passive cooling”, such as opening windows or using fans, have been exhausted.
The Tories said Britain was being “kept in the dark ages” under a net zero mindset that denies people “modern conveniences that are completely normal in other countries”.
Meanwhile, temperatures are forecast to reach as high as 40C this week, with Britain sweltering under a record heatwave that has forced schools to close, brought trains to a halt and led to the Met Office issuing a red “risk-to-life” warning.
There is NO JUSTIFICATION for cooling units if planning council enforcement officers say so.
Open a damn window if you're warm, you big baby.
...Widely published advice states planning permission is not required to install air-con. However, planning is required in certain situations, such as in conservation areas, and there are different rules for flats, leasehold homes, as well as shared buildings.
It means there is a risk units are installed under the assumption they are permitted, but are later caught by council enforcement officers.
In one of a string of cases uncovered by The Telegraph, a resident living in North London was forced to “permanently remove” two air-con units from the back of their home.
Planning inspectors working for Camden council said there was “no justification” for the air-con units and that they failed to comply with the local authority’s so-called “cooling hierarchy”.
In an appeal, the resident was told to open the windows and balcony doors of their first-floor flat to ventilate the property “by natural means”.
The veritable petty dictators that have been empowered by the authoritarians at the head of the government constantly act with malicious and malignant intent towards the citizens whom they are rumored to have been elected to serve. It isn't enough that the climate cult is ruining the country financially.
It must now finish roasting off as many of the troublesome peasants as possible, issuing peasant dwelling a/c unit removal orders from the air-conditioned comfort of the renovated and palatial Camden Council Chamber.
The solution: Hitachi modular chiller system exceeds the design’s performance target
Cooling of the building was particularly challenging, “The Part-L compliance dynamic thermal model set a seasonal efficiency target of 4.9 SEER on a total building cooling load of 2.2MW, divided over two air-cooled chiller units” the CISBE Journal reported. The solutions proposed in the UK market at the time, did not meeting the requirements.
Looking outside of the UK, the Hitachi RCME series of air-sourced modular screw chillers were found. Each chiller unit delivers great efficiency, with an SEER of 5.31, notably due to its twin plate heat exchangers. However, the most interesting advantage of the chiller was the possibility to combine multiple units into a large modular system with primary/secondary control logic, so that the cooling capacity could be continuously adjusted to exactly meet any cooling load, up to 2,240 kW.
After consideration, 14 modules of 60HP were chosen to fit in the space available. The system’s minimal cooling capacity was set to be as low as 40 kW, minimizing the energy consumption when cooling demand is low.
The chiller played an important role in contributing to the significant annual energy savings, predicted at £500,000 annually. This enabled more money to be spent on adding swimming pools and other public amenities to the building for the use of Camden residents.
I'm sure Camden residents appreciated the largesse of Camden councilors going to such extremes to find an efficient a/c unit so the hoi polloi - who are denied the same cooling privilege - could have a nice pool to dip their overheated, dirty toes in, whilst the council elite watch like doting parents from their cool offices.
Unbelievable.
LET THEM USE YOGURT
Some UK experts are advising Brits to coat their homes in Greek yogurt to avoid the heat.
— 𝔻𝕦𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝔻𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕠𝕟 (@dutchdalton992) June 25, 2026
Definition of europoors pic.twitter.com/xrK3qiXrkg
Climate resiliance and stiff, sweaty upper lip!
What a pity we've been building all our homes to retain heat, with small windows and miserable tiny rooms, effectively banning A/C, and urging everyone to spend on insulation for the last 20 years. https://t.co/LWRwlR48LO
— David Frost (@DavidGHFrost) June 25, 2026
Unbelievable.
And intolerable.
Our Ebola* has said Britain is one of the worst third-world countries he's ever been in, from almost the moment he got there. Anticipating something else entirely probably has made his disgust with the situation even worse.
We asked him if he could take a sleeping bag to the squadron and snooze on his office floor, and he was, like, 'Mother. Nothing's air-conditioned on base.'
Welp. At least he's young and gets to rotate out eventually.
No other choice. The right to bear refrigeration shall not be infringed
— Georgey (@PeorgeyGeorgey) June 25, 2026
What the British decide to do about themselves remains to be seen.
Beege ADDS: Let me just note that there is irony abounding everywhere in the misery.
It’s turning into North Africa anyway. The replacement population will be fine
— Questionable (@Questio29125479) June 25, 2026
*Our son was one of the very first computer and gaming savants in the early 90s, winning tournaments and designing "skins" for games not long after Al Gore invented the innerwebs. Unfortunately, he also had a knack for catching the first viruses. One was so virulent that it wiped his computer and all of my work and required one of his father's computer geeks to come from base with a DoD program to finally exterminate it. His uncle Bingley nicknamed him "Ebola," and it has been his nom-de-innerwebs ever since.
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