Depressedpedro

Median is the middle right? So if all the bottom numbers go up faster than the rest of the dataset the middle number will be higher as a consequence anyways. Again if your shifting up the bottom numbers by 100% that is not having zero impact on either mean or median. Given how many millions are on that figure tgat actually must have a pretty sizeable impact?

I wonder how much of that is caused by well over 100% wage inflation at the minimum wage and probably wages semi adjustant to it? Aka wages that make Jack all difference on the house buying front. The 2007 wage is now almost the minimum wage full time annual wage.

All paper talk to threaten mps who want him out. They know if they go to the polls now 1/2 are out of a job so it just won't happen earlier than it has to.

They arent having an election till the very last legal moment, probably Dec/Jan as they are desperate to wait as long as possible in the hope things improve. As it stands they are heading for record lows so giving things as long as possible to lift/have some impact makes sense for Sunak and crew.

It kinda did, it was still a pretty warm August, it just wasn't at the same level as what it peaked at earlier in the summer. In terms of August's, probably 1995 would be the king, though 22 is right up there as well. As for Europe, of course it can get extreme in summer but these extreme blasts for now are still a fairly brief part of summer overall, and people really just need to use a bit of common sense if they do go there in the extreme heat, the usual stuff. I still feel far too little adaption is going on and far too much being pumped into hopeful 1.5 limit which has basically sod all chance of happening now. We are plenty resourceful enough as a species to change things. Of course that requires planning beyond the current calibre of politicians capabilities.

Perhaps a bit disingenuous given the main thrust of sustained heat by in large in 2022 hit after the end of that chart. (August joint 3rd hottest ever I believe.) Whereas 76 was generally cooler after that period. That 76 2-3 week period though is still by far the hottest max period, nothing has come even close to that spell.

Flooding will probably be a more constant problem going forwards, at least in winter. My guess for summer would be a hotter summer period on average will produce faster evaporation. In a wetter year tgats not going to be a problem, but in any drier year we are going to be at higher risk of rapid drying out due to the faster evaporation amounts. Last summer was a classic front loaded summer. 2022 if anything did peak over the summer holidays (August as said was very hot overall). Even 1976 was very much more front loaded, with the main thrust through 2nd half of June and 1st half of July. It was still decent afterwards but that was the exceptional period of that summer.

There isn't any real evidence that summer droughts are increasing, the only real clearcut evidence is an increase in winter rainfall and generally more extreme rainfall totals over the course of the year (2000-2024 take up a very disproportionate amount of the top 20 wettest years) By the way the summer your thinking of is 1975, not 77 which wasn't all that great. 75 however had a warm July and an.exceptionally hot August (identical mean temperature to August 22 interestingly) Of course 76 is to this day probably still the most consistently intense summer, though both 18 and 22 aren't drastically far behind. But 75 was no slouch either, just hugely overshadowed. Edit - 76 is the warmest in the CET zone, across both England and the UK I think 2018 beats it, 22 also I think just edges it out but all three are close. 76 has by far the biggest anomaly however. should we see another summer like that in upcoming summers it will destroy all previous records.

Your talking s*** again Stewy. From a government report in 2022 *before* it has further deteoriated over the last 18 months: Only 14% of rivers in England can currently claim to have good ecological status.11 The Government is not on track to meet the Water Framework Directive requirement—subsequently transposed into UK law—for all rivers to reach good status by 2027.12 So clean that only 14% are deemed good enough on a ecological level, a number undoubtably higher than.today. stop spouting stuff you know nothing about.

Of course they do, in reality what can renter families do? Lacking in social housing? Maybe live with parents if they have a property big enough? If your single you habe more options but even then many have family situations that aren't great for that once the kid is out of the family home. Not a huge amount of realistic alternatives other then to buckle down even more and accept an ever poorer outcome.

Of course there is waste, but in the example in Birmingham that 100k equals about 0.02% of the budget. Even removing all HR staff from the budget only stretches to about 10 days if schools funding. It does impact but ignores the far far far bigger problems, underfunding and often speculative property acquisitions

The problem for reform is they attract the same gammony people who voted brexit/Tory to get the job done, broadly working class/male/over 60s Another 5 years down the line and their support base us going to have decreased b6 virtue of a % of them dying so unless they can find a way to energise the young into swinging back right again I think they can never hope to get beyond a few token mps.

Sorry but that's utter nonsense. Most people had children young, hence the bigger families in the past vs today where people increasingly are forced to hold off either due to career desires or simply not being able to afford it. Average male+female is rising and historically we are well above the mean now (was about 24 for female looking at records for families way back into the past, now about 30-31) It's a part of why so many countries are having demographic crashes as its being replicated in many western countries.

I can only go by UK media but they often lose the plot when it comes to cold/snow, I think its on the front pages of the express at least 10 times a winter. When we do eventually get a proper one (and we will, no doubts) I bet they go real potty. In the end the media just wants extremes, because extremes means they can sensationalise a story which gets butt's on seats and eyes on the papers. It's just in densely populated western places there has been a real lack of record, and rather alot of heat records, especially in the last 5 years or so. That's not to say there can't be any other motives, I just suspect it's way down the priority list when it comes to getting people to interact with a story. Specific climate change human activities within the political sphere however, yeah there probably are motives attached to those rather than weather stories per say. It does rather feel like a heave ho whether we are ready or not. Personally I think we need far more work done on adaption, even at the cost of a slower decarbonisatiton. There I a certain amount of problems/damage that is already now locked in, luckily for us here in the UK CC may end up being at worst neutral given we may see reductions in cold deaths, etc against stronger heatwaves/flooding.

I think the issue is the odds of record cold happening over a very densely populated area is now far far slimmer than the odds of a record heatwave over a populated area. And thats what the media focuses on, recognisable (usually western based) cities when it comes to weather records. For example the record cold over the great lakes area a few years back got considerable attention (polar vortex). Sadly a few cold records being broken in small town in Western China is not going to get any mainstream media attention. Also worth noting similar locations have seen HUGE heat records over the past year or two and we've not heard anything of those either. It probably just feels like we hear more of heat records, because there simply *are* more heat records to report on, and much more likely to hit populated areas that the media think warrant a story.