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In an industrial suburb of London there are a great many data centres. They have raised the UHI by 2 degrees C locally, it is said
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15999761/Life-Britains-data-centre-capital-Constant-humming-straining-energy-grid-temperatures-2C-higher-thanks-30-sites-one-square-mile.html
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Has anyone noticed the forest fires in Europe…due to climate change, of course.
I would think of a thousand smart remarks, like ma nature trying to balance ut C oh two ..
but having been in a forest fire, they are genuinely terrifying.
In the US west, things were controlled for many years. The fires are a natural thing…lightning, ya know, but if
you permit a fair amount of logging dispersed across your entire forest you have both fire-beaks and roads,
not to mention heavy equipment and operators that will pitch in when needed. Sequester some to stay natural, put th rest on a cycle length
determined by the tree species, keep the arborists busy watching for beetles and botulism, and you have a healthy forest and manageable
fires. Drought years are tougher so you pre-position assets and stop controlled burns then.
We did this for about 80 years.
Then we were told to stop, sometimes by people who, I swear, had never seen a tree that wasn’t growing in a pot. SO the Pseudo-scientific left banned most logging and forestry
in flyover country, and our fires have been more difficult ever since. These aren’t virgin growth forests in Europe, either, for the most part, as wood was their primary construction material for buildings and boats for, oh, 20 centuries. But now we “preserve” them, and so they burn.
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I was astonished to read of the breadth and depth of Canada euthanasia law with some 16000 people annually dying through it. In Britain they are trying to get such a law on the statute books but it would seem the Canadian definition for euthanasia is broadly drawn with not everyone seeming that willing.
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Housebuilding in Britain is expected to surge following the influx of migrants that the general population say are not wanted but falls on Deaf Govt ears.
I think there is a similar situation in Oz with the population surging, often with people from China, SE Asia and India.
In Britain there is a practical block on housebuilding, the disposal of sewage. You can couple that with the lack of reservoir capacity to supply Britain’s water needs, without even diverting down the topic of data centres and their use of water. Come to that, where is the electricity coming from?
Obviously the elite in both our countries have got the matters well in hand and will deal with any problems that arise with their usual level of competence.
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/07/24/theres-one-very-stinky-reason-why-labours-housebuilding-targets-are-doomed-to-fail/
On the whole Britain has more water than OZ but it has an aging infrastructure. I don’t know whether water or sewage disposal in Australia is a concern as your population grows?
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