World's hottest day since records began

What worries me is the amount of pesticides growing crops entails. Im not sure people fully understand. Spray before planting, spray many times while growing.The soil ecosystem of a tillaged field is sterile, disturbed with constant rotation and pesticides. Also, more land is needed to create the same amount of food as meat and its more vulnerable to bad seasons. Grassland is undisturbed with rich ecosystems of mycelium underneath. Dig up the soil of a field of corn, try and find earthworms, mycelium.. do the same for pasture. HUGE difference.. If we stop using land for pasture, it will be used for tillage. Which is much, much worse for the land and us.

You implied that the news media were being paid to report on the record breaking extreme temperatures, droughts, wildfires, flash floods that are all happening concurrently all around the world right now....

Public service broadcasting involves informing people about science and issues facing society. Of course the state should be paying for broadcasts to educate people about the very real threat of climate change and what our role should be to adapt and mitigate future harm from rising global temperatures

Informing and education people is 'conditioning' now

Right.

How do you make your own mind up?

Based on whatever nutcases pop up in your twitter feed, or whatever news is 'curated' to you by an algorithm aimed at getting you to spend as much as your life doom scrolling through whatever the algorithm identifies as most likely to grab your attention?

I’m not on twitter.

If you inform people of an agenda you want them to follow- then yes you are conditioning them.

I generally look at both sides of an argument and make my mind up.

However it helps if you can actually get access to both sides of the argument instead of the government attempting to deny access to the side they deem dangerous.

It's difficult who to believe. Murdoch and his ilk own the media. National broadcasters have their own agendas, set by governments.

Scientist's are funded by companies. Someone has to pay their wages.

The manipulation of Social Media is widespread.

Trying to find out 'facts' has never been more difficult.

The funny thing is that people are constantly told not to confuse the weather (which is short-term) with global warming or climate change or whatever the preferred term is now;

However, we are now being told that a warm spell in parts of Europe is now unrefutable proof of the impact of GW/CC; it also seems that the weather for the last week of July and certainly the first 2 weeks of August for Germany is rather mediocre, not particularly wet but certainly with temperatures in the 20-25 degrees range - I look forward to rte breathlessly covering this cooler than normal spell on their 7am radio news in the first slot after 'what it says in papers", just for balance

Its not a 'warm spell'

It's record breaking extreme hot weather that is happening concurrently across multiple continents at the same time. Loads of Hot weather records being smashed year on year, with zero cold records being broken.

That is not normal weather, that indicates a shift in climate.

And it if was just a once off anomaly, it wouldn't be proof of climate change, but it's not, it's a part of pattern that has been predicted, has known causes and will continue to get worse unless we address the causes of said climate change

Shouldn't western powers be considering military action to combat delinquent nation's (china, India, Indonesia, Philippines, South Africa et al) to literally save all our lives before we all get killed by the weather?

It is a warm spell, as normal as it was between 91-97 when I lived in Germany permanently.

Summer was always hot in Italy and Spain, but perhaps before social media and with less foreign travel, people were simply less aware of it.

Interestingly, I heard today that a region of Germany is banning cats from being outdoors for six months of the year to cut the number of birds killed by these "pets", with fines of up to €50k depending on what bird is killed. This should help biodiversity and is the type of policy that should be introduced in Ireland as well. Petfood production contributes to emissions and it is now rime to limit the number of domestic pets that we in Ireland should have.

Climate change is now an industry, so fair play to those who continue to push it aggressively, but I really struggle to see how ireland impoverishing itself will help the global "battle".