13 days ago
As we are half way up a mountain the temperature here at the Greek Hovel is a bit cooler than down by the sea. But it is still in the mid thirties and I venture outside less than the younger folk here, preferring the cool of a large living area, kept chilled the old way by thick stone walls and the new way by air conditioning. I gather that back in the UK the alarmists at the BBC and the Met Office have noted that it is quite hot and are insisting that this is demonstrable proof of global warming.
324 days ago
We were all told it was the warmest spring on record. I exhausted my supplies of wood, keeping my family warm by the stove into April. Readers across the UK tell a similar tale. As George Orwell put it in 1984 “ The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” In this case the “party” is the Met Office and the media and political class GroupThink with, natch, the BBC at the forefront. So after that “warmest spring” what was forecast to happen next?