9:02 - Copenhagen is already hot. 19°C, but there is some wind finally. I hope the rain and thunder they promised in the weekend will come all the way to us at the east coast. I am thinking about global warming and the end of the world - I always get gloomy when it is hot. Maybe I should reread Ballard's strange novel "The Drowned World?" That would cheer me up.
I thrive in November where it is cold as hell. It is said that people from Northern Greenland freeze when they are in Denmark, and this winter I had it confirmed. Two people that I know well, and who are always freezing (my wife and my mother) came back from the Disco Bay and from Kiruna in Northern Sweden respectively and had experienced temperatures at about -35 -40°C.
They both said that Denmark on a windy, wet day at just around 0°C is colder (and typical November weather). It is because when the water in the air freezes the heat transfers much slower between your body and the surroundings. Water is to blame!
"It is because you have the red-haired genes," a friend of mine said the other day. She know everything about the human body, as she has examined 1000 men and quite a few women. She is not a scientist - more like an eroticist. According to her red haired people are better at coping with the cold and bad at coping with heat. They are good at withstanding some kind of pains and lousy at withstanding other kind of pains. Thing is... I'm blonde with a red beard so I've never really identified myself as a ginger... until women (yes, I have heard it before) started to say I was - or at least that I had the genes.
Well... that was a weird morning post. I will call it: heat and ginger.
Here is a Celcius - Fahrenheit converter
https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/temperature/celsius-to-fahrenheit.html
My friend @shortcut has started to write some posts every morning - #morgenseiten he calls it - morning-pages. Here is his explanation of the project:
It goes like this: you shall each morning write from the soul, anything going through your head.
He writes a lot more, but this is the essence :) (Read his first morgenseiten post here)
I have decided to try the same. I write from the top of my head every morning or late morning if I have been sleeping late. I only correct typos and make a headline afterwards. Else everything is left as written. Expect some of it to sound like stage directions.
I remember reading Al Gore's book "An Inconvenient Truth" and panicking about the future because of global worming. I saw your fellow Dane, Bjorn Lomborg, interviewed several times on TV and was shocked by his insensitivity.
Now about a decade later, I think I was too quick to judge Lomborg. In any case, Gore's predictions turned out to be way off. But that is a huge topic...
BTW, did you read DNA tests showed that one of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs was a ginger !?!
Anyway, in terms of wet cold vs dry cold, that is absolutely true. It is also the same with hot weather. For me 40° C in Las Vegas desert is much more comfortable than 33° C in the tropics.
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I never trusted anybody that was married to Tipper Gore. On the other hand, the ice is melting on Greenland so something is happening.
Nothing I can do about it except being paranoid in the heat... and feeling like a Pharaoh! Maybe I am Pharanoid?
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... while sipping on an ice-cooled ginger-ale.
PS No you're not paranoid. Lomborg also believes something is indeed going on, but questions the solution.
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Yes, he is a cost-benefit man. He became a poster-child for people who didn't wan't to do a thing, but in the end I think it is a good thing that someone says the opposite of the consensus. It is the same with the discussion about migrants from the middle east. At least in Denmark it ends up in some kind of compromise instead of staying in the name-calling-swamp... (Sweden and Germany! I am looking at you.)
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I must admit, back when I completely trusted the "consensus" I thought he was terrible, but the cost-benefit man is not the monster I thought he was. It takes a lot of courage to go up against the establishment.
Concerning migrants, it is rare to see a reporter challenging the consensus on German TV. Here is an example, and I've heard her mention DK as having a much more effective approach than Germany.
link
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I cannot imagine when you say 19 Celsius degree is hot @katharsisdrill, because I normally set my the aircon in my office previously at 25 degree. how I could survive in -35 or -40...hufffftt...I hope you all are well there.
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In the afternoon it was 26° Celsius - I know I am squeamish compared to you. Maybe the redhead genes.
Hope you are doing well too!
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26 degree, I think very difficult for you. Every one of us has limit for something. Thank you my friend
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So you got a great sense of humor too... :-)
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:)
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