This is
how the city of Lodz, the informal capital of Central Poland, looked
like during the June baking heat: the cloudless sky, the blazing sun,
almost deserted streets, 32 to 38 degrees Celsius in the shade. The
overheated prefabricated buildings out there.
On June
11, an extended and prolonged heat wave had begun throughout Poland.
This time, she came like in the previous year, but much earlier than
in 2015. Meanwhile, the weathermen in Poland have urged caution over
a prolonged spell of hot weather, with temperatures expected to
rise well above 30 degrees Celsius in most parts of the country. That
was, however, an exaggeratedly optimistic attitude.
The
temperatures rose to 38, even 40 degrees Celsius in the shade
The
Government Centre for Security (RCS) has said that people should
drink a lot of water, avoid venturing outdoors between 10 and 8 PM
(especially the elderly people), refrain from exercise during the
hottest hours etc. Another calamity were to be proven almost tropical
storms and heavy rainfalls. Fortunately, the last weather conditions
are still a rare rarity in central Poland.
The
Government’ Centre for Security (in Polish: Rządowe Centrum
Bezpieczeństwa, abbreviated RCB) is a crisis management organization
which, inter alia, will send you a warning (as a text message: alert
RCB) when dangerous weather conditions are coming up.
In
light of this, the mayor of Lodge, the largest city in central
Poland, has announced that a climate catastrophe is imminent
During
the session of the city council held on Wednesday (June 26), she
first had to win the vote of confidence. The President began her
10-minute speech by recalling all the changes for the better, which
were to take place in the city in recent years. There were, among
other things, more than a million tourists who came to Lodz last
year. Also numerous investments, the huge and the smaller, for
example new benches. During the debate, however, the topic of ecology
unexpectedly prevailed. The city administration, however, worked in
vain if global warming in the city could not be stopped, she added.
"Today we have 50 degrees Celsius outside" (i. e. in the
sun), she should say.
Then
she announced the "Green Revolution" in Lodz
She
warned that the cities would turn into deserts, the housing estates
leave without water. She sees the rescue in the waste separation. At
least three quarters of them should now be delivered separately,
otherwise soon the suburbs could be flooded by the garbage. Today the
relationship is reversed at best. Water has to be used more and more
sparingly, according to Hanna Zdanowska.
A
simple method was found to drop the water consumption
The
water meters are installed in buildings in the flats as a
modernisation measure in the brick blocks of flats. The installation
of water meters is free of charge and obligatory for the inhabitants.
A requirement for retrofitting water meters was, by the way,
introduced democratically, as was previously the case with shock
therapy in the Polish economy, through the vote of the not quite
conscious of the consequences flat owners. The modernized apartments
shall be supplied with district heating (that is, in addition to room
heating also with hot water), and declared as an outdated and
dangerous solution gas water heaters should be dismantled.
The
most important consequence is simple and serious at the same time: in
the future, you will need a thermal power station for your bathroom
and laundry
The
electricity and heat from the cogeneration plant is nowadays in
Poland not a safe thing anymore.
Within
the framework of the EU's climate change defence targets, the amount
of hard coal and lignite burned by thermal power stations must be
more and more limited. The problem has been solved (only for now?) by
burning more and more wood in the firing stations of the power
plants. For this purpose, the trees in the cities (low transport
costs) are dropped every year. That was quite rightly emphasized by
the readers of the newspapers in their comments.
Some
experimenting with no mowing the yards
Lodge is
now well known for the habit of making no patches on the roads,
preferring the pretty holes and for stopping all the mow. We have
that saying now. But this just seems to be dictated by politics.
Where is the sense in it? The blooming pavement edges may have been
underestimated in their capacity as natural reservoirs and cooling
system. There are, of course, many open lawns being mowed on the
regular basis during the most of year, and some strips leaved like
islands of wildness among them.
Welcome
to Euro-Africa! I took the picture in the temperature of 45 degrees
Celsius. Behind the foliage, in the shade of the trees, there were at
least 100 mosquitoes present at this time.
This is
attracting, however, does anyone want it or not, butterflies and
insects, including for the bloodsuckers. In the area of the
former grange Balutia (today a city park), where the meadow was
leaven almost totally uncut, so all plants can grow wild, one can be
bitten even at 12 o'clock noon, under the blazing sun, by
astonishingly colourful flies or some mosquitoes.
A
seemingly idyllic landscape!
Starting
a wild flowers meadow should be prepared on some other way. For
example, in Britain there are scientists and suppliers cooperatives,
delivering top quality seed materials as well as all needed advice to
establish and maintain such places, without wrong plants or dangerous
for the general public insects, especially non-native species.
This
situation should be seriously reconsidered as biologists declare war
on invasive Asian hornets in Europe
Dangerous
Asian hornets are set to invade the European continent and the
British Islands. They were brought in on the merchant ships from
Vietnam to France. They're migrating north and east from there. For
humans, the genus Vespa
velutina
represents no great direct danger. Their preferred prey, however, is
already seriously threatened in its existence: the European bee.
A war
has been declared to the overseas invaders by science and economics,
and the whole affair seems to symbolize the danger of contaminating
foreign-imported goods, vehicles and equipment by specimens of
invasive alien species. Once established and spread they would pose a
grave danger to ours natural ecosystems (including forests, villages
and suburbs).
As it
was to prove, it's a new market forming here
New
market, which would emerge from the need for such things as: air
conditioners, plants, machines, and other means for the wild flower
meadows (so they do not become extremely wild), etc., It is enough to
recall that in some supermarket chains in central Poland there is
still no air conditioning. New opportunities to make profits and let
the necessary intermediaries earn how they deserves are awaiting you.
A lot of
Lodger ladies and girls in really short shorts were just one of
objects of interest in our city these days.
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