Saturday, July 6, 2019

The Baking Heat in Central Poland, its Consequences For The Present And The Future



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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