Palermo Airport in Sicily forced to close as fire approaches

Wildfires: Palermo Airport in Sicily forced to close as fire approaches:

Unbelievable weather - storms and fires and heatwaves ... how long is it all going to last ?

Won’t affect Dover to Calais sailings so I’m a happy bunny

Looks like these heatwaves (and fires) will be part of our future

Lots of noise about the fires being the work of arsonist’s although fire authorities disagree with the theory.

I don’t see in my post or in my previous posts on other threads mocking ER (what there belief is) or Stop Oil
Yes I may ridicule the way they go about it, only come out in the summer, only protest in the moderate tolerant world, their disruption causes although absolute minimal an increase in the very thing they are wishing to hi light, they offer no alternatives.
Yes I am concerned about the planet warming but me chucking a load of orange paint over some building isn’t going to ease my concern nor combat the crisis’
A study in America by the National Parks Administration states 85% of fires there are started by human carelessness such as discarded cigarette ends etc.
The first wildfire happened 450 million years ago and we have them across the world every year.
As one climate change warrior said as she boarded a plane for a holiday” we must do something about it”
Will I see the effects of global warming yes,my children and grandchildren more so just as I saw the effects of covid, will I support any cause that offers up disruption without offering genuine reasoning and ideas to improve and challenge global warming , no I won’t. Will I lend support to any genuine ideas to reduce global warming yes I will.

This is what many people and governments around the world are like:

I guess a rowing boat or sail boat to the Spanish resorts will be fun.
But in the mean time

why I travel by ferry when I can

carbon footprint for a foot passenger on a ferry is only 19 grams per km. That is considerably less than the 244 grams per km for a short flight.

I noticed a lot more rain and wind in the Philippines despite a heatwave last month.
Had a 16 hour brownout last night and today, wind and rain for 3 days, just stopped about 3 hours ago.
More fun in the Philippines.

Certainly is Jim - did Pagasa get it right for you?

We were never near the track of Egay but Pagasa kept telling my wife (or fb) that it was coming... never did.

Anyway, I noticed she'd put stones in front of the tyres of the car today so I asked her what she was doing:

"I put those there so the if the wind is strong the car won't blow away..." you have to laugh don't you.

Still windy here on Negros Oriental. It never stopped a local from cleaning the gutters out on my three storey house.
500 pesos job done.