Josephus,

i recall picking apricots in the SA Riverland when the temperatures daily were 40, 40, 43, 46, 43, 43, and then a cool 40. On the 46-degree day, we all were picking the undersides, leaving the outer and top fruit to boil, which it did from the inside - green on the outside, boiled rotten on the inside. The 40-degree day was a breeze. It's quite surprising what you can get used to.

Maybe every little snowflake prince and princess should do a season of fruit-picking, to get some idea of what work is. I suppose the blockies will have to air-condition each tree first, for the poor little dears. Otherwise they'll all collapse in states of depression and have to go on the NDIS.

Joe

If the unlikely prophecy (nearly all others have proven false) happens and temperatures increase then it makes sense we dig up more coal for cheap reliable electricity so we can tune our air conditioners that 2 degrees lower. Easy solution!

At age 16 I got my first job, as a nanny, on a cattle station up along the Birdsville track a couple of hundred kms north of Maree. 50 degrees plus during the day and could get down to 15 or less at night. I coped really well because it was a really dry heat.
In 1970 I moved to the Kimberley , got married, raised 4 kids there with no airconditioning. None of us up here did back then apart from a few high level government officials. Even parts of the hospitals weren’t airconditioned. It wasn’t easy but hell, all the kids not only survived but thrived so despite the discomfort that type of weather is not bad for your health. And the birth rate was at least treble that of down south, so fertility not affected either.
Mind you, we all have airconditioning now, my black grandkids couldn’t live without all their modern conveniences

my black grandkids couldn’t live without all their modern conveniences
Big nana,
so, what you're saying is that your Grand kids are the same as those CC protesters except they don't protest !

Individual, my grandkids believe the climate has always been changing and that humans just have to change along with it.
Adapt or die is our motto.

Big Nana,
Good to hear they have some sense. I was referring to the modern conveniences. i.e. the same as the protester kids but without the hypocrisy.