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Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world - cancelled - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

We regret that this event has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office.

Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

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I'll bet Mother Nature reads TheOnion.

@SecureOwl to be fair, this probably communicates the scale of the problem better than a speech
@SecureOwl I hope the heat breaks for y'all soon. The heat is MISERABLE.

@jeninmass @SecureOwl

Here (Germany): 39° until Sunday

@knud @SecureOwl 😱😱😱
@SecureOwl I'm guessing someone at the CRA enjoyed the *hell* out of that announcement. It's a giant "we've been telling you this is a problem for years" without having to actually say you've been telling people it's a problem for years.

@wordshaper @SecureOwl
As Ricky (Trailer Park Boys) put it:
"I'm not the kind of person to say atodaso, but you know what? ATODASO!"

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@SecureOwl When cancelling the event makes the point better than the event itself could have done.
Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world - cancelled - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

We regret that this event has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office.

Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

@SecureOwl

Sadly, life writes the best parodies.

@ianscraper @SecureOwl I prefer to use "truth is stranger than fiction" i.e. "it's real, you can't make this up!"

@SecureOwl

Years ago, in the Greater Atlanta Georgia USA area, there was an event where, for the winter Hollidays, they were going to produce artificial snow in a public park area. Snow is extremely rare in Atlanta.

On the day of the event, it actually snowed on its own, too much, ... The snow making event was canceled, ... due to snow.

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@Mendie_Taoma ? The website is blocked for Europe.

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@NatureMC @Mendie_Taoma @SecureOwl Our amateurish european heat doesn‘t qualify for viewing the announcement.

@sanpan @NatureMC @SecureOwl

It's more or less as I said. With the addition of the event organizers saying "Yes. The irony does not escape us."

@SecureOwl No climate resilience whatsoever. Good riddance.
Grantham Research Institute at LSE (@granthamlse.bsky.social)

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

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@SecureOwl i guess irony is also taking the day off…
@SecureOwl A bit too on the nose, i'nit?
@SecureOwl that entire county will get sucked into an ironic logical vortex. Stand back.
@SecureOwl somehow funny, isn't it?
@SecureOwl this is probably a bigger statement piece than the presentation that would have occurred
@SecureOwl @Pkbwood I need to dig out that notice for the respiratory disease conference that got cancelled in March 2020