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Originally Posted by Livia
Fish died in a canal because of the heat. Right... My newspaper said that as canals are
non tidal with quite still water, and that there's quite a lot of runoff of chemicals from the fields after rain all of which was added to by the warm weather. Global warming was not responsible for this, it was a combination of things. That makes more sense to me. And it it took them far too long to aerate the water, an exercise that they described as "expensive" but consists only of pumping canal water out and back in.
Also, does everyone believe the June we've just had is the hottest ever?
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It was since 1884 according to the MO - as that is as far back as they now go
however if you use the records that go back to 1660 its the 5th warmest