I'm reading "Is This the End of the Summer Vacation as We Know It? This year, everything from scorching heat to fires, floods, tornadoes and hail storms driven by climate change have disrupted the plans of travelers around the world. A summer getaway remains a powerful desire, but it’s at a tipping point" (NYT).
Everything has been geared for that desire to seek the sun.... not for me. As a child I was taken to the beach in Ocean City, New Jersey every summer, and it was fun for a couple hours, and after that, I had a terrible sunburn. These days, sunblock is much more effective than anything available back in the 1950s, but I'm more about sun avoidance that coating myself with chemicals. I don't like the bright sun. Maybe I should go to Finland. But I'm more likely to just look for shady places — woodland walks, twilight hours, that sort of thing. I can see going to Italy, but absolutely not in the summer. To me the most "most intuitive solution" to the problem described in the article it to invite people to hate spending time in harsh sunlight.
ADDED: I like this, one of the most liked comments over there:
I just returned, refreshed, today from a delightful week of travel. Azure skies, walks by glistening water, bird watching, interesting local dining options, no undue crowds...easy to get around. I chatted with friendly locals. 80 degrees daytime.
I relaxed in reasonably priced lodging overlooking the lake.Where is this underappreciated haven?Erie Pennsylvania.
Yes, I just spent some time a few days ago by an even greater Great Lake in Copper Harbor, Michigan. It was in the 60s during the day and dipped into the 50s at night.
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I like being in the sun under a palm tree whose leaves provide intermittent sun and shade as the wind blows.
Summer travel: positives-more daylight hours so you can extend your day to see more; negatives: too many people
Not summer travel: positives-fewer families, less congestion; negatives: shorter daylight hours so less outdoor time
Always whatever season: find out what days cruise ships stop in your desired location and avoid those crowds at all costs. Too many damn flags with guides walking backwards!
Who goes to Arizona for vacation in the summer?
And the water in Florida is hot because there's been no hurricanes this year. So the heat is proof of hurricanes but also hurricanes are proof of hurricanes?
I also call BS on the idea that people only vacation in sunny areas. Going into the mountains during the summer is very popular in the US. But yes, people in Great Britain who never get sun probably do look forward to sunny Italy. Shocking.
This article has a "snowfall is a thing of the past" vibe to it. They know it's not actually coming true, but they wish it were.
I'm surprised the Times lacks a diversity editor to point out that not everyone suntans. Some already have brown or black skin.
Norway, Sweden and Finland are beautiful. I remember a walk in the forest near Helsinki as a peak experience. There's a day ferry to Riga, which is a lovely town.
"fires, floods, tornadoes and hail storms"
All of which have occurred many times before. And yes, even to the same extent and more.
Have you noticed that on the weather maps, even temperatures of 80oF are painted in red now?
Fear mongering's all they've got.
let me SEE, if i've Got This straight?
The NYT's is saying, that this is 'end of summer vacations as we know it'?
Excuse me? Do you HAVE to be STUPID to read the NYT's? Or does the very act of reading it MAKE you stupid?
Has ANYONE, EVER met ANYONE that reads the NYT's, that's NOT stupid? please let me know
Isn't THIS, the same NYT's, that makes their money ADVERTISING for summer vacations?
My own local newspaper never tires of running stories about our sweltering summer in the new normal of, not merely global warming, but actual global boiling. Meanwhile, temperatures have been below normal and we haven’t had a single significant heat wave. The forest fires, which are unusual here, were all from arson. Between the cool and the rain, nobody’s vegetable garden is doing well.
But “global boiling,” because narrative.
Yeah, the only problem with "Global Warming" is that it isn't actually world-wide and it isn't really raising temperatures. Other than that, the science is settled.
https://www.bbc.com/weather/features/66177220
Climate and weather driven by natural variability. The 1930'S were the hottest years with long heatwaves across the country, then it cooled until the 80's. Climate propaganda is based on cherry picked and manipulated data.
The summer travel problems are because of bad policies from bad people. If you think things are bad because of climate change you should probably kill yourself. It will help things tremendously…
I was just in the Poconos in a break from the Florida summer. It was a little too overcast and rainy but a nice change. Happy to be back at my sunny backyard pool.
And on top of all that, there is the added heat from the "climate" cultists' hair-on-fire over global warming. Which is what (wink, wink) this article is really all about, isn't it.
What, no plague of locusts?
I've never sought bright sun either, and though I enjoy swimming I hate sand, so beaches have never been my thing. My wife is even less of a sun-and-sand-seeker--we're both fair and can burn, but I can tan and she just burns.
Before my father died in '62, we would go to Florida every couple of years, but after that any notion of 'family vacation' disappeared. And our son didn't have many family vacays either--maybe two or three before he left for college.
"Driven by climate change." Not likely. Oh well, The Narrative. I busted a toe on a cobblestone sidewalk in Belgrade. Climate Change.
My summer vacation was the end of June, early July in Holland, Michigan, and the surrounding area. It was a little hazy early on due to the smoke, and we got a little bit of rain, but got a chance to tour southwest Michigan. Saw the De Zwaan windmill in Holland and visited the New Holland Brewing Co.'s brewpub downtown. Climbed a lighthouse on Lake Michigan and the steps to the top of Mount Baldhead outside of Saugatuck. Saw Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids. Visited the sand dunes around Crystal Lake. Got the chance to hang out with my Mom and her husband for a week. And I got a chance to meet up with an old friend from high school who was visiting his wife's family in Grand Rapids. I had a great time.
"Fires, floods, tornadoes, and hailstorms driven by climate change..." Is it futile to point out (again) that none of these events have increased in frequency or violence due to climate change?
The NYT never misses a chance to bring up climate change. What illiterate losers.
People who believe in anthropogenic climate warming need lobotomies because they aren’t using their brains anyway.
The assumption is always, we just don't realize how bad it is, or else we'd be as panicky as they are.
So the only answer is to tell us harder.
August must be Children's Month at the NYT.
gilbar said...
"Has ANYONE, EVER met ANYONE that reads the NYT's, that's NOT stupid? please let me know."
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OK, it's Althouse.
but it’s at a tipping point" (NYT).
I don't think they understand the tipping point. The tipping point is when no reads that tripe, and the writer is out of a job.
Hmmmmm.......maybe it should be called the tripe-ing point.
It's all so tiresome, this need to tie "climate change" into every non-story out there. People from cold or temperate climates often travel to warm and sunny locations for recreation. People like myself who live in Arizona travel to cooler weather. San Diego is popular, but I prefer the cool weather of Ireland. What a flippin' shock.
There's always Iceland.
Does the NYT have any data to back that up? From what I've read, travel is booming this summer. Or are they seriously trying to claim that it's booming because everyone thinks it's their last chance before the world ends? Yes, summers are hot, same as always. And here in the NE the heat has already broken, temps in the low 80s last week and next. But the NYT is Chicken Little, always yelling that the sky is falling.
Everything has been geared for that desire to seek the sun....
I asked Bing for "popular US vacation destinations". The first dozen:
Orlando. Christmas, Art & Culture
Las Vegas. Nightlife, Art & Culture
New York. Art & Culture, Family
Los Angeles. Family, Vibrant & Events
Chicago. Christmas, Art & Culture
Miami. Art & Culture, Beaches
San Francisco. Food & Drink, Beaches
Washington, DC. Christmas, Art & Culture
San Diego. Nature & Wildlife, National Parks
New Orleans. Christmas, Art & Culture
Seattle. Food & Drink, Art & Culture
Boston. Art & Culture, Christmas.
I think they played the "global boiling" card prematurely. When things remain status quo, and people aren't frightened enough, what's left? Global sizzling? Global melting? Global vaporizing? Global subcritical?
"Think of the airports, accommodations and other capital-intensive projects erected to serve the visitors of historically sunny places..."
So it was noticed that people were interested in travelling to places that offer experiences different from those at home and attempts to accommodate that desire were made? Horrors!
Progressives are always troubled by efforts to serve others when it involves individual choices and action. All those people travelling to and fro, with nobody in charge- what a disorganized mess. Instead, progressives would prefer to have Really Smart People in control of where everybody is allowed (or not) to go, and when.
"Is This the End of the Summer Vacation as We Know It?"
No. Next question?
We've had hailstorms this year?. Oh my. NYT would like to end travel for everyone except the elite.
Homelessness problem solved.
I like to travel in February or early March when no one else is traveling. I hate traveling in summer, and I'm not interested in traveling for sun. I might be willing to travel for snow.
Cats and dogs are living together- it is mass hysteria.
No dog in this fight as I'm more inclined to travel in the fall, October being my preferred travel month.
CLIMATE CHANGE!
It is definitely the end of summer vacation as we know it. All readers of the NYT should stop traveling immediately, especially in summer. This will leave more room for the rest of us to continue to travel but, shhh, don't tell anyone.
The number one tourist destination in the United States is Las Vegas. People don't go there for the sun. Number two? Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge/Sevierville, TN. The Great Smoky Mountains can be very pleasant in the summer, but I don't think people go there for the sun either.
I recall the first time I came to Texas, in August of 1983. At the time the world was still worried about global cooling and the next coming ICE AGE, due about next year.
The airport doors opened from air conditioned 70F comfort to over 100F, asphalt melting heat. Then back to an air conditioned 70F bus interior for the ride to the air conditioned hotel.
The important words in the above sentences are "air conditioned." Ain't technology wonderful?
I recall the first time I came to Texas, in August of 1983. At the time the world was still worried about global cooling and the next coming ICE AGE, due about next year.
The airport doors opened from air conditioned 70F comfort to over 100F, asphalt melting heat. Then back to an air conditioned 70F bus interior for the ride to the air conditioned hotel.
The important words in the above sentences are "air conditioned." Ain't technology wonderful?
Now I'm going down to the community pool in 107F afternoon heat to sip a cold, iced drink and enjoy the water.
Lounging in Brewster, MA. the best part of Cape Cod, seeing that the beaches and sandbars have barely shifted in the 49 (out of 52 years) I've been alive, I find the catastrophism about sea levels laughable. I have taken many trail/sandflat walks with hardcore Leftwing "environmental allies" (just because I've known them forever, it's an obligation as they get older). Anyway, most of these "environmentalists" can't describe or identify the most basic natural/biological processes. These people have ten bumper stickers on their SUV declaring their passion for saving the Oceans, 90% of them don't know a periwinkle from a mussel from an oyster from a quahog when we're in the wild, on the flats. Virtue signaling twats, but they are family.
I love this blog post. I’m pro off-season! It brings back so many good memories for me. My husband and I used to live in NYC, and for a few years we would rent a car and go to Montauk in February. We stayed at a cottage across the street from the ocean, and it had a big wood-burning fireplace. We would go from the freezing cold to the roaring fireplace, and when we got too hot, we would go outside and refresh in the chilled air. Just the best. It was a ghost town except for locals. We cooked and took walks, bought fish at the local market. Good times for sure. I would never want to be there in the summer. + no traffic!
Here in coastal LA it is sunny and the weather is nice. Lots of tourists, including just folks coming from farther inland to enjoy the beach, and lots of folks coming from Europe. I surf every Sunday morning at 7am and these days the water is so nice no wetsuit needed. Can't complain and really have little desire to vacation elsewhere. In fact people who need to travel far away to enjoy themselves probably need to reassess where they live.
Is this the end of the NYT's journalistic integrity, as we know it?
No, we've known it for quite some time, now.
Climate Change: The All-Purpose crisis.
End of summer vacation?
Um, no. Still nice to be out and about in Michigan.
Birches said...
Who goes to Arizona for vacation in the summer?
And the water in Florida is hot because there's been no hurricanes this year. So the heat is proof of hurricanes but also hurricanes are proof of hurricanes?
Here is NYT reporting from a couple days ago: Water temperatures off the coast of South Florida have reached as high as 101 degrees this month, causing the worst coral bleaching in the state’s history.
This is distilled bollocks, nonsense on stilts.
That temperature was observed at Manatee Inlet, a very shallow, nearly occluded, estuary, which you could wade across. Actual sea surface temperature in the area, that is actually off the coast instead of surrounded by it, is 86ºF, which is right on par for this time of year.
The lies are becoming more blatant. Perhaps we are reaching a tipping point?
... with less angst."
Aside from instructing other people on how to live their lives, is there *anything* progressives do with less angst?
Hernando De Soto trekked around the SE of the future USA and died somewhere just south of present-day Memphis. His route, and that of the survivors, is debatable in part, but it was an impressive feat.
We have the Hernando DeSoto bridge, and Mississippi has Desoto County (seat, Hernando).
"The expression “One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy” is attributed to Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)."
Ditto to the idea that one heat wave does not "climate change" make.
I invite commenters to point to any places in America that have had their climate and ecosystems permanently altered due to "climate change" over the last 30 years.
A friend has insited that beachfront property in San Diego can no longer find buyers, due to rapidly rising ocean levels.
I pointed him to real estate sales proving him wrong.
His response was, "Well, they are suckers."
Any responsible journo who cites “climate change” as causality must follow it with “without evidence”, just like when they cover election fraud.
This whole Times article is foolish. Families vacation in the summer because that's when the kids are out of school. And, yes, there are entitled parents who will pull their kids out of school during the school year because one way or another they have the clout with the principal's office to get away with it. Nevertheless, most families wait until school's out to pack up the family and go somewhere. That. Will. Not. Change.
And not everybody "chases the sun." Growing up my father packed the family off to places where the beaches were nonexistent but the fishing was great. Lake Geneva in Wisconsin when we kids were small, and later Lake of the Ozarks. Other families go camping in the north woods. If you camp in California or Canada you risk being burned alive due to poor forest management practices, and if you're stupid in Yellowstone you'll be eaten by bears or gored by a bison or broiled alive in the hot springs, but lots of people do know what they're doing in the outdoors and come home happy.
And some of us learn things by traveling. I don't care how many PBS and National Geographic shows you watch, there's a difference between learning about the Grand Canyon via TV shows and books, and standing on the edge of it to look down, as a for instance. Likewise for works of art, as in the Getty Museum in LA or any of the many art museums of Europe. Pictures cannot convey Florence. Pictures cannot convey Athens or Rome or any other place.
If you don't want to see Venice or Florence or Rome or Athens or the pyramids at Giza, no problem for me. When people writing for the Times suggest that they don't want me to go and see things for myself, for whatever bogus reason, then there's a problem.
How to win an argument with a global warming fanatic:
1. State one fact. Example 1, sea temps were altered when NOAA and others starting adding in ship water as a data point. Example 2, no study has determined whether increased warming increases cloud cover as well and if that then increases or decreases earth temps. Example 3, real estate prices have gone up, up, up in coastal areas bespeaking market wisdom (including insurance risk assessment) that the sea ain’t rising. Example 4, temp data from the first half of the 20th century was falsely massaged downward claiming TOD (time of day) bias in its earlier collection methodology thus cooling the past to tilt the hockey stick upward. Example 5, increases of carbon in the atmosphere does not correlate with rising temps. Example 6, the famous 97% of climatologists who believe in man made global warming is based on published articles over a time period when it was anathema not to claim it.
I could go on all day. The point is just by stating one fact you will win the argument every time. The average global warming fanatic has none and is terrified of data. But I’ve even used these facts on a certified climatologist and, while he wouldn’t admit it, I beat him as well. He even lied when I got him on coastal real estate prices by claiming that insurance rates had risen. I went home, did the research, and found two studies from the insurance industry itself which admitted, to their obvious sorrow, that no such rate rises were happening.
The wife and I and thousands of my closest friends reveled in the heat of Gatlinburg Tennessee last month. We enjoyed the beauty and easy hospitality of America. Everybody jus havin fun!
"A summer getaway remains a powerful desire, but it’s at a tipping point."
There they go again, with the 'freedom = free-dumb' subtext.
Stephen L Miller (@redsteeze on Twitter/X) has the theory that they are going to use the COVID lockdown/life control method in the fight against global warming.
I agree. They loved that power they had during COVID, and they used it and there have been few electoral repercussions. Why would they not use it again?
Fall, or "shoulder season," is my favorite time to travel, especially if going to Europe.
The only cure is mooooore socialism!
Well, for you anyway. Not for them. Their stuff is theirs
"Think of the airports, accommodations and other capital-intensive projects erected to serve the visitors of historically sunny places..."
The HORROR!! Thieves of joy is what these maroons are.
I would prefer that NYC residents stay home.
I always liked September/October for travel, depending on the destination. September to go to the midwest because the kids (including college) are back in school and it's not as hot and humid. We used to go to the Olympic peninsula in WA state in October because it was still either okay/sunnyish or full-bore look-at-all-this-f***in'-rain rainforest weather.
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