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But I would say, I mean, obviously in Ireland it's, you know, it's more significant for us to see the sun and to have the, you know, the nice weather because it's, I guess, more expected for them to have it consistently on the continent.

So I would say that probably we do have a more significantly positive reaction to it also because our extreme heat is not always reaching the same level as their extreme heat.

I know that in Spain it's hitting mid-30s at the moment, which we aren't quite reaching.

So it's...

it's more intense.

But yeah, I don't have figures on that or anything, but I would guess probably that, yeah, we do, we are more likely to do that.

Absolutely.

And look, there's no one saying to anyone that they shouldn't be going to the beach or having a 99 or whatever.

You know, this is not about criticizing the way that people actually, you know, behave within the heat wave.

I mean, I think people should also, you know, do whatever they can to be comfortable in it, because obviously the extreme heat can be very uncomfortable.

I think the issue is with the lack of acknowledgement that that extreme heat is unusual, does say something, you know, significant about the way that the climate is changing, also can be dangerous for many people.

Also, you know,

but not everybody is able to be eating in 99 or going to the beach that some people are working in extremely hot conditions and so on.

So it's like...

there needs to be, I guess, an acknowledgement of both, but this is about media reporting not covering the reality of extreme heat rather than people, you know, in their actual day-to-day lives, you know, getting an ice cream, which I definitely don't object to.

I mean...

I think that the climate catastrophe and the reality of the situation that we're in is a very difficult thing for everybody to reckon with.

And this is not to say that it's not being reported in the media, because it is.

Given the scale of the crisis and given how quickly we are heading towards really immense danger and something that is going to be extremely significant within all of our lifetimes, it is odd that it is not making headlines every single day.

I mean, certainly the media coverage is not proportionate to the scale of the crisis.