Loving this climate change

Not looking too good on the western coast of the USA and Canada either. New records being set every year!!
 
southshorepool said:
Spoken like the person who's nearer to departing the planet than not. Nice to see you don't give a fuck about your descendents. Top stuff.
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I was waiting and expecting the usual backlash from the usual culprits who can’t read anything but the headline. Now I thought of putting something like wonderful weather, that’s just boring, but true. Nobody knows if the weather we’re currently having is due to climate change, which wasn’t mentioned in 1976, the hottest, longest period of sunshine in living memory.
 
It's hotter than Lady Di in a bikini and long may it continue
 
I love it hot and usually have a couple of holidays a year where it’s usually 28c plus but yesterday was even too hot for me to spend all day in the sun. No breeze, pool or sea and it’s going to be hotter today. Just finished eating my breakfast on the decking
 
There have always been climatic fluctuations. The Romans invaded Britain to use it as a reliable food source (mild and wet). On the other hand, the Thames would freeze over every year up to the nineteenth century.
The increasing world population and it’s lifestyles are undeniably pushing climate to extremes never seen before.
Sadly, climate change is a (THE?) major worry for our children/grandchildren.
 
Matesrates said:
I was waiting and expecting the usual backlash from the usual culprits who can’t read anything but the headline. Now I thought of putting something like wonderful weather, that’s just boring, but true. Nobody knows if the weather we’re currently having is due to climate change, which wasn’t mentioned in 1976, the hottest, longest period of sunshine in living memory.
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A deepening storm in 1953 not helped with a spring tide left over three hundred dead in East coast districts of England and a number in Scotland also, mostly from flooding.
The Atlantic storm had crossed the UK intensifying as it reached the North Sea, it caused havoc not only in England and Scotland but also in the Netherlands and Belgium.
At sea several hundred died when fishing boats to larger vessels including a car ferry en route from Scotland to Northern Ireland, 130 souls lost their lives with around only 40 or so survivors.
Could it happen again?, well certain measures have been taken in terms of flood defences both here and particularly in the Netherlands (where many more perished than in the UK), we will have to hope not and that the Jet Stream behaves itself.
 
Too many people on the planet causing more co2 with food production, cars, distribution etc. Too much land being concreted over, all contributes to the problem. Another pandemic might help, failing that, dig up your patios, eat plants, walk to work, and don’t cycle, they create co2 in the production and distribution.

So cows will have to be killed, millions of pain the meat industry will be unemployed, car production will end, slabs and concrete will stop being produced meaning more unemployment.

Maybe there’s another way.
 
Matesrates said:
Too many people on the planet causing more co2 with food production, cars, distribution etc. Too much land being concreted over, all contributes to the problem. Another pandemic might help, failing that, dig up your patios, eat plants, walk to work, and don’t cycle, they create co2 in the production and distribution.

So cows will have to be killed, millions of pain the meat industry will be unemployed, car production will end, slabs and concrete will stop being produced meaning more unemployment.

Maybe there’s another way.
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I think we are going to need some form of effective and industrial level carbon capturing technology to remove it from the atmosphere to make any real difference.
Planting trees and trying to reduce our fossil fuel usage on it’s own does not seem likely to be enough.
Apparently there are some prototype plants to extract carbon dioxide from the air coming into action in North America already.
 
Stony Hill said:
There have always been climatic fluctuations. The Romans invaded Britain to use it as a reliable food source (mild and wet). On the other hand, the Thames would freeze over every year up to the nineteenth century.
The increasing world population and it’s lifestyles are undeniably pushing climate to extremes never seen before.
Sadly, climate change is a (THE?) major worry for our children/grandchildren.
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THE, Stony. Definitely, THE.
 
Too hot for me. Do exercises after tea. Absolutely wet through. In Summer more undesirables hang about. We also have a anti social household in the neighbourhood. Gets worse at this time of year. They live their life in the back garden.music, swearing, fake laugh, argument the other day. Dog barking. And omg, The smell of weed. Prefer Winter easily.
 
27 degrees here in Blackpool on Thursday 🥴 and not allowed fans in the office due to covid.
But..... maybe we are now all restrictions are lifted from tomorrow 🙏
 
I much prefer the cold crisp weather to be honest, the only bonus of summer is the longer daylight, apart from that every knobhead is out and about, every neighbourhood bellend is having a bloody barbeque, everywhere I usually go outdoors is rammed with families being obnoxious, it's too hot for the dog, the bloody block paving is sprouting that weird tufty grass because I couldn't be arsed resanding the drive, drive anywhere and the windscreen is obliterated by dead insects, the roads are packed, people who shouldn't be in shorts are wearing shorts, you've got to drink gallons of bloody water to stay alive, I lost 450 kilos of water weight in 20 minutes on the rower etc etc...
 
Drove up to Fleetwood first thing this morning to go on the Prom before it got too hot and of course the police and Coastguard were very much in evidence. Very sad. Had lunch at my sister-in-laws and am now back home where it is very sweaty and still.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
I much prefer the cold crisp weather to be honest, the only bonus of summer is the longer daylight, apart from that every knobhead is out and about, every neighbourhood bellend is having a bloody barbeque, everywhere I usually go outdoors is rammed with families being obnoxious, it's too hot for the dog, the bloody block paving is sprouting that weird tufty grass because I couldn't be arsed resanding the drive, drive anywhere and the windscreen is obliterated by dead insects, the roads are packed, people who shouldn't be in shorts are wearing shorts, you've got to drink gallons of bloody water to stay alive, I lost 450 kilos of water weight in 20 minutes on the rower etc etc...
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Yes, the shorts thing 🤣🤣🤣
 
Hot sunny weather is only good when you are abroad in an air conditioned property and a pool outside to dip into when needed.

Here at home we aren't equipped for it in our homes, unless you are one of the few who have proper air conditioning installed. I work outside and weather like this is miserable and dangerous. Give me cold weather every time for working, it's easy to get warm but impossible to cool down in this heat. 21 degrees is hot enough for me here in Blighty!
 
hertfordseasider said:
Hot sunny weather is only good when you are abroad in an air conditioned property and a pool outside to dip into when needed.

Here at home we aren't equipped for it in our homes, unless you are one of the few who have proper air conditioning installed. I work outside and weather like this is miserable and dangerous. Give me cold weather every time for working, it's easy to get warm but impossible to cool down in this heat. 21 degrees is hot enough for me here in Blighty!
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Best way I think to cook down is, To put cold water on your wrists and even more so, The back of your neck. Everyone seems to throw water over their head. That turns into sweat. My asthma is really playing up. So not enjoying it at all. Winter anyday.
 
Pool CW said:
Best way I think to cook down is, To put cold water on your wrists and even more so, The back of your neck. Everyone seems to throw water over their head. That turns into sweat. My asthma is really playing up. So not enjoying it at all. Winter anyday.
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Asthma must be a nightmare at any time but even more so in this weather. Temp is already 31c here in Cambridge and rising! Thunderstorms coming too and that makes asthma worse doesn't it? Take care and retreat to a cool place CW
 
Mexboroseasider said:
Do you happen to know whether modern flood defences were installed sometime just after 1954?

In which case flooding before then was because of inadequate defences. Flooding since then is due to rising water levels and climate change.
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I never knew you had a degree in climate change. Build on a flood plain then you get flooded.
 
hertfordseasider said:
Hot sunny weather is only good when you are abroad in an air conditioned property and a pool outside to dip into when needed.

Here at home we aren't equipped for it in our homes, unless you are one of the few who have proper air conditioning installed. I work outside and weather like this is miserable and dangerous. Give me cold weather every time for working, it's easy to get warm but impossible to cool down in this heat. 21 degrees is hot enough for me here in Blighty!
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Air conditioning is one of the major causes of global warming, using vast amounts of energy to run it. Carry on. Self, self, self 😉 😂 😂
 
Don't like it if it's over 21c! Crikey, we'd moan like buggery here if it didn't crack that every WINTERS day!
 
Just watched a news feature on the 4 year drought in Madagascar, heartbreaking stuff. Water shortage will be the biggest issue that mankind will face, Cape Town was running out a couple of years ago. It'll be the cause of mass migration and future strife as Priti Patels and Farages grandkids will be frothing at the mouth and telling the refugees to get back to their desert.
 
southshorepool said:
Spoken like the person who's nearer to departing the planet than not. Nice to see you don't give a fuck about your descendents. Top stuff.
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Whether he gives a fuck about it or not ain’t gonna change a thing in truth.

I understand you think his words inappropriate but his words are not going to affect his descendants one bit
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
I much prefer the cold crisp weather to be honest, the only bonus of summer is the longer daylight, apart from that every knobhead is out and about, every neighbourhood bellend is having a bloody barbeque, everywhere I usually go outdoors is rammed with families being obnoxious, it's too hot for the dog, the bloody block paving is sprouting that weird tufty grass because I couldn't be arsed resanding the drive, drive anywhere and the windscreen is obliterated by dead insects, the roads are packed, people who shouldn't be in shorts are wearing shorts, you've got to drink gallons of bloody water to stay alive, I lost 450 kilos of water weight in 20 minutes on the rower etc etc...
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It is too hot for the dogs, got to be very careful......especially on Lawson’s Field 😉
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
We were up Rivington at 7am as it's too hot for the dog after that, plenty of cover and water there, still hot on top though.

Anyway, only a large scale human extinction event could save the planet now, we're too far gone, ironically we'll probably cause that as well.

Have a lovely Sunday 👍
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Stop being so ** cheerful will you!
 
Fact is the World population is too large and expects too high a Standard of living, expects a higher and higher age at death, wants convenience in most things if they can etc etc......all part of the human drive to “better” ourselves. Large parts of the World are still in the aspiring stage where they want to get to the lifestyle that modern countries (with broadly speaking very successful economies) already have so how is it going to get better?......everyone who hasn’t got a washing machine wants one as it were

Fact is humans haven’t deliberately fucked the planet at all (Greta is wrong...she thinks it’s just people of this one or two last generations ..her parents and grandparents that have done it! 😁) and by the time we’d discovered HOW we have damaged the planet it’s a bit too late and suffering is occurring and will continue to do so. The change in lifestyle (downwards) required to actually make even a small difference simply can’t happen because 99.9% of people would resist it SO we all fanny about making token gestures and fey joking about reducing our carbon footprint but we are insignificant as the whole World is set up to “better” itself which perversely destroys the very planet we look to better ourselves upon
 
Bloodtangerine said:
Stop being so ** cheerful will you!
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Once you accept the inevitable it's quite peaceful, we're all going to die, the planet is fucked and everything else would be much better off without us.

I just don't get the human race constantly patting itself on the back.
 
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