Climate Change

[Paigntonian]

Don't fully understand this climate change business. I can accept that the UK has experienced the warmest summer on record but why was last year's summer the coldest on record?

[gingejbee]

No doubt some self-proclaimed expert will be along soon to explain that it's just normal weather and the climate is not changing...

[Paigntonian]

Ginge: Yeah. Sneaking suspicion it's a load of nonsense. But when all the experts and governments tell me that I'm wrong I do not have the expertise to disagree. Why was last year's Summer in the UK the coldest on record? No-one can tell me.

[ichkeria]

Because climate change doesn’t work like that.
Show me that most of the coldest summers on record are in recent years unlike the hottest temperatures and then we’ll talk :-)

[Gromit]

// why was last year's summer the coldest on record? //

It wasn’t.

2021 was the third warmest summer on record for Northern Ireland and ninth warmest for the UK overall.

[ichkeria]

Oh well then :-)

[THECORBYLOON]

From the Met Office in September last year,

"The UK as a whole has had its ninth hottest summer on record, with an average of 15.28°C. This is the hottest summer for the UK since 2018. While 2019 and 2020 both experienced extreme heatwave events, in contrast 2021 temperatures reached a peak of 32.2°C at Heathrow on 20th July.  However, relatively high temperatures in June and July, coupled with persistently high minimum temperatures and relative warmth across the north of the UK have pushed this year up the rankings."

[Gromit]

// According to the Met Office, which published an analysis of [2021] summer’s weather thus far (with full statistics coming in early September), it’s actually been one of the warmest seasons on record. //

[wolf63]

The planet is alive, it will get old and die. The change in the weather is a symptom of this ageing process.

Anything that humans can do to slow down this process can only be for the best of all species on the planet.

Some of the climate change prevention ideas can be described as crazy, but we do need to consider the long-term impact on the planet from our way of life.

[THECORBYLOON]

Where did you see that last year's was the coldest summer ever?

[gness]

The big clue is in change, Paigntonian. If you had the expertise you'd not be wanting to disagree.

[naomi24]

If the climate is changing I don’t think we’re going to change it.

[david small]

The climate has been consistently changing for many millions of years. We pollute the oceans and the rivers, the forests, and change the evolution of many species. We will disappear, the Earth will heal. The climate will still keep on changing.

[Gromit]

// Some of the climate change prevention ideas can be described as crazy //

Stop burning fossil fuels is all you need to do.

[naomi24]

^easy.

[ichkeria]

If you knew that the climate was changing
And you knew that it was within the capability of Man to do something about it
Would you not do it?
The deniers baffle me.
You’d think the conspiracy theorists would be the ones who were on the other side

[davebro]

shush - or we'll be getting water rationing!

[naomi24]

If we are the cause, clearly it is within our capability to change it. However, the changes we need to make mean that we have to live a very different lifestyle - and I really don’t think that people the world over are willing to do that.

[ToraToraTora]

ich: "If you knew that the climate was changing
And you knew that it was within the capability of Man to do something about it
Would you not do it?
The deniers baffle me. " - no one denies climate change, it's been happening since the planet was formed, there may be some debate on the causes. Yes we should do what we can about controlling pollution and carbon emissions etc. But the fact remains that if we like most countries got to actual zero, rather than "net" zero it would make absolutely no difference. Anything we do is totally pointless. We should not destroy our economy when nothing, literally nothing we do will make ant difference. Unless the big emitters do something it's pointless.

[Ryzen]

If people are one of the main causes of climate change, then it stands to reason, we need to control population growth as part of the solution.

[davebro]

Whether or not climate change is affected (to any significant degree) by our activities, what is totally apparent is that we cannot carry on as we are & expect Earth's resources to provide for a ballooning population. Even if the population levels off at some point in the future it will still be too large to be sustainable.