Climate Change (Global Warming) 🥶🌍🌞

Everclear said:
Hello fucknuckle, to correct you (as is always required), yesterday I said the meme inferred taking sexual assault lightly, today I am asserting that the article cited by Exies DID NOT mention CO2.

Is that too difficult to comprehend for your incredibly feeble mind?
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The meme you're refering to, didn't infer anything to do with sexual assault. Not. One. Bit.

How the fuck you read that into it, speaks volumes about you.
 
Dox said:
I get that...but something about me wants to know just how depraved / warped / indocrtinated / stupid, Ecoqueer can be :)
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@Dox as his true self (with friend) ...

gay.webp
 

Seasons in review​

Winter 2023 was drier, sunnier and slightly milder than average, with February particularly dry across England and Wales.

Spring 2023 brought into focus the shifting rainfall patterns around the UK; March was very wet in the south, in contrast May was drier than average in the north and west.

Summer 2023 was warmer and wetter than average with a record-breaking June.

Autumn 2023 was milder and wetter than average, with a fine start, a very wet October and a run of named storms.

2023 in weather.
 

Charting the UK's changing climate​


Over the last 60 years the UK’s climate has been shifting because of climate change.

However analysis by the Met Office reveals that the shift hasn’t been even across the UK with some regions experiencing more rapid change than others.
Comparing two 30-year periods (1961-1990 and 1991-2020), the average temperature of the UK has increased by 0.8°C, rainfall by 7.3%, and sunshine by 5.6%.
Temperature rise has been greatest across parts of central and eastern England where temperatures have increased by more than 1.0°C in some locations including, Bedfordshire, and Leicestershire. While further north Scotland and Northern Ireland have seen temperatures rise by closer to 0.7°C.

Other findings include:
  • Annual average rainfall has increased by more than 10% between the two periods across a large swath of Scotland, as well as parts of south west England, Wales and Northern Ireland. With an increase of over 200mm of rainfall per year, Argyll and Bute is the county that has seen the greatest increase by volume. South Yorkshire with a rise of just over 14mm per year has seen the smallest rise by volume.
  • Along with total rainfall the number of days recording 1mm or more of rain a year has also increased by an average of 5.6 days. The largest increases being seen in Scotland with some areas seeing an annual increase of more than ten days. An increase of 12 days for the city of Glasgow contrasts with just one day in Cambridgeshire.
  • The locations seeing the greatest annual percentage increases in sunshine have been in north-eastern and eastern England (increasing by more than 13%).
  • The number of days of air frost (when the air temperature drops below 0.0 °C) has reduced on average by 11.1 days. A number of areas across the UK have seen the annual number of air frost days fall by 14 days per year, including: Derbyshire, Northamptonshire,
  • Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shetland, Staffordshire, County Antrim and County Londonderry.
Dr Mark McCarthy is the head of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, which manages the UK’s climate records. He said: “The publication of climate data from the latest 30-year period is a perfect opportunity describe some of the changes taking place in UK climate over the last six decades.
“The result of human-induced climate change in the UK is that higher temperatures are felt further north than they used to be. If you look at the average temperature for example, between 1991-2020 Hull has been warmer on average than Heathrow in London was during the previous climate averaging period 1961-1990. So average temperatures previously limited to London and parts of the far south of England are now experienced as much as 250 km (155 miles) further north.
“Examining the pattern of climate change across the UK reveals an interesting pattern of regional variation.
“Over the periods, rainfall has generally increased with the greatest increases in the north and west. Average temperature has increased most in inland counties to the north of London, while sunshine has increased most in the north east of England.
“Much of what we are seeing at a local scale fits the national and international picture. It has long been known that the atmosphere has been warming also resulting in a reduction in days of air frost can also be anticipated in a warming climate.”
The 1991-2020 reference period will be adopted as the ‘normal’ for routine UK climate monitoring products in January. The 1961-1990 reference will be retained for the monitoring of longer-term climate change.

Charting the UK's changing climate.
 
One morning in Sweden, a girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products . She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks.

“What’s this?” she asked.
“Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
“What happened to the carpet?” she asked.

“The carpet was nylon, made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,”.
Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.

“Your toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”

“Where’s the water?” asked Greta.

“Down the road in the canal,” ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it”

“Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked.

“Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?” There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .

“What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta.

"Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”

“How so, raw?” inquired Greta.

And again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts.

“But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.

“Tilda died this morning,” “Bacterial pneumonia.”

“What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”

“Not anymore,” “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies- being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”
 
Recently more than 1,800 signatory scientists, academic researchers and other AGW theory sceptics, including Nobel Laureate scientists, issued a joint statement:


To believe the outcome of a climate model is to believe what the model makers have put in. This is precisely the problem of today’s climate discussion to which climate models are central. Climate science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound self-critical science. Should not we free ourselves from the naive belief in immature climate models?
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From: Climate Change: The Unsettled Science – Part 2
 
Take all that money currently allocated to climate change and use it to plant more trees globally.

There, problem solved.

To improve global health. Decentralise agricturing and support local farmers to provide fresh, chemical-free food. Make farming a fiscally worthwhile career.

Stop with the processed foods which contribute to the numerous immunodeficiency disorders, diabetes and obesity. Fresh food = improved health. Use pharma money here.

Until atomic energy technology can be harnessed and distributed ubiquitously and safely, continue improving current available energy technologies.
Some would recommend reviving Telsa's work, but I don't think we have anyone alive intuitive enough to figure it out to his level and restructuring the energy infrastructure will be quite an effort. As with Edison, the conglomerates will not sign off eventhough it will benefit everyone as it is not profitable.

Batteries are not the answer.

All that said, I'm just a simpleton and base my comments on what little common sense I can muster and limited experience. I cannot provide journals, studies or articles to support my statements.

@Everclear congratulations on all your accomplishments, certifications, and degrees. To me, attaining such appears to be a lot of busy work and money. Regardless, it sounds like a significant amount of reading and writing is involved. Personally, I lack the discipline and mental agility to remain focused long enough to read anything more complex than a comic book or a compelling short story. I am good at looking for patterns and detecting inefficiency, though I never figured out how to make money with said skills.

Having experience in the medical field, mental health specifically, 99.99...% of the time professionals interview and refer to the DSM for diagnosis based on information gathered during the interview. I suspect many others in medicine practice similarly, emergency response being the outlier as they become proficient via hands on training and experience gained through work (I suspect surgeons are similar in this regard).

I prefer to spend my time learning practical skills (though I have few due to general laziness, disinterest and having to deal with people). Some of us are tactile learners. We should find a way to modify the educational system to promote apprenticeships as the norm. Most learning occurs during work, having to solve problems and making mistakes.
 
I like the way you are going with that @RA5 However the tree planting thing needs refining (To be facetious 'you can't eat trees')
To clarify British farmers are being persuaded to plant trees. Whilst this sounds great, our ever expanding population needs feeding, and shipping produce around the world when we are capable of being self sufficient in a lot of what we consume, with judicious land usage.........
There are plenty of trees in Sweden, so horses for courses.
 
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