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I was taken aback when a friend sent me these photos. They look like the aftermath of a bombing raid. A war zone.
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The disastrous flooding also hit hit Belgium (6 dead), the Netherlands and Luxemburg. Germany has now declared 50 dead.
It doesn't seem that long ago that these catastrophic events were declared as one in a 100 year event , then 50 years and they are becoming, or in reality have become, almost annual features. The fires in Australia followed by tremendous thunderstorms and flooding. In Furnace Creek, (Death Valley) California on July 9th 54.4C was recorded that's 134F in old money .When I heard that I thought I must have misheard it but it was correct. The record high for Saudi Arabia is 53C. The highest temperature recorded was 56 July 12 2012 was the previous record at 41.7C..107F.Temps for last Sunday July 11th. https://www.clickorlando.com/weathe...h-hottest-temperature-ever-recorded-on-earth/ California's fire season is earlier and more devastating. Last year California experienced, by acres burned, the worst year in the state’s modern fire history. The previous record had been set only two years earlier , in 2018, when the Camp Fire incinerated Paradise and almost 2 million acres burned in total throughout the state. Each year, globally, some record falls. In Delhi recently the 90 year record was broken with a temperature of 43.6C.-110.48F.In Moscow in June the temperature reached 35C (95F)
I recall a conversation I had with a friend a few years ago when climatologists were saying that we'll get what we have now in 30 years and said that my opinion is that it's going to get worse far quicker than anyone had thought possible. It's got a momentum now. One reason I came to this conclusion was how quickly the ice at the poles was melting. Huge sheets and glaciers are melting and detaching from the coastlines. Over the past 30 years the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic (it's said that this ice is the glue that holds the Arctic together) has declined by an alarming 95 percent, according the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual Arctic Report Card. Antarctica ice loss has increased significantly in the last 40 years and it's now losing six times more ice than it was in the 1980s. With no slowing of climate change likely this melt will continue accelerating and the implications for global sea level rise are dire. Another reason for my pessimism was the increasing frequency of severe storms, including snow storms, here in the UK.
I read today that the Amazon rainforest is now giving off more carbon dioxide than it absorbs. This is due to climate change, deforestation and and fires..
China is responsible for 25% of the world's CO2 emissions has about 1058 coal mines in operation..about half of the world's coal mines and it's building one major coal-fired power station a week. Over the past 10 year it has spent tens of billions of dollars to build coal fired energy plants in 152 countries through its Belt and Road initiative Roughly 70% of the coal plants built globally now rely on Chinese funding. Within China it's building 184 coal-powered electricity stations. In 2020 it built three times more coal-fired facilities than any other country. It all amounts to on e coal-fired facility a week. China and the US account for 43% of global CO2 emissions. China has declared that it will aim to be carbon-neutyral by 2060. 2060 ? By 2050 17% of Bangladesh, where the average land above sea level is is 9m (30ft) is forecast to be submerged displacing 20 million people along with many low lying Pacific islands and also the Bahamas, which was devastated by Hurricane Dorian in 2019. Most of Grand Bahama, including Nassau Abaco and Spanish Wells are also projected to be under water by 2050.
In Brazil Bolsanaro is allowing thousands of acres of the Brazilian rain forests to be cut down since he took office in 2019.
Our own government had to intervene earlier this year in relation a new coal mine at Whitehaven, Cumbria, which takes some believing as we're to host the COP26 conference in Glasgow this coming November. So much pressure was brought to bear on the government from many sources and agencies ..not to mention it's own MPs that the project has been suspended pending a public enquiry. It was the first mine to be built for 30 years.
It all sort of makes a mockery of a project by a farmer in my region (hats off for doing his bit,though)who adds garlic pellets to the feed for his cattle to help reduce their farting (hope that passes the auto-censor
)..which adds methane to the atmosphere..worse than CO2 ..80 times worse with regard to global warming. Having said that,though the largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions is agriculture, responsible for 25% of the total with the rest coming from coal, oil, natural gas and biofuels.
If anyone is interested in an overview of the consequences of climate change here's a map of extreme events drawn up by Carbonbrief. In the early 2000s, a new field of climate-science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms.
www.carbonbrief.org
Here's a very interesting heat map of Europe. The highest temperatures recorded are in France-Italy-Spain and Portugal. Published June 20th.
viborc.com
I'll end on this grim prediction. I think for many on here we won't see any improvement in our lifetime, we'll just see it get worse. Three years ago we had one side of our garden re-fenced and the other also fenced but to replace a high hedge and because of the certainty that we'll experience very high winds more frequently we had concrete posts put in and thick closeboard panels put up.
Dozens dead and missing after rain triggered flooding in Europe
Torrential downpours overnight triggered flash flooding across large parts of western Europe on Thursday, with more than 40 people dead and 70 missing - most of them in Germany.
The disastrous flooding also hit hit Belgium (6 dead), the Netherlands and Luxemburg. Germany has now declared 50 dead.
It doesn't seem that long ago that these catastrophic events were declared as one in a 100 year event , then 50 years and they are becoming, or in reality have become, almost annual features. The fires in Australia followed by tremendous thunderstorms and flooding. In Furnace Creek, (Death Valley) California on July 9th 54.4C was recorded that's 134F in old money .When I heard that I thought I must have misheard it but it was correct. The record high for Saudi Arabia is 53C. The highest temperature recorded was 56 July 12 2012 was the previous record at 41.7C..107F.Temps for last Sunday July 11th. https://www.clickorlando.com/weathe...h-hottest-temperature-ever-recorded-on-earth/ California's fire season is earlier and more devastating. Last year California experienced, by acres burned, the worst year in the state’s modern fire history. The previous record had been set only two years earlier , in 2018, when the Camp Fire incinerated Paradise and almost 2 million acres burned in total throughout the state. Each year, globally, some record falls. In Delhi recently the 90 year record was broken with a temperature of 43.6C.-110.48F.In Moscow in June the temperature reached 35C (95F)
I recall a conversation I had with a friend a few years ago when climatologists were saying that we'll get what we have now in 30 years and said that my opinion is that it's going to get worse far quicker than anyone had thought possible. It's got a momentum now. One reason I came to this conclusion was how quickly the ice at the poles was melting. Huge sheets and glaciers are melting and detaching from the coastlines. Over the past 30 years the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic (it's said that this ice is the glue that holds the Arctic together) has declined by an alarming 95 percent, according the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual Arctic Report Card. Antarctica ice loss has increased significantly in the last 40 years and it's now losing six times more ice than it was in the 1980s. With no slowing of climate change likely this melt will continue accelerating and the implications for global sea level rise are dire. Another reason for my pessimism was the increasing frequency of severe storms, including snow storms, here in the UK.
I read today that the Amazon rainforest is now giving off more carbon dioxide than it absorbs. This is due to climate change, deforestation and and fires..
China is responsible for 25% of the world's CO2 emissions has about 1058 coal mines in operation..about half of the world's coal mines and it's building one major coal-fired power station a week. Over the past 10 year it has spent tens of billions of dollars to build coal fired energy plants in 152 countries through its Belt and Road initiative Roughly 70% of the coal plants built globally now rely on Chinese funding. Within China it's building 184 coal-powered electricity stations. In 2020 it built three times more coal-fired facilities than any other country. It all amounts to on e coal-fired facility a week. China and the US account for 43% of global CO2 emissions. China has declared that it will aim to be carbon-neutyral by 2060. 2060 ? By 2050 17% of Bangladesh, where the average land above sea level is is 9m (30ft) is forecast to be submerged displacing 20 million people along with many low lying Pacific islands and also the Bahamas, which was devastated by Hurricane Dorian in 2019. Most of Grand Bahama, including Nassau Abaco and Spanish Wells are also projected to be under water by 2050.
In Brazil Bolsanaro is allowing thousands of acres of the Brazilian rain forests to be cut down since he took office in 2019.
Our own government had to intervene earlier this year in relation a new coal mine at Whitehaven, Cumbria, which takes some believing as we're to host the COP26 conference in Glasgow this coming November. So much pressure was brought to bear on the government from many sources and agencies ..not to mention it's own MPs that the project has been suspended pending a public enquiry. It was the first mine to be built for 30 years.
It all sort of makes a mockery of a project by a farmer in my region (hats off for doing his bit,though)who adds garlic pellets to the feed for his cattle to help reduce their farting (hope that passes the auto-censor
)..which adds methane to the atmosphere..worse than CO2 ..80 times worse with regard to global warming. Having said that,though the largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions is agriculture, responsible for 25% of the total with the rest coming from coal, oil, natural gas and biofuels. If anyone is interested in an overview of the consequences of climate change here's a map of extreme events drawn up by Carbonbrief. In the early 2000s, a new field of climate-science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms.
Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief
Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has influenced extreme weather.
www.carbonbrief.org
Here's a very interesting heat map of Europe. The highest temperatures recorded are in France-Italy-Spain and Portugal. Published June 20th.
Highest temperatures in Europe: A map and list of records • viborc.com
What are the highest temperature records for every European country? Here is the map and the table of hottest temperatures ever recorded.
I'll end on this grim prediction. I think for many on here we won't see any improvement in our lifetime, we'll just see it get worse. Three years ago we had one side of our garden re-fenced and the other also fenced but to replace a high hedge and because of the certainty that we'll experience very high winds more frequently we had concrete posts put in and thick closeboard panels put up.
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