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New Temperature Records for the UK

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Re: New Temperature Records for the UK

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Are you going to lobby or start an NGO or something? How can I help? I am currently in a major northern US city running my air conditioner, and tired of meaningless shit.

Are you replying to the wrong comment or something? I'm not the guy in that article. I was posting that link in jest.

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Re: New Temperature Records for the UK

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tongue in cheek uk weather seasons (but close to the truth) https://imgur.com/gallery/1Brt04C I think there should be an extra winter in there after summer begins

In my childhood I remember (perhaps overly- optimistically) having distinct seasons and in particular crisp, snowy winters. The combination of climate change and moving west of the Pennines is really shit.

I had to live and work on the opposite sides of the pennines, the M62 whilst having lovely views over the hills, is seriously horrible to drive on in the rush hours (worse in winter) and the weather difference was very noticeable

Much dryer in the east, similar difference all the way up into Scotland

Re: New Temperature Records for the UK

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Desertification was predicted but it didn't happen. The earth has greened instead. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/greening-of-the-earth-mitigates...

But you won’t get funding saying this. You need to make your subject of study a crisis in order to secure the funding to study it further. And of course the politicians that unlock the funding would do well if your model could align with their re-election strategy.

This is so not true it's not even funny: do try and get funding for any kind of denialism in the 2000's or any kind of mitigation-study in the 2010's, you will get some kind ear from many on the conservative side (conservation of-self-destruction). The work of the IPCC has been a slow slog for lack of funding.

Re: New Temperature Records for the UK

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This is very menacing, more than could seem at first glance. All sort of crops could bloom much too soon, and be destroyed at the next cold event. And every summer from now on, we'll be under the menace of an extreme hot event destroying major cereal crops around the world. Global food shortage could be around the corner every year, forever. Combine that with a looming fossil fuel supply crunch, and we're on the verg…

Don't worry, this is roughly the opposite of what has been observed. The growing seasons are getting longer, the earth is greening. [0] And looking back at previous warm periods it looks like things mostly got better during warm ages and nose dived during the cold. https://imgr.search.brave.com/v3hRyzU6Mm1ShpkX2Z4SEYasQRtDD-... [0] Global Greening Greening of the globe and its drivers - Nature 2016 https://www.nature…

That's not contradictory. The earth may be greening but become inhospitable to our staple crops at the same time. The world could become a lush jungle, that wouldn't make it a good place to live for 8 billion humans.

Re: New Temperature Records for the UK

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An alternate reading: this is the coldest winter for the next century.

A comment that stuck with me during the summer of 2021, when heat domes baked Sweden and Seattle and California and Greece were on fire, was that it was likely the coolest summer of the next decade.

Bart: “This is the hottest summer of my life…”

Homer: “The hottest summer of your life so far

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