Climate Change - record World temp. rises in Feb.

Originally Posted by papa smurf

Won't be any of that on the menu due to global warming,if you don't like cabbage you're in for a rough ride

Well, there are a lot of vegetables in Lincs...

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Well, there are a lot of vegetables in Lincs...

I know i live next door to a family of them

[OLD BOY]

Well, if anyone expects me to cut down on my cow pies, they will soon know what they can do with their suggestion.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Well, if anyone expects me to cut down on my cow pies, they will soon know what they can do with their suggestion.

Are you Desperate Dan in disguise ?

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Are you Desperate Dan in disguise ?

And proud of it!

[Mr K]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48206325

England’s flood planners must prepare for the worst on climate change, the Environment Agency has warned.

Its chairwoman, Emma Howard Boyd, said on current trends, global temperature could rise between 2C and 4C by 2100 and £1bn a year would need to be spent on flood management.

She said some communities may even need to move because of the risk of floods.

The government said it would be seeking evidence for its own flood policy in the autumn.

Well i'm glad I don't live on the coast, although I suppose the seaside will be nearer.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Mr K

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48206325



Well i'm glad I don't live on the coast, although I suppose the seaside will be nearer.

I wouldn't worry too much, Mr K. The Maldives would be under water by now if you believed all these scare stories.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

I wouldn't worry too much, Mr K. The Maldives would be under water by now if you believed all these scare stories.

Hardly scare stories OB, sea levels are rising now, its not some future prediction.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/e...ea-level-rise/

[Carth]

I've been wondering how many Nuclear Power stations are built very close to the coastlines . . and how they'd perform under 3ft of water

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Hardly scare stories OB, sea levels are rising now, its not some future prediction.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/e...ea-level-rise/

Actually the tide is falling now

https://www.tideschart.com/United-Ki...thorpes-Beach/

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Originally Posted by Carth

I've been wondering how many Nuclear Power stations are built very close to the coastlines . . and how they'd perform under 3ft of water

The same way fukushima daiichi does i guess.

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by Mr K

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48206325



Well i'm glad I don't live on the coast, although I suppose the seaside will be nearer.

Was at a meeting yesterday where it was mentioned that in Leeds some of the flood defenses we're building have been redesigned for the 1 in 200 year event as it was felt working to the 1 in 100 year model is probably no longer resilient enough (due to the more regular extreme weather events). Also, back in March Leeds City Council declared a climate emergency - long overdue and something my team has spent many years pressing for.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth

Was at a meeting yesterday where it was mentioned that in Leeds some of the flood defenses we're building have been redesigned for the 1 in 200 year event as it was felt working to the 1 in 100 year model is probably no longer resilient enough (due to the more regular extreme weather events). Also, back in March Leeds City Council declared a climate emergency - long overdue and something my team has spent many years pressing for.

So, will the Leeds City Council's declaration of a climate emergency reverse the effects of climate change?

It's just hype, but hopefully it makes people feel better.

[papa smurf]

Meanwhile back at the coalface

climate change protester tries to glue himself to MOVING automatic doors

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/11...tion-Rebellion

must have been dirty electricity working against him

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

So, will the Leeds City Council's declaration of a climate emergency reverse the effects of climate change?

It's just hype, but hopefully it makes people feel better.

On its own probably not, but we won't by any means be the last council to make such a declaration and before long it won't just be hype and we'll start to make a difference.

“Climate emergency” declarations are just virtue signalling, with about as much weight and significance as a trade body declaring “national eat bacon week”. It’s an awareness campaign run by environmentalists, deliberately designed to sound like “state of emergency” which in some countries carries legal force when declared by government and grants emergency powers to act in mitigation. Typically it is signed up to by organisations that have little power to change anything, like local councils, or in the UK’s case by bored MPs using parliamentary free time to pass non-binding motions while the government is busy elsewhere.

Responsible governments, especially of rich, industrialised nations like the UK, are looking at these measures already, and taking hard, grown up decisions about how fast we can decarbonise an economy without crippling it. The last 10 years have shown that it is the poorest in society who suffer when the tax receipts that pay for healthcare and social security dry up. Going next zero on carbon by 2045 rather than 2050, for example, has implications for the size of our economy measured in the billions. Responsible government is spending time working out how to manage that and balance competing pressures, not pinning green ribbons to their lapels and giving impressive speeches.