Our Planet Is On Fire

[Padders 2,850]

7 minutes ago, El Cid said:

These things are called as weather or the local climate, although I do believe its quite posible that we have had more flooding and more flashfires.

Global temperatures have increased, rising temperatures causes ice to melt and the sea levels are rising; warmer air causes it to hold more moisture, which will OBVIOUSLY cause more precipitation(rain).

 

Speaking on behalf of the less educated amongst us, why use the word Precipitation when just rain would have sufficed.

Makes it a lot easier for us.

[El Cid 214]

Just now, Padders said:

Speaking on behalf of the less educated amongst us, why use the word Precipitation when just rain would have sufficed.

Makes it a lot easier for us.

Because more moisture in the air could also mean more hail/snow in the right conditions.

[altus 538]

11 minutes ago, Padders said:

Get what you mean, maybe I should have reworded it.

"Not experienced anything like it since"

That still implies that nothing has been changed that will effect the level of flooding.

 

If the weir had still been in place who knows how often or severe flooding in Matlock would have been since 1970 (when it was removed) compared to without it?

[DUFFEMS 55]

4 hours ago, Padders said:

Matlock in Derbyshire had a devastating flood in 1960.

In 1965 they had an even worse flood.

In the last 56 yrs no floods.

Matlock had floods in November 2019 then January/February2020, the sand bags at the shop doorways never leave the town but, as Padders says, the level was nowhere near the height shown on the river marker. Still scary for business owners though.

There's work going on now to eleviate the problem.

 

Regards,

Duffems

[Padders 2,850]

Who remembers the summer of 1976?

May to September, not a cloud in the sky, scorching hot, drought conditions, 

Imagine if were lucky enough to have another one of those, the media will have a field day.

[El Cid 214]

1 hour ago, DUFFEMS said:

Matlock had floods in November 2019 then January/February2020, the sand bags at the shop doorways never leave the town but, as Padders says, the level was nowhere near the height shown on the river marker. Still scary for business owners though.  There's work going on now to eleviate the problem.

So maybe that is why floods are not as bad, because we know more about flooding and build in protections. Although we still build new houses on low lying land.

[hackey lad 3,955]

3 hours ago, Padders said:

Who remembers the summer of 1976?

May to September, not a cloud in the sky, scorching hot, drought conditions, 

Imagine if were lucky enough to have another one of those, the media will have a field day.

We ad propers summers when I were a lad .

[Jim117 72]

I remember that Padders, standpipe warnings and all. Remember the plague of greenfly and then the plague of ladybirds to eat them? I used to love the proper summer thunder storms that would clear the air after a really humid spell.

[butlers 259]

1976 is the the hottest summer even though the record highest temp has been beaten several times recently.

 

The Met office has  the 11th warmest years since 1884 happening since 2002.

1976 is not in that list.

 

[El Cid 214]

4 minutes ago, butlers said:

1976 is the the hottest summer even though the record highest temp has been beaten several times recently.

 

The Met office has  the 11th warmest years since 1884 happening since 2002.

1976 is not in that list.

That is just weather though. A countries weather can change at any time. I was reading a couple of days ago about the change in deep ocean currents that COULD make the UK much colder.

Just a news story, not buying myself a warm coat just yet 

 

Remember the movie, "The Day After Tomorrow," in which a catastrophic series of global disasters strike after climate change causes the world's ocean currents to stop? Well, new research reveals Earth's major ocean currents are slowing down, and though the consequences will not be as immediate or dramatic as in the Hollywood fiction, there are real-world impacts for global weather patterns and sea levels.

Cold Atlantic 'blob' puzzles scientists

The slowdown of ocean circulation is directly caused by warming global temperatures and has been predicted by climate scientists.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/02/world/climate-change-ocean-currents-weakening/index.html

 

 

[cuttsie 1,089]

Norway's lakes where winter sports are played every winter did not freeze up last year the first time since records began , . just a blip int it !!!!!!!.

[El Cid 214]

26 minutes ago, cuttsie said:

Norway's lakes where winter sports are played every winter did not freeze up last year the first time since records began , . just a blip int it !!!!!!!.

Norway sweltered in the record heat, 2019

https://www.newsinenglish.no/2019/07/29/norway-swelters-in-the-record-heat/

 

We need to listen to what the experts are saying about the earths climate, not what journalists are telling us about the weather.