I genuinely wish I was older than I am, I dread to think what the future holds. I rarely bother saying anything about climate change to friends or family anymore, I usually get met with retorts like "oh sod off Greenpeace", which says it all really.
This a classic example of the large number of cognitive biases that one can attribute to the debate surrounding climate science. For example - confirmation/projection/assimilation/self serving/subjective validation and my favourite, the Dunning-Kruger effect. It's heavy reading for sure but it's something I have an interest in and I'll let you Google it if you wish but it's why, in my opinion, trying to discuss it in a reasonable scientific manner is fast becoming a complete waste of time...it's too stressful, whatever 'camp' you happen to be in. The same - although to a lesser extent - was or is also true when talking about the merits of Covid lockdown.
In our local park you can see where all the drainage pipes run as they are very close under the turf.
People always say that lawns will regrow when the
rains come back, but with some parks in the centre of cities, I'm not
sure that's true. Where you have high foot traffic not sticking to paths and
crisscrossing the grass, what we are left with is a dust bowl. Sections
of Hyde Park and Green Park will have their work cut out.
And who is ‘us’? That’s simple … ‘us’ is the human race … who else?
I don’t think it’s just humans that cause the change. And I don’t think either that a climatologist can explain everything.
I don’t know how it is here, but I remember many years ago while living still in Germany, the climate experts came down to earth and agreed to work with scientists from other subjects like historians. They were quite astonished what precise weather descriptions they got just from reading sources. You can get a quite good picture just from reading the monasteries’ annales. They stretch over hundreds of years and tell exactly what the weather was like and the results of the harvest for example. descriptions like that that told us that there has been an extreme poor weather in the first half of the 14th century. Try to imagine 30 years of rain and cold, nothing to eat because hardly anything grew. Climatologists would go mad if we had this today.
It’s not by chance that they discovered that this could be the worst drought for 500 years. This news did not come from climatologists.
When Europe had the extreme heat in 2018, two climatologists from Potsdam and Reading claimed to have developed a program that told them in seconds that Europe gets the same heat in the next following 4 years. It didn’t happen as we know.
As far as I know, they haven’t found an explanation why the Azores high has moved more to us in the recent months and I don’t want to claim that I knew the answer. All I remember is that the polar vortex broke in Dec 2020 which gave us winter in Spring time last year and just 3 months later, the Azores high started to move.
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https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/nature-and-pollution-what-lichens-tell-us-about-toxic-air.html
It's heavy reading for sure but it's something I have an interest in and I'll let you Google it if you wish but it's why, in my opinion, trying to discuss it in a reasonable scientific manner is fast becoming a complete waste of time...it's too stressful, whatever 'camp' you happen to be in.
The same - although to a lesser extent - was or is also true when talking about the merits of Covid lockdown.
I ♥ my garden.
and
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/business/norfolk-farmer-gives-away-onions-damaged-during-heatwave-9210804
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.