Cloud Seeding In UAE

 
The United Arab Emirates was on the receiving end of a colossal storm during the week which dumped a years worth of rain (5.59 inches in a nation that averages 4.7 annually) in just one day on the country, causing floods and four deaths and questions are being asked whether the UAE's practise of Cloud Seeding was the culprit.
The UAE have been trying to increase precipitation by sending planes through clouds where they spray chemicals to try and make it rain and days prior to the downpour, meteorologists at the National Centre for Meteorology said they flew seven cloud seeding flights and for some that's the smoking gun they needed to pin the blame on the daft plan.
Not so quick said an array of meteorologists who said that cloud seeding can't create clouds from nothing and seeding encourages water that is already in the sky to drop as rain so if the experts don't think seeding was to blame, what do they think was?
The Met Office pointed firmly at Climate Change and the effect of cloud seeding was negligible and said that rising global temperatures are leading to more extreme weather events such as this around the world which may be worth remembering the next time some wally tries to argue that Climate Change isn't a thing because unfortunately it is and even more unfortunately, it is something we have done to ourselves despite decades of warnings of what would happen. Yep, we really have been that stupid.

Climate Change Explained For The Elderly

Not sure how to take the results of the Trajectory and the communications agency Fleet Street poll which found that while 90% of the people asked said Green and environmental issues were important, less than half actually knew what the terms stood for.
I guess in some small way that's a victory for people like me who have been banging on about Green this and Environmentally friendly that since the 80's so the Environmental message has sunk in, just that only a minority knew what the message was actually about.
When asked, only 25% said they clearly understood what the terms 'green' and 'sustainable' meant and 47% could explain 'environmentally friendly', 'locally grown' and 'single used plastics'.
The least understanding age group is the over 65's with the 18 to 24 age group much more confident when it comes to understanding key terms around the climate and the environment which leans towards it being a generational issue.
Friends of the Earth, said: 'There’s more concern about the climate than ever before and we need to ensure that clear, accessible language is used' or we could just explain it in a way that the older generation understand such as:

1.5°C - Minimum the Earth should be allowed to warm...or put your mince in the air fryer for 15 mins on 180C and it comes out lovely and crispy. Put it in for 15 mins on 181.5C and oops, too crispy

Adaptation - The process of adjustment to expected climate and its effects...or wear a cap in summer to stop your bald patch going too red.

Air pollution - Degradation of air quality with negative effects on human health...or not sitting next to Eric after he has eaten all those Brussell Sprouts

Biodiversity - The variability among living things and the complexes of which they are part...or the local council estate with all those foreigners from god knows where

Carbon Capture - Capturing Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere...or like that Fart in a Biscuit Tin game you played as kids.

Climate - The average weather you can expect...or packing a light cardigan for your trip to Margate in August because you know how nippy it can be there.  

Climate Change - A change in the state of the climate attributed directly or indirectly to human activity...or when you say kid's don't know what snow is, we had to walk 2 miles to school in the stuff up around our ears in my day.

Climate model - A representation of the climate system based on the physical, chemical and biological properties of its components...or buggers using computers rather than their fingers and a bit of paper like we had to.

Climate target - A temperature limit used towards avoiding dangerous situations...or turning on the baths cold tap before you lower yourself into it.

Drought - A period of abnormally dry weather...or when your lawn goes brown in summer and you have to sneak out after dark to turn on the hose.

Electric vehicle - A vehicle whose propulsion is powered by electricity...or just like bumper cars

Extreme Weather Event - The occurrence of weather above or below a threshold value...or that windy day in 1987 when your dustbin ended up four streets over

Flood - The overflowing of the normal confines of a body of water...or when you forget to turn off the sink tap because Eric phoned about going down the Conservative Club later and you got chatting.

Food security - Having access to sufficient food...or the day after the big shop for the week.

Fossil fuels - Carbon-based fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas from fossil hydrocarbon deposits...or those places with Miners that Maggie Thatcher closed down

Glacier - A perennial mass of ice...or what Margret has in her Gin and Tonics down at the Dog and Trumpet only much, much, MUCH bigger.

Green - Living your life while considering what impacts your behavior and actions have on our planet...or not treading the soil from your allotment in the house and leaving it for the missus to clean up

Greenhouse Effect - Warming of the atmosphere when heat is unable to escape into space...or when you wake up in the night sweating because you forgot to turn off the electric blanket and you had that extra thick duvet on the bed.

Heatwave - A period of abnormally hot weather...or when your Wurthers Original get stuck together in the packet

Net zero - When carbon dioxide emissions are balanced by carbon dioxide removals...or that one and only time you put £10 in the drinks kitty and actually only drank £10 worth of Old Worthy's Bitter.

Reforestation - Planting new forests on lands that do not contain forests...or that place before the council built all those flats for those bloody asylum seekers.

Sea surface temperature - The temperature in the top few meters of the ocean...or when you dip your feet in the sea in Benidorm and don't go running back up the beach shouting 'Bugger That, it's Freezing'.

Sustainability - A process for the persistence of natural and human systems...or voting for Brexit because of all the foreigners over here and then complaining that Tesco has no cucumbers because all the vegetable pickers have gone back to their own country.

Tipping point - A level of change that refers to when the climate changes irreversibly...or that moment you called Doris a rude name for cheating at cards and you knew you would never be welcome in the Day centre ever again.

Cheers

 COP 28 in Dubai  ended with what was described as an 'historic agreement' to transition away from fossil fuels.
With a devastating 1.5C being the long term temperature goal, and bear in mind that the 2022 heatwave led to 62,000 deaths in Europe in 2022 and we are still only building up to 1.5C, it would still be would catastrophic, the latest UN analysis has the world was on course for 2.8C of warming which will have
consequences which doesn't bear thinking about but we can't say we haven't been warned.
So in Dubai after agreeing to the historic agreement, the EU's commissioner for climate action said it is was 'a moment of true satisfaction' and the US climate envoy John Kerry was photographed hugging the German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock and i was sitting thinking, are we supposed to congratulate
them for agreeing not to literally set our planet on fire?
Are we meant to be celebrating that the heads of Government have got together and finally done something about a problem which has been talked about for a century and we waited until now to do something about it?
Yeah, thanks a lot.

Gonna Need Some Better Gloves

We have been hearing scary Climate Change stories for decades now but it seems only recently now that people are actually dying from it that people have started taking proper notice of all the warnings but i heard a new one today from a scientific meeting with the Environmental Audit Committee's sub-committee and it regards something called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) weakening which had us all scrambling for Google.
The AMOC is a key, large system of ocean currents that influences the UK climate and it carries warm water from the tropics northwards into the North Atlantic but importantly as it does it, some evaporation occurs, which increases the amount of salt which makes the water denser and this dense water sinks deep into the ocean and is carried southwards below the surface before being pulled back to the surface and warms again and completes the circulation.
Oceanographers have been measuring the AMOC continuously since 2004 and found that each year it has been growing weaker and current trends show that it will continue due to the Climate Change's effect on the warming Oceans which is retaining more heat so less sinking of the cold water and less warm water flowing northwards which will directly effect the British weather as the AMOC keeps Britain from the harsh winters such as Canada and Russia who are on the same line of latitude as us.
If the AMOC collapses then the UK will lose that protection and plunge the UK into a much colder climate although scientists said they needed to research it further to know for certain how the UK would be affected but they can say with a high degree of certainty that the AMOC will collapse at sometime and offered up 'a robust estimate' of between 2050 and 2095.
So if it does stop abruptly, what sort of temperatures can Britain expect was the question and the answer was based on the last time the AMOC collapsed, around 12,000 years ago during the last Ice Age, which saw surface air temperatures in the UK drop by approximately 8°C so we would expect
far greater levels of snowfall during the colder months and reduced rainfall during summer and a widespread loss of arable land.
As a typical UK Winter has temperatures of between 0°C and 7°C and we could be looking at greater levels of snow and -8°C and 1°C, i think i may need some better gloves as i don't think my fingerless ones will cut it anymore.

Oil Companies Evil Shocker

 
There are some people who doubt Climate Change is happening for a variety of reasons including from the Churchy set who think God should be left to sort it out and then there are those who see not destroying the Planet as a 'left wing' thing and even those who decided to ignore the view of 99% of Scientific Experts and get behind the 1% who think it isn't happening, even when they find out they they have been handsomely paid to say it.
Following a summons by the New York Attorney General as part of an investigation into ExxonMobil, it shows how the oil company sought to undermine climate science by a decades-long misinformation campaign and funding climate-denier groups and paying scientists to write papers about the uncertainty of measuring greenhouse gas emissions.
The documents also show Exxon’s displeasure with scientific warnings from the scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the way the media were covering the message that greenhouse gas emissions needed to be curbed.
The Companies executives wanted to engage with the scientists to try and negatively influence other scientists and amplify the Climate Change denial which will all go into the evidence against the oil companies who are facing legal action from 24 US Cities to hold them accountable for their attempts to sow doubt about climate science.
Obviously the Planet's Climate is changing and changing at the quickest rate for millions of years, you would need to be a hugely useful idiot of these companies to not see that but to deny it and know the people you are siding with were handsomely paid to say it just makes you a gullible moron of biblical proportions.

Not Totally f$%@ed But Far From Unf$@%*ed!

Environmentalists are being accused of creating scary stories about the environment creating Eco-anxiety and environmental existential dread and for one i don't see a problem with that as we shouldn't downplay it because we ARE in a crisis and people should be anxious about it because we may have already fallen over a few tipping points and the less we trip across the less worse it will be for future generations so while there IS a lot to be worried, we mustn't lose hope that finally the penny has dropped and mankind is doing something about it.
Last year, worldwide spending on clean energy from wind, solar and nuclear energy passed £1 trillion which equals the amount spent on fossil fuels and next year it is estimated that renewables will be supplying 25% of our electricity and by 2030 over 80% and carbon emissions, still too high, are slowly reducing.
In 2022 global carbon pollution related to energy rose by under 1% , less than the 5% rise originally feared and renewables will become the world’s largest electricity source within three years, providing 35% of the world’s electricity and overtaking coal.
Data from the EU shows that the use of heat pump units avoided releasing 8 million tonnes of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere and wind and solar produced 22% of Europe's electricity in the EU in 2022.
Following the 1987 agreement to ban CFC's, The UN have reported that the hole in the Ozone layer is healing itself and should be back to full health by 2066 and sales of new electric vehicles are also taking off, increasing by 80% since 2020 with 5.6 million sold in 2022 as new models are introduced and the price reduces with the EU predicting by 2030 30% of all new car purchases will be zero-emission vehicles. 
The world is, by any measure, still dramatically under-reacting to the rising risks which are hitting home this year with extreme heat waves, droughts, famines and floods as we creep towards the catastrophic 2.7°C which the United Nations Environment Program say is heading our way based on current projections but if the Global leaders can get their act together then we can reduce the impact or as one Environmentalist scientist said more colourfully: “We won't no longer be totally f$%@ed but we’re also be far from totally unf$@%*ed!'

BBC Weather Dept Explains To The Hard Of Thinking

Unbelievably there are still some people unconvinced that Climate Change is happening and the numpties are out in force as records tumble across the globe, mostly on Social Media accusing the BBC Weather Department of misreporting and driving fear with 'supposed' terrifying temperatures during the  heatwave sweeping through parts of Europe, North America and Africa.
Luckily the BBC Weather Department is full of numpties and have been answering the strangely disturbed people each time they rear their funny little heads so first up the claim was that 40C plus figures are the ground temperature to which the BBC replied by posting pictures of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Stevenson Screens used Worldwide sitting 1.25 meters above ground to prevent the reading being effected by direct heat from the ground and other hard surfaces.
The peculiar non-believers then went onto claiming there was no evidence that the high temperatures reported by the BBC were not backed by evidence for which the BBC replied by publishing the data from the published by the countries own Meteorological Services confirms the high temperatures reported, confirmed by the WMO.
They then claimed that the BBC Weather App for some cities was lower than the temperature they later reported to which the BBC politely explained that while forecasting includes many complex models and they aim to get as close as possible to the actual expected temperatures, it is only a forecast and they are updated once the confirmed maximum temperatures have been reached.
Finally they say the BBC is scaremongering by using a new dark red on the weather maps and they said yep, red is used when it is hot weather and blue is used when it is cold weather which are the standard colours to represent hot and cold on weather maps and the red is a deeper red simply because it needs to be darker than the red used for other high temperatures for temperatures we've never experienced before.
I would suggest to the hard of thinking to dip their feet in the kids paddling pool, pop another few ice cubes in their glass and stop embarrassing themselves by ignoring what is staring them in their red, flushed, sweaty face.

Not The Planet We Need To Save

 In 2015, World leaders signed an agreement to try to limit global heating to 1.5C by the end of the century, the current projection we are on will see the Planet heated by 2.7C so the case for cutting carbon emissions has never been more blindingly obvious as freak heatwaves around the globe shows.
In the US, hospitals are treating patients suffering severe burns from contact with pavements while forest fires ravage Greece and Antarctic sea ice levels have fallen to record lows for July so we are inching towards a tipping point which climate scientists and environmentalists have long warned about and the frustration is that we know full well what the consequences will be and what we can do about it, just that the people who can do things about seem to carry on with business as usual.
I read an excellent piece in one of the newspaper by a Climate Scientist who had the great line that we don't need to save the Planet, the Planet will be fine if it's a burning ball of methane or a frozen ball of ice, it's the people on the Earth who are in danger.
Research puts the death toll from heat in Europe last summer at 61,672 people, mostly from heatstroke and record-breaking temperatures in the day grab the headlines but it is the hot nights when much of the death occurs as the body can’t cool down, causing organs spend under stress for longer periods and ultimately death.
In the 1980s, when the planet was 0.5C hotter than before the Industrial Revolution, Europe experienced five to seven days of heatwaves each year. This number has already now reached 30 days and that's at 1.5C, as we go on towards the 2.7 figure than things will become fatally uncomfortable for us humans  on this massive ball of rock which doesn't care if we are riding on it or not.

Stay There Cerberus

Cerberus is the three-headed dog who torments sinners in the third circle in Dante's Inferno and also the name given to the heatwave baking Europe at the moment where temperatures are 10C higher than the norm.
Sweltering under temperatures of 45C in Spain and with Health and essential travel only warnings published in Italy, France, Turkey and Greece, climate experts declared the World has just had its hottest week on record following the hottest ever June and the heatwave has the not so clammy hands of
climate change all over it.
A study revealed more than 61,000 people died in Europe last summer as a result of extreme heat and the MET Office has warned that in the UK we can expect more 'uncomfortably hot days' which is a very understated way of saying bloody hot and we can't even stay indoors to keep cool because British homes are designed to keep the heat in.  
The Government are looking at a program for new homes which will need to incorporate things like shutters on windows to block out the sun, better ventilation, ceiling fans and lighter coloured roofs.
It is with particular irony then that this Summer the UK finds itself on the Northern side of the Jet Stream which means the heat from Cerberus is kept on the Southern side of it so if it could just stay there until September it would be much appreciated.

Nothing Glorious About Summer Heat

England hit 29C during the week and it was hot, very very hot so it was no surprise when the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that the first 11 days of June was the World's hottest ever, breaching the crucial 1.5C temperature air temperature threshold which follows a May that was less than 0.1C cooler than the warmest ever May on record.
Already water companies are urging customers to start conserving water while Devon and Cornwall and parts of East Anglia are still in restrictions from last summer while 28% of mainland EU territory is in drought, particularity the western Mediterranean area and as we are only at the start of Summer, it doesn't bode well for where we will be at the end of it in three months time
From June to August 2022 there were over 20,000 heat-related deaths in the EU but still the weather people insist on describing all this Summer sunshine and dry conditions as 'glorious', 'beautiful' or 'wonderful' which isn't the words i would use, i would go with stifling, oppressive and too bloody hot, i seem to have found 23C my limit before i start moaning how i wish Summer would bugger off.
Thunderstorms is the only high spot of Summer and we are forecast to have some this weekend which were described by the BBC Weather person as a spoiler and putting a blot on our weekend but then the hot and sunny weather is set to continue afterwards but i fail to share a good old Summer downpour as a negative thing as there is nothing glorious or wonderful about grassland fires, dry riverbeds, water bans and thousands of people literally dying through the heat.  
During a time of devastating Global Warming, by framing warm, dry and sunny weather as positive it only plays into the hands of the numpties who say things like how can Summer-like weather all year round be a bad thing and anything that gives succor to people that stupid should be avoided at all costs.

Solving A Problem Like Global Warming

At Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, they have measured atmospheric CO2 at it's highest level in human history, a staggering 423.01 ppm.
To put that into context, at the start of the Industrial Revolution the atmospheric CO2 was between 260 and 280 ppm and had been  during the 10,000 years up to the mid-18th century.
Scientists, using Antarctic and Greenland ice cores have pointed out that the current rates of increase of the concentration of the major greenhouse gases are unprecedented over at least the last 800,000 years and when we passed the 400 ppm threshold, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere may be the highest since the mid Pliocene warm period, 14 million years ago.
Obviously, unless you are terminally stupid, you know that that more Carbon in the Atmosphere leads to Global Warming and the catastrophic results of extreme weather hence the record breaking climate events but for some of the more hard of thinking amongst us, that is too much for their tiny brains so they either ignore it, say it's too late and we can't do anything about it now or unbelievably refuse the evidence of their own somewhat slow senses and say things like climate change is a myth.
It is true that while we have known about the consequences of Global Warming and Climate Change for decades with the first warnings coming in the early 20th Century, we have been reluctant to do anything to sort it out and some have even said that Capitalism could fix it despite it being Capitalism which caused it in the first place so it seems we need to kick Capitalism into touch to begin solving it.
This is good on two levels because getting rid of Capitalism would not only solve Climate Change but it would literally fix almost every other problem on the Planet right now so what's not to like about it?

Not Looking Good For This Summer Already

It doesn't bode well when we are only in April and already weather records are tumbling as Spain sees it's hottest April day on record with temperature of 38.7 °C.
As well as the result of increasing Climate Change pushing up temperatures, we also have an El Nino on the way so the extreme weather gripping parts of the world could make it a very uncomfortable summer.
 As well as the stonking July heat in April conditions in Spain, it has also had raging but wildfires and in areas of Thailand, the Government warned its citizens not to go outside due to the extreme heat as the country's meteorological service noted an April record 45 °C (113 °F) for the first time ever and Authorities in parts of India shut schools for a week due to the sweltering temperatures.
Central California face flooding following extreme conditions which saw record levels of rain and melting snow and so soon as returning to their homes after 10,000 Californians fled their homes last month after widespread flooding and snow.
Climate Scientists are warning average global temperatures could hit record highs this year driven by climate change and the El Nino weather phenomenon.
with the MET Office saying that the current record for global temperature occurred in 2016 and it's no coincidence that followed the last big El Nino.
In the UK, households and water companies are already being urged to focus on saving water as officials prepare for another dry, hot summer and a hosepipe is already in effect across parts of Devon.
Britain unfortunately gained it's record highest temperature of 40.3 °C (104.5 °F) in July last year and with the upward heat trend and El Nino, the odds are good that this will be broken again this year so grab your fans while you can because the shops may well sell out again this year.

Let's Not But Say We Did

 
I was handed a leaflet today but instead of doing what i usually do when i am handed a leaflet in the street which is drop it in the nearest bin, i glanced at it and noticed the large writing at the top which boldly declared 'Why You Can Stop Worrying About Climate Change', and assumed it was from one of the whack-a-doodle Climate Change Denying groups but it turns out that it wasn't, it was from the local whack-a-doodle Evangelical Church.    
With my interest piqued, i had a read and it turns out that despite us thinking we are in control, we aren't, God is, and as the Earth and us humans were his creation, then he won't let us all die or rather not until God decides and judges the Earth with fire and creates new Heavens and new Earth.
You see God cares for what he has made and after the flood, he made a promise to humans that: 'While the Earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease (Genesis 8:22)'.
It goes on to say that rather than worrying about the changing Climate, we should leave that to God and concentrate on the poor and needy and the answer to environmental issues: 'isn’t more laws, bigger fines, or more power to the government. The answer is the gospel of Jesus Christ!'
There you go then, stop worrying about killer heatwaves, floods and extreme weather, just fall to your knees and send up a prayer to the man in the clouds instead because that could work just as well, obviously it won't and to think it would work is nucking futs and there is a reason why all the top Environmental Scientists congregate at the UN to try and sort out the worsening problem and not gathering around a Bible at Saint Paul's Cathedral. 

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

As the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has all the brightest and best environmental scientists on it, when it speaks regarding Climate Change it should be taken heed of and they are warning that humanity is on thin ice and to avoid the worst effects of climate change, we need to do 'everything, everywhere, all at once'.
Obviously they mean measures to reduce the amount of carbon being emitted into the atmosphere but to also suck out as much as we can of the CO2 we have already foolishly released and set the Globe towards a rise of between 2.4C and 2.8C.
Earlier this year, a report by researchers at the University of Oxford calculated that each year we pump around 36.6 billion tonnes of COs into the atmosphere and the best the current removal techniques we have remove 2 billion tonnes, or 5% of that emitted which shows that we really have to ramp up our efforts.
Techniques currently on the table for large scale increases include Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) which involves capturing and storing underground the Carbon at source before it is released, Direct Air Capture (DAC) which pulls CO2 directly out of the air and again stores it underground and Ocean Alkalinisation which involves adding alkaline materials to the ocean to increase the amount of CO2 it can take in.
Experts consider the CDR and DAC solutions would require enormous areas of land and the CDR method  doesn’t actually remove any CO2 from the atmosphere, it only prevents more emissions from going into the atmosphere in the first place and ocean alkalisation is far too risky for the marine environment and think it may not even work anyway.
The experts seem to be looking towards a mix of CDR to stop us stupidly making the situation worse and DAC to at least try and draw back some of CO2 we have released already and are urging increasing numbers of facilities around the world as what we currently have is woefully far below what is needed.
We do seem to be entering a phase, after decades of procrastination and head in the sand politics from our Global leaders, where we not only have to stop polluting our Planet but undo the damage using unknown and untried methods on a large scale.

It Didn't Have To be Like This

The MET Office have ominously announced that 2022 was the hottest year on record and the year kept breaking new extreme weather records and scientists warn that extreme weather due to climate change is set to get worse, stating that the 10 years which recorded the highest annual temperature since 1884 have all been since 2002.
In England during three days of the late-July heatwave, 900 more people died than usually do at that time of year as UK temperatures hit 40C for the first time ever, grounding flights, buckling train-lines and causing devastating blazes that destroyed homes.
Europe suffered a record number of wildfires and pollution levels along with its worst drought in 500 years and the World Food Programme called the drought in Africa the world's first climate change-induced famine.
A heatwave in India and Pakistan followed by record-breaking monsoonal rainfall wiped out 50% of some crop yields and displaced 32 million people, destroyed 1.7 million homes, and killed more than 1,700 people.
The climate situation is urgent and has been known and understood by scientists since the 1950s, i picked up the cause in the mid 80s so we have had at least 70 years to do something and for all the COP summits, we have not done enough to give up the air polluting fossil fuels.
The Carbon Dioxide levels are still increasing and we are in a perilous position but you do have to wonder how many disasters will it take for our leaders, the people who can actually bring about the needed changes, to take some meaningful action?
So people will die and land will be taken by the rising sea levels but it really didn't have to be this way, although it looks like it will be.

Hmmm...

I have been banging the Climate Change drum since the mid 80's and one thing that i have consistently heard is that science will find a find a way to dig us out of the hole we have foolishly got ourselves into and it seems like they may have a plan which they say will dial down the global thermostat and refreeze the North and South Poles to hold back the rising sea levels, but it seems mighty risky.
Described in the scientific journal Environmental Research Communications, they say if high-flying jets sprayed 13m tonnes of Sulphur Dioxide particles into the atmosphere above the Poles, this would reflect enough sunlight to cool the melting icecaps by 2C.
Sounds good in theory but my concerns are around any unintended consequences of releasing that material directly into the atmosphere and also this is only treats the symptom and not the cause which means even less effort would go into de-carbonisation so rather than buy time while we reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we will continue polluting our air unabated.
The United Nations has a moratorium on attempting any form of geo-engineering at scale until experiments have shown it is entirely safe and i would be very wary of such an extreme measure until it is guaranteed 100 safe although at least the scientists are trying to find a solution because something needs to be done and quickly because left to the useless politicians, we are consigned to a slow death by our own stupid hand.

Why Is It So F@#$%&! Hot In The UK?

Boris Johnson famously hid in a fridge to avoid journalists questions and with my phone showing today's temperature as 27C, if there was a fridge nearby i would be diving into it also.
The most asked question is 'Why is it so F@#$%&! hot?' and official MET Office answer is a high pressure system called the Azores High which usually sits in the North Atlantic and annoys Southern Europe, has grown larger and pushed farther north, bringing Southern European high temperatures to Northern Europe and the UK.
Now if you like temperatures 27C and above then you are going to love this week because the MET Office have issued a rare Heat Warning and have said there is a strong chance of the all-time UK record of 38.7C set in 2019 could be beaten this week.
The next question is: 'Are Our Summers getting hotter? and again the MET answer is Yes, Britain has got 0.9C warmer since the 19th Century and the 10 hottest years in the UK have all happened since 2002. The unofficial answer is OF COURSE IT IS!! HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING UNDER A ROCK OR WHAT!!
The third question is then: 'Why are they getting hotter?' and i say take a rest MET Office, go put a damp flannel of the back of your neck or something and i will get this one.
OK, since the Industrial Revolution in the 19th Century we began throwing pollutants into the atmosphere on a large scale and these pollutants stop the heat from the Sun escaping back into Space so the heat remains and warms the planet and acts upon all sorts of weather anomalies, such as heat waves, droughts, rain etc.
Now the Global warming doesn't create these weather conditions, we would still have hurricanes, floods and heat waves even without the heavilly polluted atmosphere, but what it does do is take what is there and make it worse so storms are stronger, rains are heavier (so more floods) and as we are finding out, heatwaves are hotter.
The Final question is generally: 'Gee Lucy, what can we do about it? and the scary answer is nothing, we're f@#$%&d, the amount of pollutants in already in the atmosphere means we are committed to a 2.3C rise over the next century even if we never flung another atom of Carbon into the sky and if you think 1C is bad at the moment..oh boy, but people don't like hearing that so the proper answer is that our politicians hold events like the recent UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow to come together to agree on action to try and mitigate the worst effects of a warming planet so hurrah for them.
So stay cool and head to Leeds, Glasgow or Manchester which are on average the coolest place in the UK during Summer.

No Need To Wait Until 2050, It's Here Already

There is an amazing and worrisome video from France with a weather-girl, Evelyne Dheliat, showing a temperature map she used in June 2014 which shows the projected temperatures in France in June 2050 due to climate change.
June 2050 is still 28 years away and yet, a look at her map for temperatures in France in June 2022 and her prediction has already happened for many.
Temperatures in the UK topped 33C today and other parts of Europe such as Spain are also experiencing intense heatwaves, with cities in southern
Spain seeing highs of 43C.
Climate change is happening and only the most stupid or selfish people can deny it. Sadly, there remain a few of them with their ignorant views but although the planet will survive and recover, it's us who won't.

Grand Solar Minimum

As the effects of Cimate Change are now becoming more prominent, the Climate Change deniers are no longer even trying to argue that the Planet is warming, their new embarrasingly awful argument they are parroting is that humans did not cause the change but it is a natural phenomenon and it will correct itself without our help under the Grand Solar Minimum.
Someone has obviously been reading their kids science textbooks and noticed the bit that says a Grand Solar Minimum is an actual thing and is when the Sun gives off less energy as part of its natural cycle and scientists are predicting that we are due such a period although it will hardly be noticeable down here on Planet Earth as at the most these events reduce temperatures by is 0.2C.  
As the Planet has been warmed by human activity by 1.2C and is heading towards 2.5C, the deniers don't want to be digging out their thermal underpants just yet, especially as Scientists are saying that
temperature rises weren't caused by the changes in the Sun's cycle because the layer of atmosphere nearest the earth is warming, while the layer of atmosphere closest to the Sun is cooling so the heat which would normally be released into the stratosphere is being trapped just above us by greenhouse gases.
Nice try though, ignorant and uninformed obviously, but nice to know that the laughably uninformed are still in their swinging.

The Top 10 Historic Polluters

In total, humans have pumped around 2,500 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere since 1850 which has warmed the planet by 1.2C and an argument coming from smaller and poorer nations is that those countries which have added most to the CO2 into our atmosphere and therefore warming our planet and causing the accumulating problems today should take on the greatest responsibility in tackling it.
A study by Carbon Relief has put together a league table of the worst polluters since records began in 1850 and those who should be shouldering the burden of putting it right and comfortably top of the table is the United States who have pumped 509,111 billion tonnes of CO2 (20% of the total) into the atmosphere.
Second with 284,476 billion tonnes of emissions (11.4%) is China and their figure is alarming because most of that has come since the 1970's when China began industrialising in earnest and is now the Worlds ​​largest annual polluter.
R​ussia comes in third (172,432 bn tonnes), ​followed by Brazil (112,903 bn tonnes), Indonesia (102,559 bn tonnes), Germany (88,485 bn tonnes), India (85,668 bn tonnes), UK (74,294 bn tonnes), Japan (68,002bn tonnes) and Canada (65,501bn tonnes) rounding out the top 10.
Of the top 10 who have contributed to the warming Planet, six of the top 10 have yet to make new pledges to cut their emissions before the crucial UN Cop 26 climate summit in Glasgow this week.
Carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for centuries and the cumulative amount of CO2 emitted since 1850 is directly linked to the 1.2C of heating that the world has already seen.
Mohamed Nasheed, ambassador for the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) called for justice for the severe climate impacts the nations he represents are suffering because of the emissions from big economies that have grown rich from burning fossil fuels by saying: 'Basic justice demands that those who have done most to cause the climate emergency should take the lead in addressing it. The responsibility lies principally with the US, China and Russia'.
Boris Johnson, a late convert to the Green agenda, agreed and replied that: 'We started the industrial revolution in Britain. We were the first to send the great puffs of acrid smoke to the heavens on a scale to derange the natural order'.  
An IPCC climate report compiled by 200 Climate scientists states that is Earth is warmer than it’s been in 125,000 years, before the last ice age, and the current path we are on will see global temperatures rise by 2.1C–3.5C and the last time the Earth temperature raised by that amount it happened over 11,000 years meaning we have achieved in 170 what it took nature 11,000 years to do dismissing the flawed and ignorant argument that the warming planet is a natural cycle and not man made.
The Paris agreement was to keep the temperature to below 1.5C, the World Health Organisation estimates that the current rise of 1.2C results in over 150,000 deaths annually so already baked in is the more frequent and widespread extreme weather events such as heatwaves, heavy rainfall, drought, wildfires and ocean acidification.
We are therefore committed to the deadly effects of the rapidly warming planet we have so recklessly warmed, our actions now will  determine how much of the more dire effects of climate change can be avoided, the future is literally in our leaders hands.