As i look out my window, the green grass in the park below is not so much green, more of a rusty colour with contrasts neatly with the wall to wall blue above our heads, punctuated by the occasional exhaust fumes from planes off to far flung places.
The Northern Hemisphere is in the grips of a heatwave with record temperatures from Los Angeles to Japan and Algeria recorded the highest recorded temperature for Africa, 51.3C.
Over 50 wildfires are currently raging in the Swedish Arctic Circle and it hasn't rained in some part of Britain for over 2 months which means walking through the South Downs resembles the pictures of the Mars Surface in places.
Of course a hot, dry summer doesn't mean Global Warming has finally slapped us in the face but it would be negligent to not consider that it isn't involved somewhere.
The usual deniers will say none of the sort but wildfires in the Arctic circle should set off warning bells somewhere in even the most densest of their heads.
We should get used to this is how our summers are going to be now, temperature records being broken year on year and rust coloured grass and we can't even say it's not too late because we had our chance and we blew it, that ship has sailed and it's heading for cooler climes which won't be easy as it's full of firemen putting out fires there.
No comments:
Post a Comment