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4 days after hottest recorded july temps we've a red flood warning here. It has been pissing it down for nearly 36hrs.
https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/target-area/013FWFGM35
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Thought the origin of this was some sort of Piers Morgan/Jeremy Corbyn mashup then.
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In other news that will undoubtedly delight five-year-olds everywhere, dinosaurs are going to start coming back next year.
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Excellent peice on hope, despair/grief, change and uncertainty
https://medium.com/@UrbanResilience/despairing-about-the-climate-crisis-read-this-aecb9922fe68 -
Has anyone used any carbon offsetting schemes?
No chance government is going to do anything soon so keen to look at carbon offsetting things like car, house & work travel if possible...
I've googled a little but finding it hard to determine genuine initiatives where my money will go directly to projects.
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Risk to those living on the coast has been underestimated:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/rising-sea-levels-pose-threat-to-homes-of-300m-people-study -
https://realclimatescience.com/2019/08/summer-1975-three-degrees-warmer-in-england/
pssst the solar circles drive the climate not man
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Yeah, good old "solar circles". Can you explain to me how they work then?
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/25/storms-france-greece-italy-destruction-floods
Here's a sharp thinker:
Jean-Pierre Hameau of Météo France said the storms and flooding should not be blamed on climate change. Hameau said the phenomena, known in France as cévenols, or Mediterraneans, were relatively frequent in the region.
“They occur three or six times a year. It often begins in September when the Mediterranean is warm and there is rising hot air in the south,” Hameau said.
“This usually happens in September and October, but sometimes we find these conditions in November. It’s not linked to global warming. We had these cévenols before and there hasn’t been an increase since temperatures rose. However, we have noted an increase in the intensity of the rains.”
(my emphases)
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Has anyone used any carbon offsetting schemes?
No chance government is going to do anything soon so keen to look at carbon offsetting things like car, house & work travel if possible...
I've googled a little but finding it hard to determine genuine initiatives where my money will go directly to projects.
I used to work in carbon accounting and looked at this maybe 8-10 years ago. A lot of the schemes looked like good ideas but were based on poor information, so the actual carbon savings for most of them were flaky at best.
The bigger the carbon emissions for the offsetting scheme (e.g. offsetting against air travel), the less effective they appeared to be. A couple of years ago BA had a fairly significant offsetting scheme option for its flights but when I dug into it with them, it looked very much like they hadn't really been able to make a very good estimation of any carbon savings. This was probably just through lack of expertise in the field and they'd done it just on a best guess.
In my opinion, not much has changed. Most of the carbon and sustainability research fields have all been canned under the Tory government or were lost when Brexit was voted for, because we lost our ability to take part in the European projects. So there's still a lot of poor information out there and the offsetting schemes are not as worthwhile as they might look.
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Talk about mass extinction events ... (not posting this in the Animals thread so as not to make BareNecessities sad):
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I have no idea how to imagine 28 trillion tonnes of ice, as they don't give a comparison in terms of Waleses or double-decker buses.
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The entire surface of the earth covered in a layer of ice 6cm thick.
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https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf
An interesting article posted by some on in H&F XR group