the temperature tomorrow in UK
ZeroZero1
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Tomorrow the temperature in the UK is going to reach 22 c, 71 f.
The average temperature for October in Uk 12 c. This is therefore almost double the average. I remember (1970s) when we felt we had a good summer if June reached 70 f.
All the ice caps are melting, Mountains across the world are loosing their snow caps, the aral sea has disappeared, now a desert, and yet we continue as we are, rampantly consuming in the West. profligately producing waste and heat. We don't even need what we consume. Yet still people are starving and living in poverty.
How come this is "normal" and we carry on doing it?
The average temperature for October in Uk 12 c. This is therefore almost double the average. I remember (1970s) when we felt we had a good summer if June reached 70 f.
All the ice caps are melting, Mountains across the world are loosing their snow caps, the aral sea has disappeared, now a desert, and yet we continue as we are, rampantly consuming in the West. profligately producing waste and heat. We don't even need what we consume. Yet still people are starving and living in poverty.
How come this is "normal" and we carry on doing it?
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Beware the Russians....in the short term, they might do us a lot more damage...
I'm going to enjoy the sunshine, we're probably in for a freezing, or very wet, winter...
Have a lovely few days in this Indian summer..
African nations have the largest growth rate in the world...about 3%..compared to the UK at 0.5%.
China population is growing at 0.6%...but that's of over currently 1.6 billion people.
Maybe I should of said "may become somewhat irrelevant"
But think of it this way... continued exponential population growth will use increasing amounts of resources...it then gets to point where efforts to stay "environmentally sustainable" becomes less effective.
As the "recycling" business becomes global so therefore does the environmental footprint...take waste paper for example, there is a school of thought that suggests burning it is more sustainable than recycling it.
As for higher than average temps in Oct - OK lets say for arguments sake that overall 2018 is the hottest since 1976 (42 years ago) - does that mean higher than average temps or long periods without rain in the UK occur roughly twice every 85 years?
I guess 2003 could be included (27c in April) and it was very hot across Europe but that summer was the hottest for over 100 years.
Same could be said of extreme cold - 1962/3 is remembered as a very cold winter after that 1978/9 was a bit nippy as well but before 62/3 it was nearly 200 years previous until the same low temps where recorded.
Just some thoughts.....
So what? What do we do? How can we remedy the situation? Can the world be 'fixed'? Probably not...........yet I taught my children to be considerate of their environs, that they don't need the latest newest electronics, they do need to recycle their rubbish, they don't need and will never need 20 odd pairs of trainers, the only animal they should shoot......is through the lens of a camera (unless they're being chased by a bear in bear country
Tomorrow will come and I will go into my garden and look in one corner where years of plastic pots and milk cartons are being reused for new plants, another corner that pile of rotting fruit/veg etc. and I know that in time that rotting pile of 'stuff' will become compost, that will feed the earth, that feeds the worms that will feed my plants, that give me so much pleasure.........and the next tomorrow will come.......and I hope sincerely that people will finally wake up and believe that global warming is very real and very scarey, not so much for us, but for future generations.
Happy gardening and recycling everyone