You say 2 degrees but this summer I experienced 42.5C for the first time in my life. Last highest was once 40C in the US. But in the UK, I don't recall ever getting above 35C. That was just once too. So I think the global warming is defo occurring at a much faster rate than ever before.
Hi At',
Yes, I'm talking about the long term - very long term! - statistical averages. Climate alarmists say that the earth's temperature has risen one degree in the last 150 years ago - coinciding with the industrial revolution and all that's happened since. They are correct. What they don't tell you is that the temp' 150 years ago was at a historical low point and that temps have been 2 degrees hotter than they are now which, self evidently, can not be accounted for by wo/man made climate change. My point, therefore, is that even if the climate alarmists are right, we've still got a long way to go before we hit previous highs and, what's more, it'll take a long time to get there. So,
if it's a problem, we've got decades upon decades to find a solution. All this talk of the oceans rising up and millions dying due to flooding and the earth burning due to forest fires etc, is patently obviously complete tosh. Sorry Greta - but you're bonkers!
Appreciate the averages and all that but what we are having is also extreme weather. India went over 50 and Canada -40.
Then there is flash rainfall like months worth in an hour and so forth.
So maybe we are approaching another Noah moment?
The reasons why we're having more extreme weather has everything to do with the activity of the sun and little or nothing to do with CO2 emissions which only make up a small percentage of greenhouse gases. (Circa 3% if I remember rightly?) And of that, termites produce more CO2 than wo/mankind does by burning fossil fuels!!!
How about rivers with dead fish appearing all over the place? Are they dying because it's too hot?
Polish scientists only found elevated salt levels after thousands of dead fish were found floating in the central European waterway
www.theguardian.com
I've not heard about that and can't account for it. That said, the most likely explanation is provided in the article itself:
". . . Both the German and Polish governments have said they assume the die-off was caused by toxic chemical spillage from industrial production, and Poland has offered a reward of 1m złoty or €210,000 (£180,000) for anyone who can “help find those responsible for this environmental disaster”. . ." I'll happily bet you a 1oz 999 silver Britannia that it's got bu88er all to do with climate change! ;-)
Just to be crystal clear. I believe . . .
1. The earth's temperature changes continuously and likely will, at some point, get a fair bit hotter (and colder) than it is now.
2. Burning fossil fuels causes pollution which is harmful - especially to human health. (My late mother, a homeopath back in the days when no one knew what that was, told me as a young boy on a visit to London in the 60s that one day scientists would link exhaust emissions to lung disease and cancer.) Additionally, fossil fuels (mainly oil) is used to make numerous products which cause pollution that is harmful to all living things and to the planet. More -
much more - needs to be done to tackle pollution of all kinds.
3. Fossil fuels won't last forever and the sooner we can replace them with something that's as good, sustainable, less polluting and, hopefully, cheaper - then so much the better. What's not to like!
4. The three points above are completely separate and distinct from the core message of the climate alarmists which I do not subscribe to at all. Their hysteria is based on pseudo science and fuelled by a political agenda to make the poor poorer and to maintain maximum control and leverage over the masses. It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with saving the planet.
Tim.