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Friday 28 July 2023
CLIMATE CHANGE "GOOD FOR BRITAIN"
Read the article, below, giving the views of the man who negotiated the final Brexit deal for the UK to leave the EU. He is highly regarded by Conservative Party members and could even be a future prime minister. Lord Frost has a lot of influence.
Lord Frost insists there's no climate 'emergency' as he hits out at current policies The ex-Cabinet minister demands UK ditches focus on 'medieval' wind power He calls change of tack with greater emphasis on fracking and nuclear power Tory peer backs Liz Truss for PM - with claims he may soon return to Government
I have active in another site talking about economics. If we build out the zero carbon energy system, the economics is rewarding with a great deal of savings over the high emissions scenario. If we head into higher emissions scenario the economy takes a strong negative hit.
I chose temperature increase for GB showing that GB is being effected by climate change. As temperatures increase, this does effect our crops that we depend on. Some crops will diminish as temperatures get higher.
Basically the world took a turn towards burning oil in the past and it worked. We just didn't take climate change into account back then. Now that we are aware of climate change, adding co2 to the atmosphere, has the result of increasing temperature where we live on the surface of the earth.
I was blocked from the Daily Mail site wanting me to disable my ad blocker.
I am going to focus on climate change could be good for Great Britain.
The Central England temperature series, recorded since 1659 in the Midlands, shows an observed increase in temperature, consistent with anthropogenic climate change rather than natural climate variability and change.[23] According to the Met Office, climate change will affect the climate of the United Kingdom with warmer and wetter winters and hotter and drier summers. Spanish plumes will continue but bring more intense weather conditions such as hotter summer weather and summer thunderstorms.[24]
By 2014, the United Kingdom's seven warmest and 4 out of its 5 wettest years had occurred between the years of 2000–2014. Higher temperatures increase evaporation and consequently rainfall. In 2014, England recorded its wettest winter in over 250 years with widespread flooding.[25]
In parts of the south east of the UK, the temperature in the hottest days of the year increased by 1 °C per decade in the years 1960 - 2019. The highest ever recorded temperature in the United Kingdom was recorded in 2022 in Coningsby at 40.3 °C.[26] In 2020, the chances of reaching a temperature above 40 °C were low, but they are 10 times higher than in a climate without human impact. In modest emissions scenario, by the end of the century, it will happen every 15 years and in high emissions scenario every 3 – 4 years. Summers with temperatures above 35 °C occur in the UK every 5 years, but will occur almost every other year in the high emission scenario by 2100.[27]
Please note that picking out individual years is not the way to look at the climate. You need at least 30 years of data averaged out to show a change in climate. A change of 1 degree in 150 years is what has actually happened and that is too small to be noticeable by humans. The errors in taking the measurements are so great that it is practically meaningless. This is why the media do not look at the actual data. Instead they concentrate entirely on the extremes, which have always occurred. It is blatant propaganda to try to justify the enormous cost of decarbonising the economy. People are not stupid, they can see that the weather is not in general any different from the past.
This media referred to climate scientists. I've watched other shows bring on scientists also.
Now Fox News in the US would bring on scientists that were paid by fossil fuels to say everything is OK. No worries. This follows the same pattern as big tobbacco saying everything is ok with smoking cigarettes with doctors.
Kornhuber and other scientists reached by The Associated Press pointed to rigorous studies and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association data that show how many types of extreme weather and disasters, including those noted in the podcast clip, have become more intense as a result of climate change.
For example, climate change has created warmer and drier conditions in the western United States, leading to fire seasons that last longer and burn more area in recent decades, according to NOAA.
Droughts are complicated because “there are big regional and temporal variations,” according to Andrew Dessler, the director of the Texas Center for Climate Studies and a professor at Texas A&M University. “But you cannot say things are ‘calming down.’”
“The strong variability gives lots of opportunity for misinformers to claim that droughts are not worsening, but the data show that precipitation variability is increasing, something scientists have been predicting for decades — meaning that it’ll be dry for longer and then, when it rains, it’ll flood,” Dessler said in an email. “We can see that happening right now in California.”
A study published earlier this month used satellite data to show that the intensity of extreme drought and rainfall has “sharply” increased across the globe over the past 20 years. The researchers said the data confirms that both the frequency and intensity of rainfall and droughts are increasing due to burning fossil fuels and other human activity that releases greenhouse gases.
Lord Frost insists there's no climate 'emergency' as he hits out at current policies
ReplyDeleteThe ex-Cabinet minister demands UK ditches focus on 'medieval' wind power
He calls change of tack with greater emphasis on fracking and nuclear power
Tory peer backs Liz Truss for PM - with claims he may soon return to Government
I have active in another site talking about economics. If we build out the zero carbon energy system, the economics is rewarding with a great deal of savings over the high emissions scenario. If we head into higher emissions scenario
the economy takes a strong negative hit.
I chose temperature increase for GB showing that GB is being effected by climate change. As temperatures increase, this does effect our crops that we depend on. Some crops will diminish as temperatures get higher.
Basically the world took a turn towards burning oil in the past and it worked. We just didn't take climate change into account back then. Now that we are aware of climate change, adding co2 to the atmosphere, has the result of increasing temperature where we live on the surface of the earth.
I was blocked from the Daily Mail site wanting me to disable my ad blocker.
I am going to focus on climate change could be good for Great Britain.
Temperature and weather changes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_the_United_Kingdom#Impacts_on_the_natural_environment
The Central England temperature series, recorded since 1659 in the Midlands, shows an observed increase in temperature, consistent with anthropogenic climate change rather than natural climate variability and change.[23] According to the Met Office, climate change will affect the climate of the United Kingdom with warmer and wetter winters and hotter and drier summers. Spanish plumes will continue but bring more intense weather conditions such as hotter summer weather and summer thunderstorms.[24]
By 2014, the United Kingdom's seven warmest and 4 out of its 5 wettest years had occurred between the years of 2000–2014. Higher temperatures increase evaporation and consequently rainfall. In 2014, England recorded its wettest winter in over 250 years with widespread flooding.[25]
In parts of the south east of the UK, the temperature in the hottest days of the year increased by 1 °C per decade in the years 1960 - 2019. The highest ever recorded temperature in the United Kingdom was recorded in 2022 in Coningsby at 40.3 °C.[26] In 2020, the chances of reaching a temperature above 40 °C were low, but they are 10 times higher than in a climate without human impact. In modest emissions scenario, by the end of the century, it will happen every 15 years and in high emissions scenario every 3 – 4 years. Summers with temperatures above 35 °C occur in the UK every 5 years, but will occur almost every other year in the high emission scenario by 2100.[27]
Please note that picking out individual years is not the way to look at the climate. You need at least 30 years of data averaged out to show a change in climate. A change of 1 degree in 150 years is what has actually happened and that is too small to be noticeable by humans. The errors in taking the measurements are so great that it is practically meaningless.
ReplyDeleteThis is why the media do not look at the actual data. Instead they concentrate entirely on the extremes, which have always occurred. It is blatant propaganda to try to justify the enormous cost of decarbonising the economy. People are not stupid, they can see that the weather is not in general any different from the past.
This media referred to climate scientists. I've watched other shows bring on scientists also.
ReplyDeleteNow Fox News in the US would bring on scientists that were paid by fossil fuels to say everything is OK. No worries. This follows the same pattern as big tobbacco saying everything is ok with smoking cigarettes with doctors.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-extreme-weather-events-climate-change-169250036362
Kornhuber and other scientists reached by The Associated Press pointed to rigorous studies and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association data that show how many types of extreme weather and disasters, including those noted in the podcast clip, have become more intense as a result of climate change.
For example, climate change has created warmer and drier conditions in the western United States, leading to fire seasons that last longer and burn more area in recent decades, according to NOAA.
Droughts are complicated because “there are big regional and temporal variations,” according to Andrew Dessler, the director of the Texas Center for Climate Studies and a professor at Texas A&M University. “But you cannot say things are ‘calming down.’”
“The strong variability gives lots of opportunity for misinformers to claim that droughts are not worsening, but the data show that precipitation variability is increasing, something scientists have been predicting for decades — meaning that it’ll be dry for longer and then, when it rains, it’ll flood,” Dessler said in an email. “We can see that happening right now in California.”
A study published earlier this month used satellite data to show that the intensity of extreme drought and rainfall has “sharply” increased across the globe over the past 20 years. The researchers said the data confirms that both the frequency and intensity of rainfall and droughts are increasing due to burning fossil fuels and other human activity that releases greenhouse gases.