Britain must urgently prepare for flooding, heatwaves and food shortages

The article speaks for itself really. Did you read past the headline? Climate change is obviously something "to be concerned about".
 
Potentially.

Something I've noticed is that El Nino peaks seem to be becoming wider apart but also increasing in the frequency of how many of them are severe - and also increasing in severity - IMO we aren't that many cycles away (though still talking quite a few years) from peak events that dwarf the flooding and droughts seen with the recent peak and while manageable with preparation there seems to be a general lack of preparation which will result in potentially some really bad stuff happening.
 
Don't worry too much. If you do the quest from the guy at the church he'll give you some wood which you can fashion in to some oars. The guy at the dock will give you a kayak for 10 skinned chickens and the pig farmer will give you some bacon for some hay (which you can steal from the stables).

You can also get a sail from the shipyard but you need to raise your reputation from hated with the buccaneers otherwise they'll kill you as soon as you enter.


We'll be fine, don't worry.
 
Britain must urgently prepare for flooding, heatwaves and food shortages
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So could they not just say British Summer has arrived? :p Just purely based on what the OP has written rather than reading the actual article.
 
Rroff said:
Something I've noticed is that El Nino peaks seem to be becoming wider apart but also increasing in the frequency of how many of them are severe - and also increasing in severity - IMO we aren't that many cycles away (though still talking quite a few years) from peak events that dwarf the flooding and droughts seen with the recent peak and while manageable with preparation there seems to be a general lack of preparation which will result in potentially some really bad stuff happening.
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Have you done the analysis? I haven't heard anything about a change in ENSO frequency.

In terms of temperature this current El Nino is a lot higher than the "huge" one in '97. Have a look at this from the Guardian yesterday:

We just broke the record for hottest year, nine straight times

We've had a 0.3 C increase between the current El Nino peak and the last one. Is that not increasing in severity enough for you?

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ENSO frequency is a bit muddy data wise as most studies concern themselves with a specific area i.e. increased frequency of severity and there is mixed classification in different datasets.

Please do not use a graph that starts in ~1860 is an indication of anything global temperature wise - transient effects from the Mount Tambora event mean that the extrapolated rate of change in global temperatures is approx. 10x more severe than the actual long term trend.
 
I'm not making any claims about the 19th century climate, was just using that chart (from the linked article) to illustrate the recent El Nino peak to peak rise. (It's fast.)
 
I thought the ozone layer started to repair itself and surely as a result could normalise the temps back down?
 
Ace Modder said:
I thought the ozone layer started to repair itself and surely as a result could normalise the temps back down?
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I was thinking the same.

But has climate change be proven to be man made and have a high impact or is it just the natural change of the earth?
 
Saw title, thought it was another brexit thread.

Anyway, pure sensationalism. If newspaper stories were to be believed, we would be already be dead. We would come out of winter encased in blocks of ice then thawed out in spring and incinerated in summer.
 
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