Who says global warming is happening? ;)
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too many people percieve global warming as "were all going to get really hot weather" true we will get warmer than average spells but freak weather will be common place, as we are seeing all over the world at present...
some recent things that have happened:
worst flooding ever recorded along the danube
oaklahoma hit 98oF in america yesterday.
tornadoe alley has recorded 279 twisters in the period of january to march, the usual ammount since records began has been 60 to 75.
last year birmingham was hit by a tornado (not sure if thats a bad thing or a good thing) as was coventry (again, still not sure...)
in kenya where it hasnt rained in 3 years... they are now flooded...
northern china is in drought, southern china is awash with floods
there are other mass flooding events in panama, brazil and mexico.
south eastern england = massive drought, other areas of england are at between 70 and 95% capacity but rainfall is down overall.
the amazon rainforrest has been in heavy drought since early 2005.
some recent things that have happened:
worst flooding ever recorded along the danube
oaklahoma hit 98oF in america yesterday.
tornadoe alley has recorded 279 twisters in the period of january to march, the usual ammount since records began has been 60 to 75.
last year birmingham was hit by a tornado (not sure if thats a bad thing or a good thing) as was coventry (again, still not sure...)
in kenya where it hasnt rained in 3 years... they are now flooded...
northern china is in drought, southern china is awash with floods
there are other mass flooding events in panama, brazil and mexico.
south eastern england = massive drought, other areas of england are at between 70 and 95% capacity but rainfall is down overall.
the amazon rainforrest has been in heavy drought since early 2005.
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Actually, if global warming exists and cotinues the UK will actually get much colder, preceeded by a period of very unpredictable weather. As global tempurates rise the polar ice caps will melt, especially the Artic ice sheets. This will pump literally billions of gallons of cold water into the north Atlantic ocean. This, in turn, will slow and eventually stop the 'Atlantic conveyor' which brings a constant supply of warm water (and associated weather patterns) to northern Europe; the UK/Ireland is the main beneficiary. If the stream is stopped, so will the warming effects and we would be in for another ice age.
PeterNem said:Sounds like the kinds of cyclical climate changes I'd expect us to go through every few hundred years... shame the records only cover recent history
lol, people like you will be standing there saying "its just a cycle" when billions are without water and can no longer grow crops and when planetary biodiversity has been destroyed utterly. we have records of cimactic change dating back hundreds of thousands of years, what we know is that these events that we see have indeed happened before but NEVER have they happened at such speed and in such concentration. yet there are those that will conveniently stick there fingers in there ears and shut their eyes when it comes to the bit ive underlined.
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