Quote Originally Posted by MadAmster View Post
The original source of the Thames has dried up. Fortunately other streams and rivers that flow to create the river Thames still have water so the Thames survives for now. Rivers in Germany are currently so low that, on some of them, the cargo boats can no longer navigate them. Pakistan has just had more rain in 3 days than they would normally get "in 3 times 30 years". Not sure why they didn't just say "90 years" but there you go.

The climate HAS changed an awful lot from when I was a kid. We had 4 explicit seasons on which you could rely. Give or take a couple of weeks, they started at the same time each year and finished at the same time each year. Yes, there were variations, some summers would be hotter than others, some winters harsher than others but for 3 months you got that varying level of whatever season it was supposed to be. The 10 hottest years on record are ALL in the past 22 years. We are getting a mish mash of weather, not always relevant to what season it's supposed to be. For the 2nd time in 3 years we have had BBQ weather from March/April and we've had it almost constantly. It's expected to go on to the end of September or even into October with maybe the odd wet spell. When it rains it's a torrential downpour. When it's windy it's gale force 8. Whatever the weather of the day is, it's generally extreme rather than what one might expect for the "season".

Those thinking that there is NO climate change need to do 2 things IMO. First visit the optician to get new glasses befitting the standard of their eyesight and then visit a psychiatrist for a check up from the neck up.

Everywhere in the world is getting hotter this, wetter that, monsoons and tornadoes and hurricanes etc are all way more violent than they used to be. Has the weather followed politics or vice versa?
No ones denying anything hasn't changed.
However, whilst granny here can't afford to put the fire on, we have idiots gluing themselves to roads and polticians who are incompetant.

I think the screaming should be directed elesewhere, until they catch up.

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