The Meteorological Office has focused attention on the very obvious changes that are apparent (as, was also intended, to be a feature of my 'Seeing the Changes' posts) in the UK's weather patterns (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/31/climate-crisis-exerting-increasing-impact-on-uk-says-met-office). They note that 2019 had an average temperature that was 1.1⁰C above the average for the period 1961-1990 (that year also had the highest temperature ever recorded in this country). The office predict that we are likely to be exposed to more bouts of extreme heat (with temperatures above the dangerous 40⁰C level) as well as fewer periods of frost and snow. They also note that our deciduous trees are coming into leaf earlier, disrupting entire ecologies. Do we really need any more evidence?
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