Thursday 5 January 2023

Once in a Blue Moon to Almost Three Times Per Decade?

The UK's record temperatures of 2022, were apparently made 160 times more likely by the current level of global heating (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/05/uk-average-annual-temperature-tops-10c-for-first-time). Without global heating, such temperatures would have been seen only once per 500 years. They are now likely to recur in just over 3 years. Atmospheric concentrations of 'greenhouse gases' are still rising. We could very soon get to a situation, where record high temperatures are seen in alternate years. Are we really prepared to envision that? Thousands of early deaths have been linked to the UK summer temperatures of 2022. If this is a regular occurrence, the UK will have to be repeatedly restocked with immigrants.

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