During the Storms

[Dave 54]

As you all know I reported that we were being hit by storm after storm throughout the winter.
Tonight we watched a documentary about this strange but leathal run of storms, it turns out the South West of the UK was hit by a grand total of thirteen storms .
More than one of them was hurricane strength , we had eighteen deaths and much of our infrastructure trashed by them with the rest hiting us at storm force ten on the Beaufort scale ( something we learned about in the Navy that is used to categorise storm force i;e over 70 mph and above that up to 110 mph for the hurricane force winds .
It appaers to have been cause by the equatoral winds changing direction, from east to west, blowing west to east plus the Polar vortex that the US and Canada suffered from this winter.
The bad news is we can expect alott more of the same during our winters then factor in global warming which may make things even worse.
So next winter its battern down the hatches and hope and pray we dont get hit again like we have been "Frightening" or what ????

Dave

 

[Waterbug]

I think the scariest potential problem from global warming is if it shuts down the Gulf Stream. Right now the best guess is it will only slow down making England cooler but with warming offsetting that. But no one is sure. Plus we don't really know about the future, we certainly could increase green house gases in the future so models could change. What is scary to me is talking about the Gulf Stream slowing down kind of sounds like we're dancing on a razor's edge. What if we go a little bit too far and the stream shuts down. The climate in England could be much different, the change could be very fast, and it could even happen in our lifetime. That's scary.

 

[Dave 54]

I think the scariest potential problem from global warming is if it shuts down the Gulf Stream. Right now the best guess is it will only slow down making England cooler but with warming offsetting that. But no one is sure. Plus we don't really know about the future, we certainly could increase green house gases in the future so models could change. What is scary to me is talking about the Gulf Stream slowing down kind of sounds like we're dancing on a razor's edge. What if we go a little bit too far and the stream shuts down. The climate in England could be much different, the change could be very fast, and it could even happen in our lifetime. That's scary.

That is correct Waterbug , what is frigtening the scientists the most is the rate the glaciers are receeding they estimate the amount of ice melting could well threaten to shut the Gulfstream off .
What that would mean for the UK and Europe could be catistophic in nature leaving us virtualy unable to feed ourselves propperly .
We moved to where we live now in 1990 and back then it was very cold during the winter now apart from the odd coldsnap its qiute mild , but they think our winters would be colder and longer then in the summer we would get alott warmer and suffer prolonged droughts

Dave

 

[Waterbug]

I try not to give in to me instinct to run around like Chicken Little but seeing those huge ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica breaking away was like watching a Sci Fi movie. And the research into how fast climate changed in the past, that these things can happen in the space of just a couple of years...kind of wow.

Water levels raising would be a pain and expensive, but most places have higher ground. If the Gulf Stream shutdown it would impact the entire area, no place to hide. I assume people would adapt, I mean people do well in Sweden, but what a change it would be.

Of course none of that would cause any of us to change our ways. If anything we'd burn even more fuel. It's our nature. I assume we'll just continue burning fuel until we run out or the climate gets so bad our civilization collapses and we start over with fewer people. But that should be after my time so I'm turning up the AC and enjoying the good times. Yahoo.