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Do you notice global warming in action?

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  • #32
    KyCoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭KyCoo


    it's hard to deny that we don't see a change and small weather changes cannot be attributed to global warming. There is enough research on global warming that will tell about the exact changes. We can't be sitting in our houses comment if or not it is happening. Maybe our bodies are adjusting to the change slowly and we are currently not noticing. Like the frog and the boiling water.


  • #33
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,649 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    There was a drought all across north western this summer - remember the water restrictions in Dublin? I live in Belgium, and you could see the fields were parched, it's a wonder that anything grew. The big news here is that beer is going to more expensive as the crop yields are were so bad - lots of basic foodstuffs will be dearer this year.


  • #34
    xckjoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭xckjoo


    There's a storm every second week now. Farmers seem to be having annually growing fodder problems. Seems to be fairly definite changes in weather patterns.


  • #35
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    It isn't global warming it is climate change.

    ... and planet earth has never known a time without it! Not ever.

    I blame the Judeo-Christian influence of the Garden of Eden story for a lot of the failure to understand the flux nature of our planet - this idea of an instantaneously created beneficent human-centric paradise with a given set of creatures and environmental harmony, a harmony and stability that can be managed by man somehow, and where any disruption is somehow the fault of man not doing something he should be.

    Bollocks to that and bollocks to the global warming research grant hunters.


  • #36
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,926 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    theguzman wrote: »
    2018 was not a particularly cold year
    We did have a week of snow in March, when we would rarely have any snow past mid-February.


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  • #37
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,080 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Victor wrote: »
    We did have a week of snow in March, when we would rarely have any snow past mid-February.

    Not just a week of snow. Twice the highest snowfall ever measured before. Not long after the highest wind speed ever recorded before (it broke the previous record by a long stretch). And this summer was the hottest and driest ever recorded. Lots of extremes in the last year alone.

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • #38
    keith_sixteen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭keith_sixteen


    Yes. I live in Switzerland for a number of years and there are many noticeable effects.

    For most of the summer, it was so dry, there was a ban on public bbq. There are many fixed points where wood is supplied and these were blocked off and the wood removed. Disheartening to see. In addition, some people still persisted with their own portable grills but the police were quick to interevene.

    In addition, during the summer there were a number of light air crashes and one tourist air crash. I'm not saying the weather was the cause, but the elevated heat of the atmoshepere may have been a contributory cause.

    Also, I did a few triathlons in May / early June. Wet suits are forbidden for the swim if the lake tempreature is higher than 23 which in both cases, it was. Not usual at all.

    The heat also sparked a number of extreme storms which damaged crops and caused a lot of flooding. You can notice the quality of the local produce is not as good this year, with smaller and more expensive vegetables.

    Coming into winter now and there hasn't been any sign of snow with skiing only possible for the pros on the upper reaches of the higer mountain ranges. Many smaller ski operations that go up to around 1,000 meters are also closing due to a lack of snow which is a shame since these are good places to take the kids away from the crowds of the bigger, higher resorts.

    In general, this year felt like there was no spring and there was summer like conditions from mid April, all the way through to mid October.


  • #39
    Oasis1974
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    This morning about 6:30am was amazing almost humid in Cork just after the rain could have wore a T-shirt and its December 5th. Betting on a nice mild winter with no snow. God bless Global Warming.


  • #40
    Igotadose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,662 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Victor wrote: »
    When I was a child, I remember that each winter there would be places where there would be ice on the footpath. I don't see that these days.



    Population growth is falling sharply.

    https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Updated-World-Population-Growth-Rate-Annual-1950-2100.png

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/natural-population-growth

    Growth *rate* is dropping. It's not about the rate, it's about the bodies.

    http://www.theworldcounts.com/counters/shocking_environmental_facts_and_statistics/world_population_clock_live

    9.7 billion projected by 2050.

    http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/2015-report.html


  • #41
    vargoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 737 ✭✭✭vargoo


    Lack of moths and fly's and other stuff when driving at night is a disaster. They're gone.


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  • #42
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    All insect and winged species are in collapse, but whether (!) that's down to climate change, mono-crop agriculture/destruction of habitat, pesticides or a mix is hard to say.


  • #43
    glaswegian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭glaswegian


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Where did you read this?

    I remember it from a documentary I watched a while back about climate change.

    the chap on the programme was explaining how the gulf stream runs on warm salt water so if the ice caps in the artic keep melting the way they have been the gulf stream will be compromised by the influx of cold fresh water lessening the warming effect it has on our climate. (I think it was one of David Attenborough's docs)


  • #44
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 13,954 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Victor wrote: »
    We did have a week of snow in March, when we would rarely have any snow past mid-February.

    I'm not a statistician, but what is the measure of this clustering? Obviously it won't show up in mean averages.


  • #45
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    Forget about what you read about it on a screen or on a sheet of paper or what some scientist says, do you personally notice that the weather is getting warmer and that it was generally colder when you were a wee snapper?


    Meself I think November & December seem a bit warmer in recent years than they used to be but it could all be a figment of the imagination

    A blind man could see its a lot wetter than it used to be


  • #46
    klaaaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭klaaaz


    Talk of extremes. Yes it was extreme with the snowfall for only a week earlier this year and a drought which only lasted from May till end of July. Then since the start of August, the jet stream came back to business as usual with frequent rains, too much cloud and the lack of sun. The last extreme of cold was way back in 2010 and that had consistent far colder temperatures for a longer period of time. It was far hotter in Sept 2016(up to 27C) than in Sept 2018(around 18C) for example so extremes of heat and cold come and go at different times.

    The last consistent hot extreme was in 1995, sunny days of 25C lasting from mid June to the end of September, that has not happened since in that manner.
    Have you noticed that we haven't had a single day of a dawn to dusk cloud free sunny day since the jet stream came back in August?


  • #47
    enfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭enfield


    I was camping in Kent last year, and most of it was a dust bowl, in the tent it was 46 degrees. On the way back driving up to Liverpool the only plants that were living were deep rooted tall weeds, the rest of the fields were light brown. As a Irish lad I was not used to such hot weather so I wore factor 50 and was grand but the heatstroke can get ya unawares even though you drink a lot of water. It was much worse than Ireland. The gnats and mozzies eat ya alive over there and get you when you are not ready like when you are sleeping.


  • #48
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 13,954 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    klaaaz wrote: »
    Talk of extremes. Yes it was extreme with the snowfall for only a week earlier this year and a drought which only lasted from May till end of July. Then since the start of August, the jet stream came back to business as usual with frequent rains, too much cloud and the lack of sun. The last extreme of cold was way back in 2010 and that had consistent far colder temperatures for a longer period of time. It was far hotter in Sept 2016(up to 27C) than in Sept 2018(around 18C) for example so extremes of heat and cold come and go at different times.

    The last consistent hot extreme was in 1995, sunny days of 25C lasting from mid June to the end of September, that has not happened since in that manner.
    Have you noticed that we haven't had a single day of a dawn to dusk cloud free sunny day since the jet stream came back in August?

    Jennifer Frances has done great work analysing the meandering jet stream as a response to the warming Arctic.


  • #49
    Sycamore Tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Sycamore Tree


    I cut the lawn a lot later than I used to.


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