The weather kept me awake for another half an hour as the wind battered the windows but eventually I think I really must have been so tired I fell asleep. The cats did too! This morning the heavy rain has woken me early, and so I feel a but yukky right now...…….and work will be interesting. Let's hope I don't run out of steam too early in my shift?
I have to say that the weather does seem to be a bit extreme over the last few years. Apparently this rain is actually a storm, storm Eric! Wouldn't you know? There's been a flood warning put in place for my area, but I don't live too near the quay and river so we'll be fine. I used to love to hear the rain hammering against the windows while I was indoors all cosy and warm, but this is something else. It makes me feel sympathy for people who live in areas where you get extraordinary flooding, or tornados, or hurricanes. How scary must that be?
I think that the seasons have shifted a bit. When I was young and in my teens you could almost guarantee a cold winter with snow, generally from November to February, with Spring following on in to Easter. The summers of my youth were long, starting warm at Easter going in to a hot summer which led in to a balmy autumn and a cold crisp Winter. We used to go camping, as a family, in late September when it was still beautifully warm, and have a great time. Autumn was full of gorgeous colours, and crispy mornings with warm days and then chilly evenings, and it went full circle. Now I do know that the years of my youth have been marked in the weather calendar as having notable weather, so I was very lucky to experience it. The summers that followed my leaving school in 1975 and 6 were brilliant and very hot, and generally you could define the seasons. Now they seem to merge in to one and you don't have that Spring, Summer Autumn, Winter. Sure we get some hot spells, but the winters are more extreme with wind and rain, and if you get snow in my area it's quite unusual. In fact it's been like that for a number of years. Where the start of winter was late November, years ago, now it seems to hit us in January or February instead. Spring is all over the place with plants and bulbs already coming up through the supposed Winter time. My forsythia has been in bloom all year, and my parent's rose bush flowered three times last year, and still had flowers on it in November. It all seems a bit topsy turvy. Yesterday in the newspaper I read that forecasters suggest the next four years will be hotter than average too.
What's going on? Is there such a thing as global warming? Well, as I've said, the weather has changed in my lifetime, but maybe this is just normal? I know forecasters have been monitoring the weather for many many years and that's how they get their 'averages', and certainly they do say that the earth's weather is getting warmer and wetter. Could this be something to do with emissions from all our technology? Could we, as humans, be changing the earth's atmosphere and therefore affecting our weather? Well I don't know, but it's definitely changing. Could it be a natural phenomena that would happen anyway? I'm not sure records go back far enough to have a definitive answer, but how worrying if it is to do with us!
"Global warming is a long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system, an aspect of climate change shown by temperature measurements and by multiple effects of the warming. The term commonly refers to the mainly human-caused observed warming since pre-industrial times and its projected continuation, though there were also much earlier periods of global warming. In the modern context the terms global warming and climate change are commonly used interchangeably, but climate change includes both global warming and its effects, such as changes to precipitation and impacts that differ by region. Many of the observed warming changes since the 1950s are unprecedented in the instrumental temperature record.
Is there anything we can do to stop this happening or is it too late? Have we caused a problem that will affect the lives of future generations to come, that of my children and grandchildren and more? Will they look back at the last century from the industrial revolution and blame the people that lived during that time? Will that time be forever marked in history as 'when mankind destroyed the natural order of the earth'? Big questions indeed. I know there is far more awareness of emissions , plastics, pollution and so on. People are trying to put right what has happened, but is it too late? Has it always been happening, and it's just that we have far more media coverage now and so we all know what is going on all over the world? Are we just more aware now? I don't have the answers, but I am concerned that the future generations may have a less blissful time of it and not experience the joyful times I had as a young person. Oh those wonderful memories.
https://www.livescience.com/37003-global-warming.html
https://helpsavenature.com/arguments-against-global-warming
http://www.disasterium.com/10-critical-facts-about-global-warming/
https://www.myclimate.org/information/climate-protection-projects/?tx_mcop_projectoverview%5Bfilter%5D%5Bcountries%5D=&tx_mcop_projectoverview%5Bfilter%5D%5Bsdgs%5D=&tx_mcop_projectoverview%5Bcontroller%5D=Project&cHash=ac680a378ef3e0fb7c066975e3e04f0c&gclid=CjwKCAiAy-_iBRAaEiwAYhSlA6qFyuUot40EyPcyyilyRPLf2-OUUZDjGyjzwGsSP226ehYoZa7rFRoCl4wQAvD_BwE
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