Bring Back Global Warming!

[Ed P]

I am completely fed up with this cold miserable year. I cannot remember a year as bad as this one – all the weather is two months behind where it should be.

Thinking about it brought back memories as a young Chemical Engineer. Whenever systems were put on manual control human operators would make major changes in  too many different things at the same time. You could guarantee that the result would be a huge over-correction.

Last year, humans did just that to the world’s climate, part a deliberate move to reduce CO2, but mostly a huge step change which hit world transportation systems and energy usage due to anti-Covid measures.

I just hope we have not tipped ourselves towards another Ice Age, it certainly feels like it!

[JayCeeDee]

Ed P wrote:

….all the weather is two months behind where it should be.

I was saying this to a friend yesterday – it seems that the ‘March winds and April showers’ have become squatters in May…../June??!!

I’m also just starting some work on our lawns that I put off. I just bought an electric scarifier, planning some drastic moss removal and treating, followed by some seeding. I had held off through April because of the risk of frost to the new seeds and exposed roots.

We’re probably 5 or more degrees down on the May average temperature even now, approaching June!! Who knows what weather we’ll have on Wimbledon fortnight, this year – they’re at 25% capacity, hoping for more mid-June. Some people are advertising tickets with a money back guarantee.

However talk of an Indian Summer for the UK come October time will not go down well as India seems to be having a torrid time of it at the moment – ironic really as it is a huge vaccine producer. Even when it ( selfishly, but understandably ) hangs on to what it produces, that doesn’t seem to be resolving the problem. You wonder what it will take to prevent some form of a semi wipe out scenario.😒

[Bob Williams]

India’s 1.25 billion* people are ‘other-directed’ by several versions of religious belief. It is a kind of lunacy in my eyes, to disregard the advice of medical science, and carry on having huge funerals. The Ganges and other rivers considered to be holy, are presently choked with bodies. May sound harsh to some, but perhaps they are sowing the seeds of their own genocide. If they could manage to take a large slice of China’s 1.5* billion with them, well that’s solving overpopulation pressure, is it not?

*your guess is as good as mine.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[PlaneMan]

It’s been warm-ish here for a while (out of the bitter, strong wind) but the warmth is behind schedule, without a doubt.

Mum keeps telling me that her tomato plants are way behind schedule and I was shocked to see how small they are . They’d normally be a good few feet tall by now but are about 4″ as of Wednesday.

[Les.]

I seem to recall the effects of climate change were predicted to  have all sorts of changes, wet years, hot years, cold years etc.

All to do with the high altitude winds, being deflected off there normal annual patterns. I forget the actual explanation, but it made sense at the time. I was only musing yesterday about the rhyme we learned as kids,

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow,

February brings the rain, thaws the frozen lakes again,

March brings breezes, loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil

April brings the primrose sweet, scatters daisies at out feet.

etc., etc..

All of those have been mostly wrong for a number of years now.

Tomatoes, yes, ours are still diminutive, Tamara says not worth bothering with. We have some dahlias, lifted at the back end, waiting to awaken.

They are dead, she pronounced weeks ago. Just leave them alone and wait I insisted. Last week the big red one showed signs of life, so is now in a large pot outside.

Today she told me the yellow one was showing life.

Cold though this year is (and it did not stop me getting out on the bike this morning as usual) it comes nowhere near to 1963 for prolonged cold. I remember that well, I took as photo of 10′ drifts that forced me to go to work a different route.

Les.

[keith with the teef]

I have a Dahlia coming through now. the others no where to be seen.

Back to the nursery rhymes: Here we go gathering knots in May on a cold and frosty morning. Yep this year one time I could. Knots being the flower bud of the Hawthorn. sweet and bitter at the same time.

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