We’re gonna need a bigger barrier, further downstream considering the increasing density east of the current one.
I imagine that many of the things which will help to make people’s lives more bearable (i.e. cooling systems) are going to experience terrible inflation too as companies seek to cash in on people’s discomfort and suffering.
Planting more trees in the capitol, introducing more water fountains and improving air flow + quality in the tube will all help to keep people cooler.
Bollocks .
This is a terrible headline, having read the article.
It’s a lot of description of what will (or in several cases, might) happen if we don’t change or fix anything beforehand.
Which… I mean, fine. These kinds of warning are important.
But it’s not a description of “how climate change will transform London”. London needs to adapt, it will adapt, and it will be very different in 50 years for sure. It would be super cool to have an article about that, instead of just saying “it will be very hot, the Thames will rise and drought will be a problem”. No shit.
this is an idiotic article
I’m an Aussie expat and do a fair bit of hiking around the SE outside of London. One thing that repeatedly strikes me is how much stagnant water is just left laying around the place, even within an hour or so of the city. Everything from small ponds in forest reserves to buckets, plant pots, etc. that people just leave laying around their back yards and which collect water inside them.
It just doesn’t seem to be on anyone’s radar here because it’s never had to be. As such, this country is *absolutely not ready* for when mosquitoes finally migrate here seriously as the climate warms. All that stagnant water will be breeding heaven to them and once they get a proper foothold, their population is going to go from 0 to holy fuck in an instant.
Climate change is going to bring many and varied impacts, and they’re not going to be immediately obvious or indeed something solved by large-scale government action.
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We’re gonna need a bigger barrier, further downstream considering the increasing density east of the current one.
I imagine that many of the things which will help to make people’s lives more bearable (i.e. cooling systems) are going to experience terrible inflation too as companies seek to cash in on people’s discomfort and suffering.
Planting more trees in the capitol, introducing more water fountains and improving air flow + quality in the tube will all help to keep people cooler.
Bollocks .
This is a terrible headline, having read the article.
It’s a lot of description of what will (or in several cases, might) happen if we don’t change or fix anything beforehand.
Which… I mean, fine. These kinds of warning are important.
But it’s not a description of “how climate change will transform London”. London needs to adapt, it will adapt, and it will be very different in 50 years for sure. It would be super cool to have an article about that, instead of just saying “it will be very hot, the Thames will rise and drought will be a problem”. No shit.
this is an idiotic article
I’m an Aussie expat and do a fair bit of hiking around the SE outside of London. One thing that repeatedly strikes me is how much stagnant water is just left laying around the place, even within an hour or so of the city. Everything from small ponds in forest reserves to buckets, plant pots, etc. that people just leave laying around their back yards and which collect water inside them.
It just doesn’t seem to be on anyone’s radar here because it’s never had to be. As such, this country is *absolutely not ready* for when mosquitoes finally migrate here seriously as the climate warms. All that stagnant water will be breeding heaven to them and once they get a proper foothold, their population is going to go from 0 to holy fuck in an instant.
Climate change is going to bring many and varied impacts, and they’re not going to be immediately obvious or indeed something solved by large-scale government action.