Huh. About a week and a half ago I mentioned on a thread that it had been one of the driest years I recall in the last decade (I’ve been gardening about 10 years and you can always rely on a gardener to pay attention to the rainfall).
I was downvoted to fuck and got messages telling me I was wrong by a lot of people who cited floods in the last few years and ‘we had rain last week’.
We should be taking this as a canary in the mine and paying attention to what is (or rather… isn’t) falling from the sky. Because we’re seeing long dry spells more and more even at times of the year when we would usually have copious amounts of rain.
From my part of London, I’m not surprised. The grass in the parks is more barren or yellow than green and resembles something akin to southern Europe in the height of summer.
That’s not surprising. It feels like it’s been several months since I’ve seen rain that isn’t very light and lasts longer than 10 minutes. The grass at my local park is nearly completely yellow and cracks have formed in the dirt. There is a small burnt patch from a wildfire too.
The worst thing about all this is that it feels like the government is totally asleep at the wheel. We constantly have warnings about climate related issues (and other problems) but there is no action except “Cut taxes to increase prosperity”. There have been warnings about England being water insecure for at least a decade now and it seems very little has really been done to improve the situation or any proactive action taken to stop major problems down the road. We should probably be limiting our water usage significantly now but instead we are just going to end up doing nothing and hoping we get significant rain… which will work until we don’t.
The latest thing is Liz Truss promising to “scrap Green Levies” “and look again at the best way to achieve Net Zero” while claiming its in the interest of the public when in reality failing to act is going to create all sorts of problems (like drought) down the road. She’s entirely in thrall to these groups of rebranded Climate Change deniers (for example Net Zero Watch formerly known as the Global Warming Policy Foundation and the Net Zero Scrutiny Group) who in reality are just fossil fuel industry lobbyists. They’ve changed tack from outright denial and obscuring the facts to trying to undermine the solutions and obfuscation of the issue and it’s clearly working in the Tory party.
I’m surprised, so must be different elsewhere but seems like it’s been non-stop rain in the north west this year and one of the most miserable summers I’ve known
The grass is just yellow these days ain’t it?
I can’t remember the last time we had rain here. Must be something like 6 weeks.
It’s France’s fault. /s
We the public have to save water but businesses it’s a different matter
Not much of an issue in the North West of England………yet.
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Bollocks, we all but drowned at times in cumbria.
Huh. About a week and a half ago I mentioned on a thread that it had been one of the driest years I recall in the last decade (I’ve been gardening about 10 years and you can always rely on a gardener to pay attention to the rainfall).
I was downvoted to fuck and got messages telling me I was wrong by a lot of people who cited floods in the last few years and ‘we had rain last week’.
We should be taking this as a canary in the mine and paying attention to what is (or rather… isn’t) falling from the sky. Because we’re seeing long dry spells more and more even at times of the year when we would usually have copious amounts of rain.
From my part of London, I’m not surprised. The grass in the parks is more barren or yellow than green and resembles something akin to southern Europe in the height of summer.
That’s not surprising. It feels like it’s been several months since I’ve seen rain that isn’t very light and lasts longer than 10 minutes. The grass at my local park is nearly completely yellow and cracks have formed in the dirt. There is a small burnt patch from a wildfire too.
The worst thing about all this is that it feels like the government is totally asleep at the wheel. We constantly have warnings about climate related issues (and other problems) but there is no action except “Cut taxes to increase prosperity”. There have been warnings about England being water insecure for at least a decade now and it seems very little has really been done to improve the situation or any proactive action taken to stop major problems down the road. We should probably be limiting our water usage significantly now but instead we are just going to end up doing nothing and hoping we get significant rain… which will work until we don’t.
The latest thing is Liz Truss promising to “scrap Green Levies” “and look again at the best way to achieve Net Zero” while claiming its in the interest of the public when in reality failing to act is going to create all sorts of problems (like drought) down the road. She’s entirely in thrall to these groups of rebranded Climate Change deniers (for example Net Zero Watch formerly known as the Global Warming Policy Foundation and the Net Zero Scrutiny Group) who in reality are just fossil fuel industry lobbyists. They’ve changed tack from outright denial and obscuring the facts to trying to undermine the solutions and obfuscation of the issue and it’s clearly working in the Tory party.
I’m surprised, so must be different elsewhere but seems like it’s been non-stop rain in the north west this year and one of the most miserable summers I’ve known
The grass is just yellow these days ain’t it?
I can’t remember the last time we had rain here. Must be something like 6 weeks.
It’s France’s fault. /s
We the public have to save water but businesses it’s a different matter
Not much of an issue in the North West of England………yet.