Scotland’s climate is changing faster than scientists predicted, with increasing likelihood of more frequent and more extreme weather events, according to new analysis by The James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen.
Experts at the independent research organisation say weather patterns in Scotland have changed substantially since 1960 and that changes that were expected to be seen over the next three decades are already happening.
In some parts of the country, temperatures in February, for example, have risen 2.5°C, since 1960. This observed change is comparable to the lower range of what climate scientists had projected for the future period 2020-2050, implying we are on course to reach the projections of higher temperatures.
It’s January and my grass could be doing with a cut.
Unfortunately I don’t expect the West to do anything to substantially reverse or even stop it unless some climate change catastrophe falls upon the West.
Some parts of the UK have already had the total January rainfall and we are three days into the month, you can bet more storms will hit over the course of January too. The UK has always had storms but they seem to get worse every year, as well as more numerous and with shorter durations between them. The ground near me was waterlogged for almost all of autumn because of the constant rain.
Bemuses me that elsewhere on Reddit people are still talking about laying fake grass and paving over gardens – then moan because draining can’t happen as it should.
And posh shire ladies moaning because buying that house next to a river on a flood plain maybe wasn’t such a good idea.
Mmm maybe we should keep pumping oil out of the north sea?
We literally had the shittest summer last year, give it a rest.
Concerned for the native pines/evergreens/conifers up there.
I grew up in a very “pro-deciduous” household and pine trees (yep, I am possibly misapplying the word pine here, I know lol) were routinely scorned by my parents. The only ‘pines’ that were spared criticism were the native ones in Scotland. And I know that these ‘pines’ prefer a colder climate…
NO FUCKING SHIT. I’m sick to death of these articles telling us what we already know. The question is when are the rest of you going to start acting on the knowledge that we already have?
It’s really bad for the snow-sports locations in Scotland too.
In recent years some of them have gone all the way to late January or February before their first decent snow covering, so they’re losing half an entire seasons income.
They’re using the sun’s cycles as propaganda, that’s actually genius!
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Scotland’s climate is changing faster than scientists predicted, with increasing likelihood of more frequent and more extreme weather events, according to new analysis by The James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen.
Experts at the independent research organisation say weather patterns in Scotland have changed substantially since 1960 and that changes that were expected to be seen over the next three decades are already happening.
In some parts of the country, temperatures in February, for example, have risen 2.5°C, since 1960. This observed change is comparable to the lower range of what climate scientists had projected for the future period 2020-2050, implying we are on course to reach the projections of higher temperatures.
It’s January and my grass could be doing with a cut.
Unfortunately I don’t expect the West to do anything to substantially reverse or even stop it unless some climate change catastrophe falls upon the West.
Some parts of the UK have already had the total January rainfall and we are three days into the month, you can bet more storms will hit over the course of January too. The UK has always had storms but they seem to get worse every year, as well as more numerous and with shorter durations between them. The ground near me was waterlogged for almost all of autumn because of the constant rain.
Bemuses me that elsewhere on Reddit people are still talking about laying fake grass and paving over gardens – then moan because draining can’t happen as it should.
And posh shire ladies moaning because buying that house next to a river on a flood plain maybe wasn’t such a good idea.
Mmm maybe we should keep pumping oil out of the north sea?
We literally had the shittest summer last year, give it a rest.
Concerned for the native pines/evergreens/conifers up there.
I grew up in a very “pro-deciduous” household and pine trees (yep, I am possibly misapplying the word pine here, I know lol) were routinely scorned by my parents. The only ‘pines’ that were spared criticism were the native ones in Scotland. And I know that these ‘pines’ prefer a colder climate…
NO FUCKING SHIT. I’m sick to death of these articles telling us what we already know. The question is when are the rest of you going to start acting on the knowledge that we already have?
It’s really bad for the snow-sports locations in Scotland too.
In recent years some of them have gone all the way to late January or February before their first decent snow covering, so they’re losing half an entire seasons income.
They’re using the sun’s cycles as propaganda, that’s actually genius!