(August 17, 2009 at 3:48 pm)dry land fish Wrote:(August 17, 2009 at 6:48 am)northumbrian66 Wrote: Here in the UK, back in 2004 or 2005, we were told by the 'experts' that in future, due to global warming, we should expect long hot dry summers. They even recommended that we should start growing drought resistant plants in our gardens! Gues what? Its pissed down every summer since! Floods all over the country. Houses virtually made unliveable etc. But we were given the reason for all this by the archbishop, or archdeacon (I can never remember their ranks) of Carlisle, claiming that it was GOD's punishment. The reasons were due to our selfishness, greed, love of beer and the opposite sex, blah, blah, blah and that red rag to all religious ghouls: HOMOSEXUALITY!
The bad weather appears to be worse up here in the far north of England in the border regions with Scotland, which is also having a bad time of it. Undaunted the 'experts' were at again earlier this year predicting a 'barbeque summer' (what ever the hell thats supposed to mean!). Yes you've guessed it RAIN, RAIN AND MORE RAIN. The temperatures have averaged 14C to 18C but on the odd days the sun has appeared, a balmy 19C/20C!! Hardly drought conditions.Over this weekend the forecasters have told us that this next week (17th to the 21st of August) will be ok and Wednesday will be be hot and dry. That means I can now use both hands to count the number of hot dry days this summer. O'h and GOD must still be unhappy with us, especially in the border regions of England and Scotland.
Global climate change has nothing to do with people who choose to not follow a religious lifestyle. It's a NORMAL thing that happens and has happened many times. Global warming is NOT the correct term. I hate that term and people who study this stuff don't even like that term either. We just so happen to be living in a time that Earth is really changing as far as climate is concerned. We also are very industrious and that is causing heat to be trapped in our atmosphere. That is why they call it global warming but when one part of the world heats up...another cools down. The whole Earth can't just heat up at once. We have weather patterns that will shift and become more extreme but we'll still have cold places, hot places, dry places, and wet places. The only catch is that dry places may become wet, warm places may become cool and so on. No one can predict what will happen when the ice melts enough to raise our oceans a great deal. That will change the ocean current which will make our wind currents shift and we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
It won't kill us. Humans have survived global climate changes in the past but they left no written record of the events.
Really!
