Climate the movie

[Stonekeeper]

 

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The climate both locally and worldwide is in a bad way.   Worcester cricket ground flooded for the seventh time this year.  Not happened in my living memory...

  

 

World shortage of cocoa for chocolate due to climate hit on harvest and the panama canal drying up....

https://unctad.org/news/chocolate-price-hikes-bittersweet-reason-care-about-climate-change#:~:text=Chocolate-loving consumers around the,to UNCTAD commodities price monitoring.

 

Chocolate-loving consumers around the globe are being hit by higher cocoa prices due in part to the climate crisis.  Extreme weather and changing climate patterns have upended crop harvests, which are expected to fall short for the third year in a row, tightening global supplies and raising prices.  The cost of cocoa, the key ingredient for making the beloved sweets, shot up by 136% between July 2022 and February 2024, according to UNCTAD commodities price monitoring.  The price per tone on the futures market crossed $10,000 for the first time ever on 26 March.  The hike has filtered through to consumers worldwide, already reeling under inflation and a generational cost-of-living crisis.     Intense heat and rains hit cocoa harvests in West Africa......................

  

[Stonekeeper]

1947

 

 

 

 

 

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[Stonekeeper]

 

2017

It is 70 years since the 1947 floods, which were some of the worst experienced in Worcestershire and the UK. Floods are a regular natural phenomenon to this area and most people can recall particularly high ones, most recently 2007 and 2014. The 1947 ones were exceptional and are often still talked about.

 

https://www.explorethepast.co.uk/2017/03/the-1947-floods/

 

 

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36 minutes ago, Stonekeeper said:

 

2017

It is 70 years since the 1947 floods, which were some of the worst experienced in Worcestershire and the UK. Floods are a regular natural phenomenon to this area and most people can recall particularly high ones, most recently 2007 and 2014. The 1947 ones were exceptional and are often still talked about.

https://www.explorethepast.co.uk/2017/03/the-1947-floods/

 

I recall the 2007 flood which was oddly in the summer time rather than the winter which occasional happens. It was fun to go to Kidderminster and watch greats from Yorkshi etc play at the little ground over in Kidde but it has got real now as the club says the ground is becoming non viable. This is despite many millions being spent on allowing land to flood below Worcester to provide some relief. Quite possible a sad end to what many regards as one of the most beautiful grounds in the world. 

 

https://www.bromsgroveadvertiser.co.uk/sport/24124178.worcestershires-new-road-may-not-sustainable-says-ashley-giles/

"There have been more high floods in the last 24 years than there were in the previous hundred.

The biggest issue is whatever we do with the ground to develop it and improve it, is what is happening in the middle." ......

The Worcestershire CEO did confirm that any decision on New Road will be down to the members but urges them to be open to the possibility that staying there "might not be sustainable in the long term".

 

[Stonekeeper]

Unfortunately we have to build houses and then more water ends up in the rivers?

 

 

[Stonekeeper]

 

 

Perrins way didn't exist in 2012 Built next to an area of high risk and reduced the amount of land for rainwater to soakaway?

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[@Lee]

It's got the world renowned climate expert Baroness Clair Fox in it so it must be well informed  

Looks like it's all the well worn fossil fuel malarky from people who think weather is climate. I'll give it a miss thanks rather than take the word of some opinionated old farts.

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1 hour ago, Stonekeeper said:

 

 

Perrins way didn't exist in 2012 Built next to an area of high risk and reduced the amount of land for rainwater to soakaway?

 

Tewkesbury has had it worse than Worcester and there were thousands of properties flooded and blighted by further risk of flooding. Massive measures to flood farm land instead of land with houses on the but if house built on the flood plain there is a risk.

 

But as fell as increased flooding there is very low river levels sometimes and not only in France, Spain etc as The Thames gets very low and now nicking water from the Severn to help supply in water shortages on the East side of England. Not a problem we tend to have in the West Midlands and Wales though SW England recently had hose pipe bans now they are having freakishly large amounts of rain even for them ie 100 inches a year counties.

 

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1 hour ago, Stonekeeper said:

 

 

Perrins way didn't exist in 2012 Built next to an area of high risk and reduced the amount of land for rainwater to soakaway?

 

I live about a mile away from there in Warndon Villages.  Barbourne Brook was due to flood but saw nothing this side of Worcester but I did not go looking but lamented the flooding again of WCCC.

 

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[Stonekeeper]

The south west is looking good for storage this year

 

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13 hours ago, Stonekeeper said:

The south west is looking good for storage this year

 

 

Yes thankfully.  The SW dought of 2022 was a al wake up call and the water authority did not remove the hose pipe ban until late Sept 2023 so quite a pain and hopefully the lesson has been learnt and we will not see a repeat but we probably will and they need to fix leaks and think about new reserviors.....

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-67964356

South West Water 'not well prepared' for 2022 drought, emails claim

 

   

South West Water (SWW) was "undoubtedly underprepared" for a drought in 2022 but has since taken "urgent action" to ensure resilience, a watchdog says.

Ofwat, the regulator for England and Wales, was responding to Environment Agency documents obtained by Greenpeace and shared with the BBC which described SWW as "not well prepared".

Ofwat said the company had to "closely manage its water resource position".

SWW said it "strongly rejected" any suggestion it was not prepared.

"Despite facing a once-in-a-generation drought in the South West, no customer went without water supply," the water firm said.

 

'Acted too late'

The summer of 2022 triggered the start of the first hosepipe ban in Cornwall for 26 years amid the continuing drought.

 

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Drought in Spain continues......

Reservoirs down to 15-16% on average in Barcelona, Catalonia, 1% in other pats of Spain, and this is before the main summer season.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/02/it-makes-me-so-sad-church-reemerges-from-reservoir-as-spain-faces-droughts

 

But that world no longer exists. Struck by a drought that has dried the reservoir to 1% of its capacity, the remains of the village have come back into view. Crumbling stone structures now sit on cracked soil among ashen plants. The church, whose spire used to poke above the surface during dry spells, today stands high above the waterline.

 

Maybe they need ships supplying water like UK does fo Gibraltar from Kielder lake.   

 

[@Lee]

Oh. That can't be a good thing.

 

 

 

[J.R.]

I cant see any ice ages in that graph of the 4.5 billion years the planets climate has been evolving.

 

Oh wait........................................

[PetrolDave]

In the same report the scientists said that El Nino is a factor in higher ocean temperatures, and as that is coming to an end they expect ocean temperatures to drop.

[EnterName]

"Wait brothers! I have a great idea. What if WE control the weather?"

https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-dubai-airport-flash-floods-show-downsides-controlling-the-weather-2024-4

[EnterName]

Apparently they're all at it, but fortunately interventions to control the weather are completely unrelated to climate change, so that's alright then. 🙄

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13323453/Cloud-seeding-weather-modification-technique.html

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59 minutes ago, EnterName said:

Apparently they're all at it, but fortunately interventions to control the weather are completely unrelated to climate change, so that's alright then. 🙄

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13323453/Cloud-seeding-weather-modification-technique.html

 

I blame Emporer Ming the Merciless.

Where is Flash when you need him.

 

[EnterName]

Well it's been quite the scorcher this April, hasn't it?

I hope the "climate deniers" are thoroughly ashamed of themselves!

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/met-office-speaks-out-over-28926560