Can you feel the changing climate?

I think we'll have another year of fruit and veg shortages, because of the weather.


I know that most gardeners and allotmenteers are struggling this year, such a wet, mild winter/spring that everything has struggled to grow.
 
It's been a warm bright March, and I'm worried about the summer. It was a very wet one last year, crops did not grow well.
 
www.abc.net.au

'Only going to get worse': Extreme heat linked to rise in mental health disorders

Young Australians are most at risk, according to new research by the University of Adelaide.
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Not a great article but at least there is starting to be some acknowledgement that summer heat is bad for brains.

Whenever I told people that summer made me bad active depressive I was fobbed off and told only winter makes people depressed. Its really annoying when mainstream media catches up 20 years later. Spring is the worst for suicide in my experience.

Not sure what they mean about the resilient communities bit at the end - im hoping they mean more pools and air conditioning and air conditioned spaces with no power outages. Possibly even night time activities instead of forcing life to be 9-5 in an extremely hot environment where we should be resting between 11-3pm instead.
 
November said:
www.abc.net.au

'Only going to get worse': Extreme heat linked to rise in mental health disorders

Young Australians are most at risk, according to new research by the University of Adelaide.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au

Not a great article but at least there is starting to be some acknowledgement that summer heat is bad for brains.

Whenever I told people that summer made me bad active depressive I was fobbed off and told only winter makes people depressed. Its really annoying when mainstream media catches up 20 years later. Spring is the worst for suicide in my experience.

Not sure what they mean about the resilient communities bit at the end - im hoping they mean more pools and air conditioning and air conditioned spaces with no power outages. Possibly even night time activities instead of forcing life to be 9-5 in an extremely hot environment where we should be resting between 11-3pm instead.
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The Spanish siesta comes to mind - a split shift where people work in the morning, sleep around noon to 2 P.M. and continue working after that. Roofers are often on that schedule.

In our area (Toronto), I remember five days that went up to +40°C/104°F but these days were all over 40 years ago. I agree that some people run into mental disorders due to the heat but there are different ideas about what to do. Air conditioning is one. Pools and beaches are others. Toronto has a huge underground area with shops and other places that stay relatively cool all year round.
 
It's been such a dry year, and I can't recall this many days where it's been 30°c+
 
One thing that has not yet been connected to climate (but I expect will be) is the migration of the magnetic poles. Does no one think that this is going to affect the climate? What may be happening is that areas of magma in the ground are moving closer to the surface. The north pole is moving at the rate of one football field per day and this has to change something in the climate. I know all the hype about man-made heating (I used to be in the solar power inverter and fuel cell inverter business) and how it has been used to shut down coal-fired power stations in some places, but control of a power grid where both the load and the source vary causes stability issues that cannot be ignored.
 
One of the things folk go on about is planting more trees to help the quality of the air, do you know how many trees there are? According to recent figures there are said to be 3 point 4,000,000,000 (billion) on the planet. Just don't ask me how they decided on that figure.
 
When I was in a Volunteer Bushfire Brigade I did a 250 acre controlled burn by myself, on that day in England there was a 25 acre bushfire on Telegraph Hill in South Devon UK. Not far from Torquay. That was about 31 years ago, that was when I first noticed that the worlds climate was starting to change. There has been that many fires in countries where the grass once was always green, now it gets so brown and dry.
 
ILLYRIAN said:
When I was in a Volunteer Bushfire Brigade I did a 250 acre controlled burn by myself, on that day in England there was a 25 acre bushfire on Telegraph Hill in South Devon UK. Not far from Torquay. That was about 31 years ago, that was when I first noticed that the worlds climate was starting to change. There has been that many fires in countries where the grass once was always green, now it gets so brown and dry.
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There's been a few wildfires in the uk recently so it was so dry for so long. Luckily it's been raining again lately so it's dampened it all down.
 
ILLYRIAN said:
When I was in a Volunteer Bushfire Brigade I did a 250 acre controlled burn by myself, on that day in England there was a 25 acre bushfire on Telegraph Hill in South Devon UK. Not far from Torquay. That was about 31 years ago, that was when I first noticed that the worlds climate was starting to change. There has been that many fires in countries where the grass once was always green, now it gets so brown and dry.
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They are building a new volunteer bushfire brigade in town here. That makes me feel safer to know the trucks are right in town rather than out a bit. Especially once harvest starts, there are always fires and truck crashes.

They do a pretty good job of controlled/preventative burns here too. I have been impressed. but they do often have the protesters against the burn offs, when really they are slow and cool enough for most animals to get out of the way or seek shelter. Much better than a raging bushfire destroying it all.

Im loving the cool now, I rekon it has snowed up the hill more than has been recorded. Its only known about if any hikers are up there. There will be a few climbing up tonight no doubt!
 
Back in the day when I was helping to do burn off's the animals would sit and watch us, ever heard a Bandicoot laugh? More than once I've tried to direct lizards away from the fire, running about to get a racehorse goanna to go to the other side of the road.

But you gotta love the protesters, some of them can be so intelligent (as if) tee hee. Using the two-way radio to speak to the Fire Control Officer, asking if I could swear to the protesters usually brought about the desired effect.
 
I'm concerned for winter, we jad such a hot dry summer, does it mean it'll be a cold wet winter?
 
nightshade said:
I'm concerned for winter, we jad such a hot dry summer, does it mean it'll be a cold wet winter?
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My father designed heating, ventilation and air conditioning for major buildings and my father-in-law was sales manager for the eastern region of Canada (and that included heating oil) and both would say a resounding "YES" to that. A hot summer precedes a cold winter.
 
If the politicians in the 1970's had used even a modicum of intelligence with their fore - thought that may have helped limit the climate changes now happening. Instead though the politicians in todays day give them honours. I suggest that they are buried in the sands adjacent to where the ocean is today.
 
Politicians are using intelligence - they are monetizing carbon dioxide with carbon taxes even though the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air is only 420 parts per million or 0.042% and carbon dioxide has no absorption in the 8 to 14 micrometre thermal band. I used to design shipborne thermal detection equipment and this is part of what you have to know. Carbon dioxide has absorption lines at 2.7 µm, 4.3 µm and 15 µm, none of which have anything to do with the Gaussian distribution of wavelengths in the 8 14 µm band.

The real change in the weather is caused by tectonic shifts that bring the temperature of the core closer to the surface of the earth. There are videos on YouTube showing the underground volcanoes east of the Philippines and Japan that are known to cause the La Nina / El Nino conditions which are significant for North American weather. In fact, I have seen one video with sound of an active volcano 4400 feet below the surface. At the pressure there (nominally 1912 psi), the water does not boil and as the heated water rises, it mixes with enough cold water that it always stays below the boiling point right up to the surface where an active volcano raises the ocean surface temperature by about 2°C over the wide area of Japan and the Philippines.

BTW I didn't properly explain two posts ago (post #34) why my father-in-law's opinion counted - he was the eastern region sales manager for Gulf oil in Canada. He would know how much heating oil was being delivered to what part of eastern Canada in painstaking detail.
 
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Well, there is a first - politicians using intelligence, they normally use lies.
Feel is difficult to say. Weather is definitely more unpredictable.

And for those of us who garden, the recommendation for when to trim your trees has shifted by months here.
 
theconversation.com

People with schizophrenia were hit hard by B.C.’s deadly 2021 heat dome

People with schizophrenia made up almost 16 per cent of deaths in B.C.’s 2021 heat dome. Their experiences show why cooling must be treated as a right, not a privilege.
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Viewing cooling as a right means investing in societies that are more resilient to heat. This means governments investing in safer and more accessible housing for all, building welcoming public spaces, fostering a society where neighbours know and care for each other and allowing people with lived experience to play a central role in shaping future heat-health planning.
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Yeah nah, cant see it happening any time soon. Especially where I am in the world. Seems people are saying suck it up more than ever to be honest.

The article barely mentions the fact that psychiatric medication increases heat intolerance. It was certainly true for me and a side effect that has never gone away despite stopping medications. They cant deny it, its literally a recorded side effect. There needs to be better warnings about the dangers of these medications. All of it is linked and all of it to money.
 
I hear you, one of the medications I have to take comes with a warning of a possible slight negative reaction to the drug, death. Then the doctor said to ignore that as everything will be alright and guess what, the drug has no effect what-so-ever. Do I trust the manufacturer or the doctor who prescribed it?
 

Can you feel the changing climate?​

Other than the seasons changing from summer to fall, it's not doing anything here that it doesn't normally do this time of year.
 
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