Wednesday 19 May 2021
Climate change could make your house fall over
Climate Warning - It's The Guardian
The climate crisis is very likely to put millions of homes at increased risk of subsidence, according to new data from the British Geological Survey (BGS). The hotter and drier summers being driven by global heating mean the ground under houses will shrink and crack, scientists said.
The key areas affected are London, Essex, Kent, and a swathe of land from Oxford up to the Wash. This is because the clay formations underlying these areas are most vulnerable to losing moisture.
In a medium scenario for future emissions, the area of Great Britain that is highly or extremely likely to see increased risk of clay-related subsidence increases by a third from 2020 to 2030 and triples by 2050.
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Hotter drier summers? They're not even tying to make the lies realistic anymore
...and the colder wetter winters might be 'topping up' the moisture.
I accept climate change as a fact, I accept that the 'works of man' will have some impact, I accept that nobody really knows how it will all pan out.
Perhaps we should just soldier on rather than panicking about uncertainties?
I'll be quite glad if our house falls over, providing of course it does so in those baking weeks in the summer when we are away on holiday. A few big gaps will make the installation of the hydrogen boiler and the heat-pump less disruptive, and the house falling into the street will make it possible to charge the £50k electric car without a massive copper cable trailing out of the front window.
They're predicting hotter drier weather as we are just experiencing an extremely wet May? And only last year had an extremely wet summer? Indeed over the last 20 years we have had 8 extremely wet summers (defined as over 300mm for June, July and August) and only 4 extremely dry ones (defined as under 200mm for JJA). Not only that but annual rainfall in the UK has been on a rising trend since the late 1970s. Thats all from the Met Office datasets, so by their own data this is utter bilge.
Bucko - that's a disturbing aspect of it, they seem to be uninterested in the credibility of the lies. As if they know their audience very well and don't care about anyone else.
DJ - yes we should just soldier on and maybe make some preparation for both possibilities, warming or cooling. That would probably mean going nuclear.
Sam - it's almost as if we are due for a big hike in house insurance premiums.
Sobers - it's almost entertaining how divorced from the data it all is. They know people don't check it.
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