Cold, wet and windy all day here in Derbyshire. The central heating is on, gas fire has been on for most of the day and we are sitting here waiting for some global warming. Maybe cows aren't farting enough at the moment.
Here in central England, we've just been through the coldest April since 1986 according to Met Office data. Only weather we're told, but had it been the warmest since 1986 we'd see it in BBC headlines.
As an aside, I wonder how the coronavirus debacle is shaping up locally - might be worth checking. We've been in all day so we should be safe from the rampaging pandemic.
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This month-long cold spell (often cheerfully bright, but the wind nearly always from the north or east) is doubly worrying. First, because it obviously means that the world is suffering a general climate catastrophe, the cold being the result of it getting warmer elsewhere. Or somesuch. Second, because we have had the central heating on, and that's just not done in May.
Given the NHS has virtually shut up shop entirely due to the 'crisis' it wouldn't surprise me if that patient count was for admissions for all medical causes, not just covid............in future we will look back at the pre-covid NHS with wonder and awe at how much service we used to get out of it. We won't see that again, they've all realised they can tell the patients to just go away and stop bothering them and get away with it.
Casting my mind back over April's weather it was not the coolness but the dryness that I remember (and only because I was treating the lawn).
Now climate is a different perspective. Is climate change happening? Absolutely yes, 4.5 billion years of climate history cannot be denied. Are the activities of Man affecting climate change? Very probably... but by how much we don't know in absolute terms. What should we do about climate change? No idea, the models are not yet good enough at a detail level. That doesn't mean we should do nothing, although people are not yet willing to make hard choices.
I was offered a deal by the coal company which meant a 20% saving on the fuel we use on an open fire - 'Wildfire'. It was going to be discontinued for some EU blasted rule, because it isn't smokeless. I ordered twelve bags as that's all we have room for, and instead of having all this lovely coal ready for the Autumn, we've used up over half already, and the deadline for sales was 1st May!
I think I'll have to listen to all that hot air some Kerry bloke in the US spouts, as that will make up the difference I suppose...
Sam - we've had some cheerfully bright days too. Tog up to keep the wind out and it made pleasant walking weather. Our central heating is still on though.
Sobers - our GPs have set up an online consultation system which I'm sure is how they intend to run things in future. No turning up at the surgery. Of course now they are complaining that the online system is overused so they have restricted access to certain hours in the day. May as well use Google.
DJ - we know we affect local climates because cities are warmer than the countryside, but I don't think we should do anything until we know why the wider climate changes and why trends begin then end. We appear to be nowhere near that. On the whole I think climate change is best seen as a purely political project - that's where the money and subsidies come from.
Scrobs - some of Kerry's hot air comes from his private jet of course.
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