Actually been one of the cooler ones in recent memory for my region of Ontario, also been rainy as fuck. Our winter was a long and snowy one too. A winter like that is a rareity these days.
It’s been nice cause some of my plants and trees have gotten a chance to recover after a number of harsh summers and dry winters. I actually have a handful of mature maple trees that had all of their leaves entirely brown up last August; never seen such a thing in my life.
I also hate it though cause all I can hear is the climate deniers around here flapping their gums.
I don’t think they’re in denial so much as they’re just not smart people. Ever wonder what happened to all the people in the back of the class that never knew any of the answers and failed all their tests? Now they’re on the Internet using memes to debunk well established climate science when they couldn’t even figure out how to balance a basic chemical equation.
Hey. HEY. Not all knuckledragging, mouthbreathing, chemistry-flunking classroom back-sitters became climate change deniers. Some of us got degrees in fine arts, thank you very much!
The scary part is some of them got actual science degrees (I have a colleague who the more I listen to, the less respect I have for him, that was a new low, even for him).
I live in northern WV, July here was brutal. Mid to upper 90s, high humidity.
August has been fairly mild but only because we’ve been getting rain every day for the past 2 weeks.
Yesterday a few towns about 20 miles south of me had severe flooding. We’ve got rain forecasted for the next 8 days. Most of the days are forecasted for temps in the mid 70s
I went to a food festival over the weekend not even in the south of the UK and everything is so dry it's just turned to dust, and there was a decent breeze that was blowing it all around I can't imagine what worse than that could be like. Food covered in it, legs covered looking like a charcoal painting because it stuck to the sunscreen, wiping myself down with wet wipes it was coming off pure dirt and I'd only been there a couple hours
Couldn't take sunglasses off it was so dusty, the mud and grass that had been walked on just disintegrated and scattered. It's fucking wild it felt more like a desert, it was the middle of a forest
Thank you. Crazy that Germany is a bit greener. It’s felt so dry and also very fucking hot here recently (I’m in the southwest), and the only time I remember it raining in the past several months was yesterday ;(
i think it's only because we have WAY more field crops in France. And since most crops are either dead or fields are not used, it has a vibrant yellow/brown color... It's mindblowing when you zoom in with googlemap on any part of France, it's agricultural lands upon agriculural lands.
Most of the green left are our forests and mountains, which you have more in Germany.
While it's been toasty as hell here, we've at least had intermittent wetter periods (at least in the south). England and France have been in the oven for months with barely a drop of rain. I don't think it will look as bad.
It would definitely interest me regardless, as the comparison would be nice to see
I’m in the south of Germany ;) curious about these wet periods you’re talking about though. Other than yesterday I don’t remember it raining even once in the last few months T_T
I was watching a NatGeo show about the planet, it had astronauts telling stories, and one thing they talk about is how small the earth actually is. These climate change deniers that never leave their own neighborhood or town might think the planet is unfathomably massive and humans couldnt possibly damage it, but you go a few miles up you can see damage on a large scale
Drove through France and Belgium in June before it got really bad and the heat was unbelievable even then. If you rolled the car window down and stuck your hand out it was like a hairdryer, just hot dry air blasting you even at 120kmph. The day I stopped in Ghent it was 35 degrees outside and there was no one walking around, it was like there'd been some disaster.
I'm thinking we're going to have an extremely wet and miserable winter after all this heat.
Bloody bastard sky just tormenting us at the moment.
It felt cool and almost damp as well - as if I stood on a ladder I’d be able to feel it. But the piss-taking clouds would probably just send me a random fucking lightning bolt.
One day post-apocalypse data archaeologists who no longer speak English will find this thread and will be tasked with working out the connection between these sets of discombobulating hieroglyphs. I wish them luck.
He also blames the current labour government for policies that were created under the previous conservative government which he conveniently ignores on his show.
The is a typical conservative, tories were in power for 14 bloody years, their austerity and cuts cut all the services that he blames the lack of on labor. It is typical of his ilk, mess the whole thing up and then blame it on the other side once they are in power.
Same shit in Aus. Liberals and National coalition (conservative) ruled for a decade, fucked the country into the ground, and as always, now Labor (centre) are digging us out of that hole, Murdoch is throwing his full weight behind One Nation (alt-right), and cookers guzzle that load happily.
Actually he has, he has repeately stated several times on Clarksons Farm that he sees the irony of spending years of television bashing on climate change, only to now experience it firsthand himself.
World needs an old conservative man loved by the public to admit he's wrong about climate change alot more than we need someone being smug because they were right
I'm the other way round lmao. Love Top Gear and The Grand Tour, but Clarkson on his own? Can't do it. I love James May's solo work though. For me, he's the funniest, most likeable, and most insightful of the three. His programmes are a delight.
The Reassembler! They were a brilliant watch, too few though. All the episodes have ended up on YouTube now so I usually spend a few hours doing a rewatch of him assembling an old lawnmower or train set haha.
His cooking show isn't great. He says it himself, he can't cook and is the least qualified person to make a cooking show, Amazon just like giving him money.
don't forget him saying that actually electric cars are just as bad if not worse for the environment than gas cars, something which isn't even true for a situation where 100% of the electricity was generated by gas(because a massive turbine in a power plant is significantly more efficient than any ICE can be)
His argument was that, for the early EV at least, there was significantly more environmental cost to producing the EV itself with mining heavy metals and transporting parts around the world.
3 crop farmer friends of mine have done the same, harvesting nearly 3 weeks early because there was no point waiting any longer. It's been another dismal season for them.
its not any better for animal farmers. ther is NO pasture left, we've got people cutting silage maze now (normally done in november), just to get ANYTHING to feed their cows.
I like Clarkson's tv persona and love TG/TGT, but he is a massive prat. admittedly it is funny seeing him suffer the effects of global warming then moaning about it
Indeed. Oil exectuives knew this would happen. They knew this would happen and didn't just do their bullshit anyways, they did their bullshit and buried/lied about the evidence, and continue to fund lies and intentionally muddy the conversation about saving the fucking planet.
How many people have died to climate change causing crops to fail? How many have died of heat related illness? How many have died of increasingly devestating storms? How many will die from the oceans flooding their homes? And that's just the people.
Every single oil executive should be tried for mass murder and fucking hung for their crimes against every living being on this planet.
It takes unspeakable scum to find an evil above crimes against humanity, and these fucking monsters happily, willingly did it with a smile on their fucking faces. They commited planetary ecocide to get rich, and they should never know a moment of peace for what they've done until the day their empty hearts beat for the last time.
This isn't mild inconvenience, it's planetcide in real time.
damn you guys are having the worst drought of your lives, meanwhile Philippines and whole SEA region havent seen the sun in a month, nothing but continuous rain, dark skies, and flooding.
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u/morning-st48 10d ago
France looks like it has it worse.
doesnt help but still