Winners and losers?
What with all this hot and dry weather and that year on year increase in 'zonal' temperatures across the planet who can predict the effects on our flauna and flora? Which species will be the winners and losers on our currently not so green and pleasant land?
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The drought has broken here Micky Boy. A night of rumblings & actual thunder claps. The deluge hit @ 06:15hrs & is bouncing off the paths, it’s spectacular, flashings of lightening too. Mother Nature is a great leveller, She takes & She gives. I watched the sunrise just before the night(black clouds) enveloped the land again. Enjoy it👍🏻😊. Stressing won’t solve anything☹️
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Not going to worry about it Micky, we've had to wait a long time since 1976 for something similar so there will be plenty of time for things to recover.
Don't know about the rest of the planet, one thing for sure nothing stays the same in our natural world.
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Never seen so few wasps yet Bumble Bees are in great numbers. Natural phenomena reigns👍🏻😊
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Yes, nature will! Trouble is its not summer weather we should think carefully about but the climatic zoneal shifts both north and south of the equator we are witnessing. Can we humans adapt quick enough to the changes we are probably bring on ourselves. Some hide their heads in the sand, thing is in some sub saraharan areas, for example,much that was agricultural land is now sand!
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Years ago it was mainly ice. The planet is over 5 billion years old, a lot has changed, & a lot will change. It’s a natural process👍🏻😊
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Micky, The planet Earth has moved from heat to cold many times over the billions of years it has existed. The summer weather we have this year is just part of the Earth's natural cycle. The Global Warming "Enthusiasts" conveniently forget that areas of the Earth cool down during their winter as well, -- as witnessed during last winter and every winter before that. That again is perfectly natural. Weather is weather, the problem is, that the lifestyle of many people in the civilised world is not geared to seasonal changes and they find coping with "Weather" difficult. Other parts of the world adapt to "Weather" naturally.
There is nothing humans can do to change the Earth's natural cycle, .
K
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It didn’t seem that long ago the climate change lobby where talking about a mini ice age & global cooling with pictures of the Thames & sea areas around our coast freezing. Then it was ‘pull your lawns up & plant palm trees’ due to global warming. I love a good conspiracy theory but I put the weather down to natural phenomena & the rest is ‘global green taxing’ plus ‘pay us loads & our ’research’ will help you raise taxes’👍🏻
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The 'human' contribution to both localised/zonal interference and global climatic change are both well documented and scientifically proven. Such issues should surely be discussed and addressed. Just look at the clean air acts following decades of human pollution and the effects that had on industrial communities of the past. We now urgently need governments around the world to take similar action, not just at that local level but also at a global level to address greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, we, at the pinnacle of the earth's faunal and without doubt the most influencial 'creatures' which are altering our habitats and environs should increase our ambition to build a sustainable, climate-resilient future for our grandchildren and our grandchildren's grandchildren and nature in general. Some will of course take up that it won't effect me and so I can't be arsed attitude. How wrong they just might be. Yes, there are natural climatic rhythms but human activity can possible accentuate these rhythms beyond the reparable. Surely worth considering.
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