anyone and everyone can have their say now . seeing as what the recent floods have done to the central and western parts of england what do you think our future is. how will it change our world around us. i would like some really interesting views.
2007-08-04 09:59:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Should we be looking at some way of channelling and saving all this extra rain, so it can be passed on to all the countries crying for water? I'm not greedy, and would be quite willing to hand over the excess. Where I live it rains frequently, so we already get more than our share.
Could we barter a barrel of water in exchange for something else? A little sunshine perhaps, or maybe solar-produced electricity from countries with abundant sun?
2007-08-04 14:43:48 · answer #1 · answered by bluebell 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, the flooding in Britain is inconsequential on its own but the serious flooding world wide may be an indicator of Climate Change. It does not suggest either that climate change will make Britain wetter or drier; warmer or cooler.
I guess that Britain will just have to adapt to these changes as they come as with the rest of the world. Just don't buy sea shore properties.
2007-08-04 19:31:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mr Jello, you seem to have confused the concepts yourself. It is possible to make educated estimates on climate trends in the future. It's funny that you bring up the same argument time after time when you already have been shown that it is erronous. There is a difference between predicting specific weather events compared to the probabilities that such events will occur. Compare with playing cards in Las vegas. The house won't be able to predict which hand you will get or who will win in a certain hand. However, the probabilities is on their side and they ensure that they( the House) will win in the long-term. In the same way it can be said what the trends will lead to over longer periods.
""Even though climate is chaotic, with weather states impossible to predict in detail more than a few days ahead, there is a predictable impact of anthropogenic forcing on the probability of occurrence of the naturally-occurring climatic regimes.
In our chaotic climate, it is impossible (indeed meaningless) to try to attribute a specific (eg severe) weather event to anthropogenic global warming. Hence, it is a false dichotomy to suppose that some recently-occurring drought or flood is either on the one hand caused by global warming, or on the other hand is merely due to natural climate variability.
Rather, the correct way to address such an issue is to ask instead whether anthropogenic climate change will increase or decrease the probability of occurrence of the type of drought or flood which we (or journalists pursuing some weather story provoked by a recent drought or flood) are interested. Such probabilities can be obtained, for example, from the JSC/CLIVAR Working Group on Climate Modelling's multi-model ensemble, made for the IPCC fourth assessment report.
In a chaotic climate, one cannot expect the time-series of global temperature to increase monotonically under the impact of anthropogenic climate change. Hence, for example, global mean temperatures were especially warm in 1998 because of the occurrence of a substantial El-Niño event. By the bullet above, it is meaningless to attribute the 1998 El-Niño event to global warming. Only by looking over long enough periods of time can one see the trend in global mean temperature due to anthropogenic climate change, above the "noise" of climatic variability."
This means that there is no predectibility for specific events, but the trends can be predicted.
Hope this helps.
2007-08-04 19:28:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anders 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One shouldn't confuse one year of inclement weather with climate change.
Just like the predictions that number of hurricanes in 2005 ushered in fears that there would be more and more and stronger hurricanes for the next few years because of "global warming" never came true, next years weather in the UK could be as boring as this years hurricane season.
Remember no one can predict the future, and no one knows what the climate will be in 6 months, 1 year, or 5 years from now.
2007-08-04 18:45:44 · answer #4 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Bring on climate change! It'll be warmer and less distance to drive to the seaside. How can that be wrong?
2007-08-04 19:55:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hills will get very crowded.
2007-08-05 13:38:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try these views
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming051607.htm
2007-08-04 20:11:46 · answer #7 · answered by GABY 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋