2020 officially saw a record number of $1 billion weather and climate disasters.

Maybe someone should tell John about the Rocky mountains before he starts picking numbers out of the air. There is a genuine maritime effect of being surrounded by a relatively warm body of water (water retains heat longer than land) , this has nothing to do with the Gulf Stream and more importantly this maritime influence is bolstered by southwesterly winds bringing a warm air mass from the south which would not blow if the Rockies did not exist.

More importantly RTE gave this guy 10 minutes to fill the airwaves assisted by the station presenter. This is a problem as Eddie Hobbs observed (41 minutes in) many Irish people have Stockholm syndrome with RTE because that is the only place they are getting their information and RTE has signalled clearly for the past several years they only intend to follow the narrative unless directed otherwise by Government. Many people are being blind-sided by RTE and the Irish media in general, as an example the Journal.ie is every bit as bad using university students to push the same narrative.

Perhaps, It would be colder without them being positioned where they are.

Apt tune/video in more ways than one. Media satan spawn.

"How can trees help with flooding?

Flooding poses a serious risk. But there is hope.

We can respond to flooding by planting more trees. They help to reduce flooding in a number of ways,.

Canopy cover

Rain hits the ground at higher speeds where there is a lack of tree cover. A canopy of leaves, branches and trunks slows down the rain before it hits the ground simply by getting in the way. We call this interception.

The interception of rainfall by trees can spread the effect of a rain storm over a longer time period. This allows some of the water (studies suggest up to 30%) to evaporate back into the atmosphere directly from the canopy without ever reaching the ground. All trees act in this way, but our native broadleaf trees do it best in summer when they’re in full leaf, but even in winter trees can intercept and re-evaporate rainfall.

Roots

Root systems help water penetrate deeper into the soil at a faster rate under and around trees. This means less surface run-off and more water storage in the soil.

In rural areas, the removal of trees and hedges and changes in cropping have increased run-off from fields. Planting trees and hedges can be effective in increasing water infiltration, and reducing and slowing run-off on farmland. Water infiltration rates can be 60 times higher within tree shelterbelts than adjoining farmland."

And from the UK government site

To mark the end of National Tree Week, on 5 December we announced £3.9 million to fund innovative tree planting schemes which will see hundreds of thousands of new trees planted, including in towns and cities and near rivers to reduce flood risk. Community nurseries, agroforestry and hedgerow management schemes are being supported by a £2.5 million fund from the Treasury and a further £1.4 million has been awarded to the Environment Agency to fund ‘woodlands for water’ – 15 projects to plant over 850,000 trees that will protect around 160km of river and help to reduce the risk of flooding to over 500 properties.

The language and tone used in that Guardian piece is just laughable. They really rub their hands with glee when a natural weather event occurs. It's another chance to hold out the begging bowl, because that Is, afterall, their only goal.

Thermal-imaging drones measured surface (not air) temperatures of 55 °C in downtown Athens? Is that all? I would have thought that concrete surfaces would have been higher in a large city. I'm sure if drones were around in 1977, when the actual record of 48.0 °C was set, they would have recorded higher. Pop a drone over any built-up area anywhere in the world and you'll be surprised. But of course she wanted to get 55 °C in there somewhere so that it will register with readers and some will inevitably misread it and spread the myth that "it got up to 55 °C in Athens! (air temperature).

The recent heat in the Med has been caused by hot air coming off northern Africa, leading to 850-hPa temperatures briefly peaking at 28 °C. This is a fact of life in the Med and nothing new. The heat wasn't caused by extra CO2 in the air over Greece, but numbtits reporter here would like you to think it was. The 1977 record was again not touched. How did that level of heat occur way back then when CO2 was only 330 ppm?

If anyone was in doubt about The Guardian's real motives then read the above. Promoting "poverty porn tourism" to Greece to see the effects of the financial crisis. They saw sense and axed the idea, but the fact that they entertained it in the first place, and back around the same time as they started going gung-ho with the begging climate propaganda, shows that they really are just a glorified tabloid looking to cash in at whatever cost.

Edit: I can't get rid of this large heading font...

Precisely, it's part of the natural cycle in and of itself.

To be clear I don't think either myself or Gaoth are arguing that we don't have to clean up our act and stop ejecting shite in to the atmosphere. Of course we do. That will take a long time to transition with new technology and ways of doing things but it is happening all the time. There is so much hyperbolic, misinformed and hysterical nonsense about man's contribution to a changing climate that it needs to be challenged and a bit of perspective has to prevail at some point.

Now that you've jumped to this thread, could you at least post real links instead of [suchandsuch link goes here]? I don't know what Uranus has to do with this topic, but please don't repeat your "the Earth revolves once every 24 hours" mantra as a reply.

Bullshit, and you know it. Not the same thing at all.

You wouldn't know it to read some of the posts of yours in the past, but I do note a possible toning down in recent days so that's to be welcomed.

My post was on that poster's style of death by a thousand cuts, and each cut is the phrase "the Earth revolves once every 24 hours...". Maybe you haven't had the joy of reading the thread he started, or the other identical ones over previous years before his numerous bans. Posting videos without links is pointless.

That's all well and good, but how does that contribute anything to the debate on greenhouse gases? Or is this thread just another release valve for your rotation venting, seeing as the other one was sealed off?

Whats that nutty conspiracy theory shite got to do with this thread. Absolutely sweet FA

You're crackers. Get some mental help and stop living on YouTube videos who take advantage of simpletons and they're gullibility making them feel like their in a secret group who are in the know. When they know sweet FA. Its a pattern with you always posting absolute nutjob bollox and living in a fantasy realm. Wise up.