...and a little later in the same prog, they include an imagined weather forecast for August 2050... "Half of the days in that month are expected to be hitting 30C"pic.twitter.com/bBxbkQbUMe
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In January 2007, the BBC aired a special programme presented by Sir David Attenborough called "Climate Change - Britain Under Threat". It included this imagined weather forecast for a "typical summer's day" in 2020...pic.twitter.com/jrDJnb4yWt
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Attenborough's sign-off at the end: "Climate change is surely the single biggest issue the human race now faces…We now have the facts…For all of us, it's truly now the time to act"pic.twitter.com/3trMgyIGTz
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While weather extremes r not ecology (we have much less data for latter to avoid knowldg loss), it brings to mind the Shifting Baseline Syndrome coined 4 ecology; the lowering of standards due to loss of knowledge. Maybe with global warming, we'll also forget. Credit:
@Go_Remotepic.twitter.com/ylnZrjgaEx
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Not sure what you are saying here, but we have weather stats going back 100s of years and they show, unequivocally, that UK summers are getting *much* warmer! By any standard.
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I see that the
@CPDN_BOINC project page is still up: https://www.climateprediction.net/projects/completed-project/bbc-climate-change/ … -
Of course! I used some of their runs in my thesis!
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And deniers say that climate scientists can't forecast the weather let alone the climate. That looks very possible for 2020, if we have a relatively cool summer that year.
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We didn't act :( UK Met predicted this around 2007 too: Uk met 2C 2050, 8C 2080 across the UK. If carbon emissions continue to rise, there is a 10% chance that temperatures in the south-east could rise by 8C or more by the 2080s.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jun/18/uk-weather-climate-impact-report …
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And of course the models mostly under predicted effects.. Its going2b 2C ~2040, likely earlier (& there's nothing we can do now about it. We touched 1.5C in 2016) https://twitter.com/pmagn/status/0?s=19 … Y isn't the science &
#media community more clear on this?pic.twitter.com/9Hlv4e9ZRs
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