Always Look On The Bright Side

[poliphilo]

I love heavy rain. Yesterday we had bouts of it. There was one just before Ailz and I set out on foot for the health centre and another just after we arrived back home. Good timing, eh?

Of course I'd rather watch from shelter. Under cover of the Rashomon gate for instance....

Down in Cornwall heavy rain- perhaps the same belt of it that hit us later- caused a flash flood that swept away the heart of the village of Boscastle. Amateur video footage showed cars being swept down stream and out to sea. At the last reckoning no-one appears to have been killed.

It seems like our weather in Britain is getting more and more extreme.

I don't altogether understand the panic over climate change.  The way I see it, it's going to happen whether we humans help things along or not.  During the lifetime of our species there have been any number of switches. There was the Ice Age of course. And before the Ice Age our corner of Northern Europe enjoyed a climate in which giraffes and hippopotami flourished.

Maybe I'm being naive, but I think we underestimate our ability to cope...

P.S. The spell checker has problems with the word "Boscastle".  It suggests that I may have meant to type "bookstall" or "bisexual".

Comments

[mokie]

I recall reading a few years back, in all the hubbub over global warming, that some scientists believe we're living in the tail end of the ice age, and that global warming is just the planet returning naturally to its hot and humid pre-ice age state.

This would mean that there truly is no escape from St. Louis summers...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The scientists just don't agree. Twenty years back the majority opinion seemed to be we were heading for another ice age and now the majority opinion is that we're warming up- but always their have been minority reports as well. I've heard so many different scare stories down the years that I'm getting to be very, very sceptical.

[mokie]

Scare stories sell better though, and everybody thinks it was hotter/colder/brighter/happier a generation before than it is now. ;)