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- climate@slrpnk.net
The seemingly “never-ending” rain last autumn and winter in the UK and Ireland was made 10 times more likely and 20% wetter by human-caused global heating, a study has found.
More than a dozen storms battered the region in quick succession between October and March, which was the second-wettest such period in nearly two centuries of records. The downpour led to severe floods, at least 20 deaths, severe damage to homes and infrastructure, power blackouts, travel cancellations, and heavy losses of crops and livestock.
The level of rain caused by the storms would have occurred just once in 50 years without the climate crisis, but is now expected every five years owing to 1.2C of global heating reached in recent years. If fossil fuel burning is not rapidly cut and the global temperature reaches 2C in the next decade or two, such severe wet weather would occur every three years on average, the analysis showed.
So is the UK gonna start getting temperate rainforests?
IIRC Ireland was a temperate rainforest, before the English fucked everything up.
I think it was more likely the Neolithic farmers clearing the forests before Britain was even a thing.
Same thing happened in Britain.
Pretty sure 2024 humanity will cut everything down. Before forrests get settled. The UK is genrally just to populated. Maybe dart moor etc where building is already not very practicle.
PS british have done a lot of shit. And shoold take the blame for much.
But the irish would have been just as likly to remove forest land as the brits if we were not involved.
Its not like conservation was a important topic for most europeens pre mid 1900s. And ireland free of British influence. Would have had the same expansion motives during the industrial revolution stage.