You just know that sooner rather than later the BBC will play its climate change (meaning humans in their book) card in an article about any kind of adverse or unusual weather conditions, even if only lasting a day or two, and sure enough…so predictable and tedious.
They also conveniently forgot that in the ‘Great Storm’ of 1987, which felled an estimated 15 million trees in England alone, much of the damage was in southern England, northern France, and the Channel Islands.
It is the untold story of the winter storms, says BBC News.
More than eight million trees have been brought down and many are now threatened by another two named storms bearing down on Britain.
Forest managers warn that already “catastrophic” damage will be made worse by Storms Dudley and Eunice.
There are warnings that the heating climate is making our weather more severe and unpredictable, and that management and planting strategies must adapt more quickly.
Forest ranger Richard Tanner says that he’s never seen a real battlefield, but the west shore of Windermere now reminds him of photographs he has seen.
“It looks like someone’s set off a bomb.”
All around are the giant root plates of fallen trees, some the size of caravans, studded with rocks torn from the earth.
“There’s three tonnes of tree and then five or six tonnes of earth maybe. And that’s all got to be dealt with. We’ve lost thousands and thousands of trees just on this one property.” …snip…
Kelvin Archer manages all the Trust’s forests from the Scottish border, down to the Midlands, and across to both coasts.
He says almost a quarter of the charity’s standing woods – hundreds of thousands of trees – have fallen.
“Climate change means that storms normally only seen in north-east Scotland are now hitting Northumberland and right across to Cumbria.”
Read the whole mess here.
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We experienced an unusual wind event in September. Lots of renewable green energy on the ground. You’d think that the shivering Brit’s would be fighting for every twig that nature has delivered.
They blame everything from Riots to Burnt Toast on Global Warming/Climate Change
By spreading fake news and promoting energy systems that don’t work, the bbc is causing energy scarcity, a far worse crime than climate change. This has still to be defined: from what to what? The new situation, being a change, is unknown, but always considered worse. I remember thick sulphurous fog in London in the fifties, and freezing cold.. Is it really worse now?