Spring 2007

[Elaine]

When you all find that global warming doesn't actually make sea level rise much, but creates impenetrable fog on high ground, you'll all be grovelling to come down to our level!!

 

[Les W]

When you all find that global warming doesn't actually make sea level rise much, but creates impenetrable fog on high ground, you'll all be grovelling to come down to our level!!

Is this a realistic scenario, or just wishful thinking. 

 

[Elaine]

Ok, I confess, it is just wishful thinking  :-[

 

[Les W]

I'm sure there is room for you and Hughie on our exclusive little Mendip isle once the flood waters appears.

Hughie is a farmer so I'm sure he will have a gun, he can volunteer for the MRA (Mendip Republican Army) and help fight off the flatlanders and townies.

YOUR MENDIP NEEDS YOU

 

[graham]

Yeah but Les, you live down off the Hill and will drown.

 

[Les W]

Yeah but Les, you live down off the Hill and will drown.

Except I live at about 90m AOD, this means I will have a very desirable beach front property on the shores of the Mendip Isle 

 

[AndyF]

When you all find that global warming doesn't actually make sea level rise much, but creates impenetrable fog on high ground, you'll all be grovelling to come down to our level!!

I think you guys will be floating up to our actually  ....

Apparently, we've just had the three warmest January days on record. 

 

[whitelackington]

snow drops out round here.
Our bats seem to have been active all winter, as they have on Mendip,
must be global warming :alien:

 

[Elaine]

Snowdrops normally flower Jan/Feb!!

 

[whitelackington]

smart arse

 

[ditzy 24//7]

we have dafodils imn the garden already and iv seen a couple of bees!

 

[Peter Burgess]

Snowdrops normally flower Jan/Feb!!

Perhaps they are next year's snowdrops.

 

[ditzy 24//7]

thats a good idea but does that mean that snowdrops have turned yellow or daffiodils need to turn white?

 

[Peter Burgess]

No, the snowdrops are next year's snowdrops, and the daffodils have slipped through a timewarp from the interglacial after the next ice age.

 

[ditzy 24//7]

oh right ok i get you now 

 

[Dep]

...
If the global warming pundits are right, the demand for food and energy will overtake the environment. No subsidies required!

Indeed - all this talk of green policies will get trampled under once the screw starts to tighten.
Selfish demand and greed will always win out over altruism!
That's human nature.
I expect in a few decades to see reasons or justifcations being made up for why we can carry on as we please to suit current expendiency. ie we want it so we are damn well going to have it.

 

[whitelackington]

Went to wet Mendip yesterday to help fit new lid @ Coral Cave,
got home about nine o'clock,
my daffs had come out.
Now it's SPRING.

 

[Mr Fell]

Eyh up its still last winter up ere int NAARTH 

 

[cap n chris]

Whitelackington's right. My neighbour's tree is blossoming; mind you, it is nearly March so it's about the right time, innit?

 

[Dep]

It's certainly the mildest winter I recall, and going by local tree damage the windiest for a while too at times.

Most spring plants are out in the SE, daffs, snowdrops, ramsons, blue-bells are all showing well developed shoots already, hazel catkins, all the expected signs of spring are here, the only thing holding back the full tide of spring is the amount of daylight, one natural cycle we have not managed to mess about with yet.

But I have to say I prefer these milder winters, but the lack of rain to replenish aquifers in the SE is an issue.

But if global warming has a long term planetary impact as we suspect it migt the longer term future for the UK is that it will get colder, if we lose the warm water current coming up from the Atlantic it will get much colder. Bear in mind that even southern Britain is only about 15deg-lat from the Arctic circle.