Are happening regularly around London.... don't remember many in 1976
1976 was not as hot as it has been this year. But it did go on for some time. On saying that it looks as if the weather is warming up this week again.
Climate change will do that, prepare for more of the same in the coming years and decades sadly. Keep those fires away from the Cottage and Motspur Park!
I think this will end up being more severe than 1976. It rained on 20th June then not again until August. This year has been drier than that as well as hotter. It's very worrying actually.
And yet irresponsible shops are still selling those portable barbecues!
No wildfires up here in the west of Scotland. I would gladly swap some rain for a bit of sunshine. However, golf course is a magnificent green.
My son has just gone to college in Northern California and the Dixie wildfire last year burnt nearly a million acres and lasted three months. There is more of this to come all over the world and we will have to get used to the devastation until the powers that be take climate change seriously.
There's a reason climate alarmists like to start their wildfire charts around 1980 and ignore everything that happened before then.
Could be a 'Waterworld' scenario, water becoming a 'precious commodity'.
I know there tons out there at the moment, but what if there wasn't?
I remember in 1976 having to drive through a fire which had spread to both sides of the road on Wimbledon Common.
We were directed by the Fire Brigade but it was scary experience with the heat and smoke.
Quote from: MikeTheCubed on August 09, 2022, 10:27:08 AM
There's a reason climate alarmists like to start their wildfire charts around 1980 and ignore everything that happened before then.
What, so you aren't alarmed by global warming?
Quote from: MikeTheCubed on August 09, 2022, 10:27:08 AM
There's a reason climate alarmists like to start their wildfire charts around 1980 and ignore everything that happened before then.
Go on....
Be careful Mike the Cubed and Healey Chapman ...... never be tempted to go on a world cruise ...you will fall off the edge as the world is flat you know . Forget modern science it's a load of tosh . Please do take of yourselves and don't worry about the rest of humanity.
All part of the Great Reset, yeah?
Quote from: HV71 on August 09, 2022, 08:26:07 PM
Be careful Mike the Cubed and Healey Chapman ...... never be tempted to go on a world cruise ...you will fall off the edge as the world is flat you know . Forget modern science it's a load of tosh . Please do take of yourselves and don't worry about the rest of humanity.
The big irony of your laughable straw-man jibe is that the control freaks who are insisting that The $cience™ is settled and that it never be questioned also don't want the luxury of being able to cruise around the world afforded to us peasants.
Quote from: rebel on August 09, 2022, 10:53:49 AM
Could be a 'Waterworld' scenario, water becoming a 'precious commodity'.
I know there tons out there at the moment, but what if there wasn't?
Wasn't waterworld about finding land
Quote from: Stoneleigh Loyalist on August 09, 2022, 11:15:21 AM
I remember in 1976 having to drive through a fire which had spread to both sides of the road on Wimbledon Common.
We were directed by the Fire B
rigade but it was scary experience with the heat and smoke.
I helped put out one of them fires
Guess it depends where you live, plenty of rain, wind and not so much sun in Cumbria.
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You are of course right Mike the Cubed - I should have produced a more steel-man rather than straw-man argument - as it would have been more environmentally friendly. Glad you are coming round to seeing such benefits and you are so correct in admonishing me. I am clearly a numpty
Trees caught fire this afternoon 80 yards from my house, owner tackled it with hose pipe, before fire engine arrived after twenty minutes.
Well isn't this a fun thread to read - ready the popcorn!
Quote from: H4usuallysitting on August 09, 2022, 09:06:54 PM
Quote from: rebel on August 09, 2022, 10:53:49 AM
Could be a 'Waterworld' scenario, water becoming a 'precious commodity'.
I know there tons out there at the moment, but what if there wasn't?
Wasn't waterworld about finding land
Yes but drinking water is very rare, and thus a highly valued commodity.
