Jet Stream heads south - UK floods

[Peter Lemkin]

Poland is hardly Tornado Alley is it? Very unusual.

Hardly. Very unusual...as are the floods in Japan and China and increasingly violent weather worldwide. North America has experienced the warmest year ever and the driest since the 'dust bowl years'. North and Central America have seen a record number of hurricanes and the season is just beginning....the Arctic Ocean now has enough nation sized cracks in the ice for shipping companies to think of rerouting their ships that way. Normal climatic changes do occur, but over much longer periods of time. These are, according to all unimbedded climate scientists and statisticians, caused by human activities - mostly the tremendous increase in CO2 and methane in the atmosphere. It is all very sad....as were we to stop putting any more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere now [and we are actually increasing, not decreasing!] the average global temperature rise would likely be in the 2-5 degree C range - enough to melt the polar caps and Greenland ice sheet and flood many islands and much of the coastal cities. Some places will get colder; some warmer; some wetter; some dryer - almost all will experience more intense weather, as there is more energy in the atmosphere now. It actually effects other animals and plants more than it does humans, the wealthier of whom can to some degree move and adapt. Along with the changes I see in the Planetary political system, it is a very dim future unless we undergo an immediate about face in ethics and lifestyle.