Skullzrulerz

Indeed, slow and steady may win the race?

Scotland to pledge additional funding towards irreparable loss and damage for climate change, Nicola Sturgeon says NEWS.SKY.COM Scotland will announce new funding towards the loss and damage from climate change suffered by vulnerable countries that are beyond the realms of...

Boris Johnson to attack ‘corrosive cynicism’ on net zero at Cop27 | Cop27 | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Ex-PM to contrast optimism at Cop26 last year with failures of governments – including UK – to follow through

With how the climate is changing I doubt we will see "cold" winters very often. It's going to become increasingly rare.

Forty countries to unveil methane plans at UN climate summit, U.S. official says WWW.REUTERS.COM Some forty of the 119 countries that pledged last year to slash emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane will unveil their plans to do so at the... Some forty of the 119 countries that pledged last year to slash emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane will unveil their plans to do so at the UN climate summit next week, according to a senior U.S. official. The United States, Canada and Vietnam are among the countries that will put forward details, according to the official in U.S. President Joe Biden's administration, who asked not to be named. The world’s top two largest methane emitters, China and India, are not signatories to the pledge, and other big emitters like Brazil are not expected to have plans in time for the talks.

COP27: What have global leaders done on climate change in 2022? WWW.BBC.CO.UK With COP27 about to get under way, which nations have taken a lead and which have fallen behind since the last UN climate summit?

This comes after Boris Johnson had made the decision to go after being invited, U turning from a few days ago saying he was focused on the economy and the mini budget which he was too busy to go to.

UK criticised for failing to pay $300m in promised climate funds ahead of Cop27 | Global development | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Missed deadline for money pledged to assist developing countries sends ‘strong negative signal’ ahead of Egypt summit, say experts

So as COP27 is now mere days away, now is the time for a new discussion thread. A lot has happened since COP26, new agreements, new targets, the promise of updated NDCs didn't happen for the majority of countries that pledged to do so. (Only around two dozen did out of the 200 ish countries) The war currently ongoing between Russia and Ukraine has lead to countries leaning back to coal, more oil and gas while on the long run may "quicken" the process of going green. In some glimmer of hopes, The IEA thinks that "Total demand for fossil fuels declines steadily from the mid-2020s" which is hopefully the start of a trend. Solar/Wind power continues to grow at a moderate pace but no means it is quick enough at the moment. Sadly, I do fear that progress will be limited while time is needed very precious. If you are interested in reading a couple of papers which have been released a few days ago I will leave some links before. Closing the Emissions Gap: A Climate Action Roadmap for Limiting Warming to 1.5°C | Climate Action Tracker CLIMATEACTIONTRACKER.ORG World Energy Outlook 2022 – Analysis - IEA WWW.IEA.ORG World Energy Outlook 2022 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency. https://unfccc.int/news/climate-plans-remain-insufficient-more-ambitious-action-needed-now https://unfccc.int/documents/619180

While I'm not exactly have the best of confidence in long range forecasting and outlooks. The met office be on something if they are expecting a "sightly greater" chance of colder winter. We shall see

I really hope that we do get a cold and snowy winter, it's been quite a few that I have experienced a decent snowfall here in the far south west. Sadly, thanks to climate change snow is going to become a increasing rarity here, of course they will be extreme events that would produce snowfall. Hopefully fingers crossed we might get some snowfall no matters the odds.

Absolutely drenching it down here! If only if it moved more northwards instead of East

What's the black line mean?

Water chiefs brace for drought in England to last into next year NEWS.SKY.COM Rain in autumn and winter could wash away drought fears, but planning is under way in case coming months stay dry.

How typical being near St Austell...

What's the chances for more storms here in Cornwall today?

Why are we so unlucky

Can also say as I live just outside St Austell I heard some thunder too. As with St Austell/Awful luck as we call it it just missed us. However Truro has got some flashflood from it.

Strange world we live in eh?

So 14 days from now? Suppose it's needs to go through legal stuff before enforcing it?

You might be right Drought could be declared tomorrow in 'quite a few regions', Sky News understands NEWS.SKY.COM A drought could be declared in "quite a few regions" of the country tomorrow, a source from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has told Sky News.

I'm surprised that the whole of England isn't in a drought alert. Basically we can expect a ban here in Cornwall in the coming days/weeks?

This really does remind me of the weather conditions for wildfires in California...