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Red alerts for much of UK.

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Met office red alert for extreme heat has been issued for London and for parts of the Midlands. This is the first ever met office red warning for heat.

Government red warnings for heat health alert now cover all of England. I think that this may be the first such alert, it is undoubtedly the first ever to affect all of England.

Are significant consequences expected for electricity generation and distribution ?

  • in reply to Jon Steward
    Jon Steward said:
    I wait with anticipation

    No need to wait. Just answer the question about the Keeling data.

  • in reply to Jon Steward

    We all have the right to live in houses and demand free and long useful lives. Right.

    But there are 4 times as many people on this planet as there were at the end of WW2 in1945

    These people must be fed, housed, kept warm and able to move around freely from job to job quickly.

    So the planet must produce more vegetation, more animals, more electricity and fuel plus more health care.

    Result is global warming as obviously more CO2 is being produced to keep up with the population expansion.

    To increase the landmass that is productive what better way than melting the tundra are using it for agriculture.

    Problem is just the possible increase in sea level and not the CO2 increase which we need to sustain us all.   

  • in reply to CliveS

    Sea level rise has not changed in more than 165 years. It remains at 1.4mm/year. Storm surges show no trend since 1953 in the UK.

  • in reply to Jon Steward

    There is a whole sequence of detailed technical replies to this demonstrably false assertion, including citations. They have been removed. Why?

  • in reply to Peter Bernard Ladkin

    Hi Peter I can't see where anything has been removed? 

    The Mod team haven't removed anything and there's nothing caught up in our moderation queue either? Unless the person who wrote the comments have deleted them themselves? 

    Lisa

  • in reply to Lisa Miles

    Lisa,

    thanks for the heads-up. I get email notifications, and went back through my emails. It turns out the contributor with the handle Jon Steward said the same thing as he did above also in another forum, on the new Sizewell C. It is there that the technical exchange took place, not here.

    So I would refer people interested in a canonical refutation of the assertion that 

    Jon Steward said:
    Sea level rise has not changed in more than 165 years.

    to the forum "New Proposed Sizewell C".

  • in reply to Peter Bernard Ladkin

    Sizewell C thread  quote 

    "The PSMSL WWW page reports the 2013 IPCC WG1 statement that  

    "It is very likely that the mean rate of global averaged sea level rise was 1.7 [1.5 to 1.9] mm/yr between 1901 and 2010, 2.0 [1.7 to 2.3] mm/yr between 1971 and 2010 and 3.2 [2.8 to 3.6] mm/yr between 1993 and 2010. Tide-gauge and satellite altimeter data are consistent regarding the higher rate of the latter period"

    So it looks as if the sea rise will be around 36 mm per decade or one and a half inches which should be easily containable. 

    We must live with that climate change but the saving grace is that fully industrialised nations have a negative population growth rate because educated people realize that having more than 2 children is expensive.

    The need to educate developing economies and encourage family planning is thus obviously the way forward.

  • in reply to Peter Bernard Ladkin

    Do they really not have heated points any longer? I used to work in the rail industry as a Signal Engineer and while not directly responsible for point heating we did have it installed on the majority of points, certainly on the critical main line ones etc.

    This was about 20 years ago though so I dare say things have changed.

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