New to the blogging world, I will keep my fist post short and sweet, a flavour of what's to come, if you will.Why start my blog with this video? Well, quite simply because it is a video that answers absolutely nothing.
The video does however make you think by asking a lot of questions. After personally experiencing a blistering, record breaking 29.4 degrees Celsius in the UK on the 2nd October, it is not uncommon to create a logical connection between climate change and these extreme weather conditions. Is there a much bigger link to it all, or are they just freak anomalies?
This blog will flirt around with thoughts, news stories and academic debates in an attempt to answer questions surrounding extreme weather conditions and climate change. What lies ahead in the future? Are there any indicators of similar patterns of extreme weather events in the past? Or is this all just one big coincidence?
“There have been tornadoes before, and floods — that’s the important thing. Just be careful to make sure you don’t let yourself wonder why all these record-breaking events are happening in such proximity — that is, why there have been unprecedented megafloods in Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan in the past year. Why it’s just now that the Arctic has melted for the first time in thousands of years. No, better to focus on the immediate casualties, watch the videotape from the store cameras as the shelves are blown over…” Bill McKibben 350.org
So I will leave you with this initial thought to ponder, are extreme weather events and climate change coincidence or is there some form of causality?
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