Outside with a coffee.

[jack.h...@gmail.com]

3 p.m, sun 20° above horizon and I was almost too warm.  Admittedly I was next to the shed wall.  Air temp 14°C.

The atmosphere here in north Scotland is usually very clean with limited pollution.

This compares with the sad situation in India:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5qygr6d5yo#:~:text=Aerosols%20have%20reduced%20the%20amount,of%20Technology%20(IIT)%20Kanpur.

Jack

[Graham Easterling]

Sat outside for a coffee here, but it was bright, not sunny, between 14 & 15C. In fact today was the first day not to reach 15C since 14.8C on 6th May.

I see, that in 2024 not only did CO2 levels in the atmosphere increase, but increased by record amounts - again. 

The trouble is, even when politicians seem to take global warming vaguely seriously, they largely talk b*ll*cks. Electric cars are only 'carbon neutral' if you ignore the facts that even in the UK 30% of electricity production is from fossil fuels, the energy used in manufacture of the cars (often in countries with largely fossil fuel electricity production), their transportation around the world,  the lithium mining, the maintenance of roads etc. I saw a sign in my local bank (Lloyds) saying "This bank is powered by renewable energy" Oh not it wasn't, they were simply choosing a 'green' tariff. The power came out of the grid and contained the same mix as somebody on the cheapest tariff. Anyway, they are cutting their power consumption now, the Branch is closing. None of this is an argument against renewable energy, quite the reverse, but the only way forward is to consume less. That happened during COVID when CO2 levels rose less steeply, but as the whole world economic system is built on consuming ever more. . . .  All means I won't see a white Christmas.

Seem to have drifted a bit. 

Graham

Penzance