From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

This is a conspiracy to defraud the British public:

The loss of predictable weather patterns is “causing chaos” for nature, according to the National Trust.

It warns climate change is upsetting the regular rhythm of the seasons, making plants and wildlife more susceptible to disease.

The effects can be seen across the estates the National Trust manages.

This seasonal “baseline shift” is disrupting the annual behaviours of animals in particular but also impacting trees and plants, it said.

“The incremental shifts we’re experiencing in terms of our seasons extending may not feel like much in a 12-month period, but over a decade the changes are extremely significant”, said Ben McCarthy, head of Nature and Restoration Ecology at the National Trust.

Meanwhile low water levels in rivers, lakes and reservoirs – caused by a lack of rain coupled with the high temperatures – has been a factor in increased algal blooms.

On some occasions this has led to mass fish deaths as oxygen levels crash, causing them to suffocate.

And there were dramatic storms too, with storms Babet and Ciaran damaging landscapes and coastlines around the country.

You may have noticed the impact the changes in the seasons are having in the parks around your home or in your garden.

Grass needs to be mowed much later into the year, for example.

The National Trust rangers and gardeners report it’s because of the increasingly warm and wet conditions at its sites in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67705812

There are two specific claims, around which the rest of the codswallop hinges, which have no basis in reality:

The loss of predictable weather patterns

The simple truth is that Britain has never had “predictable weather patterns”. Our seasonal weather has always changed from year to year, often drastically.

It is a myth that we used to have the same, predictable seasons every year. Some winters were cold and snowy, and others mild. Summers might be hot and dry, or cold and wet.

The four charts below plot the year-on-year changes in England. As you can see, we often saw swings of two or more degrees from one year to the next:

For example, the winter of 1915/16 was one of the mildest on record at the time. The following winter was one of the coldest.

The incremental shifts we’re experiencing in terms of our seasons extending may not feel like much in a 12-month period, but over a decade the changes are extremely significant

The facts show that there has been no perceptible “climate change” in the last decade. As ever, there are the usual ups and downs, but no evidence whatsoever of these “incremental shifts” they talk about:

The report gets itself horribly confused when it talks of low water levels in rivers, lakes and reservoirs – caused by a lack of rain and then goes on to say increasingly warm and wet conditions.

In fact neither claim has any relevance, as there are no trends either way in summer rainfall:

They also report about dramatic storms, with storms Babet and Ciaran damaging landscapes and coastlines around the country. UK storms have actually been declining since the 1990s in terms of both frequency and intensity. Claims like this underline the fact that the Met Office’s naming of storms has little to do with meteorology, and everything to do with propaganda.

One particularly misleading comment is this:

The idea that the moths have migrated as far north as Sweden because of global warming is utterly absurd. As with mosquitoes and other insects, they migrate via trade and transport. In England’s case, the first moths arrived accidentally in a shipment of trees from the continent. Since then it has spread across the South East because it can, not because it is getting warmer.

The whole idea that Britain’s nature is in a state of chaos because of climate change is ludicrous.

I’m looking out my window now, and the countryside around looks no different than it did fifty years ago when I first lived here.