Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than scientists had feared. A team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks said they were astounded by how quickly a succession of unusually hot summers had destabilised the upper layers of giant subterranean ice blocks that had been frozen solid for millennia. “What we saw was amazing,” Vladimir Romanovsky, a professor of geophysics at the university, told Reuters. “It’s an indication that the climate is now warmer than at any time in the last 5,000 or more years.“ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/18/arctic-permafrost-canada-science-climate-crisis
Look what you have done now! Have you been driving that old banger around with no catalytic converter again Keith?
Nearly 70% of British people want urgent political action to tackle climate change and protect the natural environment, according to research by a coalition of green charities. Theresa May, in one of her last acts as prime minister, has enshrined in law a commitment to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, making Britain the first large economy to do so. But two-thirds of people who were questioned by researchers for Greener UK and the Climate Coalition believe Britain needs to cut its carbon emissions to zero far faster. The survey suggests demand for action to tackle the climate crisis is becoming part of a mainstream view. Of the 2,000 people surveyed, 71% said they wanted their MP to support ambitious plans to protect the natural environment and tackle climate change, and a majority wanted to see strong new environmental laws. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/19/britons-want-faster-action-climate-poll
So why, between now and 2050, is an obscene amount of money being spent on re-routing roads and rivers, lowering a section of the M25 and encasing it in a concrete tunnel, new car parks for 50,000 vehicles plus the laying of several million cubic yards of reinforced concrete in order that Heathrow will be able to handle a few more million passengers a day when there's to be zero emissions by 2025. The two are not compatible.
