An estimated 4,354 died in heatwaves' Whoever did the 50,000 estimating was WRONG.

The reality of living with environmental contradictions..

There was a Japanese soldier left to guard an island during WWII. He was forgotten, and therefore nobody told him the war was over for many years. The following cartoon depicts a similar scenario .. I therefore wouldn’t be surprised if there is someone out there still concerned about the millennium bug.

The current amount of moisture (Water Vapour) in the atmosphere is at a very high level, but the underlying technology to measure WV on the entire planet may well be a relatively new instrument. I personally believe WV is behind most if not all the increase in temperature during the past 30 years, I get the arguments put forward that increased CO2 is amplifying WV. However the push in reducing CO2 to control temperature doesn’t hold up, if increasing CO2 levels was that dangerous there would have been a global movement established to stop this increasing decades ago. Moreover, it has very likely already been agreed, it is impossible to change the atmospheric content of CO2. If that is factual, it’s become a very secretive fact for obvious reasons. That leaves a the following question. What is the benefit of impoverishing everyone with high taxation, to save the planet, that doesn’t need saving. When the clever solution is adaptation.

OH Boy: You may have recently read the IPCC have reduced worst case scenarios, but that memo appears not to have reached the BBC World Service.. Are We Destabilising The Planet: We are going to miss the world's most important climate target, according to the UN. So can we bring the planet's temperature back down quickly? Or will the damage be irreversible? Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 bbc.in/3VyyriM In 2015, world leaders agreed to try to keep the global temperature below 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels to avoid the worst effects of climate change. But the United Nations now says we will crash through this threshold in the next few years, and we have a narrow window to stop what scientists call "overshoot" from having devastating consequences. Experts are worried the higher temperature might trigger "tipping points" in vital parts of our planet's climate system, including coral reefs, glaciers, rainforests and ocean currents. Once past their tipping points, they could flip from helping to keep the Earth cool to making it even warmer! In this show, The Climate Question hosts Graihagh Jackson and Jordan Dunbar talk to Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.