Not riding today

[Millietant]

I think I might give riding a miss today.......the dog is looking a bit forlorn too, wondering "when is he going to take me out"

Typical British summer weather

[Waiex191]

We need some of that wind here so I can go sailing.

[Millietant]

It's been blowing 50-70 mph all day. Don't think you want to go sailing in that !!

Lots of trees down across the country and plenty of flooding, but because we have almost all of our power lines underground there have been almost no power outages 

[Waiex191]

I just want 15 or 20 kts of it - you can keep the rest!

[andyoutandabout]

Never thought I'd say it but we could really do with a bit of rain to dampen these brush fires and a bit of wind to blow out the smoke. I'm not riding at the moment due to road closures and poor air quality. Anyone for denying climate change?

[Motofun]

You would have to be bonkers to deny "climate change".  The earth has gone from snow ball earth to jungles in Antarctica.  Change is guaranteed!  Perhaps I misunderstood your intent?

[Millietant]

Climate consistency is the lie, it's always changing.

Is it changing faster than ever before ? As we can't tell about climate change in history except for in blocks of tens or hundreds of thousands of years, over the earths recent history and in block periods of millions of years further back, over more than 3 billion years of its existence, then I guess we'll never know. But we can't deny how disruptive an influence we are on our planet, it's environment and it's equilibrium currently.

We cannot stop climate change.........the best we can do is minimise our effect on it.

Before Australia separated from Antarctica, Antarctica was a humongous forest. Once Australia separated and Antarctica became an island, the impact of the sea surrounding the continent had on its atmosphere caused it to freeze over.

In 150 million years from now Japan will be under the earths crust and Australia will occupy the position on the globe currently occupied by Japan.

Nothing on earth is consistent !!!!!

[giantkiller]

The earth will recover just fine...It might just decide to get rid of us. And start all over again. But it'll be just fine.

[Waiex191]

Before Australia separated from Antarctica, Antarctica was a humongous forest.

If the prior civilization had roads, that would have been even more opportunities for Australian FJ riders to explore.  If they had FJs that is.

[red]

Climate consistency is the lie, it's always changing.
Is it changing faster than ever before ? As we can't tell about climate change in history except for in blocks of tens or hundreds of thousands of years, over the earths recent history and in block periods of millions of years further back, over more than 3 billion years of its existence, then I guess we'll never know. But we can't deny how disruptive an influence we are on our planet, it's environment and it's equilibrium currently.

Milletant,

Actually, we can tell many things, going back one or two thousand years.  In the days of armored knights, England had a 'warm spell" that made it a world power in that time.  Now they get a lot of rain, to the point that a guy with no umbrella is probably not an Englishman.      You are largely correct, though: the only constant is change.
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[Millietant]

I agree Red, we seem to be able to know what has gone on in the last couple of thousand years (as long as believe what we know of our history), but we're just pulling stuff out of the air when we try to say anything about the earths climate over a 2000 year period more than 2 billion years ago......at that short of a timeband so many aeons ago, its pure speculation and guesswork on our part.

But you're right, whatever we have done to our planet, once we've made ourselves extinct, the earth itself will recover its equilibrium and bring forth new life to replace us !!