https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ An unprecedented weakening and shifting of the polar vortex might bring us early snow, particularly in the east of the country. If anyone out there is still daft enough to think that 'global warming' means hotter, everywhere, all the time, here's a little example of an unpredicted 'cold' event in a warming world. For the UK, minor events like this or bigger socio-economically destabilising events or catastrophic events like the shutting down of the AMOC are all made more likely and more imminent by our continuing refusal to face facts. All us little capitalists and ravenous consumers beaver away with our faces in the techno-senseless mud and forget about looking up once in a while to see what's around and above us. There seems to be so little talk about the biggest issue we're ever going to face these days, I wonder if everyone has just tacitly given up? |  |