Climate & Lockdown.

[Honest john]

When the planes stopped flying over North America for 3 days after 9/11/2011 the temperature is said to have risen 1.5 C as the contrails stopped reflecting the suns rays.

Now the whole planet has stopped Flying apart from commercial over the summer month.

The sky’s are clear blue day after day, the Drought bites in over Europe, crops drying etc.

I can’t help thinking could there be a link ?

Or is the Sun getting to me ?

 

[jack6480]

you've had enough pimms now

 

[Lincs Lass]

Im in the same mind ,,Co2 levels down,no aircraft belching out engine fumes into the clouds ,,remember the days of straw burning ,an hour after the smoke had got high up ,,it rained

 

[B'o'B]

I don’t see it myself.
For us 2011, 2018, 2019 were all dry dry dry (until it rained early June), the planes were all flying flat out those years.
If your lucky you pick up a decent shower in a year like those and you wonder what everyone else is moaning it being so dry for.
The difference this year is the lack of rain in the forecast, but realistically they can’t really forecast more than a few days ahead. So could all change just like last year.
Climate change predictions for many years have pointed to more of these extremes of all or nothing for the UK.

 

[7610 super q]

Yeah....but.....what explains the drought of 1976, 1984, 1993 ( I think ), and 2006 ?

BTW, I'd love to see the f**king planes grounded permanently.

 

[marshbarn]

There was a Horizon TV program about global dimming due to particulates in the air, i think it was about 2005 and should be on you tube.
I remember thinking that my smokey ford escort was helping to fight global warming

 

[Devil's advocate]

Yeah....but.....what explains the drought of 1976, 1984, 1993 ( I think ), and 2006 ?

BTW, I'd love to see the fudgeing planes grounded permanently.

You missed 1989 & 1991, 90 pretty dry too, you were right to think about 1993 it was a very wet summer. I remember spreading slug pellets with a fiddle drill on swedes, brassica & potatotes. We really struggled to hoe that year, but superb swede crop.

 

[yellowbelly]

BTW, I'd love to see the fudgeing planes grounded permanently.

Yeah, we've missed our opportunity - we should have been down at Heathrow and Gatwick gas-axing the wings off the bu66ers while they've been parked up.

There's been a lot of planes flying over here today. Are they all getting going again?

 

[Honest john]

Again when all Planes stopped flying in North America for just 3 days the ave temp increased 1.5 C.

 

[B'o'B]

Again when all Planes stopped flying in North America for just 3 days the ave temp increased 1.5 C.

And I’d bet that’s not the only time the average temp across the US increased by 1.5C in 3 days.

 

[Fish]

I think 59 was dry and I remember grandfather talking about 1922, I guess it was all those Vickers Vimys flying around after the war.

 

[yellow belly]

The planes can take different routes to the USA and Canada
when there is a strong jet stream they go north Over scotland then cross to Canada And USA
or when it is weak the fly west
when there is a strong jet stream we see a lot of high flying planes going north over scotland

 

[Brisel]

So many changes & too many variables IMO. Remember that burning hydrocarbons emits as much water as CO2.

Does it really alter weather patterns as much as this? I doubt it though it may have an influence. We can't keep messing up the planet without consequences. We just don't know how to measure it other than by vested interests manipulating statistics to suit their own agenda.

 

[Honest john]

Planes emit water vapour which freezes & reflects sun light. Also some blanket effect to negate some of the above.

We also have low sulphur in sap tests which could be down to no rain or lack of sulphur in the air.

 

[Brisel]

Low sulphur is due to excessive leaching last winter, not atmospheric emissions. I had very low soil sulphur levels in March soil tests.

 

[Kidds]

I have no doubt the lockdown has had some effect on pollution levels but 2 months of lockdown is hardly likely to reverse the effects of the industrial revolution and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Pretty confident it has nothing whatsoever to do with this fine weather.

 

[Grass And Grain]

Don't worry lads, our old irrigation pump/engine is replacing most of the aeroplane emissions.

Running 24hrs for the foreseeable future.