The recent exodus will be dwarfed

“BELIEVE in climate change or not, wild weather is coming to get us”, was the headline to Aled Blake’s column last Friday. It seemed a fair overview of events, but he did claim that Donald Trump does not believe in climate change. Is that right?

Observations inform us that climate change is happening – the evidence is irrefutable – but the disagreement is over what it is that is seemingly speeding up the process in a historical context.

It is also accepted that climate change is in the planet’s DNA, but is anyone saying that, logically, each event must be a carbon copy (no pun intended) of the previous one? Or will the next evolve faster? Or even slower?

The current belief is that human input is speeding up the process, but nobody can really be sure, indeed President Trump appears to reject that particular notion.

Aled mentioned the record levels of rainfall in Asia and America, but here in the UK we experienced a record high temperature over the August Bank Holiday, indeed southern Europe recently suffered extraordinary high temperatures, which suggests that the northern boundary of the Torrid Zone (Tropic of Cancer) is expanding, at least in its climatic nature.

Global warming will present a much bigger immediate challenge than Brexit, particularly as the mass migration to escape the wrath of nature will gather matching pace and make the recent exodus across the Med more like a starter for 10.

So while our blinkered, egomaniacal EU movers and shakers fiddle over Brexit, the world about them is burning and drowning.

In the absence of Trumpety Trump being a King Canute, best to batten down the hatches and/ or make sure we have a plentiful reserve of water to put out the fires. Huw Beynon

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