The UK Woodland Trust is Worried About Early Springs
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-uk-woodland-trust-...
By Paul Homewood
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You may have heard a cringeworthy advert on the radio recently from the Woodland Trust.
It features a woman putting on a soppy voice droning on about the “climate crisis”. She is advertising this campaign:
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The climate crisis is having a profound impact on nature. It’s urgent that we understand how wildlife is coping with shifting seasons, warmer temperatures and unpredictable weather patterns.
Climate change has already accelerated spring’s arrival by an average of 8.4 days compared to the early 1900s. Now, we need you to help us find out whether the signs of spring are changing too.
Let us know whether you’ve spotted any of spring’s three vital signs – frogspawn, a singing song thrush or flowering blackthorn. Your records are crucial in helping us understand current threats and how climate change is affecting the health of nature.
So don’t wait – scroll down to submit your records before 31 March 2025 and play your part in nature’s recovery.
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/things-to-do/nature...
Is that the extent of the crisis then? Spring coming 8 days earlier than a century ago?
In other words, we now typically get the sort of temperatures on 1st March that our great grandfathers had on the 8th March!
Or to put it another way – Oxford now gets the same temperatures in spring that London had a century ago.
And this is causing a “profound impact” on nature? Seriously?
In any event, as we have always known, nature does not do averages. Spring temperatures have swung up and down by as much as three degrees from year to year. Yet nature seems to have managed perfectly fine.
Indeed it is arguable that spring weather is much more predictable now than in earlier decades.
But the facts don’t fit with the Woodland Trust’s climate agenda.
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Comment
I remember the 1960 to 1985 period as being great for skiing.
Even though CO2 was increasing, temps went down!
Something is rotten in Denmark.
The Met Office temps are from many disfunctional stations, by their own. admission
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The Expensive Folly of Electric 18-Wheelers
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Each day, a major truck stop, open 24/7/365, is visited by a few hundred 18-wheelers, otherwise the restaurant would not have enough customers to survive.
Every major truck stop would need two 25 MW power plants, plus a fuel storage system.
Two power plants are required, because one power plant could be down for maintenance.
The cost of extending the grid to each major truck stop would be excessive.
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Remember, the replaceable, 1000 kWh battery packs of these electric tractors would last at most 6 to 8 years, whereas the rest of the tractor would still be useful for service.
Each 18-wheeler would be equivalent of 12 to 14 EV cars
About 100 charging stations would be needed; some would be down for maintenance.
The existing fuel pumping/storage system would remain in place during the "decades long transition period" to switch from diesel to electricity.
All this looks good on paper, but in reality, it is a super-expensive, unnecessary Rube Goldberg.
Plus, it would do NOTHING measurable regarding the climate
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Plus, the batteries weigh 4 tons each so that’s 8 tons of capacity sacrificed.
Those batteries are located under the driver.
If just one of those 1000 kWh battery packs goes up in flames, you close the truck stop. You know shit happens!
How many loads of “perishables” will be lost, when the battery dies before the truck reaches the next “charging station?”
Has anyone factored in the additional battery drain, if the cargo has to be refrigerated?
What percentage of battery charge is that going to use up, even when stationary with on-going refrigeration?
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For the EV mirage to work, those major truck stops would have to become like the Pony Express stations of the Wild West.
Truckers would hurry to them before their batteries ran out, then drop off their tractors for a 10-hour charge, while they grabbed another tractor that had been recharged, hitch it up to their trailer to continue on their way.
A very inefficient use of labor. Not to mention you’d need 4 to 5 trucks, instead of one, to make a cross-country trip.
There might be some mileage (pun intended) in the “Pony Express” idea, but it would probably be overly expensive to have all those additional tractor units that will be unproductive whilst charging
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COMMENT
1. More rain is not a problem.
2. Warmer weather is not a problem.
3. More arable land is not a problem.
4. Longer growing seasons is not a problem.
5. Increased flora and fauna on earth, due to more CO2 is not a problem.
6. There isn’t any Climate Crisis.
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