StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Climate Change

In the second half of 2021, there was an almost exponential growth in the UK's gas prices - at a time when the use of fossil fuels was increasingly under scrutiny. Unfortunately, changes in infrastructure are neither quick nor inexpensive. I use LPG for heating & some cooking ... and have seen a similar rate of price rises. . Not my Image : Fair Use & public information

The first six casualties of the almost exponential inflation in gas prices in late 2021 [September]. . Caused by fixed pricing schemes & capped increases preventing the suppliers passing on the raised costs of buying gas on the wholesale market to their customers. . . Not my Image : Fair Use & public information

Interesting graphic. Note the level of carbon dioxide emitted by electricity generation. Personally, I think - reducing that percentage has to be a prime target in order to "hit" the temperature increase targets, just about everything else - whilst still important in the overall picture - is nibbling at the edges ! Not my Image : Fair use & educational purposes.

A striking graphic. Even a rise of 1.5 C will be problematical for many countries. I was hopeful that the promises made in Paris [2015] would make a start in reducing the seemingly ever larger increases in CO2 emissions. But some of the largest emitters are still, in 2021, building new fossil-fuel [coal] powered electricity generating stations. {looking straight at China} . . Not my Image ; Fair Use & public information

Emissions of CO2 are a serious worldwide problem in driving [accelerating global warming] climate change, & not the only one. The 27 countries of the EU [in 2018, includes the UK] combined are third ... . From another graphic - data from 2014 - electricity generation produced 44% of the excess CO2. Although lots of little, individual changes for the better will combine to help the picture, moving to cleaner, non-carbon sources of power will be even more significant. . The drop in worldwide emissions during early 2020 [lockdowns in Covid-19 pandemic] was interesting to observe, but "re-opening the economy" and recent wildfires have quickly negated those gains. . Not my Image ; Fair Use & public information

Various foods have a range of impacts from greenhouse gas emissions. These gases include carbon dioxide and methane. Cattle, especially intensively reared ones, emit a lot of methane [CH4] as part of their digestive processes, plain grass fed animals produce rather less. . I'm not sure if this data includes the affects of transporting that food from farm to plate, or other detrimental environmental affects. eg the pollution from fish farms affects water quality. . . Not my Image ; Fair Use & public information

Cities are vulnerable to factors such as flooding, wildfires and heat affects from climate change. Some of the fastest growing cities are in places vulnerable to "heat stress" from increasing global temperatures and the population pressures of incoming migrants. Yet some cities in Europe and the Americas are also vulnerable to, for example, flooding from rising sea levels. Infrastructure such as the Thames Barrier will only work up to a certain increase in sea levels, it was built more as protection against storm surges in the North [German] Sea [ref 1953]. {the above is largely my own opinions, based on studying the available information} . . Not my Image ; Fair Use & public information

Even the UK would be affected by rises in world temperatures ["global warming" or the "greenhouse affect"] and these anomalies will also have further affects in the general weather patterns [mainly rainfall] and hence flooding & average sea level. . . Not my Image ; Fair Use & public information

Increasing numbers of people, property and areas will become at risk [or greater risk] of flooding from weather and tidal events if sea level is allowed to continue rising at the present rate of approximately 4cm [c 1 1/2"] per decade. The current rate is fuelled by land ice [glaciers & ice sheets] melting - loss of sea ice has no discernible affect on sea level, but does affect salinity and wildlife. [note : scale of these maps does not show enough detail, many UK counties are actually very diverse in their flood risk] . . Not my Image ; Fair Use & public information

Some of the affects of the 2018 heatwave on the UK. Not my Image : Fair Use & public education / information

Satellite image of a large Iceberg calving [A74] from the Brunt ice-shelf, Antarctica Calving is a natural process, but personally, I think the frequency & number of large bergs calving is increasing, and not just modern communications finding them more often. Not my image - fair use & educational purposes

Mural with a number of linked messages on the theme of Climate Change (I believe that it is in Sweden) My main take is that time is running out, the melting ice will soon be flooding cities. Not My Image : Displayed for educational purposes.