1976 And all That

For the record, this is my belief on climate change:

The climate changes all the time

Humans aren't doing it

Humans can't do it

 

Well I'm sure humans could do it with a bit of an effort. A good nuclear winter is likely to do the job. It's also suggested that fucking about with clouds could do it, but I'm not convinced on that one. You'd need to mess with a lot of clouds

 

Anyway, as the temperatures have been quite high this past few weeks, due to it being summer and all (British summer - very warm rain), I've been hearing a lot of talk about climate change

 

Of course, for the climate doomsayers, it's all gleeful talk about how cows farting in devon have altered the climate and caused the current good (if wet) weather, and won't somebody pleese think of the children. The end is nigh and they're loving it

 

But from the more rational element of society (The social media I go on), I'm hearing mainly, 'Oi mate, it was much hotter than this in 1976'

 

1976?

 

Come on chaps, we can do better than that. It's like listening to England football fans carp on about 1966, beacuse they've won fuck all in the 59 years since

 

Most of us were not around in 1976. Many more were too young to even remember it. I was born in the tail end of 1975

 

It's nearly fifty years ago for fucks sake, and there have been plenty hot and cold spells since then. I get that it may have been a bit humid back in 76, but remembering one particulary sticky summer is very far from an argument against anthropogenic global warming

 

I remember one summer when I was 19 and I was setting out for work each day wearing a short sleeved office shirt and no jacket, something very rare for me. The weather that summer was glorious, and I remember it well. I don't use it in 'Best arguments against climate change 101'

 

My fond memories of that summer may have been down to the fact that when I was leaving for work in the hot sun, with my nipples showing, I was leaving from my girlfriends house. During the two weeks when her parents were on holiday. So my memory may be tainted by other factors. But whatever

 

I also remember one summer when it rained constantly every day. This was back in the time when me and Mrs Bucko could not afford a holiday abroad, so we booked a week off work so we could go out and do stuff, but it rained hard every day

 

My vivid memory of that is because I took time off work; I remember it raining every day all summer, but that's only based on the one week that has stuck in my mind

 

During the 17 years I've worked at my current job, I've had two days, in two separate years, off work due to unusually deep snow. Both of which I remember very well

 

British weather is usually deviod of extremes, and usually pretty much the same, year in, year out. Warm rain in summer, with one week of sun, cold rain in winter, with two hours of light snow

 

Remembering an extreme weather event can be very subjective, and it certainly isn't an argument that defeats the climate cultisits with their well funded studies and 'settled science'

 

There are a million reasons why anthropogenic climate change is bunkum, and the more rational among us are surely able to quote half of those without breaking a sweat

 

So why is everyone on Twitter fixating on the summer of 76, like it's a massive gotcha?

 

Dudes, it was fifty years ago and it probably wasn't that warm anyway

 

We can do better