Blog Action Day - Climate Change

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We have a lot of wind in this part of Cornwall, UK, where I live. It has become more severe since I moved down here, nearly 20 years ago. Also the weather has become warmer and wetter, over the same period. I remember, when my family first moved down here, being able to go for long walks in January when the weather was fine and sunny, if a little chill. We used to go to the beach for a picnic on New Years Day. For the last five years or more, it has been too wet to even contemplate going to the beach for New Year. Also the wetter weather has added to flooding problems which have become more profound. All of this tends to affect the local agriculture and the farmers' attempts to harvest the crops. I do not think that anyone in Cornwall would want the weather to become any wetter than it currently is nor for it to adversely affect local crop production. I am sure there are many other parts of the world who have been adversely affected because of the climate changes in the past few years so obviously anything we can all do as a species to prevent this situation from worsening has to be for everyone's benefit.