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Re:Britain to ban new petrol cars and vans by 2030 on road t... by twelve40 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:02AM (#25135023)
how bad will it get for the UK specifically? honest question, I'm not a climate scientist. Brief googling, floods, more extreme temps (like the rest of Europe now?), maybe they did the math and decided that simply shutting down the Thames Barrier and a few other measures would be cheaper than drastic hard ICE bans etc?

Not to cast any doubt on the horrible terrible disasters that the global warming will surely bring, but the UK is not Florida, so maybe they did some location-centric math and found that specifically for them it's not life or death?

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Re:Britain to ban new petrol cars and vans by 2030 on road t... by xenocratus on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:39AM (#25135243)
No, it's not Florida, so it won't be that bad, but in my short time here (about 8 years) it does seem like winter storms are more frequent, I'm sure the Western (and Southern?) coasts have seen a lot of rain and flooding. Some recent summers have had some pretty intense heatwaves (35+ C around the county). It's definitely not a catastrophe, but there are changes
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Re:Britain to ban new petrol cars and vans by 2030 on road t... by rand49an on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:35AM (#25135227)
Not bad in the global scheme of things but hundreds of millions of global refugees isn't going to be good for anyone.
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