Could Climate Change be the end of many festivals?

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I'm seriously wondering whether to bother again. If Glastonbury had been on this year, with the weather THE weekend had, it would have been... errr.. difficult?

[Ed209]

Its the standing up for 5 days straight that does me. Anything else I can handle, wet muddy, meh. I just love to have a sit on grass and have a chill. I'm a big lad with a crooked knee, so my body can barely handle the physical exertion of a 5 day mudfest nowadays, and I'm only 30 .

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Its the standing up for 5 days straight that does me. Anything else I can handle, wet muddy, meh. I just love to have a sit on grass and have a chill. I'm a big lad with a crooked knee, so my body can barely handle the physical exertion of a 5 day mudfest nowadays, and I'm only 30 .

[grumpyhack]

That's why I'm in the old fart carry a folding chair camp.

Only upside is that all the rain may lessen the Glasto demand on Ticket Day.

[Purple Monkey]

http://www.thedailym...s-2012071734518

“Being at home on your own sofa drinking gin and tonic from an actual glass is more conducive to enjoying music than being shoved around by brain-dead bikers in a massive ditch."

Edited July 17, 2012 by Purple Monkey

[LondonTom]

http://www.thedailym...s-2012071734518

“Being at home on your own sofa drinking gin and tonic from an actual glass is more conducive to enjoying music than being shoved around by brain-dead bikers in a massive ditch."

[kaosmark2]

http://www.thedailym...s-2012071734518

“Being at home on your own sofa drinking gin and tonic from an actual glass is more conducive to enjoying music than being shoved around by brain-dead bikers in a massive ditch."

[feral chile]

http://www.thedailym...s-2012071734518

“Being at home on your own sofa drinking gin and tonic from an actual glass is more conducive to enjoying music than being shoved around by brain-dead bikers in a massive ditch."

Edited July 17, 2012 by feral chile

[kerplunk]

It's not an absolute, definite, proven theory like gravity or evolution. There is proof of climate change. There is evidence to suggest it's man-made. There's evidence to suggest it's part of the global cycle. The evidence to suggest it's man-made is a lot stronger, however it's incredibly disturbing that contradicting evidence gets shot down so easily and swiftly. Lots of evidence supporting it isn't gathered in a scientific manner, it's researched with an agenda to prove it as true, rather than to find out whether it is.

Global warming due to CO2 as a theoretical consideration is as proven as your examples as far as the fundamental basis goes - the radiative effects of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is observationally measured (probably more so than evolution). What isn't proven is the magnitude of the effect on the earth system. For that we need to perform an experiment on an earth-like planet, increase the CO2 levels by double and monitor what happens.

Which is what we're doing of course - what could go wrong...

Edited July 19, 2012 by kerplunk

[Purple Monkey]

I'll just leave this here.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19047501