COP26 has been a flop. The world’s leaders have failed to stop climate change and it is now up to us

[rangerrebew]

COP26 has been a flop. The world’s leaders have failed to stop climate change and it is now up to us to save the world from catastrophe.

Ever since the first COP, in 1995, we have been living at ‘one minute to midnight’ and the clock is still ticking. Many Western countries have made grand announcements to cut CO2, but no global agreement has been reached and the people must now act.

Here is your guide to saving the planet from the climate change emergency extinction apocalypse.

See the effects of climate change

When you understand that climate change affects everything, everything you see will demonstrate the catastrophic effects of climate change. Nature is dying and the weather has changed.

Just look around you.  Even the leaves on the trees are changing colour and dying. When your train is cancelled because of ‘leaves on the line’, you know that the real cause is not poor maintenance, it is climate change. When an autumnal storm causes flooding, you know that blocked drains are only masking the catastrophe of global warming.

Point this out to friends and neighbours when they complain about the poor weather. The rain, the storms and the biting wind are all signs of climate catastrophe.

https://www.netzerowatch.com/the-guide-to-decarbonising-your-life/

[Kamaji]

Wow.  What a bunch of bull.

[Fishrrman]

Kamaji griped:
"What a bunch of bull."

I think the piece was intended as satire, although it's not specifically marked as such.

But I will comment on the part of the article that claims:
"When your train is cancelled because of ‘leaves on the line’, you know that the real cause is not poor maintenance, it is climate change."

You wouldn't think so, but "leaves on the line" -- or more correctly, on the rail -- can actually stop a train in its tracks. Or... prevent it from stopping.

Right now it's "leaf season" on the railroad. The falling leaves settle on the rails, and when they get run over by the locomotive wheels they can get VERY slippery. Add in additional moisture from fog or light rain, and it can produce "wheel slip" so bad that an engine will lose traction, sometimes to the point of stalling completely.

Some engines handle this better than others, depending on their wheelslip control systems. I remember some that were so bad that the only way to keep the engine's wheels from "breaking loose" and spinning were to apply about 20lbs. of "independent brake" on the loco's wheels, and "power through it".

And the same "slipperiness" with leaves could give problems STOPPING, as well. If you had a set of "commuter cars" (self-powered cars, no engine), and came into a station with leaves, the "slip-slide" protection could take over (releasing the brakes to keep them from locking up, then re-applying), and you could overshoot the station. Then you had to call the dispatcher to get permission to back up -- and of course, lost time in doing so.

But leaves DID cause problems on the railroad during "leaf season"...