Medlars, mildews and mulching
It looks like we will be frost free for another week while we enjoy this unseasonal warm air that’s moved north from Europe, alongside the occasional deluge of rain. But before I dig into my 3 Ms, here’s a bit of a climate update.
On track for 3 degrees?
Next month, Baku hosts the COP29 and ahead of the conference there has been a flurry of pretty dire updates. Back in 2015, the Paris Agreement set a goal for the world to limit global warming to just 2C above pre-industrial levels and to do that it would require the world cutting emissions by 43% by 2030 and 60% by 2035, compared with 2019. To limit global warming to 1.5C, greenhouse gas emissions had to peak before 2025. Well, thanks to the world’s continued desire to burn fossil fuels, cut down forests, dig up peat, plus wild fires, carbon emissions actually went up last year by 1.3%, thats +2.3 ppm, and the UN fears that we are more likely to be on track for 3C by 2100, unless we really up our carbon-cutting game.
I really wish our…