Ready steady…MOW!

Yes, it’s that time of year again and in spades. Unseasonably warm weather and late plentiful rain has thrust the land into top gear. For many years I’ve delayed mowing and strimming to let the flowers flourish. But too much else flourishes beside them. And too much rampant grass and cleavers swamps them. And delay into the heat and pollen of hay fever season either means asthma-like symptoms or further delay unti sappy shoots harden into strimmer line-snapping monsters. So my go-to place is little and often until it’s gets too hot, buggy and horse-fly ridden to stand it.

These are quince blossom, beautifully delicate.

A really good analysis of the jeopardy facing the UK, amongst others, from an increasingly likely partial or total collapse of the AMOC (its already weakened by 15%) was published yesterday by a very thorough and trustworthy climate scientist. It makes for fairly grim reading. It’s here:

https://tos.org/oceanography/article/is-the-atlantic-overturning-circulation-approaching-a-tipping-point

Total collapse would be a catastrophe- the North Atlantic northward current transports a massive amount (3.5 times total global energy production) of heat to northern maritime Europe and in effect shifts the thermal equator 10 degrees north.

I wondered how long-term investors make sense of the AMOC collapse risk. Basically, it is very hard and, of course, rapid (more rapid) action on greenhouse gas emissions could (well, really IT MUST) avoid collapse.

There is an article here from the Net Zero Investment site:

https://www.netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-views/pricing-the-unthinkable-investors-struggle-to-plan-for-amoc-collapse

As Tony Soprano might have said, ‘What you gonna do?’