Changing plans in the face of the climate emergency.
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- This video is a quick explanation of how our site plan has changed after a particularly challenging winter. Repeated major weather events have really taken their toll on the croft infrastructure. It's time for a rethink.
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I grew up in Greenland, where the speed of wind are often very high and ferocious. One way to secure the buildings is to use relatively smaller windowpanes. Not smaller windows as such, but each are made of several smaller panes. (ca. 40x40 cm) As far as I am aware this is part of the building-code, and windows are rarely damaged by storms. These modern rather big sheets of glass will just not hold up in high winds.
That's excellent information, thank you.
My understanding is that eastern Greenland suffers from "piteraq", which is an Inuit name for an extremely high, cold, catabatic wind from the ice sheet, which can be as strong as the winds of a category 5 hurricane.
@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 The "piteraq" is as you described it. Except it warms up as the speed increases on its route from the ice sheet to the coast. So it may start as "freezing" cold wind, but when it reaches sea level the temperatures have risen significantly, often above freezing. This may also happen on the west coast, especially south-west.
I remember the Caithness winds! And you say they're worse now....if anyone can cope, I think it'll be you. Good luck!
Thanks!
Sorry to hear your problems, at least you have time to implement your plan progressively.
I've lived and toured around almost the whole of Scotland for 70+ years and if you study the oldest crofts and buildings that have been around for ever, they are all stone built with walls 2ft thick. Anything you build has to be solid and heavy especially now that we seem to be getting more storms than usual. 👍
Absolutely yes. we have a derelict old croft house with walls well over two foot thick. I think that's going to be one of the directions we lean towards.
How does the rocket mass heater handle the high wind speeds? I'm looking forward to seeing the dug in greenhouses!
I installed a damper in the flue for high wind conditions, otherwise it draws the fuel through the system. Other than that, the heater loves a good storm!
I envision (sorry if you’ve already addressed this and I missed it) a modified walipini with earthworks easing the transition from ground level to top of growing chamber. I don’t know to what depth your soil is digable, but maybe some inground foundation will reduce that sticking up in gale force winds thing. What have other cultures in exposed regions (yours included) built in the past and present. The sod houses of the Central US. Canadian plains. Mongolian plains? Rammed earth or adobe brick type structures at least on the windward wall?
Watching you work through solutions will be exciting. Thanks for setting up your camera and taking the time to share.
We're fairly limited for depth here because of waterlogging in winter, but the plan is to compensate by berming along the back and sides, earthship style. Pretty much everything will be either partially buried or bermed around, in future. It's how people lived here thousands of years ago.
I live in NE Ohio, one of the areas that's supposed to be least affected by it, and I've been working my ass off just to try and adapt to how much the climate has already changed. All the months that are wet (or formerly snowy) are now turned up to 11, and the summer growing season is way drier than it used to be. So like you can feel the range, both weather extremes just being stretched, and that assumed middle ground falling out from under your feet.
It's extremely worrying.
This is SO true!!!! I'm having the same struggle on the east coast!
Do you think you'd be able to grow grapes and olives?
We have had more extreme wind events even in inland vIrginia than I've ever seen, we have wildfires like the western mountains and that was absolutely unheard of a decade ago! Was living in the High Sierra and gusts of 100 mph were not unusual, but here on the flatland east coast? That is really odd. I've been in Scotland in some of these storms that are "once a 100 year storm", but I've seen two in the past two years? This is not normal....
You have a great approach, adapting and doing what you can. However, I personally extremely weary of labeling every weather event as Climate Change (tm).
If your extremism makes you feel safer, you do you.
I appreciate addressing the reality without feelings getting in the way. Solutions over fear.
@@az55544 Extremism? Maybe check a dictionary before using new words.
@@mkeyx82 extremely weary
@@az55544 I understand. So, had I written "However, I personally am weary of labeling every weather event as Climate Change (tm)." you would have nothing to comment on?
Rising global temperature isn't weather.
Fences make great wind breaks. I get peoples old pickets, that they rested on the ground. Tops are sound, you get them for free. We have cyclone fence in the states. I put the picket 10 feet off the cyclone. Just to break the in line sheer. Might get you to poly land. Worked for me. The wind snapped a 4x4 at ground level here, before the fence. Keep planting.
Cyclone fences are about to be useless against cyclones. Do people not science? We are about to get a new Cat 6 for such storms.
@@gigabane7357 It's not just a cyclone fence. Theres that fence, a picket fence, six foot. and 20m year old larch trees. Compared to the wind shear before (snapped off 4x4 at ground level) it;s great.
i know what you are dealing with. wind ultimately (imo) will be the killer.
where i am i deal with 100km ph plus winds for days at a time
it feels like everything i try to create the wind wants to smash it down. over and over and over
been here 18 years and am still fighting
a technician came one day to move the sky dish from one structure to another. he asked where did i want it put. i said, on the roof i suppose. he said i recommend putting it below the roof line because this is the only area where i have seen a dish blown inside out.... the wind is my nemesis
still, i plant shelter, and more shelter, and even more, and i am building up the system i want.
dont forget wooden pellets are a great means of establishing trees whilst shelter belts are growing. and they are free and HT treated are innocuous too.
Wow! Where are you roughly?
Read about AMOC. The AMOC reaching its shutdown state, caused by Arctic meltwater, is going to stop carrying you hot air from Florida. The growing season may not be affected so much, but winters will be killer.
Speaking of wind, I tried to seat an aspen shrub that had gotten to about 3 meters height and got cut down and carelessly left in my front garden in the ground in my back garden and it got blown over. I'm gonna have to reseat it and dig the hole deeper, but I think it's not long for this world anyway as it hasn't had a root system for six months or more.
Upd: holy [censored] that is devastating. Looks almost like nuclear devastation.
Thanks, it's a challenging site!
wow. you really are going through it. good to hear it doesn't (show?) affect your spirit. i'm hoping to get up and visit sometime to see this work in person. i think someone else has said similar, but would earthworks around the poly help? even if partial height and just on the sides facing into the prevailing? stick with it
Absolutely yes, there will be a lot of berms going in whenever we build in future.
It hasn't been that windy this season really. We've had about 10 years of relatively calm, non-stormy weather. Its to do with North Atlantic Oscillation. In the mid 00's - early 10's we had much more severe wind & +NAO. Fair Isle weather was tracking this for many years & even that period was less stormy than the mid-late 90's. This year was what I'd call normal/revert to the mean north Scotland weather. Wind ramping up to 75mph during an extra-tropical cyclone for a few days is actually a fairly normal event.
Farmers who have worked the land since the 70s are saying they've never seen anything like it, and the data supports it's getting more extreme.
Great solutions!
you should research more on why gov would make up a narrative on climate change
Thanks!
@@Soil_and_Soulforce not government. Scientific consensus.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture All with Unrepeatable results and data supplied by people who already have their answer
trees break at 90 mph
Yes. But the right species regrow quickly.
Climate change or massive geo-engineering; either way, it's getting extreme.
We need to plan better now for climate breakdown. Ignore the climate deniers!
Absolutely yes.
You certainly have some tough conditions to work with. There's no denying that weather throws us some difficult situations. However, this is weather, not climate. Records show that the weather events we are experiencing are far from unprecedented, despite all the talk and propaganda. As for climate a emergency, the IPCC have not declared one. Nevertheless, it does appear that after a period of natural global warming, we are now entering a cooling phase. This is what we will need to adapt to. So, no, there is not a man made climate emergency that any C02 meddling will change, but we do need to be building resilience for what a cooling planet will bring. Good luck!
I'll stick with the scientific consensus and the obvious trend in data, thanks.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture That's a shame. Science does not progress by consensus, not that there is one anyway. The 97% is also a fiction. However, I don't want to fall out with you, I admire your work and learn from it. Cheers.
Wat a LOON, and the sad part is that your kind get to vote
Shouldn't you be off shouting at clouds or something?
Spell check does work, you might try it, but I know that can be scary for someone afraid of facts and science.
@@FoxyintheForest Don't concern yourself too much with my spelling, worry more about getting all your boosters in a timely manner
Is that supposed to be an insult? Wooooo. Good one bruh.