I'm sorry but not only is this off topic - which is supposed to be about regional climate trends here, but the irony of the argument is breathtaking: essentially like the drug dealer warning of the health effects of quitting, or an anti-vaxxer getting excited because a Covid vaccine might cause headaches.
BAU emissions would mean the earth warms 5 or more C this century, and we're all in deep deep trouble. The aerosol impact on global temperature is less than a degree at most, and the majority of that has worked its way out of the system since the 1960s. It's not even close to being a meaningful trade off.
At least we are now beyond the point where people still try to deny the existence of anthropogenic impacts on the climate. But that should mean we can have an interesting discussion about how the South and East have warmed and dried in summer while the North and West have stayed wet and dull. Otherwise this just ends up like the old climate forum (RIP) where everything no matter what the topic, descended into the same old repeating arguments.
For down here, I seem to remember as soon as lockdown was announced a high pressure system to the ENE became dominant for months providing our sunniest Spring, temps in the low twenties but you could still feel the edge on that easterly wind. Surely it’s the placement of high and low pressure which is key though?
Again, I can only comment for down here but the weather has actually been changing since the mid seventies. Gone are the fogs, gone are the overnight summer thunderstorms, winters are more miss than hit, we always had a two week cold spell in the sixties where fenland skating was also a gimme at the time. Even the Dutch have lost their canal ice skating in recent years.
I think we are more under the influence of high pressure belts to the south, more useable summers, milder and sometimes wetter winters as the jet stream pushes further south a bit.
I expect we will be having another conversation in the next five years about the weather in that period. I expect from the bit you don’t want to discuss however, heating created by man will be firmly on the agenda.