Bloody global warming!

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Posted by alan.holmes on December 19, 2009, 3:35 pm
 
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It's a right pain, this global warming, we only had three inches of snow
yesterday, and the temperature rose to 2 degrees!

Alan





Posted by Bob Hobden on December 19, 2009, 6:21 pm
 



"alan.holmes"  wrote...

I didn't see it get above freezing here today, it was - 4.5°C first thing
and the highest was only 0°C at 2 pm.
More snow due in the early hours according to the forecast.

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Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK


Posted by aquachimp on December 20, 2009, 3:17 am
 


Yes, well; funny thing about scientists... back in the 70"s they were
predicting a mini ice-age.

Posted by Stewart Robert Hinsley on December 20, 2009, 4:36 am
 

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Actually, that is a myth. The (then weak) consensus in the scientific
press, rather than the popular media, was for warming.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/01/the-global-cooling-
myth/
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Stewart Robert Hinsley

Posted by aquachimp on December 20, 2009, 7:30 am
 

On Dec 20, 10:36 am, Stewart Robert Hinsley <
{$new...@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Oh good, so that means this bit of cold stuff we're now having will
end in a few days.

As for the "myth" bit, well, I've read through much of the rather good
link you've given and see why it's called a myth; though at the time,
listening to various "experts" on the radio and on telly talking it up
quite assertively didn't give an impression of "myth" and, what with
being rather young at the time, I would not have been best placed to
know stuff, such as being able to ask them were their comments "peer-
reviewed".

The (then weak) consensus in the scientific

Great site for info. Thank-you; I particularly like how it tackles
issues in relatively bite-sized moments and in a layman's language.
And the "Will-Full ignorance" article was most revealing.