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Post by zaphod on May 20, 2014 13:24:20 GMT
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Post by zaphod on May 20, 2014 13:11:12 GMT
www.climatecentral.org/news/ocean-winds-australia-heat-17450LONDON — The answer to one of the enduring puzzles of global warming — the apparently sluggish response of the Antarctic continent to rising greenhouse gas levels — may have been settled by Australian scientists. And, in the course of doing so, they may also have solved another problem: the parching of Australia itself Thanks Sig, very interesting. And further evidence that climate scientists have never had the full picture.
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Post by zaphod on May 18, 2014 17:11:32 GMT
The desperate newspaper articles have been appearing in the run-up to the EU (and some local) elections here on 22 May.
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Post by zaphod on May 17, 2014 22:42:28 GMT
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Post by zaphod on May 6, 2014 20:48:25 GMT
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Post by zaphod on Apr 13, 2014 19:46:19 GMT
4.3
Same methodology as last time.
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Post by zaphod on Apr 2, 2014 3:31:37 GMT
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Post by zaphod on Mar 31, 2014 21:30:27 GMT
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Post by zaphod on Feb 24, 2014 19:30:34 GMT
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Post by zaphod on Feb 17, 2014 16:12:15 GMT
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Post by zaphod on Feb 14, 2014 13:36:16 GMT
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Post by zaphod on Feb 13, 2014 11:48:05 GMT
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Post by zaphod on Feb 13, 2014 11:39:38 GMT
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Post by zaphod on Feb 13, 2014 11:25:02 GMT
Maybe not so highly anomalous, then. So why the fuss? Although the floodng is a disaster for many people, it happens in the UK from time to time. I recall Sig asked a while ago, why do people build on flood plains? The question is becoming, having built on flood plains why has Government of every level not done more to protect the land from weather events that are severe but have happened 35 times since 1910 (thanks neilhamp).
The rush to mention AGW by the Met Office appears unseemly and unscientific.
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Post by zaphod on Feb 12, 2014 19:26:08 GMT
Thanks Graywolf. What I take from the paper is this: 1. The current weather conditions are anomalous. Very highly anomalous. 2. The Met Office concentrate on AGW rather than the more neutral "climate change", I believe it would be more responsible to consider the anthropogenic as a subset of climate change. 3. The Met Office cannot advise with any certainty whether climate change, let alone an anthropogenic factor, is a cause of or driver of the conditions reported. 4. So how can the Met Office, having accepted their own limitations in this paper, support the AGW cause both here and at IPCC level so confidently? 5. While there is very understandable concern in the UK and elsewhere about these weather conditions, why has the Met Office apparently found it necessary to refer to AGW at all? Other practicalities are more important - why didn't they see it coming years or months ahead?
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