Global warming or not?

[kennyc]

Thanks Geoff! Here's hoping that they don't find that chocolate is the cause.

[GeoffC]

no, they won't - though that article is lacking in so many answers ...

[kennyc]

More a notice of the papers/studies than the study/studies themselves.

[Sparrow]

Ian McEwan is an author I always find well worth reading, and it seems his new novel 'Solar' centres around climate science.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...an-review.html

It doesn't seem to be out as an ebook in the UK yet; but I'll be buying the pbook asap and sticking it on the top of my TBR pile.

[TGS]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Climate change human link evidence 'stronger' BBC web link - article source UK Met Office.

This came out on the same day that the UK Met Office announced it was abandoning seasonal forecasts because predicting the whether three months in advance - indeed, anything beyond a few days in advance - is so hit and miss. The science just isn't that developed apparently

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by TGS

This came out on the same day that the UK Met Office announced it was abandoning seasonal forecasts because predicting the whether three months in advance - indeed, anything beyond a few days in advance - is so hit and miss. The science just isn't that developed apparently

Predicting the Whether is quite difficult. The weather is ever harder.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by TGS

This came out on the same day that the UK Met Office announced it was abandoning seasonal forecasts because predicting the whether three months in advance - indeed, anything beyond a few days in advance - is so hit and miss. The science just isn't that developed apparently

There's literally a world of difference between local weather and global climate.

[kennyc]

Well, it is from Fox, but....:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...-hit-skeptics/

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Well, it is from Fox, but....:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...-hit-skeptics/

And this is about FOX:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/we...hor-management

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

And this is about FOX:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/we...hor-management

OMG! That is sooooo funny!

[kennyc]

Arctic Methane

Physics Today: One of the greatest concerns and large unknowns in climate science has been the potential impact of methane trapped and frozen in the polar regions of the planet, particularly in the Arctic permafrost. If climate change causes the methane to be released, the gas could start a positive feedback reaction that could trigger abrupt climate warming.
...
http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspi...-shows-si.html

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Arctic Methane

Physics Today: One of the greatest concerns and large unknowns in climate science has been the potential impact of methane trapped and frozen in the polar regions of the planet, particularly in the Arctic permafrost. If climate change causes the methane to be released, the gas could start a positive feedback reaction that could trigger abrupt climate warming.
...
http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspi...-shows-si.html

Thanks for that, Kenny. I put it in my "Import to Kindle" folder for later offline reading.

[TGS]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Predicting the Whether is quite difficult. The weather is ever harder.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by TGS

Sorry. Had to give you some grief about it though.

I do that (typos everywhere) all the time...

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Sorry. Had to give you some grief about it though.

I do that all the time...

He got there before I did ....

The Met Office Long Range forecasts were always cited as experimental - it is mainly the media who mis-interpret the forecasts....70% chance of one thing happening still leaves a 30% chance of some other event!