John Badrick

Seems like the UK had different ideas this year

After another record was broken in the uk this summer

So would you say in 15 years time in Cornwall, during the summer of 2030 I will be enjoying days of 35 degrees + or will I still be complaining that we didn't even reach 20 degrees?.snowness winters and hot summers were predicted back then, they didn't happen.my next question is when will I be feeling the effects of global warming that I'm reminded about everyday?

OK, I know I get slammed for saying just because its not 30 degrees IMBY global warming is not happening, but if someone told me back in 2000 (when I truly believed we were heating up) the temp will not get any higher (in Cornwall, one of the mildest counties in the Uk) than a measly 20 degrees for the whole of July, August and much of June in 15 years time, during the summer of 2015 I would have laughed in their face. Global warming may be happening else where, but it sure aint happening here, where we are, our island, our home. If someone told me 15 years ago Cornwall will be enjoying 35 degrees+ temps and heat waves during the summer months I would have believed them. Its not happening!!! another summer has passed and yet again it has been cold and disappointing down here in Cornwall. On the plus side, they said we would be suffering endless droughts, my garden is looking lush , green and in full bloom!!! P.S I know I will get the " But during global warming episodes you will naturally get local differences and anomalies" but my question is why am I not seeing long hot summers????(i'm not bitter or ought !!! just waiting for my 1976 style summer that I was promised during my life time)

So following the below average trend, and the fact it has been worse than 2007-2012 summers, this winter could be sothing special

Is that a good thing or bad thing for our UK winter? simple question really

is that a good thing?

12 more Glaciers that are growing !!!! http://www.ihatethemedia.com/12-more-glaciers-that-havent-heard-the-news-about-global-warming More evidence of glaciers around the world advancing, not retreating http://iceagenow.info/category/glaciers-are-growing-around-the-world/

This image says a lot. There really is not much difference in the amount of ice from 20 years ago and look at the difference in snow cover!! Staggering how much more snow there is this year than there was 20 years ago!! Wasn't the arctic meant to be snow and ice free 2 years ago ???

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-28885119 interesting!!!!

Good find!!!

I think more data is needed before the scaremongering starts A quote from Andrew Shepherd, a professor of Earth observation at Leeds University on the new findings: “I think the new estimates of ice loss computed from them are far too high, because the glaciers in this sector just haven’t speeded up that much. It could be that a bigger chunk of the thinning is down to snowfall fluctuations than the authors have accounted for, and so I would be cautious about the new numbers until more information is to hand,â€

Firstly, no need to be so patronising,obviously I know CO2 existed before humans. That is exactly my point! what I was trying to put across, but obviously you didn't get it.....CO2 existed naturally before humans were on the planet and in more abundance in past eras. So CO2 existed when our planet lost it's ice in the past naturally, a natural phenomenon. Secondly,through ice cores scientists have concluded that there is evidence of rapid short warming before ice ages, so my question is have we come to the end of that short rapid warming period and entering a major cooling? And yes I am saying warming and cooling of our planet is a natural phenomenon!!

Can we first answer the question: what was the mechanism of the natural phenomenon that has caused the expansion and retreat of glaciers on our planet for the last 100 million years? Or to word it differently, What caused the natural phenomenon of glaciers to retreat before humans and our evil C02? What caused the glaciers to retreat so much in the past that trees were growing in the arctic? Can we not apply that natural phenomenon of the past glacier retreats to the one we are in right now?

Sorry here's 1)

2) Little Ice Age The science is absolutely clear that there was a massive, worldwide expansion in glaciers during the Little Ice Age. In Alaska, there is evidence of three separate glacial advances, in the 12th/13thC, 17th/18thC, and finally in the late 19thC. Study of the Prince William Sound, Alaska, show that Ice margins were generally close to the late LIA maximum position at the time of the first visits of scientific parties around the turn of the century [around 1900]. There is also plenty of evidence of a similar massive expansion of glaciers from Europe, Iceland, South America and New Zealand during the Little Ice Age. Studies of glaciers in Greenland and Iceland show that, in the 19thC, they reached their maximum extent since the ice age. 3) Medieval Warming How do today’s glaciers compare to how they looked before the Little Ice Age set in? There is physical evidence from Alaska that glaciers were smaller back in the Middle Ages than they are now. As glaciers have been receding in recent years, remains of forest, carbon dated back to the Middle Ages, are being uncovered. These have been found at the Exit, Mendenhall and Ultramarine glaciers. At the Mendenhall, some tree remains have been dated back to 2000 years ago (the Roman Warming Period). We find similar discoveries in Patagonian glaciers. In all these cases, the glaciers must have terminated well uphill of the trees, which could not possibly have grown at the very edge of the ice, where they are situated now. It also seems extremely unlikely that there are not more trees to be found further up stream. In short, there is nothing to suggest that recent retreat of glaciers is anything other than a natural phenomenon, or that their current size is unprecedented or unusual.

Antarctica reaches record ice extent

Antarctic sea ice reaches new record maximum

http://www.livescience.com/48256-asia-karakoram-glaciers-stability.html Some are expanding!

Looks like Spring still on hold, winter hanging on

So you think it's pointless looking at the above during the winter to give us some clues to what our winter may hold??? Trust me we will still be looking at them next winter? There is some kind of connection between the OPI and our winter, but clearly other factors combined will determine the outcome. More research needed, not a complete dismissal!!!

Delete if you must mods, but I just wanted to express my frustration of how much comments completley contradict each other, the last 2 are a perfect example, we are in for cold snow and warm sunshine apparently

What are the others?

That's what I like to see frosty, a bit of reverse psychology!

yes but this should not have much of an impact until around the turn of the decade, low solar activity now will have little, or no impact on our weather for the near future, so to get excited about it now is a premature I feel. We can start feeling the impact of low/ deep low solar activity when we are in solar min similar to 2008,09, but hopefully even more if the sun decides to hibernate