Jump to content
Problems logging in? ×
Snow?
Local
Radar
Cold?

The Penguin

Members
  • Posts

    1,196
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by The Penguin

  1. Yes, thanks SteveB, I have been - but it's the constant diversions into the interweb for background info that's really slowing me down. Still, a fascinating subject. My only reservation is that it would be a shame if the ice-rampers got a bit carried away with themselves to the detriment of a lot of interesting possibilities being taken seriously.
  2. This is really interesting, and in its own way quite remarkable. I find it curious, irrespective of possible over-excitement regarding future outcomes releated to weather, that this subject isn't gaining more recognition in the press and media. (Obviously those of you who are long-time students of matters solar aren't so gobsmacked by current events, but I am, and encouraged to delve deeper.)
  3. 07:30 Drizzle, but Sunny! 4/8 Cloud Gentle Breeze from SW 1010 hPa R 12.1degC.
  4. 07:25 Damp 8/8 Cloud Fresh Breeze from SE 998 hPa F 18.9degC.
  5. Wet, windy, and touching mild at best. No sun, constant rain, bbq has floated away. Where's that chap from the BBC?
  6. 07:25 Dry 8/8 Cloud Moderate Breeze from South, Strong overnight. 1007 hPa F 17.8degC.
  7. It’s not climate change that causes problems with species extinction, it’s climate chaos. It’s not the fact of changing conditions that proves to be beyond the ability to adapt, it’s the speed of changing conditions that doesn’t allow time to adapt. The zonal realignment and narrowing or widening of tropical, sub-tropical, temperate and arctic latitudes has historically been slow moving and survival within an adjusting environment was predicated on flora and fauna having time to move with and within their comfort zone. Or adapt to suit where that wasn’t possible.What has changed, and this is irrespective of whether people have caused climate chaos, is the number of people on the planet and the area of the planet’s surface that we rely on to grow food. At the moment the lush areas provide enough to supplement the habitation of arid areas, even although this is becoming less and less sustainable. The problem in the future would be if the grain-growing belts narrowed or precipitously relocated to the extent that not enough bread ended up in the basket. I’m afraid that would lead to charity beginning at home and end up with the survival of the fittest. Not the end of the human species, probably, but quite possibly a downward adjustment in our numbers. You're lucky. I've got the North Atlantic to look forward to. Fisherman's Friend anyone?
  8. You answer your own question, old G-W. There was 'extra' warming before the last ice age, and before the one before that, and.... So, unless there was a great deal of fossil fuel fired heavy industry on Atlantis, there is the whiff (at least) of a possibility that the evidence laid before us is somewhat incomplete. No? And why not 'Now'? Warming happens...
  9. Very wise, although you were cutting it a bit fine. Nice pictures - it's taken a foreigner to remind me, as you have here, just how beautiful my every-day surroundings are.
  10. 08:30 Sustained Heavy Rain, some flooding 8/8 Cloud Calm 1008 hPa F 13degC.
  11. 07:30 Damp 7/8 Cloud Light Air from South 1015 hPa F 12.6degC.
  12. 07:55 Light Rain, steady all night 8/8 Cloud Calm 1008 hPa F 16.4degC.
  13. Put simply, there was GW before there was A; therefore the sceptic brigade have a valid locus in any debate on the subject. Seems to me, after contributing to, getting fed up with, and now observing the climate change debate in all its guises here for four and a half years that the discussion has always and will continue to go round in circles. We don’t have all the answers and so it’s bound to. However, I find it encouraging that these are ever-increasing rather than ever-decreasing circles, due to the steady flow of ideas and evidence that comes in from all persuasions. Or they could be if people weren't constantly being chopped off at the ankles. There haven’t been many who have publicly reversed their position, but whether that’s due to the quality of evidence or the quality of presentation is open to question. More likely, perhaps, it’s the tone of the debate that entrenches people in their beliefs and closes their minds to possible alternatives. Unfortunately, while the topics for discussion grow by the week, the opportunities to debate these rationally diminish. Back in my early days in this forum there were people who went to a great deal of trouble to investigate, evaluate and present evidence, and others (with specific qualification or experience,) who invested a similar amount of effort to explain the merits and demerits of the technicalities involved to the less well equipped in that regard, like me. Of course there were a few less gifted contributors who could only shout and scream about their own beliefs and accuse others of stupidity when their ‘unquestionable’ logic was queried, but the general gist of the thing was to be helpful. It is sad that the terrorists have overtaken the teachers on both sides. Doubt is not a crime, and persuasion is not a martial art.
  14. 07:20 Dry & Sunny 4/8 Cloud, mainly high, thin & broken Calm 1020 hPa F 13.8degC.
  15. 07:25 Dry & Sunny 0/8 Cloud Calm 1012 hPa R 14.0degC.
  16. Could the Silly Season possibly be extending into coverage (and exposure) of the climate chaos debate? Perish the thought. We'll see when everone comes back from holiday and start making some real news. Yes, and no...
  17. 07:20 Damp, following heavy overnight rain 8/8 Cloud Fresh Breeze from SE, dropping 1008 hPa F 16.9degC.
  18. 07:20 Dry 7/8 Cloud, high Gentle Breeze from SE 1011 hPa F 13.8degC.
  19. 07:25 Dry & Bright 5/8 Cloud, mostly high & broken Light Air from South 1017hPa F 12.4degC.
  20. Miserable morning; cool, and heavy rain but at least the wind is only light. Shame after such a nice day yesterday.
  21. My take on the Wyndham diatribe is that there’s a bit of ‘history’ between him and the Royal Society, or the good lord to whom it is addressed, but whether that has adversely effected his choice of argument as well as his tone of argument (and, actually, the presentation isn’t all that perfect,) is very much in the eye of the beholder. Oh don’t start all that again. Please God, don’t let him start all that again.
  22. 07:40 Dry & Bright 3/8 Cloud, clearing Light Breeze from South 1005 hPa R 15.8degC.
  23. Is SACRA so blooming omnipotent in this forum that we have to have "Snow Reports" highlighted in the Summer discussion thread menu item?
×
×
  • Create New...