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jethro

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  1. Put in your postcode, this will bring up a map too close to see the heights. Click once on the negative button on the zoom control on the right hand side, this will take the scale out so you can see the contour lines (orange wiggly lines with numbers on them) see where your house is in relation to these lines, trace it back until you come to a number (also in Orange), this number is your height above sea level in meters.
  2. Me. If you put your location into your avatar, it would help people give you a more definitive answer to your question; Somerset's a big county with widely varying weather. You may be right about your height but it's worth checking here: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ Just enter your postcode. Height above sea level is worked out from Newlyn in Cornwall, not the local coastline.
  3. Have you got some science to back all of that up?
  4. When you live on land reclaimed from the sea, you're always going to be fighting a battle to keep it out. Using Holland and Tuvalu as examples of sea level rise and linking it to climate change is hardly representative of sea level rise in general - it's as bad as saying climate change caused Sandy.
  5. Over the years I've heard of some strange weather lore which predicts a cold, snowy winter, but that's a new one on me....
  6. Fair enough but you also have to consider the consequences of spreading needless alarm. Some of what gets posted here and circulated in the general media can give the impression that we're in dreadful danger, of a vast magnitude, and it's all kicking off a week next Tuesday. See the post I replied to earlier. That level of panic/alarm/worry is not warranted, nor is it supported by the science. You often appeal to people to mind the silent majority, the lurkers who don't join in - I appeal to you that you should also be aware that some may be worriers, some may take your concerns as meaning we're in imminent peril. A modicum of reality and a little less drama would go a long way to helping; over- emphasising something is as dangerous as under-playing it. Not only do you risk scaring people unnecessarily, but you risk them turning off completely when doom fails to materialise in the short time span it has been portrayed in.
  7. I'm still up for demolishing the damn thing if we can get a work party together. Let's face it, no one knows what those motorway repair blokes are up to, we could do it over-night and no one would be any the wiser until it was too late. You'd have thought with all the rain we've had, at least a part of it could have been washed away.
  8. Poke LG or answer a question? Actually, I think only Facebook enables you to poke people...
  9. A bit of a double edged sword really. Ocean freight is responsible for vast amounts of CO2 emissions, this route apparently shaves off 40% of the normal route and reduces energy use accordingly - that's an enormous saving and reduction in emissions! This of course has to be balanced by the additional pollution being deposited in the high Arctic.
  10. We are not going to get cooked, we are not all going to die. There is absolutely nothing in the science literature which even vaguely suggests such scenarios. Climate and the way it changes doesn't work according to Hollywood scripts, short of the Sun falling from the sky, it will take many, many years for climate to shift in a way which may have drastic consequences - plenty of time for adaptation and mitigation. There's no need to build a bunker, stock up on food or write your will; you will live a perfectly happy and long life with perhaps noticing slight changes in weather.
  11. The time to say 'it's game over' is after the event, not before. You're all talking about weather a week away, a lot can happen in a week. There's a reason why people like JH say don't get hung up on every individual run, take note of that advice - it's probably the most important advice to take for all you model watchers. It's going to be a long winter.....
  12. A lot of the science also gets lost in the morality/judgement nonsense and the crystal ball gazing. Doom mongering and exaggerating is as damaging as the blustering too.
  13. Thank you! For folk like me who have a head like a sieve, would you mind adding it to your avatar - idiot here will have forgotten by this time tomorrow.
  14. Alex, could you please put your location in your avatar. Local information during spells of severe weather is a really important part of the forum, it can help to save people lots of misery. Your info is important to us but we need to know where your village is for the info to be helpful to others. Many thanks
  15. I couldn't possibly comment.... When it comes to snow though, all logic goes out the window; desperate wishful thinking takes over and if it would help make 3ft of the stuff magically appear overnight, there's more than the odd dozen on here who would wear a Rabbit foot talisman, sacrifice small furry animals to the Snow Gods and dance naked by the light of the Moon.
  16. The world doesn't end, the Mayan's were predicting the next ice age...... it's going to get chilly and we'll all look back and marvel at how we worried about the ice disappearing
  17. As this will impact all of us, not just those with an interest in climate, I've opened a thread here: http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/75062-new-energy-plans-and-the-cost-to-us/
  18. Well that's part of the fence gone, lights flickering but not a lot of rain so far. Hubby just got home from Shepton Mallet, there's a tree down in the car park at work, squashed a car but fortunately no one in it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed he doesn't get called out over night to a dangerous structure!
  19. If enough people are up for it, perhaps it could become a competition? Maybe various categories, biggest, silliest, largest group effort??? Extra points awarded if it gets into the local press?? Suggestions wanted from other silly people up for a laugh....
  20. Only if it's closed, awaiting the attention of the snow plough - then and only then can you build one in the chevroned bit at the top of Clutton Hill!
  21. When the snow does eventually arrive, who's up for a stealth snowman competition? The aim would be to build one in any place other than your own garden or the local park. The more obscure or unusual the better, preferably a place which would make folk wonder where it came from. The only rules would be, it would have to be in a place which wouldn't cause a safety issue (clearly the middle of the road is a no go area). If you choose to build it outside your neighbour's garage doors so they can't get their car out, then any repercussions would be your's and your's alone to deal with - although the rest of us retain the right to giggle.... Any mischief maker, takers?
  22. At what point in time or history has the biosphere ever been static?
  23. But you're still assuming that if someone doesn't support the idea of AGW then they must live a life of wanton, destructive, consumerism. That's a false assumption and IMO an attempt to take a moral high ground to silence critics. You're also over looking the fact that individuals can do very little to alter greenhouse emissions, industry is where your criticism should lay, not on folk who disagree with you.
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