Category Archives: climate change

A flight of fancy

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Having had occasion recently to journey to the fair city of York I picked up a copy of New Scientist to read on the train back home, and came across a few articles that were rather interesting, so in the order in which I encountered them. The first concerned the ethical problems for anti-addiction drugs – now obviously helping people beat an addiction is a good thing. The drugs described though are vaccines that prevent you getting a high from the drugs, and as the article observes there is the risk that this will just cause addicts to take much … Continue reading →

Sheep in global warming shocker

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Came across this rather amusing snippet in the Metro’s MiniCosm column, and felt it deserved slightly wider coverage, thought a quick search does show it’s being picked up quite well once you know to search for it (“sheep tree rings”) The minicosm article says: “For more than 100 years, tree rings have been used to record climate. But nibbling from sheep could have had more of an impact on their development than historic changes in the weather. After spending nine summers in pens with sheep, cross sections of 206 birch trees were measured. Tree ring widths were more affected by … Continue reading →

It’s all about the weather

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For the first time in a while there’s sunshine out the window, so it’s time to dust off the cobwebs on here so what better place to start than talking about the weather or climate change depending on what it’s convenient to call it. One of the things that has made me pay attention to the weather quite a bit this year was the failure of my Boiler on the coldest day of the winter so far, which almost cost me 150 quid or so but fortunately it fixed itself first. It seems the problem was a known issue with … Continue reading →