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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 →

Remember it’s only weather

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Via many places may I point you at a rather amusing skit by Armstrong and Miller and via The Foggy Mirror an article suggesting (as they suggested back in the 70s) that we should possibly be worrying more about another mini ice-age than about global warming. “The cold now sweeping over Europe and other parts of the globe are due to natural cycles, says German meteorologist Thomas Globig. He points out that the first 2 weeks of December in Britain have been the coldest since the last little ice age 350 years ago, and claims some climate models have criminally … Continue reading →

Unsettled science

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It would seem that the settled climate change science which persuaded our great and glorious leaders to commit to legally binding CO2 reductions isn’t quite as settled as it seems as new research from NASA suggests that doubling CO2 won’t even raise the temperature by 2 degrees. It would seem from the headlines that many of the climate change models forgot that plants quite like CO2 and would grow a bit better and this would have an impact on climate change. “In particular, green plants can be expected to grow as they find it easier to harvest carbon from the … Continue reading →