Re: Interest piece on global warming


"Keith (Southend)" <kharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I find it very 'hit & miss' when recent global extremes are used to
> 'prove' global warming is with us. This October is a typical example, it
> didn't take long to see that 1969 had been warmer, at that time we were
> being told we were going into an iceage!

The Independent was at it again the other day, telling us that the warm
October was caused by global warming, effortlessly moving from the
scaremongering stance they had taken a few days previously regarding
the forthcoming winter.
There was bad science too, showing us a graph of October temperatures
over the years, with a suitably impressive peak for 2005. But how can you
calculate an average monthly temperature when the month hasn't even
ended yet?

> Daily Mirror, 28th October 2005.
> "The current highest temperature for October 27th is 20.3°c - measured
> in London in 1888"
> Didn't the Thames freeze over in 1889?

I thought the last time was 1814, well that was the last Frost Fair anyway.

> I just find these statistics meaninless and prove nothing.

Taken in isolation, yes.
You can always point to various events, floods in Peru, bushfires in
Australia, freakishly high temperatures in France and all the rest and
claim it's evidence of global warming.
However it's far harder to ascertain whether the incidence of such
events is growing, especially when you factor in things such as the
fact that these days extreme weather events are far more easily reportable
than they used to be.

Col
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Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.


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