... is my response to the article in The Metro titled "Britain 'must be ready' for 6C hotter summers"
Oh dear ... "The forecasts showed that by the 2080s - 'within the lifetimes of our children and grandchildren' - the UK could face a rise in average summer temperatures of between 2C and 6C in the south east, with a central estimate of 4C."
OK. Cancel that.
Thursday 18 June 2009
Suncream? Check. Extra fridge for lager? Check. Charcoal for barbie? Check.
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... and this all based upon forecasts from the Met Office - who's medium-term efforts are embarassingly inaccurate... And in the face of the planet steadfastly refusing to match the models and insisting on cooling down... And the sun being horribly quiet... And...
Aaaaargh! The heat, the beating sun. I can't stand it any longer... *looks out window*, Oh, it's pissing down.
Ah, the Metro. They've made scarier predictions than that based on misunderstandings of things we've told them.
Heard Miliband spluttering about it on the radio earlier. Two things came to mind.
1) Having researched some of Labour's 'science' claims in the past, it's clear that they will always take a study which fits their policy and then spin the stats to produce the scariest possible statistic. In short, I instantly knew he was lying. It's what Labour do.
2) Which is a shame, as the tropical Britain sounds peachy.
Britain has been tropical before, and will be again.
Regardless of any of mankind's doings...
JM, that's true, but at the time the land that now makes up Great Britain was probably on the equator.
Catastrophic global warming was supposed to have started at the end of the 1970s. Up till then it is undisputed that we had had cooling.
On that 30 year trend I don't think we have much to worry about. Well not from nature anyway.
Over here we've had 90º+ since the end of April. Now 90º is what you get at night. Around 4 in the PM it's well over 100, and it will continue like that almost without a cloud or a drop of rain until October.
The point of this is not just to make everyone jealous (actually it's unbearable, I'm off to the mountains soon) but to point out that we are all still here, not dropping dead or anything like that. We continue to exist and to live normal lives. The world is not going to end because Britain starts having proper summers.
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