Summer heatwave (!) & BBQ weather chat 2013

[hexah]

Loads of biggies flying around terrifying SWMBO with a few really big spiders lurking in the plants. This time of year is their last hurrah and I like to think of it as the last big party they have before May.

Fingers crossed the spiders will stick around else I'll have to suspend a toy one from a stick. . .

 

[hexah]

The snow seems to be advancing rapidly in the northern hemisphere off the back of the unusually cold summer in the Arctic.

http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nh_snowcover/

That is linked to colder winter conditions than usual on the continent due to the big pool of cold air that develops. That will affect conditions to about halfway through Germany. Outside that area it is hard to say because of the effect of the Atlantic. But when the easterlies develop as they will at sometime in the winter it could be 'interesting'.

 

[Lazarus]

And this chimes well with the latest guesswork propaganda evidence report by the IPCC about Global Warming.

 

[hexah]

I saw a bit of that on the news but I didn't pay too much attention because only a raving lunatic would believe the piddling amount of warming they think will arrive at the end of the century will have any effect here.

Not to mention they can't predict the weather two weeks ahead so anyone who believes they can tell you what it will be like 50 years or 100 years ahead must be smoking the same stuff as they obviously are.

But in the following report talking about peoples opinions in other parts of the world one of the reporters said people in Russia were not afraid of global warming they were more interested in selling their oil and gas. Of course anyone with the slightest amount of sense would know Russia is bloody freezing for most of the year and no one there is going to object to some warming. In the map above it is not even October and a quarter of Russia is covered in snow.

Barking.

 

[PaulR]

Not to mention they can't predict the weather two weeks ahead so anyone who believes they can tell you what it will be like 50 years or 100 years ahead must be smoking the same stuff as they obviously are.

And therein lies the problem of getting people to understand the difference between weather and climate. Weather is short term - days, weeks, months. Climate is long term - decades, centuries and longer.

What's not in doubt is that globally temperatures are rising. It is highly likely that some of this is due to the increase in man made CO2 and other sources, the question is really by how much and what can be done about it.

The other problem people have is that the higher temperatures cause more weather variability leading to droughts, flash floods and, seemingly against common sense, cold snaps. But these are all short term manifestations of something going on.

I saw a report the other day that the traditional wood burning stoves in use in the Indian sub-continent are having a really bad effect on the Himalayan glaciers. They burn really inefficiently and the soot produced by these millions of stoves is absorbing solar radiation causing them to melt quicker than normal.

There are so many different ways that man is affecting the planet and most of them are not good.

 

[Channel Hopper]

About to chuck it down round here in a few hours.

 

[Piltdownpaul]

Its not all bad , if its gets warmer i can wear less clothes.......!

 

[Lazarus]

I started the vest season today.



As Winter nears, I might put a shirt on, too.

 

[Vipersan]

So ...Time to remove my Tshorts then G ....and possibly replace with string vest and light flannels ...?

 

[Piltdownpaul]

This is getting haunting....

 

[2cvbloke]

'tis a lovely bright sunny warm day here, no, wait, I mean a dull, grim, wet, foggy day, good thing my messed up sleeping prevents me from having to look at it...

 

[Channel Hopper]

This is getting haunting....

'Pervy' may be the more appropriate word

 

[Captain Jack]

Though it's dull and grey, it's still +20C, which is warmer than many parts of Europe.

 

[sonnetpete]

Had a couple of thunderstorms since 8am but the sun is making an appearance now and it's 20C here as well...

 

[Lazarus]

The hills are hidden in low cloud.

 

[sonnetpete]

The hills are hidden in low cloud.

Not alive with the sound of music then?

 

[Lazarus]

Nah, that's just Ken Bruce you can hear in the background.

 

[hexah]

And therein lies the problem of getting people to understand the difference between weather and climate. Weather is short term - days, weeks, months. Climate is long term - decades, centuries and longer.

I blame the schools for that.

At skool we learnt all about the dinosaurs and the hot periods on earth. Then we learnt about the increasing frequency of ice ages. Then we learnt about the ice age we are in now and the start of our Holocene interglacial. We are surrounded by a post glacial landscape here so I am reminded everyday of the powerful actions of the glacial retreat only 11,000 years ago.

 

[Piltdownpaul]

I remember those dinosaurs.......nasty bunch they were ,much like the vikings.

 

[Vipersan]

..Had to dig out the T shorts again today ...
String Vest next week then..?