Did anyone else watch this last night - what did you think of it?
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

I thought that Alan Titchmarsh dressed up as Ricky Tomlinson was a
scream...


RonB

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
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Did anyone else watch this last night - what did you think of it?
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Did anyone else watch this last night - what did you think of it?
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Yes, and I mostly enjoyed it.

I was intrigued by the proposition that the cause of the Ice Age was the
land bridge between North and South America - that was news to me.

The chronology seemed a bit odd. He talked about Britain being under ice
15,000 years ago, then about the ice melting after that and the Neanderthals
moving in - then he said that the Neanderthals had died out 30,000 years
ago!

I do wish it wouldn't jump about _quite_ so frenetically though :-)

Anne

"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
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Did anyone else watch this last night - what did you think of it?
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

I thought it was enjoyable, and although I knew more than he reported, there
were things of which I was not aware - like the sound of glaciers, and the
raised shingle beach on Skye.

I had heard that hippopotamus bones from the last interglacial had been found
in London. In fact, we know from the Vostok ice core, that the current
interglacial is colder than the previous ones. It seems as if the warming
stalled during the Younger Dryas, and did not reach the previous peak before
the Milankovitch cycles started their downward journey again. As a result the
Greenland ice did not melt and sea levels have not reached the same peak as
last time.

It was interesting that Alan Titchmarsh emphasised that past climates had been
more extreme, and that it was a fact of life not some fairy tale. Despite
what all the pundits say, I still think that global warming is more likely to
cause a switch into a climate where hippos and lions would be happy roaming
the streets of London, rather than the new ice age predicted by "The day after
tomorrow" and "The Big Chill".

Cheers, Alastair.

"Anne Burgess" wrote in message
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Did anyone else watch this last night - what did you think of it?
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Yes, and I mostly enjoyed it.

I was intrigued by the proposition that the cause of the Ice Age was the
land bridge between North and South America - that was news to me.

The chronology seemed a bit odd. He talked about Britain being under ice
15,000 years ago, then about the ice melting after that and the
Neanderthals
moving in - then he said that the Neanderthals had died out 30,000 years
ago!

I do wish it wouldn't jump about _quite_ so frenetically though :-)

Anne

I was quite surprised that the ice sheet reached as far as Finchley Road
underground station in London. I have just looked at a map and it seems that
the ice must have approached from the east as around here (St Albans)it
blocked off the old bed of the River Thames and created a huge lake. The
River was diverted to the south to its current position. There are vast
gravel deposits in the area formed by the river and the glacial activity
which are still actively quarried.

If you have digital TV via Freeview or any other mans BBC4 has an hours
program (at 23:00 hrs) where all of the last 10 minute local sections are
shown so you can see information about other parts of the country.

I found it was like watching a 3-d version of my 4th year high school
geography double-period. The main difference between last night and that
class in 1981 was that last night i had a comfier chair.





"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
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Did anyone else watch this last night - what did you think of it?
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Well, I think the theory is when the Isthmus of Panama was open, water could
circulate more easily around the equator picking up more heat and enabling
more heat to be transported north and south. With it closed only the
Altantic's heat is available to our area, and the global circulation around
the equator more broken up. So it cools?

Is that roughly it?


"Anne Burgess" wrote in message
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Did anyone else watch this last night - what did you think of it?
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Yes, and I mostly enjoyed it.

I was intrigued by the proposition that the cause of the Ice Age was the
land bridge between North and South America - that was news to me.

The chronology seemed a bit odd. He talked about Britain being under ice
15,000 years ago, then about the ice melting after that and the
Neanderthals
moving in - then he said that the Neanderthals had died out 30,000 years
ago!

I do wish it wouldn't jump about _quite_ so frenetically though :-)

Anne

I thought London was jungle all ready :-)

Keith (Southend)

"Alastair McDonald" k wrote
in message ...
Despite
what all the pundits say, I still think that global warming is more likely
to
cause a switch into a climate where hippos and lions would be happy
roaming
the streets of London, rather than the new ice age predicted by "The day
after
tomorrow" and "The Big Chill".

Did anyone else watch this last night - what did you think of it?
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Yes, and I mostly enjoyed it.
I was intrigued by the proposition that the cause of the Ice Age was the
land bridge between North and South America - that was news to me.
Anne

Well, I think the theory is when the Isthmus of Panama was open, water
could
circulate more easily around the equator picking up more heat and
enabling
more heat to be transported north and south. With it closed only the
Altantic's heat is available to our area, and the global circulation
around
the equator more broken up. So it cools?
Is that roughly it?
Peter Hearnden

Yes. It wasn't that I didn't follow or undersatnd what they were saying,
just that it was new to me g
Anne

"Anne Burgess" wrote in message
...
Did anyone else watch this last night - what did you think of it?
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Yes, and I mostly enjoyed it.
I was intrigued by the proposition that the cause of the Ice Age was
the
land bridge between North and South America - that was news to me.
Anne

Well, I think the theory is when the Isthmus of Panama was open, water
could
circulate more easily around the equator picking up more heat and
enabling
more heat to be transported north and south. With it closed only the
Altantic's heat is available to our area, and the global circulation
around
the equator more broken up. So it cools?
Is that roughly it?
Peter Hearnden

Yes. It wasn't that I didn't follow or undersatnd what they were saying,
just that it was new to me g
Anne

I didn't see the programme .

But, ooppss, I now see what you we're saying - sorry, post misreading...