"Steve Jackson" wrote in message
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In message , Gavin Staples
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I did not realise that this had ever been recorded.
What
dreadful summers those must have been. 13.6C for an August CET. These
days
we take for granted an August CET of at least 16C or more. Perhaps we
shouldn't :-)

These summer's came at the end of the period know as the "little Ice
Age", so cold summers were the norm then and for a few hundred years
prior to that in what is known as a 'stadial'.

Recent warmth is a a cyclical shift that is quite normal in any
interglacial back to relative warmth.

Well that's what I teach my students anyway!
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Steve Jackson

Well done Steve. I quite agree with you. I am a believer of climatic
variation, which is what we are having at the moment. We just happen to be
in a warming trend which is well within normal variations. In the period
1100 to 1500 the climate of this country was a great deal warmer than it is
now. I wonder what the greenhouse fanatics would make of that.


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