"Michael Mcneil" wrote in message
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"Alastair McDonald" k
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I think everyone knows what is causing the ice to melt, only some people
won't admit it :-(

The unseasonably warm late winter/early spring?

Or do you mean they also know what caused that but were unable to bring
themselves to say it was the run of lunar phases?

One thing we know is that there is just as much sun as there was and
ever will be. And we haven't got any nearer to it.

That is true. And we also know that the amount of greenhouse gas in
the atmospere has increased. If you are looking for reasons for long
term changes, that is the place to look. However, if you are more
concerned with montly variations then I would have thought that the
lunar cycle and atmopheric tides (long waves) would have been the
first thing to check out.

Cheers, Alastair.