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I notice for the CET that they state that there's been an adjustment,
since the 70's, for urban warming, but other literature seems to be
saying that there's been a great overcompensation for urban warming in
these sorts of adjustments. I think that perhaps the CET might prove to
have an advantage tho, as a subject for this project, simply because
its such an old record and probably has a large body of research around
it.

I also notice that there is some paleoclimate data for england down to
at least the 'little ice age', and I suspect a more thorough search
will reveal that these records extend to the last big ice age. \


This is proving interesting.


You might get some more replies if you try uk.sci.weather That attracts
a few European weather enthusiasts as well. They are not interested in
global warming or George W. Bush, which is probably a good thing :-(

The longest records for dendrochronology are in the US, I think, though the
Irish tree rings go back to at least to 2,000 BC. The ice core records which
use annual snow layers, go back 100,000 years to the last interglacial,
but they are for Greenland so you cannot apply them directly to the UK,
or even the USA.

Try to keep focused. There is so much interesting stuff out there, it is
easy to entertain yourself and then find you have been just wasting your
time!

HTH,

Cheers, Alastair.