On 21 Apr, 21:18, Alastair wrote:
On Apr 21, 6:38*pm, Pete L wrote:



On 21 Apr, 14:48, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote:

On 21 Apr, 08:17, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote:

On 21 Apr, 08:09, Paul Hyett wrote:

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 at 15:03:18, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

It could be just a blip in the general trend, nothing works to a
perfect rhythm, so I'm not convinced. The past 12 months the UK has
seen quite a number of cooler months, but my gut feeling is we've seen
the last of them for a while, infact April is looking particularly
warmer than average, but we will have to see what the summer brings,
but I wouldn't be surprised to see higher temperatures again. Even a
massive volcanic eruption would only slow the trend down for a year or
two.

I've heard that solar activity is the lowest for about a century, so
that could well be overriding any man-made climate effects.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Yes, I just found this on the BBC website:

Scientists warn sun has dimmedhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8009492.stm

An interesting peice of the puzzle.

Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net
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Now if this doesn't bring a long hot dry summer, I'll "Eat my hat" ;-)

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8010322.stm

Keith (Southend)

Did anybody see the article in the Daily Telegraph today (Tues)? Lord
Stern, apparently an 'expert', has written a new book on global
warming. According to the DT he states that temperatures may rise by
6C (DT slips in 43F!!!!) and alligators could live at the North Pole!
I guess average temps at the NP in Winter are around -40 degs and
about zero in mid Summer. So those lucky old 'gators are going to have
fun at -34 degs in Winter and will be getting heat stroke in balmy
temperatures of 6 degs in Summer! No wonder there are sceptics like me
around when such total rubbish is being fed to the press.....

Presumably you are referring to this:http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/richard...blog_post/nich...

What you are missing is that a global temperature rise of 6C means a
12 C in the UK and 24C at the poles, but quite warm enough for
alligators.

Cheers, Alastair.

I've never seen these figures in any publication - where did they come
from? It doesn't seem very realistic to me.My -40 North Pole winter
temp becomes -16, which is cold enough. Summer temp of zero now
becoming +24 and this over open sea water? Sorry, I just think this
defies all common sense.