On Sep 6, 9:00*pm, "Alastair McDonald"
wrote:
Last night, there was a report on the melting Arctic sea ice and how it is
affecting our weather:
It was followed by a debate chaired by Jeremy Paxman between the new leader
of the Green Party and a typical Conservative sceptic. The relevant section
starts 35 mins 18 second in.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ht_05_09_2012/

Cheers, Alastair.

I did not see anything there about how the melting Arctic ice is
affecting our weather.
Adam Scaife UKMO talked about how it could produce wetter summers and
colder easterly winters.
Presumably he was referring to England and Wales here? A bit of
southern UK bias as usual.

I was amused by the Beeb showing a clip of the rather wet Jubillee
Thames river pageant.
This was surely a very normal wet summer's day.


Peter Wadhams and the report was not particularly alarmist in my view.
Wadhams mentioned the possible ameliorating effect of clouds.

I thought Lilley's stance was ridiculous, slavishly sticking to the
IPCC report.
The only sensible thing he raised was the issue of subsidies for
things like wind farms.

Len Wood
Wembury, SW Devon