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exmetman writes:
I read an article in the Guardian today and it has me puzzled. Lord
Stern states in the third paragraph of that article that climate
change has arrived and is now happening. This may be correct ,
but what he says next to support his claim is not:

"Four of the five wettest years recorded in the UK have occurred
from the year 2000 onward" "Over that same period, we have also
had the seven warmest years"

With regard to the rainfall in the UK I use as my evidence the UKP
dataset maintained by the UKMO and which dates back to 1766,
and is in fact the oldest instrumental record of its kind in the world.

Image:England Wales Annual Rainfall (1766-2013)
snip

I suspect that he is using the Met Office's "official" series for the UK
only going back as far as 1910, which seems to be the only rainfall data
that the Met Office is interested in using in its press releases
nowadays.
--
John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:
Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"