Wildcat Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 Anyone know what the average temperature of the planet is? I think you'll be surprised! From this table and the fact this is expected to be as warm as the warmest year on record, if not the warmest then roughly it would be about 13.9+0.6= 14.5 degrees centigrade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_record#Warmest_years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIbbo Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 and 2010 is about 0.5C above the 1961-1990 average, near the record, with two months' data still to collect. Looking outside the window and the record cold for the past week or so, that 0.5 degrees average and the two months of November and December are likely to affect that 'average' quite significantly. the chances of this year being another 'recording breaking warm one' are zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichJay Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 As usual the Daily Mash get it spot on... http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/britain-trapped-under-two-feet-of-global-warming-bull****-201011253286/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redyam Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 It's been a record breaking November. "But here in Yorkshire, Church Fenton recorded minus 13C. This site previously held the record for the coldest November night on record for Yorkshire as a whole, with minus 11.9C." Interesting stuff! http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/2010/11/records-tumble-as-winter-tight.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkey Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 As usual the Daily Mash get it spot on... http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/britain-trapped-under-two-feet-of-global-warming-bull****-201011253286/ :hihi: There is now conclusive evidence that most of what we are finding out about climate change is actually down to the activity of the Sun. And its' opinion columnists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splodgeyAl Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 You said the last three years cold winters have been due to the jet stream, what I am saying is that may well be the case, but if the experts who predicted global warming did not take the jet stream and its unpredictability into account, then they failed to fully investigate the issue and should never have made such dire predictions. You also failed to account for the cold winters experienced by other countries whose weather is not driven by the jet stream to such a degree like southern Europe or the US for that matter who all experience colder then average winters over the last few years. I think you'll find that they did take the gulf stream into account, but some mainstream newspaper jumped on the sensationalist headlines without actually bothering to employ a journalist who understood the science Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAC33 Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Article i found from 2000 from the Independent, according to David Vineer, senior scientist at the Climatic Research Unit, ''within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. children just aren't going to know what snow is''. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berberis Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Been done already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BettyBooHoo! Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Article i found from 2000 from the Independent, according to David Vineer, senior scientist at the Climatic Research Unit, ''within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. children just aren't going to know what snow is''. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html Wonder what he thought of the last two winters?! Never seen so much snow!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Matt] Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I wouldn't listen to anyone who says climate change simply means warmer weather. I know it sounds counter-intuitive but a warmer global climate can quite easily cause more snow than normal within a localised cold weather spell. This is because a warmer global climate will cause more water to evaporate into the atmosphere. In turn more moisture in the atmosphere will mean more precipitation. More precipitation will mean more snow within a localised cold weather pattern. We may have seen a lot of snow this winter but you should also realise that only a few days ago the World Meteorological Organisation announced 2010 as being the warmest on record globally. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2011-01/21/c_13700425.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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