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David Autumns
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http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/february/nasa-...-rain-and-snow/index.html
----------------------------------------I'm glad that Climate Science isn't settled and our ability to increase our understanding of our environment continues. It's our best trait - curiosity.  |
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David Autumns
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The February 2014 result is in and the average temperature from 2438 NOAA Weather Stations around the Globe was 2.722C - the coldest February in the series.
---------------------------------------- The average temperature March 2013 through to the end of February 2014 was 12.153C - the lowest yearly average temperature in the series  Here's another forum friendly sized graph that updates hourly  The graphs above are (at this moment in time) the result of 69,644,472 individual temperature measurements taken around the Globe from NOAA Weather Stations since the beginning of 2011  Again I'll leave it with you to decide if we are suffering catastrophic "Man Made" warming of our beautiful Planet. Dave |
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David Autumns
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http://phys.org/news/2014-02-nasa-satellite-great-lakes.html
----------------------------------------The ice reached an even greater extent on Feb. 13, when it covered about 88 percent of the Great Lakes – coverage not achieved since 1994, when ice spanned over 90 percent. In addition to this year, ice has covered more than 80 percent of the lakes in only five other years since 1973. The average annual maximum ice extent in that time period is just over 50 percent. The smallest maximum ice cover occurred in 2002, when only 9.5 percent of the lakes froze over It'll be that Globular Warming wot done it  |
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David Autumns
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Good Old Hadley CRU only 2 months gone and there it is 2014.
----------------------------------------http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/gra...raph_ylybars_uptodate.gif We all now know what happens to the green bar as we progress through the year It tends towards 0 Dear World we have had a relatively mild winter, very few frosty mornings, while the rest of the NH World has frozen through a terrible winter. This I put down to the lack of Hurricanes in the North Atlantic last year which would normally extract large amounts of heat energy from the Sea. The source of our mild climate given our latitude. This also goes some way to explaining why our Islands have been ravaged by storm after storm ... the weather always repays it's debt http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/gra...raph_ylybars_uptodate.gif is, I think deliberately, deceitful. Dave [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Mar 3, 2014 7:34:49 AM] |
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David Autumns
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/02/oh-this...-uninvestable-for-energy/
----------------------------------------The electricity will go off and crunching (and all the benefits afforded since the work of Faraday) will cease There's now a certain inevitability about it |
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Harriscott
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Oh my!! And all these years I thought the thread title was just eye-catching hyperbole...
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David Autumns
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----------------------------------------It's really true It's just the entire Energy policy has been hijacked by anti CO2/Fossil fuel extremists We sit on abundant resources that could power us into a more efficient and greener future But we are about to miss out on all that Our Government just got lucky with Winter 2013/4 while the rest of the World froze. They are going to have to get lucky with the next as well Why do you think we are being priced out of lighting and heating...... [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Mar 5, 2014 6:30:29 PM] |
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David Autumns
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see first post
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David Autumns
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Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Feb 2014
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David Autumns
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 The Al "Nobel Peace Prize" Gore Challenge Dear Mr Gore Make all of that white stuff above disappear by this summer or admit you were being economical with the truth during your acceptance speech and return yours and the IPCC's Nobel Peace Prize Medals and Kroner so they can be given to someone who genuinely risks their life daily while working tirelessly towards Peace. If your fearmongering end of the World prediction turns out to be the truth I promise to switch off all of my computers doing valuable research for scientific projects on behalf of the World Community Grid and others. Turn off The Global Thermometer. Stop driving my car Give up my job and go off grid to live as a hermit and you will never hear from me again. Regards Dave "7 years from now" [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Mar 7, 2014 8:00:03 AM] |
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