Enjoying the “mild winter” in the UK this year? That AGW sure is biting hard with CO2 overwhelming all the natural variation to cause dangerous catastrophic WARMING!!!

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2008/12/this-aint-just-weather.html

And regarding politicians understanding of AGW.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/house_of_lords_climate/

You have politicians admitting they know nothing more than what their un-elected advisers tell them.

When did that doyen of UK socialists, the Rt Hon Gordon Brown, PhD MP, First Lord of the Treasury (aka Prime Minister) decide to resort to Dubya Congressional tactics in slipping in huge clauses of incredible implications at the last minute to obviate proper scrutiny?

What does this say about this man and those he recommended to be part of Her Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and what are people going to do about it?

You may discern that I think that slightly more than writing to the newspapers is the proper response…..

Mary is obviously used to thick wooly blankets. Some of us have experience of thin, moth-eaten ones.

For Hallow’s Eve, an ancient plaint:

The lane is very dirty.
My shoes are very thin.
I’ve got a little pocket
To put a penny in.

If you haven’t got a penny,
A half-penny will do.
If you haven’t got a half-penny,
May God Bless You.
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tty:
October 31st, 2008 at 11:50 am
Actually it’s wrong both ways. If you compare the two images in the link above and look at the russian coast from the White Sea east to Taimyr you will notice that in the older map the ice comes well inland. The Kanin Peninsula and Vaygach are more-or less obliterated. On the other hand the younger map, while less distorted is definitely a bit “snowed-over”, for example the whole Taz estuary which is about 250 km long and 40 km wide has disappeared completely.

Also there is another error I’ve mentioned before. From the 80′s and up to about 2003 the maps definitely shows ice in areas where there isn’t any. This is easily seen as “ice” in the Baltic in summer, where there never is any. Probably the ice in the Arctic is also exaggerated. Look at this for example:

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=07&fd=01&fy=1990&sm=07&sd=01&sy=2006

There is positively never ever any ice in the Baltic in July!

And there’s next to nothing about it in the news. The headlines this week have been mostly about two BBC presenters in trouble over making a prank phone call, a matter upon which political party leaders have made it their business to comment (as opposed to the presumably trivial prospect of long-term economic hardship resulting from the Climate Change Bill.)