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Interesting video. I think they had a discussion about this on a very fine mining web site I've been a member of for a few years. It's chock-a-block with experts so I keep quiet. In particular there are a few who know a huge amount about the Derbyshire mines. I thought Glebe had been built over so I've got that wrong. I think this link should be okay. http://www.aditnow.co.uk/mines/Glebe-Lead-Mine-5/

Greenland's fastest glacier reaches record speeds http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140203101016.htm

Surely not one of the old lead mines PM?

Down here a mining survey is compulsory. Mind very often they aren't worth the paper they are written on as old workings wouldn't necessarily show up. In many areas they wouldn't show up potential dangers of sinkholes anyway if dependent on erosion of limestone over many years.

If winds were stronger, NYCs Central Park would qualify as official blizzard conditions over last 3hrs (w/ 1/4mi vis) http://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KNYC.html

Well worth a read Zeke's round up of 2013 in climate http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2014/02/the-global-climate-in-context-2013-in-review/

2014 Warm Arctic – Cold Continents pattern

Nature can selectively buffer human-caused global warming http://phys.org/news/2014-02-nature-buffer-human-caused-global.html

Yes sinkholes have been around for quite a few years. There was one very recently in High Wycombe that I suspect was connected to old clay workings in the area and the recent high rainfall. Normally caused by erosion of limestone I think leaving a void. Some can be huge. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/car-swallowed-by-30ft-sinkhole-in-high-wycombe-9102783.html Oops, posting at the same time.

You will know when it goes through as the wind should drop and veer to the west.

Well I haven't seen the 1200 chart but looking at the 06 it should be due about now Erb.

Moderate to heavy rain five minutes ago on the cold front.

If I fancy a good read of fantasy I think I prefer Tolkien to Eschenbach or Tisdale. They both have a lot of previous. Something Really Obvious: Wondering Willis Eschenbach doesn't check facts... http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/01/something-really-obvious-wondering.html Willis Eschenbach wonders about CERES http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/01/willis-eschenbach-wonders-about-ceres.html

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/01/world/air-pollution-in-asia-intensifies-cyclones/#.Uu-Db_toqpC

Let's get past the middle of the week first. Looking distinctly bleak for this neck of the woods at the moment.

Continuous slight rain. 8/8 Ns and 6/8 St. Temp 8C Wind southerly 28mph gusting 48. Pressure 994 and falling.

If i didn't know better I would wonder whether the above comment is a not so subtle way of introducing climate change into the thread. If it is then it's classic case of bulverism. This is a method of argument that avoids the need to prove someone is wrong by first assuming their claim is wrong and then explaining why a person could such a fallacious view.

Amid drought, California agency won’t allot water http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/amid-drought-california-agency-wont-allot-water/2014/01/31/9948cd9c-8ad5-11e3-a760-a86415d0944d_story.html

Beware, a headless chicken circling. Snake-oil salesmen and their shonky "cures" at WUWT Perennially Puzzled Bob Tisdale has decided he wants yet another opinion on global warming. He's got some idea of only one of the symptoms and is looking for a diagnosis and treatment. He is trying to rebut the "if 99 doctors' opinions were the same" argument about global warming. What Bob wrote was (archived here): We need a second opinion for the slight warming the Earth had experienced. Unfortunately, it is not likely to be coming anytime soon, not until there are changes to the political agendas that drive climate science funding.Of course, you would not accept the computer-based medical diagnosis from a model that cannot simulate basic bodily functions and processes. But that’s the position we’re faced with climate science. You’re not comfortable with the service, diagnosis, prescription or treatment, so you check out online the computer model used by the clinic. It is proclaimed to be wonderful by its programmers. But, the more you research, the more you discover the model’s defects. It can’t simulate circulation, respiration, digestion, and other basic bodily functions. There are numerous research papers exposing the flaws in the model, but they are hard to find because of all of the other papers written by the model programmers extolling its virtues.Imagine you’re running a persistent slight fever. You visit a new clinic. The nurse takes your vitals and enters them into a computer program. A short time after the computer model completes its simulations, the doctor arrives, advises you of the computer-diagnosed ailment, and prescribes controversial high-cost medications and treatment. What are the flaws in Bob's analogy? Yes, they are too numerous for a blog article so I'll just pick out a few of them. http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/02/snake-oil-salesmen-and-their-shonky.html

Eric Holthaus â€@EricHolthaus 4h An atmospheric river next weekend could funnel much-needed moisture from Hawaii to N California (GFS, via @NOAA ESRL) pic.twitter.com/yhSfopdjmM

Could well be caused by erosion by water. So all the rain we've had lately................................

Kevin Cowtan has a neat online trend calculator for all current global temperature data series. http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/applets/trend/trend.html

http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/76448-scepticism-of-man-made-climate-change/page-54#entry2916156 Interesting as according to the newspaper the average winter temp. in Spitzbergen rose by 9C between 1920 and 1950.

Quite

I've had to wait sixty years to understand why teams reduced by losing a player, or having a key player injured, often do very well. IT IS the second game of the 1999 US National Basketball Association play-offs- the New York Knicks vs the Indiana Pacers. The eighth-seeded Knicks are holding their own against the number 2 seeds when their best player, Patrick Ewing, tears his Achilles tendon. All seems lost with the Pacers heavily favoured for the rest of the series. Yet against all odds, the Knicks go on to win the series 4-2 and qualify for the finals. The Knicks's success against the Pacers was so unexpected that the story behind it has since become a legend, even gaining its own name. The so-called "Ewing effect" has been evoked by pundits to explain sporting victories in which an underdog inexplicably triumphs. It's normally put down to luck but there is more to it. Network theory and Braess' Paradox. Braess’ Paradox Infects Social Networks Too, Say Computer Scientists http://www.technologyreview.com/view/510801/braess-paradox-infects-social-networks-too-say-computer-scientists/ And http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/d1/teaching/ws12/ct/Braess-paradox.pdf http://vimeo.com/40227971