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so just who is posting the comments to WUWT? Good question GW. Here is the latest contribution from one of the literati. I think there is a good case for cancelling their weekend passes. Still it proves there is life on other planets. Do not despair. I guess that the above falls within a demand for representeational certainty. But my questioning, and cynicism of the Warmists, I must admit, is also emotional and ideological. I happen to be a conservative minded person. I am reflexively suspicious of policy, theory, etc offered by the left. Now I am open to being dissuaded by being shown proof of CAGW. But all I’ve seen are broken hockey sticks, faulty computer models and ….no warming.

Glaciers in South America are melting at unprecedented rate. It's difficult to understand this as warming is no more. Latin America is already preparing for climate change adaptation - ahead of the U.S.http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/amaxwell/latin_america_is_already_prepa.html

http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/10605/scientists-nearing-forecasts-long-lived-wildfires

I thought it worth a read Pete and was struggling to find a thread to post.it. The fact that I posted it here doesn't mean I think it particularly relevant to AGW, just it's worth a read from a meteorlogical viewpoint.

Jeff Masters looks at intensification, warm sub-surface water & Walker Circulation. http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2579

Funny old day. more rain than was forecast this morning with frequent showers. After lunch sunny with the wind dropping and now cloudy with 7/8 thick Ci and some scattered Cu. Temp 10C with a light SW wind.

I don't know whethe this is of interest or indeed whether it has already been posted. I suspect it has ,if so could the mods please remove. British Rainfall was a publication giving monthly and annual totals of rainfall for the United Kingdom G.J. Symons first produced a four-page pamphlet English Rainfall, 1860 with information for over 150 stations. He next produced the first volume of British Rainfall to cover both 1860 and 1861, the series was initially known as Symons's/Symons British Rainfall from 1860 - 1899 and was then continued as British Rainfall until 1968. It was produced by the British Rainfall Organisation (at first indepenedent and later part of the Royal Meteorological Society) until 1961 when production and publication was taken over by the Meteorological Office. From 1969 - 1991 rainfall information was published in Monthly and annual totals of rainfall. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/archive/british-rainfall

Saturday forecast chart.

Exactly how it was titled. Not that I'm suggesting it was an iceberg as we know them. It's interesting to mull over the correlation, if any, between the frequency of harsh winters and the popularity of painted winter landscapes in the Dutch Republic in the 17th century. Two out of three winters brought prolonged periods of freezing weather, snow and ice were normal phenomena, and Dutch landscape painters depicted them as a matter of course.

The full WMO provisional statement. Just to ensure there is no confusion. http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/documents/ProvisionalStatementStatusClimate2013.pdf

Acidity levels soar in world's oceans - study http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/227740/acidity-levels-soar-in-world%27s-oceans-study

True but it doesn't always correlate. Historical studies of the climate in the Low Countries in the last thousand years has yielded many new findings in recent decades, Largely thanks to the work of the historical geographer Jan Buisman. The sources used in his research include chronicles, diaries and journals, letters, pamphlets, and weather diaries, Data on grain and fruit harvests, wine vintages, tree rings, glacier movements, and whether rivers were frozen over or not can also be important for reconstructing the weather of the past. The first severe winter of the LIA, the coldest for fifty years, was that of 1564-1565. The Nieuwe Chroniclevan Branandt published in Antwerp in 1565 reported. In this year of 65 it froze so severely for ten weeks on end that people in Antwerp crossed the the Scheldt on foot and horseback from Boxing Day to Twelfth Night and because of the great novelty stalls and tents were erected on the ice, where food and drink and other wares were sold. The years around 1600 were the worst in the LIA, with bitterly cold winters with lots of snow. Two very severe winters 1607-1608 marked the beginning and end of the Twelve Year Truce in the war with Spain. Source: Holland Frozen in Time, Ariane van Suchtelen. There was thread on this in the History section. http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/64475-beginning-of-the-little-ice-age/ http://www.eh-resources.org/climate3.html Iceberg by Delfhaven Pier 2nd January 1565 Cornelius Jacobsz van Culemborch Historical Museum Schielandhuis, Rotterdam

Probably and they would no doubt all go to Eton.

I don't know why but I felt in need of some light entertainment, I thought the speech from the chappy from CFACT a tad mind boggling. I swear you couldn't make it up. http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2013/11/hows-that-polish-exaggeration-going.html?spref=tw

I've posted this before but no matter. New CU-led study may answer long-standing questions about enigmatic Little Ice Age - http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/01/30/new-cu-led-study-may-answer-long-standing-questions-about-enigmatic-little

I wouldn't go quite that far. Study: Peruvian Glacial Retreats Linked to European Events of Little Ice Age http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2009/sept/bp24iceage.cfm

http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/76448-scepticism-of-man-made-climate-change/page-37#entry2832623 Unfortunately what was less pleasing to see was the disgusting knee-jerk reaction by certain bloggers and their camp followers of the other persuasion.

Sunny morning becoming cloudy with 7/8 Sc 3000ft, temp 11C with a northerly wind of 14mph.

And the one behind How soot forced the end of the Little Ice Age in 1860s Europe http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/releases/21662-how-soot-forced-the-end-of-the-little-ice-age-in-1860s-europe

Tropical Upper Atmosphere 'Fingerprint' of Global Warming http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522131158.htm

Which graph is the most significant?

I would be grateful if you would explain to me why the continued warming of the lower troposphere is not relevant?

Vast Antarctic iceberg 'could threaten shipping' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24912233

Have you got this sentence on a loop?

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have found out why birds are migrating earlier and earlier each year. Experts have long suspected climate change is somehow driving this advancing migration pattern. But new research published today reveals that individual birds migrate like clockwork – arriving at the same time each year.Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-11-reveals-bird-migration.html#jCp