Inga Horwood
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19 hours ago, Ed Stone said:
Well, seeing as the much-vaunted Solar Min had zero effect on our climate, maybe we should be looking to more prosaic processes?
I hoped this would be the BBC Horizon programme "Snowball Earth" (2001). Fascinating - back then, plenty of people didn't really believe it and would not commit to it as a fact. I think the science is pretty firm now, though.
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13 hours ago, IanR said:
Not only that its the lack of storms (apart from the usual areas) thats taking the ....... Lots of heat , but not really widespread storms to go with it
Well, not in Wigan. Further south it's another story (another horror story, from my point of view).
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2 hours ago, Ed Stone said:
I think it's heat that's getting to me more than anything, Beka; but there is something else too:
I've been reading another science book: Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures, By Merlin Sheldrake. Plants & trees (of entirely different species) have been shown to exchange nutrients via the complex underground mycelial network!
Geek? Me?
Brilliant book - it's not geeky to be bowled over by the natural world and its wonders.
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6 hours ago, Ed Stone said:
No, sorry; I went to a lecture on GHGs (notably CO2) back in December 1973.
Scientific awareness of the Greenhouse effect goes back to the middle of the nineteenth century. John Tyndall published on it, but apparently an Irish lady is credited with having spotted it a few years earlier.
Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect
WWW.CLIMATECHANGENEWS.COMEunice Foote demonstrated the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide at a scientific conference in 1856, newly digitised records showIt became politicised in the 1980s, I think. That's about when the scientist v. denialist battles kicked off, as far as I recall.
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2 hours ago, Snowycat said:
Heat building again for the weekend and possibly early next week. Probably not as bad but bad enough for my taste.
Noticing now the wind is picking up and blowing my sun umbrellas all over the place
Will have to get big brolly in I think. Have bought foster cats into utility to keep them cooler.
Summer can do one for me. It causes so many issues for me when this hot. Roll on winter. It can’t come soon enough.
Only the tortoise and my sunflowers are happy.
Keep an eye on that tortoise. My nephew's disappeared during a hot spell a few years ago. We spent ten days searching for him all over the garden, under every shrub, behind every plant pot, at the back of every border. He turned up ten days later in almost the same place where he had last been seen. Really good at camouflage, tortoises.
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13 minutes ago, Sunny76 said:
1976 was worse than this.
The temperature doesn’t need to be 40c for it to be dangerous to health, as once the temp reaches or exceeds 30c, problems can start to occur.
Especially if you live in a big overcrowded city like London. There’s far too many people living and visiting this city now.
Too many tourists for my liking.
It went on longer, for sure. My sister was off from work for a week (she was a postie back then) during the '76 heatwave suffering from heat stroke. She remembers feeling very ill indeed. I hope people are taking care today.
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18 hours ago, Skullzrulerz said:
US President Joe Biden says America and the European Union (EU) have agreed to do a carbon-based arrangement on steel and aluminium.
In a statement at the G20 summit in Rome, he said the US and EU have "reached a major breakthrough that will address the existential threat of climate change" while also protecting American jobs and American industry.
He says it will usher in a "new era of transatlantic cooperation", which removes tariffs on EU and a range of American products.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said they had agreed to suspend the tariffs on steel and aluminium and to "start work on a new, global, sustainable steel arrangement".
She says "we must address the carbon intensity of the industry" and address problems of over-capacity.
"It will be a major step forward in achieving carbon neutrality," she adds.
"This is a major step forward in our renewed relationship."
Rather amusingly, this doesn't include the UK, which will continue to be subject to the same tariffs since we are no longer in the EU. Perhaps Johnson can spin this as part of a green policy.
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15 hours ago, Day 10 said:
Thanks. My Mrs has recently started a new job in a school and people are dropping like flies, some jabbed, some not. This is going to go on for years I reckon.
Longer, if we do nothing about it and pretend nothing is happening. Other countries are getting on with their normal lives but not suffering this level of infection because they are taking mitigating steps against it.
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Anyone have any idea how development of osmotic energy is going?
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13 hours ago, Frost HoIIow said:
Is the M.E.N becoming the Daily Express?
Britain set for August heatwave as African plume expected to send temperatures soaring - Manchester Evening News
WWW.MANCHESTEREVENINGNEWS.CO.UKAn African plume is expected to bring soaring temperatures to the UK later this month with temperatures reaching the high 20sThe Independent already has.
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35 minutes ago, dodge said:
I watched BBC forecast at fridays small low and it was a southern affair barely getting north of Bristol, this morning they have it 100 miles further north with the northern front giving rain in the north west...bet it lingers into the afternoon aswell..
First day of Chorley Flower Show tomorrow: it's bound to linger.
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16 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:
Way back in 1973, I spent a week or so at my late Nan's flat, on the Edgeware Road . . . The dawn chorus is a million-times more preferable than the sudden onset of traffic-noise, that occurred each day, at around 5:30 am!
There's no dawn chorus in New York City. Just hectic traffic noise and constant hooting 24/7. I don't know how they endure it.
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16 hours ago, Had Worse said:
Don't forget the Peak District
Or the West Pennine Moors, and what about Pendle? Then there's the coastal areas too. I have a particularly soft spot for the Fylde, and for the Arnside/Silverdale area. We have everything in the NW.
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7 hours ago, East Lancs Rain said:
It was very chilly and overcast for the first couple of weeks, it then turned warm and thundery mid month, then turned extremely hot and sunny for a few days before going the complete opposite - cold, wet and windy in the closing days of the month. We then had a very chilly July. Overall I'd rate it a poor month. Changeable at best. August was the best month of last summer.
I remember July 14th, billed by the credulous as "Independence Day". Chilly, drizzly, damp all day. Not a glimpse of the sun, just this clinging mizzle. Got back from a walk soaked through. An omen of what was to come, pandemic wise.
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1 hour ago, iand61 said:
It looks like an icy start to Christmas Eve but hopefully a lovely winters day is on the way.
just waiting for it to come light and then it’s time for a brisk walk before the last minute mayhem starts
There's a real sparkle to the frost here, now the cloud is clearing! Looks gorgeous. Winter Hill living up to its name in the best way.
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13 hours ago, Day 10 said:
BBC4 Winterwatch 1963 Big Freeze just started
BTW, did anyone else notice the name Ridley Scott on the credits, as I think "designer". Could it be that Ridley Scott? He was born in 1937. He must have started his career somewhere.
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24 minutes ago, A Face like Thunder said:
Now that really was a winter to remember or forget depending on your viewpoint on extreme cold and snow! Thanks for the reminder Day 10.
I was the right age to enjoy it.
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9 hours ago, damianslaw said:
Lots of comments on yesterday weather, nothing on today's, not surprised ended up being rather grey and lacklustre with temps back down to an average level.
9 hours ago, damianslaw said:Lots of comments on yesterday weather, nothing on today's, not surprised ended up being rather grey and lacklustre with temps back down to an average level.
It was perfect walking weather around Rivington - there was plenty of sunshine, but it wasn't hot and there was a light breeze, which was very refreshing. Had a lovely day out.
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Real cloud burst on the Horwich side of Winter Hill right now.
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My friend in Maine had four inches of snow yesterday - on the coast.
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The rain is coming in as snow (mostly big wet flakes) and turning to instant slush as it hits the roads and pavements.
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Regardless of what the BBC is saying, we have snow on Winter Hill.
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We had a thin covering of snow on Winter Hill at midnight, which had started to disappear by 6 am and is now nearly gone from roads or pavements. The showers in a brisk wind continue, coming down as snow, sleet or rain and not settling. A sunny interval would be nice.
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On the Western flank of Winter Hill, we had a smidgeon of wet snow about an hour and a half ago. Just having something which briefly turned sleet, went back to rain and is now snow. Nothing settling.
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COP27 (UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties) Discussion
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Squirrel!