Methuselah

I don't think that there is any 'right one', RH...If anything (as the science currently stands) 10-15 days is about the limit. Chaos takes over after that?

Oh dear. It's the CFS again!

This year, yes. Last year, no...Natural selection only works generation-to-generation. Anything else is natural variation?

Are we all descended from Morph?

And anyway, no amount of rhetoric about this-storm-or-that-storm (taken by itself) says anything at all about AGW...

Maybe yes, maybe no? But, on the balance of probabilities, however, extremely unlikely IMO...

'Catastrophic warming'? Who said that?

According to the 'wits' at Iceagenow, there's always a new Little Ice Age just around the corner. The only thing missing is evidence...

IMO SO, the Universe must be teeming with Goldilocks planets...And, how can we possibly be alone?

I remember waking up (31st December, I think) to that rustling sound on my bedroom window...the snow was up to the top triangles on the garden fence. 3 feet deep! I've never been so excited (by the weather) since.

If it makes any sense at all, I've always perceived science, science fiction and meteorology as a sort of bright blue-green colour. Is that synaesthesia (sp?)?

So, what's worse, 4 - taxing energy, at the end of the line, and calling it 'green tax', or throwing £billions hand-over-fist in the form of subsidies so as to warp market-reality by making coal, oil and gas appear cheaper than they really are? When I was in Wales, a couple of years' back, I took mental notes of what my uncle's photovoltaics produced; anywhere between 10 and 25 kWhr of juice per day (April). Even 10kWhr is enough to heat a whole tank of water. So, why go through the palaver of sending it all into the grid, when heating water directly is far more efficient? Or is it simply that the government's subsidies are really intended to put even more taxpayers' money into the coffers of their chums? Forty years' back, I worked with a guy who saved himself a fortune by installing black-painted radiators on his roof!

I'm betting that whenever it happens, whenever a cold pattern sets up, it'll take both humans and computers by surprise. Notwithstanding those who will inevitably claim to have predicted it x-number-of-months in advance.

Not only you, John...The first concrete memory I have was being allowed to share my wee bro's pram during a particularly fierce summer thunderstorm. I must have been about 21/2 at the time. But, nowt beats watching the very first flakes of snow fall (Harrow) on Boxing Day 1962!

The angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection...

According to my mother, before I could walk...

Hopefully, it would give us time to prepare...

Oh dear, Malcolm. Does that mean we need rewrite the laws of physics again?

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/antarctica_trends.pdf This either means a lot or it means nothing??? What has the pre-industrial age got to say about what things are like now? Was non-natural CO2 ever pumped into the atmosphere in prehistoric times? Or...do natural and manmade CO2 have different physical/chemical properties? According to the 'Snowball Earth' hypothesis, it was the build-up of CO2, from volcanic outgassing, that brought the planet out of hibernation??

So, not only are you assuming we are about to enter a Grand Solar Minimum, you are also assuming that CO2 has lost its greenhouse effect? The very same effect that whose absence, should it not exist, would leave the Earth an ice-ball...

If it wasn't for the CO2 that's already present (and the Clean Air Acts) I'd be inclined to agree, Fred...But the globe is not the same as it was 2 centuries ago?

Does that mean prices will go up every year. On pain of our having weather-cuts!

Absolutely. Even more so, when one considers the fact that changes in Solar output are the very first drivers considered in any climate model.

Indeed.