davehsug

So, when the US figures are adjusted to show that warming hasn't been as great as we are led to believe, they are correct but insignificant. When the Southern hemisphere seems not to be joining in the general warming trend, it's a blip & insignificant also. Confused :wacko: Dave

We now know what to blame if our winter goes t*ts up again! :lol: Dave

Again, exactly what I said when it was on breakfast tv this morning. How on earth could you know? If a system didn't make landfall, recording their existence, let alone their intensity, was a complete matter of pot-luck. I'm sure there must be more science to it than the brief headlines I've seen suggest. It's this sort of stuff however, that gives some parts of the AGW argument a bad name. Sadly, whilst it remains flavour of the month/year with the media, lots more unsubstantiated & inaccurate statements will be made, with even the smallest deviation from the norm, weatherwise, being attributed to AGW. Dave

It would make sense, but would tend to back Einstein's "nothing can travel faster than light" theory. I've always sort of clung to the hope that just because we didn't know of anything that travelled faster than light didn't mean that it couldn't. No doubt however, more advanced civillisations than us have existed in the past & they don't seem to have discovered the trick. Mind you, why would you visit the Earth? The Stoke-on-Trent of inhabbited planets I would have thought :o Dave

Latest radar seems to show the midlands storm heading a little too much NW for us. Looks like west Shropshire & North wales. Just the hope that it does seem to be expanding a little. I've been out all night & surprised to see this at all to be honest. There were some very impressive towers around when I was going out at 7 pm but I just thought they were dying stuff. Fingers crossed, I'm off work tomorrow so don't mind being woken by a storm Dave

Yes I suppose it is a kind of faith but grounded in reality. As I said, life happens at the drop of a hat here on Earth so that must increase the probability. I suppose we may be a little wiser in the coming years. When we finally get to Mars, we may find evidence that life once existed, & maybe still does in some areas, in a very primitive form. I believe there are also plans to send a probe to Europa, which is the most likely other place in the solar system for life to exist, in the water which is thought to be under the icy surface. If we find that life exists/existed in either of these places, the chance that we could be alone becomes zero as far as I'm concerned. Dave

For me, it's just a matter of statistics. There are so many billions of billions of planets out there that the odds of us being the only one with life must be tiny. Given the way that life hangs on in the most tenuous places on Earth, I think it's probably quite common & widespread. As for intelligent life. Again the odds for me say yes. I read or heard somewhere that the only reason that intelligent life exists, is that the universe wants us hear to uderstand it, if you get my meaning. That being the case, the best chance the universe has of being understood is to have lots of intelligent life. Dave

on the 23.30 meto there seem to be a couple of cells south of Brum which are intensifying a liitle too. Dave

All seems very quiet now. doesn't sem to have been any electrical activity for almost half an hour now looking at the IOW detector. Dave

Really Supacell? Perhaps you're quite young :lol: In the golden days when you could rely on such things, The large storms moving up from France would usually hit this area (& you're only 30 miles away), shortly after dawn, usually around 5am. I remember many a bleary morning watching a storm rumble away Northwards hanging out of my bedroom window, with that spectacular high level cloud lightning going on. That almost never seems to happen these days, along with many other things of course! Dave

Eh? Ever considered what Newbury would be like without the bypass? Swampy was not right he was just another environmentalist luddite. We have to have roads & good ones too. The whole of the A34 between the M40 at Oxford & M3 at Winchester shoud have been built/upgraded to motorway standard. Perhaps the reason that Newbury is so crowded is because it's full of former London residents happy to pay £200,000 for a 2 bed terrace (costing less than £90,000 in most parts of the north), rather than £400,000 & then have a 2 hour drive there & back. I was a delivery driver back in those days & that bypass along with the completed M40 reduced my journey time from Stoke to Southampton from 5 hours to just over 3 (leaving at 3am as I used to have to). Dave

I drive to work. It is only about 1.5 miles, but I'm afraid dodgy knees prevent me from walking that far. I would need to catch 2 buses, take almost an hour each way & spend £4.50 otherwise. Dave

At least I could afford to travel on a train occasionally? Now, if I can't book 3 months in advance & travel at a time I don't want to travel at I, along with most of the population (outside of the South east of course), am buggered! Wake up you South Easterners, the public transport system away from your area is awful! I live in a city of 250,000 people, in a greter conurbation of 350,000. Since First took over our "services", they are dreadful. Buses during the day are fine, several private operators cash in too but after 6PM or on a bank holiday? forget it. I live 1.5 miles from where I work but would need to travel on 2 buses & spend £4.70 to get there & back & it would take me over an hour each way! It takes 10 minutes in the car. I hate driving & would gladly do without a car, but it's totally impractical. Road pricing only benefits the rich, who would gladly pay to see "oiks" off the road. Nick H's "social price", seems to be a price that the rich would happily pay, whilst the rest of us are left with even more miserable lives. Dave

I agree with Spurry. I'm not at all sure about this summer now. I think it may well turn out to be rather dissapointing for heat lovers. There is still a lot of cold (by now cool), weather bottled up to the North. Knowing our luck it'll probably choose the summer to spill South! For me, a continuation of this week would be perfect until October. beautiful blue skies, strong sunshine, no humidity & a good breeze. Absolute heaven! Dave

This reminds me of a question that I asked a couple of years ago but never had answered! There is a scientific name for the faint light in the Northern sky at that time of year & I completely forgot what it was. Anyone who can help me this time? Dave

pah!! a bit of Scottish pooh? what about the soot in the poor fireman's living room? Whingeing Scots Dave

Some way over the top reporting on BBC news tonight. Continually referring to a quake rather than a tremor. It also seems as though a fireman suffered a fall of soot from his chimney as a result! Oh! the humanity! Dave

I'm going to use a cricket thing here! We're playing the West Indies in the early summer & it always seems to be warm dry & sunny when we play them. Then a dodgy spell late June to mid July & then we play India which again always brings warm dry weather. Well I've as much a chance as any other long range forecast Dave

Hasn't stopped raining here all day! Never heavy infact always quite light but not drizzle & absolutely continous. Interesting thing for me has been the "feel" of the day. It felt like a dismal day in August not April. Definitely warm rain & aprt from that you would not have needed a coat outside. Strange days indeed! Dave

Some sort of inversion with mist/smoke trapped in a layer? Dave

Heavy snow again here now. Had a very heavy shower this afternoon. Now 2 in quick succession. beginning to settle a little. Looking at the radar looks like the wind may have turned to the NW to feed in all those loveley showers from the Irish sea! Dave

Careful prof the smuggy smug smug smugs'll be after you :lol: Dave

I wasn't specifically referring to people on here SF, naybe "The Indepent" view is what I hate most, which is almost as obsessed by catastrophic GW as the "Daily Excess" is with the Princess of wales! I accept GW. I don't sign up to the wholly anthropogenic part but we must be having some effect, I jsut dislike the certainty that both sides put to their view. If I'm still around in 15 years time, things may look very different. Maybe the doomsayers will be on the way to being proved right, maybe the naysayers may have "fought back". At the moment, I am most concerned abouy my day to day life. I want to do my bit where possible, even if AGW is pants, it make sense both financially & environmentally. However, I want to travel & discover & learn. Our government at the moment seems to want to prevent me from doing so, either by making public transport unaffordable, or pricing me off the road.

So why do I constantly detect an almost religious fervour in the both lobbies? Those of us who accept GW but not the doomsday scenario, so beloved of most AGW supporters & so despised by anti AGW, are in the worst position of all! Attacked by both sides. I really want to keep an open mind, but be it by conspiracy theory or otherwise, I ultimately suspect the motives of politicians, who claim to be socialists, wanting to reserve our roads for the well-off, whilst making public transport unavailable & unaffordable by the majority of working people.

So is the lack of any important volcanic activity in the last decade or so the reason for GW? Can't have it both ways SF. Dave