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  1. PeteG
    Sublimation wouldn't cause melt ponds as, because as I understand it, it is the process of a solid becoming a gas without going through the liquid stage.
  2. PeteG
    28F is actually -2.2C
  3. PeteG
    The lavendar in both my front and back garden was covered in Red Admirals yesterday and there's at least a dozen on the one outside my lounge window at the moment. Not many other butterflies though - just the odd white around.
  4. PeteG
    Well we've just had a tremendous storm here with lots of lightning, thunder and torrential rain. Only saw one or two cloud to ground flashes as most were inthe cloud. One was immediately overhead which (a) scared the living daylights out of me and (b) nearly deafened me as it was so loud. Its now drifted away northeastwards and the clouds were a fantastic pinky orange colour.
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    I doubt it. It's only called a supermoon because it nearness coincides with it being a full moon. The moon circles the Earth in 4 weeks and has an oval orbit so it is presumably closer to the planet every couple of weeks and I don't think there's a fortnightly pattern to earthquake activity.
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    After a brief lull more heavy rain and thunder is approaching from the WSW. Just had the loudest clap of thunder of the afternoon.
  7. PeteG
    Raining heavily here and the thunder and lightning between here and Nottingham is getting much closer.
  8. PeteG
    It's in my bird book which dates from the 1970s as a Dunnock (there's definitely no hedge sparrow). I've had these living in my very small back garden for years.
  9. PeteG
    There were reports from Afghanistan and Pakistan on the BBC this morning, on the lunchtime news, and the 6 o'clock news this evening.
  10. PeteG
    Five Red Admirals on the lavendar and too many bees to count.
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    I think where KL is wrong is in calling it an "ice gain" as it is described as Surface Mass Balance and as such the vast majority of it will be snow.
  13. PeteG
    The statement says "ice growth which didn't exist in 2006". Since it freezes every year it obviously did exist in 2006.
  14. PeteG
    That can't be right, it's showing green in Hudson Bay which freezes every year.
  15. PeteG
    Do you honestly want me to believe that volcanic activity under the Antarctic ice, which no doubt has been going on for millenia, has suddenly increased sufficiently to cause the current rate of ice loss! You'll be telling me next that the large number of new volcanoes that have been discovered under the oceans are causing the increase in sea water temperature, when it's the equivalent of me chucking a bucket of hot coals into Lake Windermere.
  16. PeteG
    I believe the ships were trapped in the ice and we don't know how far they were carried before they finally sank. They presumably only made it to that area because of the ice cover.
  17. PeteG
    I think you'll find your arithmetic is wrong. 750000 km2 x 2m (0.002km) is 1500 km3.
  18. PeteG
    Your science is pretty poor - you can't burn CO2, it's produced by burning fossile fuels and if we didn't have the warming effect of greenhouse gasses the planet would be too cold to sustain the life it does.Its only since the industrial revolution that vaste quantities of CO2 have been pumped into the atmosphere.As for global sea ice the total figure may be high but Antarctica amounts are higher which offsets the dreadful state of the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.
  19. PeteG
    Unless my compass has gone totally awry aren't we on the eastern edge of a large ocean?
  20. PeteG
    Having read most of that lot I fail to see how you can say the polar bear population is rising. Most of it would appear to indicate polar bears are in trouble.Have you thought that if more polar bears are seen round settlements it might be the result of a lack of ice preventing them from hunting seals as they would normally do, and being hungry they are scavenging areas where we live and dump rubbish and food?
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    Who's shot themselves in the foot? I don't see this discovery being evidence of it being warmer 6000 years ago. If you drop something anywhere and it is covered by snow that doesn't melt fully it will get buried. If this continues year after year it gets more deeply buried. If some 6000 years later the ice and snow covering it melts as a result of warming and the item is revealed it is an indication of recent warming, not a warmer climate at the time it was dropped.
  23. PeteG
    I've had a sparrowhawk in my small garden on several occasions. I would have thought our gardens are ideal hunting spots as we feed birds which brings them into our gardens. The bird table provides for seed eaters and predators!
  24. PeteG
    Had to evict six tortoiseshell butterflies from my garage this afternoon. I assume they had pupated in the garage and "hatched" today as there is no other way I can think of that they could have got in.
  25. PeteG
    They look like young starlings to me.
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