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Bishop Hill
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Jul 7, 2013
I'm away for a few days, so blogging will be light. Normal service should be resumed towards the end of the week.
Jul 7, 2013
Reader Comments (21)
Have a great holiday and thanks from all of us.
Well you picked the right weather (down here anyway). Enjoy and relax with the family.
Your Grace
I drove to Scotland a few weeks ago. The weather was glorious and sunny all the way but as we pulled up at the rented cabin it started to rain. That's climate change for you. Hope you do better.
And if Andy Murray wins at Wimbledon today I may have to change my name.
Bish you gonna watch Wimbledon and cheer on Andy.Thanks to Global Warming we finally got some good weather at last.Enjoy your break Bish.
Have a good break!
Off topic I have just watched a 55 minute long documentary about Svensmark's cosmic ray theory, on the Franco/German television chain Arte.
They have a site www.arte.tv where, in principle, past transmissions can be seen.
I could not find it, but perhaps I lack the necessary skill, or it will appear later.
That'll be the Trades, then, eh?
North Berwick or Port Seton?
Or somewhere posh — like Anstruther?!
You've certainly picked the weather for it. (That'll be global warming.) Have fun.
well I'll go to the bottom of our stairs!
Well done Andy Murray. Clearly he wouldn't have won without global warming...
Final call for the BH pub meeting and social tonight:
The Kings Arms, Broad Street, Oxford from 6:30. All welcome - of whatever climate views
NB: £Multimillion payment from shadowy Big Oil Denier Conspiracy PuppetMasters (codename: Burns Montgomery Associates) has yet again failed to materialise :-( . So PAYG only.
Lat'mer
would love to be there mate but I got to consider my carbon footprint. I will be with you in spirit (normally the second half of the bottle).
PS that guy in the corner with the dodgy-looking tash is Peter Gleick. Be careful, he IS a genius!
Latimer
Best wishes for the meet from sunny (at last!) Burgundy. One of these days I'll be in the UK at the right time. Meanwhile, like OTY, I shall be with you in spirit which will either be a half-decent Fixin or maybe a 30-year-old Ardmore. Depends how warm it is!
It's a good thing that fewer than 10 homes signed up to the "Green Deal"
Well done Andy Murray. Clearly he wouldn't have won without global warming...
Jul 8, 2013 at 4:16 AM | Jimmy Haigh
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It should be re-named "The Outdoor Tournament" in his honour.
I found the following this afternoon:
Deserts 'Greening' from Rising Carbon Dioxide: Green Foliage Boosted Across the World's Arid Regions
http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2013/07/130708103521.htm
Waddaya know eh!
Gordon Walker
It shouldn't take all that long for the enviro-luddites to come up with a raft of reasons why this is not a good thing.
Making it easier to feed the starving is usually considered a plus in most people's books but I'm sure their contorted thought processes can find a downside somewhere.
Playtime.
Here's my offering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cFb0nLCKypg
It seems you are going to drown after all, but at the same rate as the rest of us, says researchers from, gasp, UWA: http://www.sciencewa.net.au/topics/environment-a-conservation/item/2246-north-sea-level-rising-at-global-rate.html
Ever so subtle manoeuvring at Macquarie University, where a well known Australian planet saver holds the Panasonic Chair of Environmental Sustainability.
What! Your overseas presentation strayed from the consensus! Pay your own fare back sunshine.
GrantB - this is despicable. It is not just the cancelled flight ticket - if reports are true, he has lost his job, access to his data and office, and his Russian PhD student has also been left high and dry. It seems that they were determined to stop him publishing from the kick-off. Yet more disgraceful behavior from the nice people who are trying to save us all from the perils of a little extra CO2.
Being discussed at Watts Up also. Those suffering BH withdrawal symptoms may also get a fix at CA where Steve has a new post on Briffa's reluctance to look at tree line data.
In your well-earned absence, Bish - I am concerned.
Nay - VERY concerned...
Surely there's SOMEONE out there (BBC's Roger Harrabin springs to mind) who can dash off an article stating that these few warm days in July are 'unprecedented' - and of course, 'proof of global warming'..
Come on guys - don't let us down..!
P.S. Seen that lovely anticyclone sitting nicely over the British Isles on the Met Office Pressure Charts..? Nice...
P.P.S Wind 1.8% of demand - 0.73GW - equates to 12.6% of installed/available capacity... Now about that hilarious speech you made when launching the London Array, Prime Minister...
steveta - 'Green Deal could lead to summer overheating'...
Not that Department of Unintended Consequences working overtime AGAIN...!
I dunno - who'd be a politician... 'Right, chaps, we've devised this Green Deal. No-one can POSSIBLY say its not the right thing to do - lending money at eye-watering rates to people who could spend the next twenty-five years trying to recoup the difference on not getting their homes super-insulated, and having to stay in them suffocating during the coming climate-change-summers because potential buyers are put off by the loan being attached to the house. Seems like the perfect solution to me. Thousands will sign up. How many have we got so far..? Oh, come now - that can't be right. Can't we add a few noughts to that figure..? Surely 'enquiries' count..? I'm going to call Ed Davey - he can go on telly, put his head on one side looking all earnest and truthful and say what a success this scheme is...'