golf Charlie. Leaking moles require medical attention, but leaking toads are osmotically challanged and so behave abominably when picked up. They are devils of the spawn.

Ross Lea
As Julia Slingo will tell you she created one of the first papers on how CO2 is going to fry us all.

Entropic Man
Is that just a result of better monitoring or did an aged Bedouin say it was the worst year since Tariq ibn Ziyad visited Spain?

Alan Kendall, apologies!

"..... have taken to licking toads...." not leaking toads.

Moles leak, toads don't. Actually that isn't right either. Toads and frogs, like freshwater fish are constantly battling the ingress of water through their skin .....

golf Charlie. There is an annual "Toad Suck Daze" festival in Arkansas; unfortunately nothing to do with licking amphibians.

golf Charlie leaking toadsl? Do Hampshire toads blow through their holes creating harmonies? No wonder you bumpkins can't sleep.

Alan Kendall, Bofotoxins are a matter of life and death for many creatures tempted to eat a toad, instead of a frog. Despite his squat ugly appearance, Napolean was never described as a toad., but still caused death and destruction. Many predators will spit out a toad, and both normally survive the experience. The cane toad, now a pest of green bloblical proportions, is rather more toxic, and kills indigenous wildlife as well as domesticated animals and pets.

Mixed in with the bufotoxins can be bufotenins, hallucinogenic drugs, and some sub-subcultures from around the world, including the UK, have taken to leaking toads. This can prove fatal, but in the UK is more likely to provoke howls of side splitting laughter amongst Casualty Doctors and Nurses when they work out the limited intelligence of some teenagers.

The toad lacks natural predators, but has never learnt to read the Green Cross Code. The Green Splattered Toad is an inevitable consequence of encounters with Round Black Radials and Cross-Plies, for which toxins offer no protection.

The Transport and Road Research Laboratory at Crowthorne never concluded that a tyre tread's toad holding ability effected cornering or braking in the wet.

Ross lea

Sorry, finger trouble. You will find the graph here.

Ross Lea

What she failed to say is that their modelling was way wide of empirical data.

That turns out not to be the case.

Look at the second CMIP5 graph here. Current temperatures are running within the forcing adjusted projection(dark grey).

I have just watched the Panorama programme on the weather; it started quite well and was interesting until Julia Slingo started spouting the virtues of climate models. What she failed to say is that their modelling was way wide of empirical data. To me this is very unscientific not to present the data objectively. Also they kept banging on about a warmer planet and it’s consequences without mentioning the fact the planet is in fact not warming. A disgrace !

golf Charlie. Which is worse, the sound of the death throws of sexed-up toads on the roads or the squeal of brakes followed by breaks as cars aquaplane on a sheen of toad entrails and bufotoxin?