Oh, there is a God, and sometimes the ironies of life that He, She or It produce are just so delicious you want them to last forever and ever! Two days ago, our beloved House of Commons under the wise, all-seeing, all-knowing leadership of that mendacious, porridge-eating, Jock dimwit, debated global warming. They waffled on the subject for six hours, thus raising the temperature of the globe by several degrees with all the hot air they spouted.
But . . . outside, the snow fell in London, "the first October fall in the metropolis since 1922"! Oh my giddy aunt, you really couldn't make it up, the tears of laughter are freezing on my face. Anyway, with the generosity of spirit with which this blog is famed the length and breadth of, er, well, somewhere, I'm sure, I wish to pass on some advice to 'Little Willy' who managed a whole comment here yesterday without a single swear word - do wrap up warm 'Willy'!
Hat tip to Andrew Orloski via Anthony Watts.
Oh my Mr. Duff,
http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-39973-113.html
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 30 October 2008 at 19:16
So, 'JK', an increase in methane levels! Well, I know where that came from:
http://www.physorg.com/news135003243.html
The little 'Memsahib' insists that my own contributions are far from modest!
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 30 October 2008 at 19:32
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-change-at-the-poles-is-manmade-980256.html
Look, I know there are some long words in tehre Duff but I've linked you to the most dumbed-down report of this I could find without going near The Sun or Daily Mail. Do try and read it- even the long sentences. Just write down any words you don't understand here and I'll do my best to explain them to you in words of one syllable.
Fuck.
Posted by: punkscience | Sunday, 02 November 2008 at 00:22
Aaah, shame, ''Little Willy', because you were doing so well and then your true nature displayed itself in your final word. Still, 'E' for Effort!
As to the the link you provide, I am tempted to imitate your good self and reply that I never read anything that hasn't been peer-reviewed, because apparently that is the way things are done in the 'nodding dogs' world of officially sanctioned climate science where any failure to toe the party line has repurcussions on careers and funding.
I notice, with a wry smile, that the authors of this, er, totally neutral and impeccably scientific report are based at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and the Met Office Hadley Centre! For the benefit of my readers who may not be well informed on the finer points of the dogma of climate science, asking these two organisations whether or not global warming is man-made or not is like asking the Vatican if God exists!
Still, as 'Little Willy' and I are swapping non-peer-reviewed reports, you might like to give this a brief glance:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/05/unusual-winds-caused-arctic-ice-melts-not-global-warming
It's also worth noting that arctic ice is now on the increase:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/15/goddard_arctic_ice_mystery/
I should add my usual caveat, that I, personally, have no fixed idea on whether or not there is global warming, although I suspect there has been a slight increase in the 20th c. which should surprise no-one because the temperature of the earth's atmosphere is constantly changing; however, no-one has produced a cast-iron case to convince me that any such warming is man-made, least of all hysterical, non-scientific fanatics like 'Little Willy'.
Posted by: David Duff | Sunday, 02 November 2008 at 10:51