sounds more like new world order and under the control of spookey man(men) socialist.

John Hemming MP, Chairman, All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil-------It should be Mr. Lemming ---Lemmings are small rodents, usually found in or near the Arctic, in tundra biomes. They are subniveal animals, and together with voles and muskrats, they make up the subfamily Arvicolinae (also known as Microtinae), which forms part of the largest mammal radiation by far, the superfamily Muroidea, which also includes rats, mice, hamsters, and gerbils.---from Wikipedia---

With Fuel prices being what they are in the UK including a colossal element of taxation what kind of insane Government is contemplating giving out weekly tokens which if exhausted before Friday you have to purchase more to continue to keep warm or go anywhere ..... mine.

I spent last weekend trapped (Pre tokens)

I had paid out the £160 (inc VAT) to prevent the almost £1.29 a litre being sprayed directly onto the road and then the battery failed, rescued again by Green Flag. I could not afford a new Battery until I got paid on Monday so....that's my weekend not going anywhere. Owning the greenest Car on the lot

It's looking good and running smoothly now. I think I'll buy a radiator this week and sling it in the boot, just in case. Next week maybe a water pump

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradable_Energy_Quotas



By the way that local Star of ours is calm and spotless again

Here's a great page after a worthwhile hit on your Internet connection courtesy of the Solar Dynamics Observatory Satellite now high over New Mexico

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/SDO_Self_Updating_6.htm

Enjoy

The Government Chappy finally made it to Dawlish to make another crazy announcement - the one about the fish in the Lake District

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12302555

and here's that link that was lost somewhere in the early hours of the morning

A bit of a history lesson as to why saying

"
One of its most vulnerable stretches of track is on the south Devon coast between Dawlish and Teignmouth where storms have often seen waves break over the line.

Network Rail says the sea level at this point has risen 30cm since 1840 and is projected to rise by a further 70cm by 2050 and 1.45m by 2100. The risk of the track being 'overtopped' is predicted to increase by 50% by 2020 and to treble by 2080.

It has already invested £8.5m in the past 10 years in fortifying the sea defences and establishing an early warning system to watch for rockfalls from the cliffs.

Network Rail believes it is "ahead of the game" by planning for future changes but warns that any adaptation will need to be dove-tailed with flood protection schemes for neighbouring Teignmouth and Dawlish.
"

is a bit silly as yep that's going to happen with a few big waves


http://www.therailwaycentre.com/Dawlish%20Sea...s/Dawlish_SW_history.html

I was lucky enough to live in Dawlish for a while

The station is right on the Sea Front and I have been standing in the inland platform and the waves have crashed over the trains standing at the seaward platform and land on me

That's what happens when you build your train lines and consequently train stations on the edge of the sea

sea here a 125 parked in the Station


That millpond is the English Channel and I can assure you it's not always that calm and with the tide not always that far away from the land

Sometimes a little perspective is needed when interpreting that "alarming" news item

A little perspective is what is also needed when you read this bold claim

"The latest projections suggest the potential for major change - for example that it is "very likely" that southern England will on average be 2.2-6.8C warmer by the 2080s".

During the 20th Century the temperature rose (with an increasingly active Sun) by 0.7C. Not 1 not 2 just 0.7 of 1 degree C

What do you think it is doing in the 21st with an increasingly inactive Sun?




The average temperature as measured in central England in 2010 was 8.83C

Now....

In 70 years time what do you think is the likelihood "that southern England will on average be 2.2-6.8C warmer by the 2080s"

"Very likely" as claimed or "not very likely at all" if you allow the use of your own grey matter


You are still thinking about that Sea Level Rise at Dawlish

Get you noggin around this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound

In Great Britain, glaciation affected Scotland but not Southern England, and the post-glacial rebound of northern Great Britain is causing a corresponding downward movement of the southern half of the island.[8] This is leading to an increased risk of floods, particularly in the areas surrounding the lower River Thames. Along with rising sea levels caused by global warming, the post-glacial sinking of southern England is likely to seriously compromise the effectiveness of the Thames Barrier, London's most important flood defence, after about 2030.

(Ignore the obligatory nonsense global warming reference)

Those Glacier's have been retreating for a long while which if the nice man from Defra took some time out to take a look is why, coming full circle, those Lakes are found in the lake district and why Wordworth et al wax so lyrical about the beauty of the place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_District
"
The Lake District is approximately 34 miles (55 km) across. Its features are a result of periods of glaciation, the most recent of which ended some 10,000 years ago. These include the ice-carved wide U-shaped valleys, many of which are now filled with the lakes that give the park its name.
"

Yep Climate Changes thank goodness

A lot of utter nonsense is spouted in it's name though

But if you take the time to delve that bit deeper behind those insane headlines the effort is worth the reward

Keep thinking

Dave

Morning marysduby

This will be the third bad Winter in the UK on the trot and we now have 2 warm weeks in April we call Summer

Piers is a maverick but he has his eyes open to allow variables such as the Sun into his forecasting. He is also cannily accurate unlike our BBQ Summer warming obsessed Met Office

I have got to find out what causes the wave in this record



Maybe it's Lunar Modulation I don't know

But it's real enough and it is cyclical

Here's another Cartoon by Josh

http://www.cartoonsbyjosh.com/met_computer_scr.jpg


By the way I should probably point out that there is nothing wrong with the Met Offices Supercomputer it is one of the fastest in the land and technologically awesome

see http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2008/pr20080804.html


It's lighteningly fast execution of software code biased by incorrect assumptions that creates incorrect forecasts

Nowt wrong with the hardware Big Blue


Dave