Remember the only thing the Scarecrow was afraid of was a lighted match

and have you checked "ice free in as little as 7 years from now [10th Dec 2007]"

..and keeping with the Oz theme at least the shrieking of "Look what you've done! I'm melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world!" seems to have abated

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

What was that you predicted would happen Dave ? http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/...,27654_offset,2450#332072

Yours as ever

"A cursed brat!"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14399557

It has emerged that fewer young people are taking their driving tests. [in the UK]

The number of 17 to 22 year-olds taking their driving test has fallen by 19% since 2005, a drop of more than 200,000 people.

Analysts say it could be that the rising cost of learning to drive, plus the cost of insurance is that is putting them off.

Meanwhile.....

Those safe as houses, environmentally friendly, clean, can't get enough of 'em, slap one up here in next to no time Gov, never been so Green , Nuclear Power Stations....


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-02/tepc...g-at-fukushima-plant.html

Off the scale

Not that you will hear about it unless you keep digging for the truth

Dave

The inevitable flip side to Caroline Spelman the Secretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs audacity to declare drought in the UK http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/natu...rought-looms-2284401.html

a quick fast forward and .......

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/07/floo...rth-east-england-scotland

Personally, I think that all Christians and other faiths need to start prayers on their bare knees, on the cocosmats, in unison and loudest, for those sunspots not to return... they do nasty stuff whilst our ozone layer remains in a sorrowly damaged state. Just look what 2 of your terrible winters have produced... part of the ISD... maybe some were heard, those that know! Can't be fooled forever... like smoking is not bad for your health.



2011 -0,00765668% less irradiation than came down in 2003, the heatwave year... wait, think there's something about heatwaves in 2011, selectively escaping attention .



Only in the parallel universe it may make a difference.

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P.S., Plants like diffuse light, our plumes did so too with record fruit baring... better CO2 uptake, and with help the billions of tonnes of aerosols we're still injecting into the air, that will continue to be the state of the air we breath for decades to come.

P.P.S. Aerosols and dust and volcanic sulfur and other ejecta are a superb break on Hurricanes, the season for them still young... but lets not discuss the Typhoons... that's another part of the planet, way away from your berry-picking window.

P.P.P.S. Man's so puny, yet is able to create plastic floats in the oceans the size of Germany, France and Spain together ... long as we continue doing it, it will add up to change the atmospheric CO2 by 40%... Oxygen and Nitrogen are transparent to Long Wave back radiation from Earth... CO2 and Methane [CH4] are NOT.

Oh yes, before we forget... no warming in the 21st century... but only in your dreams:



Did I write anything new that is not getting through and sticking? Dead ice bears are disposed of a toxic waste, after skinning... not edible... one of them ripped a kid apart last week on Svalbard... we're dinner too if other sources can't be reached over ice.

Please continue to make it up as you go [and leave out the important facts, that matter to the future wellbeing of us all 7 billion]

edit: Food for David'Autumns' thoughts... really want your sunspots back? Tell it to the Texans, who have trouble believing GW is anything to worry about: Texas State Climatologist: “It may well be th...ly … the most unbearable”



Don't think the Texans will be thrilled to get the sun to max anytime soon... 0.1% is what a min / max flux is, the Total Solar Irradiance, coming from about 8 minutes light travel distance.