snow hope wrote:
Thank goodness they hadn't invented climate change in the mid seventies. In those long hot, dry summers (in the UK), they just blamed the droughts on the weather and its normal variability. The same goes for the dust bowl in the US during the nineteen thirties and beyond - global warming gone crazy......
Come to think of it what was the cause of all the drenchings we have had in various parts of the UK during the last 4 summers?
Look at the temperatures. In particular, global temperatures.
Oh, yea climate change....... you have to laugh.
And the coldest December ever recorded in Ireland - yep Climate Change....
And the melting glaciers and ice caps?
Do you disagree with the science of the greenhouse effect?
This is one instance where Occam's Razor can be applied meaningfully. We know the world is getting dramatically warmer. We know that there are more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere than for many millennia. We know that greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere. If you know otherwise on any of these issues, what is your evidence? Extrapolating global patterns from the view out of your window is not science!
Besides, as I mentioned, even in most of the rainy summer months over the past few years, temperatures in the UK have
still been above average, so even the "view out of my window" argument doesn't stand up.
If you doubt what I'm saying, look at the Met Office's monthly climate statistics for the past decade or so:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/
"We're just waiting, looking skyward as the days go down / Someone promised there'd be answers if we stayed around."