The Russian heatwave really isn’t a product of climate change, global warming or greenhouse gas emissions.
It’s just one of those things: and the reason we’ve got a hotter record is that the longer you keep a set of records of some variable the further away from the norm the records will be.
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1 Neil Reddin // Aug 29, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Hmmm. I wonder if the BBC will report this little nugget.
I mean, if the heatwave *had* been blamed on GW, then it would be leading the six o’clock news wouldn’t it? And the BBC is a balanced impartial organisation after all.
(*Ducks just in time to avoid flying pig*0
2 dearieme // Aug 29, 2010 at 6:14 pm
D’ye mean that that record test stand for the eighth wicket wasn’t caused by Global Warming?
3 Bill Sticker // Aug 29, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Good grief. Something not caused by Warble Gloaming? I need to sit down with a large whiskey to steady me nerves.
4 DBC Reed // Aug 30, 2010 at 9:41 am
I am so old that I can remember killer smogs in London and Manchester.There was much more atmospheric pollution then: London was called “the Smoke” ; Manchester stone buildings were uniform black with ingrained soot (rather nice: a matt black line of Doric columns was a sight to behold).
I am never going to believe in the pollution theory of global warming until they explain how pollution affects the jetstream.Russia appears to have been caught in a big kink in the jetstream
(whether Mobile Polar Highs were involved ,sound like some aspect of drug dealing,is another matter).
I don’t know why with British weather forecasts they don’t just tell you where the jetstream is and leave you to draw your own conclusions.
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