Back Home Tomorrow!
August 28, 2015
Pleased to say the Ma in Law is well on the mend, if bored stiff in a hospital bed.
She’s finally getting a transfer to our local hospital on Monday, so we will be travelling home tomorrow, and normal service will soon be resumed.
Stay tuned for the latest story on Slingo’s incompetence!
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Have a safe journey, Paul.
Gay (or heterosexual if you prefer) bunting will adorn the streets !!
Please.. use the words “colourful bunting”
so as to not offend anyone 😉
Oh …. It’s like you’ve never been away!
You don’t really do holidays, do you Paul?
Welcome back …. And there’s lots to get stuck into too.
N
Best wishes, Paul!
I often wonder if people like your Ma in Law think the weather is any different today than when they were young, do you know what she thinks?
It’s been decided that 2015 is going to be the hottest year ever “by a mile” in the independent.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-change-2015-will-be-the-hottest-year-on-record-by-a-mile-experts-say-10477138.html
Of course the brainless presenters on the BBC News channel accepted this without question, without asking, why are they using a measure of distance to describe temperature?
Some of the “facts” stated in the article are also slightly suspect.
“Other scientists agree that the scene is now set for another record hot year that breaks last year’s high by a significant amount – as much as 0.1C higher than the 2014 annual average temperature record of 14.57C. 2015 is currently on track to hit 14.68C.”
The article states it the 2014 absolute temp. was only 14.57c giving an increase of 0.11c assuming a 2015 figure of 14.68c.
However, according to NOAA the mean global temperature from 1901-2000 was 13.9c, and the 2014 anomaly was 0.74c, which would make the 2014 absolute temp. 14.64c, not 14.57c.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/faq/anomalies.php
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global/globe/land_ocean/ytd/12/1880-2015.csv
If the 2015 temp. is 14.68c the increase over 2014 (based on actual data) would be only 0.04c. Of course the article figures could be based on an entirely different base figure.
The article also states:
“Normally when global average temperature records are broken, it is by a tiny fraction of a degree – about 0.01C or 0.02C. However, this year the record is likely to be broken by 10 times this margin, said Jessica Blunden, a climate scientist at Noaa.”
Actually previous recent records have been:
1979 0.23c
1980 0.27c +0.04c
1981 0.30c +0.03c
1983 0.34c +0.04c
1987 0.37c +0.03c
1988 0.38c +0.01c
1990 0.43c +0.05c
1995 0.46c +0.03c
1997 0.52c +0.06c
1998 0.64c +0.12c
2005 0.66c +0.02c
2010 0.70c +0.04c
2014 0.74c +0.04c
Which makes the current increase nothing unusual. Even if the 2015 increase of 0.11c is corrrect it was beaten by the 1998 increase.
All of these, are of course, based on “adjusted” NOAA figures.
The year isn’t over yet. Temperatures could plummet in the next few months. Unlikely I know but they don’t know that it won’t happen. It should also be noted that warmer weather is more benign and temperatures rising by tiny fractions of a degree hardly justifies the warmists’ constant alarmism.