Reporting of the Climate Change Report

[MrGongGong]

Well you said this yourself earlier in this thread

Your point being ?
we still don't know with what authority you speak ?
As you seem to know a lot about this subject
I mean if I wanted to know about obscure symphonic repertoire i'd ask Suffolkcoastal , if I wanted to know about Cardew i'd ask Bryn ....... so ?

[MrGongGong]

Oh, if it'll shut you up:

B.Sc., Ph.d., MBA, F.Inst.Phys, FIET, C.Eng.

In what subjects ?

[Beef Oven!]

In what subjects ?

AIC "stand aside worthy foe"

GG "tis but a scratch"

[An_Inspector_Calls]

In what subjects ?

Electronics and then Physics.

[MrGongGong]

Electronics and then Physics.

Thanks

[teamsaint]

Aren't you having your cake and eating it there?

Incidentally, I was looking at a Conservative blog as to who is 'winning' in the coalition (Tories, apparently), but it's Blues 1 – Yellows 5 on Energy and the Environment.

Well I don't think so, but if others disagree then that is fine.

i would like to see reports into damage that we are inflicting on the world, through the kinds of economies that we have, that we can trust, that are as far as possible not influence by interest groups, and that seek to persuade governments.
I have my doubts about some of the underlying agendas on climate change, and how they are being driven.
Its easy to reconcile that with a belief that we should be very careful about sending large amounts of Co2 into the atmosphere without knowing what the results might be, for example.

Governments , of many kinds and nations , are very good at seeming to do one thing(and talking about it) and doing something else.
Look at austerity measures in the UK. For all the attacks on ordinary people, and talk, the deficit pretty much remains as it was 3 years ago.

[clive heath]

"Warmists" Whatever next !!!

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/warmists_trapped_by_irony_off_antarctica

[Serial_Apologist]

It makes me wonder if somehow the effects of global warming are more concentrated over the northern hemisphere.

[jean]

"Warmists" Whatever next !!!

It's how the deniers always refer to them.

[Dave2002]

Aren't you having your cake and eating it there?

Incidentally, I was looking at a Conservative blog as to who is 'winning' in the coalition (Tories, apparently), but it's Blues 1 – Yellows 5 on Energy and the Environment.

That blog page seems to have a very, very biased view of the world. What planet does Mark Wallace live on - or at least what country does he live in? Ignore the Climate/Energy "result", just about every other category is badly dealt with - so why should the energy "score" be treated seriously.

Home Office doing a good job? Ha!
Michael Gove doing great things for Education? Also Ha! [He does have some good ideas, but he hasn't got it that not everyone has an IQ over 140, and is motivated, and that many students behave very differently and respond in different ways to how they are treated.]

etc.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Michael Gove doing great things for Education? Also Ha! [He does have some good ideas, ....]

etc.

I must have missed that one - the good idea, I mean.

[Ferretfancy]

It makes me wonder if somehow the effects of global warming are more concentrated over the northern hemisphere.

Not entirely, but Antarctica is not warming quite as fast. This is because the continent is isolated and entirely surrounded by the Southern Ocean with its prevailing westerlies. Furthermore, there are very cold winds descending from the high polar plateau which chill the ocean further as they reach the perimeter of the continent. Nonetheless, the Antarctic Peninsula is warming, and populations of penguins and krill are being seriously affected. The large mass of East Antarctica appears to be getting slightly colder, but the overall warming is still there.

I visited the Ross Sea and the Bay of Whales some years ago, not far from where the recent incident occurred. What seems to be happening is that huge icebergs are calving off the Ross Ice Shelf and drifting north. As they do so they prevent the normal summer melting of the sea ice. The ship that I was on was an icebreaker, and we were asked to assist in cutting a channel through the sea ice down to the American base at McMurdo in order to allow supply vessels to get in.
Normally there is a clear channel down to the base in the summer, but this had failed to happen.

It's a great experience to enjoy as the bow of the ship crushes the ice, and whales and seals appear in the channel that has just been opened up.

[Dave2002]

I must have missed that one - the good idea, I mean.

I think he does want to "raise standards", but hasn't a clue how to do it. I didn't write that all, or even most of his ideas are good. I'm not sure whether his notions of education are based on his own life, which is really rather interesting.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Just about everyone in education wants to raise standards. But most go about it a rational way. He's just incompetent.

[clive heath]

.............returning to the thread.
While listening to Walter Weller, of whom more later, conducting the National Orchestra of Belgium (no, me neither) in Suk's Asrael Symphony, I was re-browsing the "Ice-Age" wiki page. The text speaks of us still being in an ice-age evidenced by the continuing existence of polar ice-cover implying that if we were not in the tail-end of an ice-age there would be no cover. There are also a set of interesting graphs which, while I am not usually persuaded by post-hoc propter-hoc arguments, seem to suggest that peaks of CO² are coincident with peaks of temperature and that there is a cycle of temperature/CO² variation which is out of phase with a cycle of dust particle concentration so that the latter alternates with the former on a scale of thousands of years. What this means in terms of our current concerns I have no idea but googling

global warming and dust concentration

will lead the interested to some relevant articles. Symphony over.