2011 2nd warmest on record

[Cannydc]

This year was the second warmest on record for the UK, the Met Office says.

Provisional figures show that only 2006, with an average temperature of 9.73C (49.5F), was warmer than 2011's average temperature of 9.62C (49.3F).

Just saying...

[LipsOfLabia]

Just saying, so the earth is going through it's normal climate cycle? What's new??? It always has and always will.

If MAN thinks it can win over nature then MAN kiss my ass.

[Big Fat Frosty]

records .....
u mean the last 100 year or so if u can beleive them
but wotever
100years isnt even a blink
its not even a thought of a blink
we know there have been times when the poles
were gone thats how hot earth can get
FFS
deal with it sensible
dont go all al gore and become a warmista
tho he is now a billionaire
just live ur life
ignore this sensationalist bullshit
have babys smoke weed
wotever....
dont buy into it

[Cannydc]

The longest continuous temperature record is the Hadley Centre's Central England Temperature series. It starts around 1850.

I am happy to buy into FACTS.

And it is a FACT that we are experiencing a warming cycle, as seen by many of the hottest years average temperatures occuring in the last 20 years or so....

That isn't sensationalist, it is happening, as seen by a general movement and / or blurring of our seasons.

[Stooo]

The longest continuous temperature record is the Hadley Centre's Central England Temperature series. It starts around 1850.

I am happy to buy into FACTS.

And it is a FACT that we are experiencing a warming cycle, as seen by many of the hottest years average temperatures occuring in the last 20 years or so....

That isn't sensationalist, it is happening, as seen by a general movement and / or blurring of our seasons.

Yeah but our climate has always changed and that of the world. Sometimes very rapidly.

[Cannydc]

That's fine, Stooo.

I have deliberately avoided mentioning Global Warming or Climate Change.

But both do seem to be happening, and my guess is that stopping them is far, far beyond the power of man.

[Stooo]

That's fine, Stooo.

I have deliberately avoided mentioning Global Warming or Climate Change.

But both do seem to be happening, and my guess is that stopping them is far, far beyond the power of man.

Or the creation of. I find it incredibly arrogant to think that mere bacteria like the human race can influence the way that a millions years old eco system operates.

[Big Fat Frosty]

look global warming is a good thing
for us living north
global cooling means an ice cap
flowing south
as long as the cap is north of greenland
your all good
ffs
lesson over....

[Cannydc]

If the icecap melts, it seems certain that cold water will flood across the Gulf Stream, and stop it dead.

Which will actually reduce average temperatures in the UK considerably, as our predominant airflow is Westerly across the warm Gulf Stream waters...

[Trapper John]

It's recorded that the Romans had vinyards in Northumbria.

It's recorded that the Thames regularly froze solid enough for people to hold ice fairs on it, as recent as 1814.

It's what the earth does, we are lucky it is so dynamic, otherwise we'd be a lifeless dust bowl like Mars.

Man has attained his place at the top of the tree, because he can adapt to the changes Earth throws our way every few millenia.