Global warming?

[Marky B]

Originally Posted by Steve Crook It's just the latest band-waggon that all politicians and large companies want to be seen to be on Steve

And celebrities. I would trust them more if they stood for something they really believed in....and didn't make a song and dance about it.
Ta Ta
Mark B

[Frank63]

Originally Posted by wadsy There was an Australian astrophysicist on the radio here this morning. He claimed that lack of sunspots (apparently absent at the moment) on the sun will cause the climate to cool & that we will experience weather similar to that of the 1830's! Who are we supposed to believe?

We have always had sunspot minimum and sunspot maximum in an 11 year cycle. It's nothing new. They are not actually absent there just aren't as many as there were at the sunspot maximum.

Sunspots also effect radio waves especially short waves and this cycle seems to have dipped much lower than in the past but no doubt the upturn will start soon. The expets say that should occur 2009/2010.

There is a site somewhere on www where you can check the index daily, not of much interst unless you are a broadcaster or a radio ham.

[Marky B]

Originally Posted by batman Especially Al Gore .... failed presidential candidates have to do something.

I read somewhere that his house has the biggest electricity bill in Tennessee. He was asked about it in an interview and a "minder" called him away.
Ta Ta
Marky B

[Moor Larkin]

Originally Posted by Frank63 Sunspots................... The expets say that should occur 2009/2010................

Whatever happened to that bloke who used to do 'alternative' weather reports? One or more tabloids featured him alongside the Met Office reports, for quite a while and he was touted as being much more accurate.................. He supposedly based all his predictions on sunspot activity I seem to remember. Never hear of him now.....................

[Lord Brett]

Originally Posted by Moor Larkin I was listening to the radio and one guy was saying Australia is suffering a profound drought and this is an early sign of things to come. I occasionally correspond with someone near Cairns and he's been flooded out twice, in the last three or four years.....

Actually, that makes sense. If you have parched ground from a prolonged dry spell followed by sudden heavy rain over a short period (climate change is supposed, the theory goes, to bring extremes of weather) then the ground can't absorb the water and it runs off, causing floods.

Someone who actually knows about these things can feel free to prove me wrong...

[Moor Larkin]

Originally Posted by Lord Brett Someone who actually knows about these things can feel free to prove me wrong...

The drought guys reckoned they'd had no rain for over five years........... My guy said it hadn't stopped raining for about five weeks...............

I think he lives on the coast - probably like Kent and Gwynedd............

[batman]

Sunspot activity was innacurately blamed for the sudden increase in heat at the start of The Day The Earth Caught Fire.

We're all doomed!

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by Marky B And celebrities. I would trust them more if they stood for something they really believed in....and didn't make a song and dance about it. Ta Ta Mark B

Some do. But because they don't make a song and dance about it you rarely hear of them

Steve