What Do We Think About Climate Change

You are BOTH missing the point.... IT is STILL winter here and ice is melting - - WTF - -?????
If sea ice melts in WINTER then global warming is difficult to deny - It means the waters are warm, and warm waters make the air warmer which could lead to melting of the ice-cap resting on Antarctic land..... Shhhhhiiiieeeeesssshhhhh?

Still not a point proven, just something to watch and be aware of.... for future consideration.

 

I ain't interested in the point I'm still sorting out the geography - which part you in, Tassy? The only other ice you got is in little cubes mate!

 

Antarctica, in one word, further south me old lost walrus for a mate?

 

Safe,

You and I know what and where N. Ireland is, but Brian is Australian. He opens Google to look at Ireland and just sees the island. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland BTW Brian lives in Buderim, Queensland.

Elizabethan plantations, Cromwell, the Battle of the Boyne and King William III, are not part of the natural history of Australia. Abel Tasman, Captain Cook and the umpteen fleets of transported prisoners are the stuff of legend in Oz. Hence the explanation.

Brian, where's the melting? "By the way, UAH MSU showed among the past 30 Junes, June 2008 was the third coldest south of the Antarctic Circle. The Antarctic continent saw its third coldest June in 30 years, with temperatures averaging -1.53C cooler than the seasonal norm. Portions of Antarctica south of Australia were as much as 5.5 C (9.9 degrees Fahrenheit) colder than seasonal norms for the first month of winter. The low yesterday at the South Pole Amundsen Scott AFB was -95F."

http://www.icecap.us/

Sounds like brass monkey weather down there.

Regards,

Perry

 

Not quite Per, I use google earth and zoom down to see who is chatting over the back fences and where the IRA are hiding their "not now needed guns" hehehe

I don't keep a catalogue but someone, if I recall correctly said the "smaller half is melting and the other half is adding to the ice depth at a greater rate.

- Safie be warned as Antarctica may tip over and form the north pole which is really at the south (just to confuse Safie... so he doesn't panic too much)

 

Ain't panicking Mas, too bloody confused for that!

Per that may be true, but remember both the US and Aus have been UK penal colonies (like the UK is now for Bin Liner and Spewtin) so we shipped 'colonists' to both places -many Irish 'volunteered' to become colonists, addmittingly that was before the split and it became two counties or B.Liar sold the Prods down the river with 'is Good Friday Agreement - nothing good in that unless you were IRA

 

Whenever the awesomeness of the oncoming 30 years of coldness chill my thoughts, I take comfort within the warm cab of a steam locomotive. Here's a great site to bookmark and follow. Easter 2009 is the forecast for completion. Go to Changelog for updates. http://whr.bangor.ac.uk/

I've previously mentioned the Met Office economies with the truth. http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=3234 Here's another example. http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=74

And now, back to the coalhole.

Perry

 

aaye bu where willyou get the coal from?

 

Safe,

As a former employee of the London & Southern Regional Sales Office of the erstwhile National Coal Board from January 1962 - May 1965 and holder of not only Part I, but also Part II of City & Guilds Subject 188, Production, Distribution & Utilisation of Solid Fuel, (Coal) I believe that I am qualified to answer your question. Extracting British coal at a rate of 100 million tons per year there are enough proven reserves to last for 300 years. What we do not have are safe methods to win that coal. Robot miners will be needed for the task and so we shall have to wait for the inventors to get cracking.

This pit had family connections. http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/w014.htm

Perry

 

isnt it like japan or china that has 6000 deaths a year in the govern. owned mines?,,,they only have to pay the families of the "murdered" miners their equivalent of u.s.$300 per death,,, so the govern. says its way cheaper to pay the small amount then to make the mines safer.

 

The problem being of course that a most all of our coal mines closed down some years ago we don't have any trained miners to go get the stuff -and in this country as that would mean actual work they wouldn't anyway - unless we employed a few from other parts of the world - of course there is still the School of Mines down in Camborne (Cornwall), possibly the most famous school of mines in the world (look out for arguments there) but of course that is 'hard rock' mining rather different to coal mining which tends to be soft or open cast! But still hey what do I know about it? I was banned at an early age from going anywhere near a coal mine so I ran away to sea -after all father knew the right people to ensure that ban stuck, which of course was why he imposed it -he knew the conditions -and your pit, marra!

 

Association with minors is sometimes illegal and called P, - Ped. - - Oh yes, - - - Pedestrians....

 

A kid drowned in a hotel swimming pool in Pattaya oh 10 years ago. There was a bit of a cafuffle about it but the hotel agreed to pay the parents 200dollars.

They were happy with that settlement and accepted immediately!!!

 

Oh to be so content with what life dishes up as to be satisfied with $200????

 

I believe the people at the Colorado School of Mines would take exception to that!
http://www.mines.edu/all_about/history/briefhistory.html

Rick W.