Bloody parky today

[The Natural Philosopher]

Can we have some global warming, please?

[ARW]

I put on my big coat and cleared the snow from the neighbours path.

It's a long time since I saw snow this early

[GB]

I know you're joking, but some people genuinely think that global warming means we'll simply have warmer winters. It really ought to be called something different.

[The Natural Philosopher]

well i *think* there might be a dusting here, or was...it's now just dull wet and windy. Like it always is at the onset of winter.

If someone asked me 'has the weather got warmer in your lifetime?' I would probably say. 'well it did a bit, for a bit, but is now back where it always was'.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I defer to the Guardian and the BBC... 'our children won't know what snow is'

"Outright fraud?"

[Richard]

It is. Climate change. Climate is only changing recently after being stable for billions of years.

[Andrew]

Coming on tuesday

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

GB has brought this to us :

Global colding?

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Richard formulated the question :

No, the climate has always been very variable.

[Andy Bennet]

Well in the 70's I remember between end of October to end of March having to scrape the ice off all the car windows before driving off to work - pretty much every day. Now it's extremely rare, I have to do it maybe half a dozen times all winter. Winters are definitely getting warmer IMHO.

[newshound]

Yes, you *must* call it climate crisis (or, better still, catastrophe)

[Tim Streater]

Billions of years? That would therefore cover the periods when we had a snowball Earth (ice/icebergs down to / up to the Equator), when CO2 was at

3000 ppm (rather than some 400 ppm as now), when the atmosphere's O2 content was 30% or higher, and indeed the time before there was *any* O2 in the atmosphere!

Strange definition of "stable".

[newshound]

I remember very clearly, in the miserable damp summers of the late 50's and early 60's, everyone from my grandparents' generation used to complain how the Edwardian "Long hot summers" were so much better, when they were my age.

[John Rumm]

or Uber climate Armageddon!

[Andy Burns]

Travelling home along the A14, there were stretches where a small amount of snow was on the verges.

[The Natural Philosopher]

It's amazing that such a statement as Richard made can be made seemingly in all seriousness and be believed to be true.

A triumph of propaganda over science - why even the last ice age stadial only ended 10,000 years ago and it's warmed several degrees since then...

[The Natural Philosopher]

Do you live in a town? Town winter nights have got several degrees warmer, but that's local warming, not global.

[newshound]

Enough to make the A417 impassable for a while here in the Cotswolds. Presumably just a couple of idiots who got themselves stuck. I've had the same thing happen on the A46 between Bath and Stroud in the past.

[John Brown]

The Natural Philosopher [e-mail] wrote

I assumed he was being sarcastic given the ice ages.

[Richard]

Thank f*ck someone can think.