The Temperature Of The UK Over The Last 100 Years (part 1)
A butcher's at daily maxima and minima over the last 100 years. Are things getting worse, and what does ‘worse’ mean?
“It’s hard to grow carrots on a glacier" is a phrase you’ll find me using time and time again. Somehow we’ve slipped into a parallel reality whereby excess plant food and a life-giving gas (carbon dioxide) is being regarded as some sort of toxic pollutant, and where the warming of the planet a terribly bad thing even though the greatest spurts of biodiversity took place on a warmer globe.
Cold is good, apparently, as are the glaciers and polar ice that activists want to see more of. For some inexplicable reason they haven’t yet figured out that it is the great ice ages that destroy life and the ecosystem, with life on Earth flourishing under warm ages.
Neither have they figured out that runaway global warming doesn’t happen on Earth. There have been plenty of chances for this over the millennia, with carbon dioxide up at 4,000pm and beyond rather than the paltry 400ppm it is today. Such folk are oblivious to the fact that we’re coming out of an extended period of carbon dioxide defici…