John Dee's Climate Normal

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John Dee's Climate Normal
John Dee's Climate Normal
The Temperature Of The UK Over The Last 100 Years (part 3)

The Temperature Of The UK Over The Last 100 Years (part 3)

A butcher's at daily maxima and minima over the last 100 years. Are things getting worse, and what does ‘worse’ mean?

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In part 2 of this series we took a closer look at the maximum daily temperature record at two UK airfields - whopping great Heathrow Airport down South and weeny little Wick Airport up North. Hardened activists are going to roll their eyeballs and declare a pathetic attempt to undermine a vast body of settled science, which tells us that they don’t understand anything about science.

Given that both airports are on the face of the globe, and given that both airports must obey the laws of physics (and especially the laws of thermodynamics), then we can use them as experimental subjects - guinea pigs if you will - to assess what is being billed as a global phenomenon. Global Warming is either global or somebody has sold us a lemon.

Yes, we are going to find localised factors, and yes the UK is going to behave differently to the Steppes of Russia, but global warming must leave its tell-tail trace everywhere otherwise activists will have to qualify their slogans: “global warming will fry us…

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