European cold snap

"Don Johnstone" wrote in
message ...
To put all your minds at rest as it is apparent that
this is of concern to you all, it is a fine spring
day, bright sunshine, fluffy cu and a pleasant 11 deg
C in my part of the UK.

The bad news is I am in my office at work :-(


At 11:30 14 March 2005, Mal.Com wrote:
Did they run out of beer ?

I was reading the Top End folks had a bad day.


Saturday wasn't too bad here in Colorado, USA. I flew a 27,000 foot Diamond
Altitude wave flight at Boulder. Surface temps were around 20C but the wind
was gusty at about 20 Knots from the west.

Of course, now it has been snowing for the last two days.

Here's a climate model you don't see very often. The Author, William
Ruddiman, argues that without anthropogenic warming over the last 8000
years, we would now be quickly descending into an ice age. In other words,
by burning all those trees and fossil fuels we may have accidentally saved
ourselves from a far worse fate than global warming.

See: http://www.co2andclimate.org/wca/2004/wca_31a.html

I recall than my late Father-in-Law, Dr. Dave Harris, then Dean of the
Geology Department at Colorado State University and an expert on glaciology,
made the same proposal back in the 1970's. It's interesting so see the idea
still has supporters.

Bill Daniels