The personable Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, has just given the wrong answer on Channel 4 News. Jon Snow asked him if he was worried about climate change. Yes, he said. When he first went into space Mount Pinatubo was erupting and cooling the Earth. What had happened to the Aral Sea, he said, was an example of manmade climate change. The drying out of the Aral Sea was caused by diverting the water that fed it. Not a peep about carbon dioxide! To be fair to Jon Snow, he accepted Chris Hadfield's reply with good grace!

Does anybody have any news on the Tim Yeo vs Times Newspapers libel action?

https://inforrm.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/case-preview-yeo-v-times-newspapers-trial-of-former-mps-libel-claim-against-sunday-times-begins-on-12-october-2015/

Sorry to hog the (un)thread....been talking to daughter. explaining (lack of) AGW. Got to mention GAT (whatever that is) to her and suggested to her that having a global average temp was not unlike her buying six numbers on a Saturday based on the GALN - Global Average Lottery Numbers - and hoping to win. Except that the activists expect to win no matter what the numbers..

Storm Abigail. More like storm abi. And never likely to be Abi National (but then again, the Spanish could have her....)

Sheesh! Sorry...Lapogus....! D'oh

Loved that comment, Lapagos:

I found this inadvertantly after reading a snarky tweet from greenie journalist and researcher Dominic Hinde:

'Bjorn Lomborg is like a one cap international plying the lower leagues of climate scepticism'

lapogus, Against my better judgement, I posted this, as one of the only two comments at Bob Ward's site:

Yeah, right....
Lomborg is one of the people who believes in the standard global-warming theory, but he just doesn't subscribe to to the proposed political solutions. So, despite using models which are approve by the "consensus”, he actually gets a worse hating for that than if he argued about the science.

Meanwhile, Bob Ward's paymaster, Jeremy Grantham, is still not sure how he can best make huge profits from things like carbon trading. Despite having built a whole "Institute" at the LSE to promote his cause.

Paris will offer little succour, Jeremy.

It's still in moderation, but we'll see how it goes. I'm willing to visit almost (almost) any site once to comment.

The Germans name their fronts ( I don't mean as in Westfront or Siegfried Line).

At the moment they have a high-pressure front called Ulrike that is in the south and a low-pressure front called Eugen which will bring them the same storms that we are supposed to have.

I always thought that a bit odd. How quickly do they run through the alphabet ?