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 ?

turningtide,

I think it is a fantastic idea and one that should inspire us to think of names for the rare occasions that we get a week of sunshine, I would hazard a guess that we haven't had Zachary yet this year!

@NeilC

I too could have sworn Storm Abigail was the (entirely normal) storm we had last weekend.

The people who live in Hurricane Alley would be pissing themselves laughing if they knew about our named storms!