[Gllug] Hello from Cape Town

[John G Walker]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:25:34 +0100 Les Matthew <lesmcdm at clara.co.uk>
wrote:

> > Uh - anecdotal evidence is no better merely because it happens to be
> > aligned with the science. You wouldn't accept "It's unusually cold
> > _here_, global warming must be rubbish"; nor should you accept "It's
> > unusually warm here, ..."
> >   
> 
> But would you accept "It's unusually wet here in the UK"? ;)

I wouldn't, because the cause of the current flooding is the southward
shift of the Jet Stream. No one is quite sure what this is evidence of
- although it's certainly not cyclical, as one poster implied he
thought it was,


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 All the best,
 John
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