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Several Environmental Topics to really get our teeth into this month.

Rainfall .. and very interesting figures have been published by a local weather station

They show that last year we had_

January - Similar to 15 yrs. average February - 50% extra March - 20% extra April - only 1/4
May - Double June - Double July - 3 times more August - Half
September - 1/4 October - Half November - Similar December - 10% less

And the question is .. .. ..

HOW ARE FARMERS EXPECTED TO GROW ANYTHING IN WEATHER LIKE THAT ?

And then, putting the other side of the argument, the latest scientific conference (New York _ 07/03/08) has issued the 'Manhattan Declaration' saying ..

"..attempts by government to diminish CO2 emissions would 'markedly diminish future prosperity' while having 'no appreciable impact' on any warming of the earth.."

And in the meantime:_

Canada suffers from "the winter from Hell" - with temperatures breaking record lows dating back to 1873
Texas and Arkansas suffering from 'white-out' conditions bringing motorways to a standstill
Afghanistan having the greatest-ever snow-fall - 300,000 cattle lost and a human death toll of over 1,500
China having a 'Winter Snow Disaster' - with heavy snow-falls crippling the economy
Tibet having further snow-falls equivalent to an extra six months precipitation - 500,000 animals dead and 3,000,000 people on the brink of starvation

And all this after NASA's Goddard Institute has had to revise its published forecasts (based on a fundamental error) which now show that the hottest decade last century was the 1930's - and it has been cooling ever since.

Is this solely the 'after-effect of the 1998 "El Nīna" ? Or are we really entering a period of global cooling and another 'Mini Ice-Age'# ?

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Medieval Warm Period was a time of warm weather around 800-1300 AD (eg. Viking vineyards on the Greenland shores) then, during the European Medieval period, there were three minima #, beginning about 1650, about 1770, and 1850, each separated by slight warming intervals (eg. 'Ox-roast Barbeques on the frozen River Thames)

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Links

Mini Ice Age Coming [James Owen for National Geographic News - November 30, 2005]
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1130_051130_ice_age.html

Russian Scientists predict Mini Ice-Age
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Russian-scientist-predicts-mini-Ice-Age-17621.shtml

Inter-Glacial Period collapses
http://www.exitmundi.nl/Iceage.htm

The UK's summer floods of 2007 were a freak event unrelated to global climate change, according to a report from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH).

Summers do not appear to be getting wetter - in fact there was more summer rain around during the 19th Century than there is today.
Records for maximum flows on the Avon and Thames, which both date back into the 1800s, show no long-term increase.

"The river floods of summer 2007 were a very singular episode, which does not form part of any clear historical trend or show consistency with currently favoured climate change scenarios," said the report's lead author, Terry Marsh.

"Many areas might have escaped the consequences of such spectacular downpours if soils had not been already saturated. This meant that extraordinary volumes of water ran off the soil into rivers."

Run-off into the Avon near Evesham was 80% greater than the maximum previously seen since records began 70 years ago & tributaries of the Severn, Humber and Thames flowed faster than they have ever done since meters were put in place.

Affordable Housing ! ! !

Yes .. .. the "A" - word is once again being mentioned whispered in Chaddesley Corbett.

The Parish Council have written .. .. "Your Parish Council have recognized that in order to respond to local housing needs, we should carry out a new Parish Housing Needs Survey .." .. ..

Who would have thought it .. .. ? .. .. Who indeed .. .. !

"So 'Face the wall', my lovely, while the Councillors walk by .. .. "

No wonder the Village Shop has run out of Indigestion tablets and Embrocation - - - Just think how much gall-swallowing, and U-turning that simple statement must have occassioned .. .. !

So, now; courtesy of You-Know-Who, "A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Housing" may be coming to a road near 'You - hoo - hoo' !

Please remember ...

  "Don't forget; it's not true ........ it's only gossip !

 
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