Is the climate changing where you are?
Sat, 02/01/2010 - 06:08
A survey. 
The Raincheck
The idea is, given the huge uncertainty and untrustworthiness of just about all the relevant numbers at present, a qualitative survey. It is not gong to be perfect, as two folk in the same block of units may see it differently. But, as we have seen, just collecting temperature numbers that are unbiased is also almost impossible. And those give a far more simplistic picture.
So, if someone else would like to kick off, if we get a few, I'll chip in my two bobs worth also, and we can then try turn this into something useful.
The "first cuckoo" letters to the Times are now a decent useful record. As well as being witty, many of them. And a bit more trustworthy than the number-reconstructions for the same timespan, now on special from here and there.
I have read that the folk up in Siberia, where they have GISS-reportedly been getting ferocious warming for decades, say the tree line seems not to be shifting. Anyone live there, or know anyone who does?
Be good to hear from anyone, anywhere, and as technical or not as you please. It is all as relevant as the next place.
Hooroo,
Peter
Public domain, of course.
Well Peter, my view from my very brief existence on this planet is that climate is always changing.
I remember sunnier warmer periods and colder cloudier ones.
I have this odd idea that the winter in the UK is later than it used to be, but am I right? I don't know.
Didn't it used to snow at Xmas, and now Feb/Mar is the worst weather.
Have the seasons shifted?
My impression is that looking at climate is a bit like watching the stock markets. They go up, they go down, and most if the time there's no sense to it, and if you look at short periods, you'll probably get completely the wrong impression from what you see if you expand out the chart.
I'd like to know whether anyone would even have thought of climate change of it weren't for all the media hype about it.
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