Just had my lunch and read the paper. Page 3 of the Telegraph - headline; "Warmest, driest spring is about to get hotter". I don't want to get into an argument about warmest or driest, but what I wondered about was the "The Met Office said the average temperature across Britain since the start of March has been just over 48.6F (9.2C) - the warmest since records began in 1910."

1910?

Eh? Does anyone have any idea where this date came from? I thought we had records going back far earlier than that. What about CET?

It doesn't feel that warm today with this wind blowing all my flowers to ribbons. I've got a thick jumper on and a scarf.

Turning Tide: I am sure you noticed that that scaremongering about us being 9th on the list came from National Trust. Another group hijacked by greenie, left-wing, anti-hunting activists jumping on the back of the AGW bandwagon. They own a tiny piece of land of no significance near me that the local parish council are trying to get their hands on to turn into allotments for the village and the prevaricating and obstruction that is going on defies belief. And this despite all their publicity about helping local people to use their land for that purpose.

Couple of interesting stories.

Just look at what can happen across Europe when Germany has a power cut:

Power cuts in Germany spark wave of blackouts across Europe

And lookee here at what energy companies are forecasting for a post-nuclear Germany:

Germany nuclear shutdown by 2022 may mean blackouts, Merkel warned

I really think this is what will finally kick all the AGW nonsense into touch: when people start experiencing regular blackouts, they'll begin to ask awkward questions about why all this lovely clean energy we have is not keeping the lights on.

I hope it happens sooner rather than later, before all of our beautiful countryside is desecrated with useless turbines.

My son is due to start primary school and we have been on a visit to the school, this I found pretty alarming as it appears to be total systematic indoctrination into the green agenda.
http://www.ecoschoolsscotland.org/documents/CurriculumForExcellenceOutcomeMapsEarlyLevel.pdf
The head teacher was pretty proud of how the children answered the Eco auditors when they came to visit.

MWP was in South America too, Incas increased food production using Llama dung and a warm spell of weather. But predicably the Guardian concentrates on the dung.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/22/incas-llama-manure-crops

Climate change, in the form of warmer temperatures, also helped Inca society to evolve by making it easier to cultivate corn at high altitudes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8530242/David-Cameron-Chris-Huhne-has-my-total-confidence.html

So Huhne'll be gone by the end of the week then.....

Britain comes in at number 9 in a list of places most affected by global warming, according to the New Zealand Herald:

Global warming: 9 most affected areas

Why a "top 9", I wonder? Isn't "top 10" more traditional? Maybe they couldn't think of a 10th place.

But don't worry too much: the effects we're likely to suffer are "threats to historic properties and estates from flooding and storm surges".

CAGW is back on the political agenda in Australia with the release of a 'scientific update' of sorts by Tim Flannery's Climate Change Commission.

From ABC Online

Time running out for climate action: report

By environment reporter Sarah Clarke, wires

The Federal Government's Climate Commission has warned the window for limiting future and costly climate change is rapidly closing.

In its first report, titled The Critical Decade, the commission says the evidence that the planet is warming is now even stronger.

It warns global warming could cause global sea levels to rise up to one metre by the end of the century, higher than previously thought.

Chief commissioner Tim Flannery says humanity is almost surely the primary cause of global warming.

"There's agreement that there's a temperature increase, there's an agreement that it's human-caused," he said.

But there is no agreement that anthropogenic global warming will cause a catastrophe, is there?

Meanwhile, Labor gets exactly what it wanted.

It gets the full political support of the climate doomsday cult and those scared witless and it gets the opposition to direct its fire on Tim Flannery's Climate Change Commission.

Labor comes out looking like an honest broker seeking the middle way. The tax passes at rates less than feared by the business, the budget deficit gets smaller, and Labor's electoral fortunes improve.

Should Labor lose the next election, however, Tim Flannery's Climate Change Commission will be kaput.

James Hansen's recent lecture at Victoria University in Wellington NZ is recorded here

LINK

It is about 100 mins long, and is a multi-media (audio/video and powerpoint presentation.)

http://www.climate-resistance.org/

The end of the world- Rapture or CAGW?

This is one reason why it is all bull****.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/25/carbon-cuts-developed-countries-cancelled

Carbon cuts by developed countries cancelled out by imported goods

Kyoto protocol means carbon footprints are calculated for the countries producing goods, not those consuming them

'In the same period, UK emissions fell by 28 million tonnes, but when imports and exports are taken into account, the domestic footprint has risen by more than 100 million tonnes. Europe achieved a 6% cut in CO2 emissions, but when outsourcing is considered that is reduced to 1%.'

A story from April that should be taken into account when looking at a single countrys carbon budget.