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Magical Moonrise
Prepare yourself for three minutes of magic as you watch this amazing video of moonrise by photographer & digital visual effects artist Mark Gee. Mark has worked on many high profile films, including The Lord of the Rings: The Return … Continue reading
Poppycock or Worse than we thought
These men were the faces of nature on the BBC in my youth – heroes you could say. You see I was a greenie then too. Never a rabid one you understand – I always believed that if you wanted … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, BBC, Climate, David Attenborough, David Bellamy
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Flood defence: an army of snowmen
This is too funny. The Daily Mail reports: Build a snowman by order of the GOVERNMENT! Environment Agency urges homeowners to pile up ice and prevent flooding by delaying thaw Weather forecasters are predicted a sudden thaw when temperatures swing … Continue reading
Met Office Accuracy II
Guest Post by Charles Duncan An update to previous analysis and also this time looking at temperature. A few days ago I posted an analysis of the Met Office’s rainfall forecasts. I realised after the event that I had used … Continue reading
Met Office: poor accuracy on predicted rainfall
Guest post by Charles Duncan I have often claimed the Met Office is unable to forecast weather more than two or three days out. I like to have data to support my assertions, so I thought I would see how … Continue reading
An Amusical Diversion
In searching for a version of Leroy Anderson’s The Typewriter for the New Year post, this strange-looking instrument popped up. It’s a wonderful sort of Heath Robinson device (for US readers think ‘Rube Goldberg’).
Happy New Year
This is not so much looking forward to what 2013 will bring as a little musical diversion inspired by a friend and a little overindulgence (as happens at this time of year) – an apt musical representation of a Scotsman … Continue reading
An unusual Christmas Eve
Summarised from a translation in preparation of “PAMIR 1955/56″ by Arnd B. Arnd (an account of his time as a deck hand on the Pamir in his youth). It was Christmas Eve when we made it past the Canary Islands. … Continue reading
The Minds of Climate Change Pundits
Guest post by John Bell There is something that troubles me in the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) debate that I would like to bring to light and solicit remarks from others in helping me understand it. I used to … Continue reading
Spam, comments and etiquette
Judith Curry’s post Blog commenting etiquette makes very useful reading, except that the people who need to read it and heed it don’t. We’ve few problems in this quiet little backwater (quiet mainly due to the now ever present busyness in … Continue reading →