Author Topic: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?  (Read 21109 times)

OllieC

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Re: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?
« Reply #100 on: February 11, 2009, 06:36:49 »
I was fascinated by the first program in Simon Schama's series "A History of Britain". At Skara Brae there is a very well preserved stone age settlement, where there were remains of fish that today are only found around Cornwall. According to Schama, all the evidence is that in the stone age, the Orkney Islands were much warmer than they are now.

I've been there several times & presumably these fish remains are in the middens beside the huts... Out of interest, how did they catch the fish?

I would suggest a size 20 hook on 3lb monofilament line, with a couple of maggots.

Ah, very good... almost nobody uses Raggies up there. But for once I'm being serious, how did they catch them 4,000 years ago?

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Re: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?
« Reply #101 on: February 11, 2009, 17:50:13 »
In the sea? Those would be fish which had never been caught, so they weren't hook conscious. There would have been a lot more fish in the sea as well, with no monofilament nets for them to worry about.

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Re: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?
« Reply #102 on: February 11, 2009, 18:24:14 »
OK then, maybe a size 0/4 lump of fish bone on a long root.

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Re: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?
« Reply #103 on: February 11, 2009, 18:30:46 »
I expect it was something akin to an eel trap. made from reeds, willow and bark strips.

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Re: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?
« Reply #104 on: February 11, 2009, 18:37:38 »
Or a net, made from natural fibres?
You couldn't make it up!

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Re: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?
« Reply #105 on: February 11, 2009, 18:54:01 »
Or a pet seal?
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Re: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?
« Reply #106 on: February 11, 2009, 19:00:03 »
There are many reasons on Global Warming posted here but do you remember Geoff H. on TV saying we must now prepare for growing plants etc. that will stand the hot weather we are going to have, How many years ago was that?

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Re: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?
« Reply #107 on: February 11, 2009, 21:39:14 »
Or a pet seal?

Now you're talking... ever blown a seal?

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Re: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?
« Reply #108 on: February 11, 2009, 22:02:02 »
Or a pet seal?

Now you're talking... ever blown a seal?

No, it's just ice on me lips.......
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Re: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?
« Reply #109 on: February 12, 2009, 19:32:18 »
Or a pet seal?

Now you're talking... ever blown a seal?

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Re: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?
« Reply #110 on: February 13, 2009, 05:37:41 »
There are plenty of postings in this thread and I havn't trawled through to check, so please forgive me if this has been discussed already. But the Met Office Chief on climate change is feeling a bit peevish about false claims on the climate....

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2009/pr20090211.html

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Re: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?
« Reply #111 on: February 13, 2009, 06:44:12 »
There are plenty of postings in this thread and I havn't trawled through to check, so please forgive me if this has been discussed already. But the Met Office Chief on climate change is feeling a bit peevish about false claims on the climate....

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2009/pr20090211.html

An excellent piece of writing - thanks for posting.

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Re: OK. where's all this Global Warming gone ?
« Reply #112 on: February 13, 2009, 10:40:28 »
That's exactly it. We're talking about a longterm, global phenomenon, and people on both sides keep pointing at short-term, often local situations to 'prove' a distorted perspective. Global warming is happening, and it's extremely serious, but there are also factors like El Nino/Nina, and maybe others we don't know about, which produce quite dramatic short-term fluctuations.

 

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