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Quote from: Chrispy on March 24, 2013, 19:20:37Quote from: RobinOfTheHood on March 24, 2013, 17:07:45Quote from: cornykev on March 24, 2013, 17:00:12I've never seen the thames freeze but it has on 24 occasions, but hey who's counting. When the ice was thick enough, frost fairs took place. Years when the ice was thick enough for this to occur were: 1408, 1435, 1506, 1514, 1537, 1565, 1595, 1608, 1621, 1635, 1649, 1655, 1663, 1666, 1677, 1684, 1695, 1709, 1716, 1740, (1768), 1776, (1785), 1788, 1795, and 1814, which was the last frost fair.Must have been the cow farts.That's interesting, frost fairs seemed to have come to an end at the beginning of the industrial revolution.Ok, I'll bite again. The industrial revolution in Britain, you mean? The country that is 81st largest in the world? Try harder, Chris.EDIT: I'd wager that a single large bush fire in either Australia or America would have equalled or exceeded the CO2 output of the first few years of the industrial revolution, as would a volcanic eruption. Can't tax us for that though can they?
Quote from: RobinOfTheHood on March 24, 2013, 17:07:45Quote from: cornykev on March 24, 2013, 17:00:12I've never seen the thames freeze but it has on 24 occasions, but hey who's counting. When the ice was thick enough, frost fairs took place. Years when the ice was thick enough for this to occur were: 1408, 1435, 1506, 1514, 1537, 1565, 1595, 1608, 1621, 1635, 1649, 1655, 1663, 1666, 1677, 1684, 1695, 1709, 1716, 1740, (1768), 1776, (1785), 1788, 1795, and 1814, which was the last frost fair.Must have been the cow farts.That's interesting, frost fairs seemed to have come to an end at the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Quote from: cornykev on March 24, 2013, 17:00:12I've never seen the thames freeze but it has on 24 occasions, but hey who's counting. When the ice was thick enough, frost fairs took place. Years when the ice was thick enough for this to occur were: 1408, 1435, 1506, 1514, 1537, 1565, 1595, 1608, 1621, 1635, 1649, 1655, 1663, 1666, 1677, 1684, 1695, 1709, 1716, 1740, (1768), 1776, (1785), 1788, 1795, and 1814, which was the last frost fair.Must have been the cow farts.
I've never seen the thames freeze but it has on 24 occasions, but hey who's counting.
I am feeling rather confused about climate change, is it getting warmer or colder. Intesting questions made me think about some of the answers,
Quote from: Pescador on March 24, 2013, 17:59:02I got part way through completing it, and then felt that all the questions were assuming it was getting warmer- Med plants, longer seasons etc. Don't think thats the case so pulled out.Have I missed something?That's clearly what they want, so that they can report, "99% of gardeners are terrified of the effects of global warming, shock, horror!"Back in the 1960s we were promised a new Ice Age by the climatologists. Glaciers down to Hadrian's Wall by 2000, London by 2010. I'll believe in global warming after I've had my promised Ice Age.
I got part way through completing it, and then felt that all the questions were assuming it was getting warmer- Med plants, longer seasons etc. Don't think thats the case so pulled out.Have I missed something?
Some of you are more patient than me - I read a bit of waffle, told it how old I was, what my postcode is, whether I was a boy or a girl gardener and then thought, "Don't be so nosey" so quit. We'll cope anyway, won't we? I thought gardening was just about choosing a plant that might work and tipping the odds in it's favour.
Quote from: OllieC on March 24, 2013, 21:09:04Some of you are more patient than me - I read a bit of waffle, told it how old I was, what my postcode is, whether I was a boy or a girl gardener and then thought, "Don't be so nosey" so quit. We'll cope anyway, won't we? I thought gardening was just about choosing a plant that might work and tipping the odds in it's favour.I'm sorry you found this too nosey. The questions are optional so you can choose not to answer those however gender and age data help tell us whether there is a pattern to belief or not in climate change and whether experience helps adapt to new weather. The postcode allows us to map responses against local climate rather than UK wide - I would not expect a gardener in Norwich to be experiencing the same patterns of climate as those in Truro or Dundee. The questionnaire does take a while to complete but gardeners are generally patient people. Thanks at least for trying the survey.
Quote from: ACulham on March 29, 2013, 22:09:51Quote from: OllieC on March 24, 2013, 21:09:04Some of you are more patient than me - I read a bit of waffle, told it how old I was, what my postcode is, whether I was a boy or a girl gardener and then thought, "Don't be so nosey" so quit. We'll cope anyway, won't we? I thought gardening was just about choosing a plant that might work and tipping the odds in it's favour.I'm sorry you found this too nosey. The questions are optional so you can choose not to answer those however gender and age data help tell us whether there is a pattern to belief or not in climate change and whether experience helps adapt to new weather. The postcode allows us to map responses against local climate rather than UK wide - I would not expect a gardener in Norwich to be experiencing the same patterns of climate as those in Truro or Dundee. The questionnaire does take a while to complete but gardeners are generally patient people. Thanks at least for trying the survey.Interesting. I moved from Guildford to North of Inverness last year so you would be getting an opinion formed in Guildford showing up in a Highlands postcode - so probably not helpful anyway.