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...due to global warming.
Health effects of climate change in the UK : Department of Health - Publications
The biggest danger to health, and the most likely to occur, is a major heatwave. The report predicts a heatwave will occur by 2012, causing between 3,000 and 10,000 deaths. Scientists put...
Interesting new paper on the sun and it's affect on climate:
New Paper: Solar irradiance at Earth surface varies up to 24 times more than expected | Solar Cycle 25
Roy Spencer.
Spencer, of course, is a sceptical lightweight. Tamino gets to the meat:
And the admirable DenialDepot picks up the baton:
Quite. As with all the best sciency websites the point is proven with a graphic:
Moving the debate forward, as ever. Eat your heart out, Watts.
BBC News - UK set for high end climate costs, as floods spread
The UK is likely to feel bigger costs from climate change than most other EU countries, a report concludes.
Rising sea levels are likely to impact the nation harder than most, negating economic benefits from increased tourism and...
A mistake over Himalayan glaciers should not melt our priorities | Bob Ward | Environment | guardian.co.uk
A mistake over Himalayan glaciers should not melt our prioritiesClimate change sceptics may seize upon WWF's unfortunate mistake over Himalayan glaciers, but this doesn't change the truth...
You remember when we had a run of mild winters, and hot summers and the warmists were telling us:
1. Snow a thing of the past
2. Scottish Ski industry to close down
3. Hot dry summers with more droughts
etc
Well, you know now we've had a run of freezing winters and cool summers?
Climate...
The term whitewash springs to mind.
Official inquiries into the Climategate scandal unsatisfactory - Telegraph
MIght get interesting as the global temperatures plunge while they're looking at it.
Met office predicts global temp anomaly (temp above or below long term average) for 2011 to be...
Did anyone watch?
Particularly when one daily telegraph journalist James Delingpole (who it appears was given considerably notoriety for his views on how flawed and misplaced consensus is in science), then Sir Paul Nurse proposed an analogy. If James had cancer would he accept a course of...
So I'm helping the kids with their homework and we are talking about the North Pole. I decide to show them it on Google Earth but it's not there! So I surf to see if I can find where it went to and all I get is a load of conspiracy theories none of which past muster with the average ten year...
BBC news headlines on RSS since this morning:
England: Flood defences put up in Appleby as River Eden rises
Scotland: Heavy rain prompts flood alerts in Scotland
Wales: Flood warnings in Conwy valley, Tenby as rain continues
South Africa: South Africa to declare flood disaster
Australia...