10-01-2010, 07:50 PM
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Met office lies
Andrew Adams wrote:
harikeo wrote in :
wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 21:57:13 -0000, "the gods have made us mad"
wrote:
BBC Radio 4 news was pressed into service earlier today to explain
the conundrum to increasingly sceptical plebs.
The 6pm bulletin went to some lengths to explain that what we are
now experiencing is 'weather' - but that the grave problem of
'climate' still remains 
It must have been a nationwide Government enforced directive because
we got the same here in Bristol.
Apparently, we were admonished, weather isn't the same as climate.
Weather is day-to-day, climate is something based on 30 years
observations.
I chuckled when he said this.... does the planet work on 30-year
cycles?
It doesn't - 30 years is the period generally considered neccessary to give
a statistically significant result. See here for a good discussion -
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/how-long/
Wooosh
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