"Kay Easton" wrote in message
...
In article , Franz Heymann
writes
Kay how does this compare with other years? OK so this has been a
fabulous
Summer and with not too much rain as far as the Holiday makers are
concerned, but are these reservoirs emptyer (is that a word?) than
other
years and if so, and we have a dry winter, what of next year? :-((

Then large swathes of England will be in the shonga next year.

Unfortunately it's our (yours and mine) swathe.

Still, the chairman of the water board will be able to visit his mum for
his baths, so that's ok ;-)

{:-))

Franz

In article ,
"Franz Heymann" writes:
|
| Did anyone see the Beeb program on the gulf stream last Thursday?
| We could easily be growing reindeer moss within a few years.
|
| I saw it. It is difficult to flaw the meteorological and oceanographic
| arguments. I think it painted a very realistic scenario.
| About the only good which might come of it would be that the Scottish ski
| resorts might become viable again. That is, if anybody would wish to go
| skiing in the absence of sun.
|
| Who knows, we might even get some skiing in the Dales.

If that happens, we shall get skiing on the Isle of Wight. The
Scottish ski resorts would be viable for a few years, but would
become inaccessible very quickly. The glaciers would take 50-100
years to start forming, but the Highlands would probably become a
no-go zone for normal vehicles within a year or two, and the
Pennines and much of Wales shortly afterwards.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 17 Nov 2003 20:33:42 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:

In article ,
Martin Sykes wrote:

Yes. 'The Big Chill', on Horizon. There's a lot of talk about it on the user
board at www.climateprediction.net where there's a lot of us running
simulations on our home PCs to see how likely it really is. It'll be a long
time before the results are through but one suggestion is that the sink zone
where the gulf stream sinks again wouldn't have to actually stop. If it just
drifts south a bit then it'll get a lot colder here without a resultant
ice-age.

From the above site

"Climate change, and our response to it, are issues of global
importance, affecting food production, water resources, ecosystems,
energy demand, insurance costs and much else. There is a broad
scientific consensus that the Earth is likely to warm over the coming
century, but estimates of how much vary hugely. By taking part in the
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Perhaps even colder than it it does stop! Arctic water flowing south
is worse than the lack of tropical water flowing north.

and perhaps not.
--
Martin

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
...
:
: In article ,
: "Franz Heymann" writes:
: |
: | Did anyone see the Beeb program on the gulf stream last Thursday?
: | We could easily be growing reindeer moss within a few years.
: |
: | I saw it. It is difficult to flaw the meteorological and oceanographic
: | arguments. I think it painted a very realistic scenario.
: | About the only good which might come of it would be that the Scottish
ski
: | resorts might become viable again. That is, if anybody would wish to
go
: | skiing in the absence of sun.
: |
: | Who knows, we might even get some skiing in the Dales.
:
: If that happens, we shall get skiing on the Isle of Wight. The
: Scottish ski resorts would be viable for a few years, but would
: become inaccessible very quickly. The glaciers would take 50-100
: years to start forming, but the Highlands would probably become a
: no-go zone for normal vehicles within a year or two, and the
: Pennines and much of Wales shortly afterwards.
:
:
: Regards,
: Nick Maclaren.

All this seems very hard to take in at present where it is 60F here is SW
London in mid November!

K

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:17:24 -0000, "K" wrote:


"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
...
:
: In article ,
: "Franz Heymann" writes:
: |
: | Did anyone see the Beeb program on the gulf stream last Thursday?
: | We could easily be growing reindeer moss within a few years.
: |
: | I saw it. It is difficult to flaw the meteorological and oceanographic
: | arguments. I think it painted a very realistic scenario.
: | About the only good which might come of it would be that the Scottish
ski
: | resorts might become viable again. That is, if anybody would wish to
go
: | skiing in the absence of sun.
: |
: | Who knows, we might even get some skiing in the Dales.
:
: If that happens, we shall get skiing on the Isle of Wight. The
: Scottish ski resorts would be viable for a few years, but would
: become inaccessible very quickly. The glaciers would take 50-100
: years to start forming, but the Highlands would probably become a
: no-go zone for normal vehicles within a year or two, and the
: Pennines and much of Wales shortly afterwards.
:
:
: Regards,
: Nick Maclaren.

All this seems very hard to take in at present where it is 60F here is SW
London in mid November!

Don't let facts interfere with popular science :-)
--
Martin