The sea ice is forming 10 miles south of me. See: http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/4029202.SEA_FREEZES_AS_BIG_CHILL_CONTINUES_IN_DORSET/
But the daffodils are coming up a month early, so who knows what is happening. Certainly not Eric Steig at RealClimate: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/01/environmental-reporters-ought-to-be-more-responsible-too/langswitch_lang/in Cheers, Alastair. On Jan 8, 1:18 am, Eric Swanson <[email protected]> wrote: > That new theory about an impact being the of the Younger Dryas is very > interesting. There's other evidence, such as the Carolina Bays, > which have been claimed to also point to an impact about the same > period. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_bays > > So, how's the Winter of '09 shaping up? Looks like snow in the South > of France and Northern Italy. Cool!! Lets blame it on a change in > the THC... > > E. S. > ------------- > > Alastair wrote: > > Happy New Year everyone! > > > It is fun to see that you agree with me, Eric, even if it is only on > > the quality of the Abrupt Climate Change study and not on its > > conclusions. > > > There is a new idea out on the cause of the Younger Dryas here: > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7808171.stm > > but like the idea of a pro-glacial lake decanting or of a Great > > Salinity Anomaly, this idea does not explain the abrupt warming which > > happened at the end of the Younger Dryas. > > > Cheers, Alastair. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
