great pics

On a sunny day (Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:32:01 -0800) it happened John Larkin wrote in :

It was snowing here too, minus 9°C seen, lower expected, maybe -13°C in the weekend. The wind is east and carries all that cold here.

Beautiful pictures indeed! We are having the annual cold spell which occurs when the siberian cold airmass moves westwards. This time the airmass seems to have taken a slightly more southern route, as it is not as cold here in north as it could have been,

-15C maybe, with -20C predicted for the weekend.

Didn't Martin Brown mention in some of his recent post that the more exposed arctic seawater changes wind patterns to a more southward course? Don't know if this is what's happening but (without checking) sure looks like it.

Regards, Mikko

Checking from here

That is an ugly surprise to those poor southerners who aren't accustomed to it - I hope they'll manage.

Simultaneously the "N. hemispheric ice area" plot in the same web page indicates receeding polar ice cap compared to previous years. But I guess it is too simplistic to stare at one single correlation only, when the system is as complicated as weather.

Regards, Mikko

Climatologists are great at predicting things that have already happened.

They can't even do that without fudging the data.

Now John, you can't tell me that your post wasn't designed to tweak Sloman any less than my "If NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again" thread! Mikek

I thought they were beautiful pictures. And Sloman is self-tweaking anyhow.

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Yes they are neat pictures! But still... :-) Mikek

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Don't be silly.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

They were nice pictures. And if if they were intended to irritate me, the pictures obviously failed.

That took John Larkin posting one more of his dumb misapprehensions.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

The AGW thing is interesting to me because I'm always amused by pathological science. A big part of engineering is separating causalities from superstition; we run into that problem roughly weekly.

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Granting your superstitious approach to anthropogenic global warming, it's not surprising that you have so much trouble with day-to-day engineering.

The only pathological science involved in anthropogenic global warming is the pseudo-science peddled by the denialist propaganda machine, and you really do have a nose for that - you posts on the subject seem concentrate on retailing the more ridiculous claims that they come up with.

If you are equally gullible about half-baked engineering rules of thumb it's not surprising that they you get into trouble every week.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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What a pity it isn't true.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Snow happens to be a pretty good insulator. Igloos are not all that uncomfortable. Not exactly warm, but not all that cold either.

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The last group of "Britisies" that got stranded in the Arctic and died would be the Franklin expedition.

There's some debate whether they died from lead poisoning - their bones did contain quite a lot of lead - or vitamin A poisoning from eating too much polar bear liver. Pneumonia may have been what finally did them in, but if it was it was merely the coup de grace.

That doesn't seem to have been the problem.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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It worked for me. Google threw up a bunch of stuff on the search string 'Franklin expedition "Vitamin A"' and it was the third on the list. Most commentators put vitamin A poisoning low on the list of possible problems for the Franklin expedition - other polar expeditions have run into trouble with dog and polar bear liver but there's no particular reason to suppose that it was an important contributor to the Franklin expedition's demise.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen