Climate Change - The Scientific Debate (Vol. II)

Potential to address the base load problem with renewables but its some way off.

https://news.sky.com/story/quest-to-power-homes-wi...

Was average or above average




https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2024/05/01/a-wet-and...

Met Office full of it as usual. Down here in the SW I still had the heating on throughout April and normally it goes off whatever.

So?

For England, April av temps (1991-2020) are:

mean max temp - 13C
mean min temp - 4.1C

For this April

mean max temp - 13C
mean min temp - 5.5C.

The mean min temp of 5.5C was the sixth warmest for April in the record back to 1890

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps...

Because you were a bit chilly on a couple of occasions in April the Met Office is corrupt? I think the true believer is plain to see.

Another one with anecdotal evidence. Bravo.

You appear to be using your thermostat and the current price of energy per KWh to determine the UK climate for April.

I'll leave you to it.

The 1991-2020 reference period indeed contains many colder aprils obviously, particularly in the early part



Year to year variability is clearly high - too much for personal perceptions from memory to keep up with.

https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-global-temperature-record-streak-continues-april-2024-was-hottest-record

Climate Sensitivity is troubling this well known physicist. Not good news.

https://youtu.be/4S9sDyooxf4?si=ght2hxxfWNZj-h82

From your link "Temperatures were most above average in eastern European regions. Fennoscandia and Iceland experienced below-average temperatures. The mean temperature, however, masks the contrast between warmer and colder temperatures experienced at the start and latter part of April in western Europe."

Sometimes it's worth reading the links past the headline. It was certainly the cloudiest April we have had in a long time, and as the main way the seas around our shores warm up is from direct sunlight it will be playing catch up for a while. Anyone that spends any time in and around the open coast will know the water is well below average temps for the time of year.
Don't bother providing links to satellite sea surface temps, they don't measure the temp of the sea surface, just a sub micron layer that has so much going on so rapidly the temp can vary by many degrees in a relatively short period.

Now the Atlantic is moving into it's cool phase and that basically dictates our climate the next ten to fifteen years will be an interesting watch. If human induced warming is as big a deal as stated at the very least it should take the edge off the coolest period, i doubt many are geared up for winters similar to what we had in the 70's and 80's so it might turn out to be a good thing, for a while at least.

There will however be lots of headlines about increasing storminess as a cooling Atlantic is a contraction of the temperate zone away from the poles toward the equator meaning the clash between cool northern air masses with warmer southern air masses will occur more often closer to the areas where we all live, especially during winter. Look for more winds from the nor west round to sou east as we have had over the last two winters for a more sustained period.

The Arctic sea ice that has reduced is a negative feedback as the newly exposed water is able to radiate energy to space far more readily without its insulating layer, even more than the base figures would suggest due it tending to be windy up there. A windy surface can create cooling orders of magnitude greater than a relatively flat solid ice surface, especially if covered in snow so for all our efforts to boil the oceans the earth has plenty tricks up its sleeve to prevent that happening. I might be dead by the time it happens but at some point in the future this will all come out in the wash.

Please note outside of the highlighted part and the statement of how our seas warm through the seasons the rest is only my opinion.