Posted By Tony abc jprhdnMurphy what happened to global warming?

Posted By Raymond Rapp It has temporarily moved to the southern hemisphere.

Posted By S T It is quite apparent that we’ll come across these extremities very often due to global warming or global dimming. And yet, some people defending the burdens of planning costs for such adverse condition. No offence meant ST

Posted By Haggis JM That's one of the reasons the term has changed to 'Climate Change' instead of 'Global Warming'. Most areas are likely to see a rise in 'extreme' weather, both heat and cold, rainfall and drought over the next few years (and beyond!). Although annual temperature will rise, there will be a whole range of more intense waether patterns within that, such as localised heavy downpours leading to flooding, 'freak' snowfalls, prolonged drought conditions in SE, more days of very high winds, etc. This is one of the reasons it is so difficult to predict the effects of Climate Change at a local level. But equally it does make my life as an environmentalist more challenging and more interesting...

Posted By Adams777 Global warming / climate change has been an issue for decades but at first not in the public eye. Then the whole issue was highjacked by such organisations as Green Peace (GP). GP and others started to convince naive politicians (Al Gore, who had nothing better to do after losing the US election)and the whole subject escalated to what you see and hear today including global warming being renamed Climate change. The science is flawed (e..g the notorious hockey stick graph) but is still churned out as fact by some of the world's leading scientists whilst those against the issue find it extremely hard to get published - so in the main you only read and hear debates concerning climate change and what a nasty human race we are for putting the planet in jeapardy (CO2 emissions). Read a laymans book on Chaos Theory where the world's climate is dicussed as an exemplary example of not being able to predict anything because of changing variables. Until there is concensus on the science, GP and others / gullible politicians and treasuries of some countries (ours) who use the issue as a tax raising scam the subject will be batted back and forth forever. H&S safety implications - how many of your workforce have started to insist the employer provide sun cream as PPE. How many risk assessments state (e.g. school children going out from school on visits)must take hats, bottled water and sun cream. All common sense but should the employer pay for it as PPE? I think not. Enjoy your weekends and don't forget to wear the sunglasses. Don't want to get sun blindness do we?

Posted By S T Adam, 'Last Line' ???? That means, we'll have to read your whole essay . OH NOOOOOOO.. Jut kidding....afterall it's friday today. No offence meant ST

Posted By Colin Reeves Bob Agree with you, GW is happening. The problem is that it has been hijacked by politicians for tax raising purposes! Colin

Posted By S T “The minor changes in the weather we are experiencing now are normal fluctuations in the weather cycle and nothing to do with Global warming.” “most of the damage was done in the late 1800s and early 1900s” “climate change should be the myth of the month.” “GW is happening. The problem is that it has been hijacked by politicians for tax raising purposes” I think governments need to do a lot more to educate people as well as tackling the GW issues. No offence meant ST

Posted By Colin Reeves Bob "because we are badly affecting the ecostructure of the world by pushing dangerous levels of harmful gas into the atmosphere at a rate the earth cannot cope so it builds up to a point where there is a risk the eco structure can collapse." As has happened naturally many times, ice ages caused by gas and particulates from volcanoes etc. At most, humankind may be slightly speeding up a natural process. Live with it! Colin

Posted By Charles Robinson Tech IOSH We are still coming out of the last ice age some 13,000 years ago so naturally the earth is warming up the greatest danger of pollution is the releases of PCBs plasticisers and other man made toxins that are even building up in the polar regions from over use of plastics such as plastic bags PVC windows instead of aluminium, wood,glass, steel, paper or other totally recyclable materials

Posted By paulw71 Is this the end of society as we know it ? is mankind capable of surviving yet another global catastrophie ? Will the ingenuity of one scientist with a powerful computer and a weather balloon be enough to snatch us back from the brink of oblivion? Stop panicking everyone. An A list hollwood actor will save us.

Posted By Chris Packham Adam Thanks for the kind words. In my humble opinion environmental issues are one area where there is a great deal of nonsense talked, usually by those who either have vested interests or who are unable to see the wider picture. Just two examples: 1. Wind farms only generate energy when the wind blows. Presumably we all want energy all the time. This means alternative power sources, e.g. fossil fuel or nuclear power stations, on line and able to respond instantly, which means as far as I am aware that they must be running on standby all the time. 2. Electric cars are green. Really? Where does their electricity come from? I saw a calculation once that showed that with the contribution to global warming from power stations, losses in electricity distribution, battery inefficiency, etc. my diesel estate probably had a lower footprint that an electric car. Of course, I am not a scientist, but I do feel that keeping an open mind and trying to see the whole picture before reaching a conclusion is so important. Chris

Posted By S T "my diesel estate probably had a lower footprint that an electric car." Very interesting comment, Chris ???

Posted By Scottie CMIOSH The hockey stick graph is not [expletive deleted]. Stop sticking your head in the sand.

Posted By Rodger Alan Ker Its back! Seven degrees Celsius at present. Intend taking a siesta between one and two pm. Company sunscreen available for use.

Posted By Renny Thomson We'll be getting the phone calls about thermal stress soon!

Posted By Colin Reeves "Why do we have a legal minimum office temperature but not a maximum?" Now that IS a question. I often wondered why not when I was trying to explain to accounts staff in the "greenhouse" at the end of the building. However, not a problem in my present job. Colin (Shetland!!)