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Wot's it all about.....?
latest.....Antarctic has more ice. 
Yep, MORE ice
looking forward to the varying reasons...excuses...but this was NOT expected.
has anyone been keeping note? Hotter drier summers and winters.....water shortages. Then wetter colder .....flooding. Ice melting in the antarctic. Experts open the curtains and tell us what they see but do so with their specs low on their noses.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Watching a programme about weather where samples were taken from ice trees rock and bogs our old world has been up and down like a yo yo. I well remember some very cold winters but the one a couple of years back with snow from November to March must count as the worst. Also known hot summers which seem to have vanished now. A bitter winter in 1940 was followed by a long hot summer and the Battle of Britain. 1944-5 was terrible then a hot summer, there have been many since with just downright miserable winters and summer. No one can predict them and personally think we have no influence over the weather what ever we do, Mother Nature does her own thing, why do we all think we can do a King Canute, he failed.
Frank
According to a prgramme on tv a few weeks ago, they said it's not anything strange, just that the Jet Stream, which should be above uk is now below, allowing winds from all directions to batter us and bring more wet weather. Whether it will ever get back above us is questionable as the warmer oceans have drawn it downwards.
No hosepipe ban, beautiful autumn colour , some spring flowering shrubs with the odd blossom ( which is a bit strange) . I'm not complaining, but then we did have a summer down here
Verdun, the study you are talking about is misleading, Antarctica is actually losing ice at an accelerating pace.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/11/03/antarctic_ice_still_losing_mass.html
Meanwhile, in just one recent week the following have been reported in the media:
The number of extreme weather events is increasing steadily, and there is no reasonable doubt that we are responsible.
it's hysteria about plants going to kill us which I hate.
So far this year we've had aconitum and hogweed, both have been in this country for hundreds of years and we've made it to 2015.
pansyface - your dad's socks
It's all # radio ga ga, radio blah blah ....radio what's new?....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Luckily Verdun, you will probably have popped your clogs when Cornwall is submerged by the rising water levels.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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