It’s all in the mind

@Ynotisay Firstly, sunspot activity governs our weather, and though there are patterns, their cycles are unpredictable.
Secondly, the sun is not a uniform star.
Thirdly in the seventies it was thought we were moving to the next ice age.

But my initial statement was its wet and cold in England this summer. It was not a statement on the effects of global warming by reflection of water vapour in the atmosphere, methane or carbon dioxide.

@SW-User Duuuuude. Stop. Please. Stop.

@OldBrit And the British newspapers gave the air temperatures in Greece instead of land temperatures, upping them by two.

@SW-User the measurement is I believe highest ambient temperature then averaged globally. That's the record that was broken in July.
Then of course last week the average global sea temperature was the highest ever recorded and in August which is the one we probably should be most worried about.

@beermeplease to what extent were the fires set off by arsonists? They were in Greece.

@SW-User the fires in eastern canada were set off by arsonists. ours not so much. usually lightning and idiots throwing out their cigarette butts out the window.

@SW-User Someone clearly doesn't live around wildfires.

@ArishMell In England if it rains on St Swithin day, it rains for the next forty days. Folklore from 800AD. It was actually dry this year on 15th July.

@SW-User Yes - I know the old folk-tale but didn't know when it originated. Nor why. Perhaps they had an unusually wet Summer that year!

@HannibalAteMeOut Not near me. The coast was cool.

@SubtropicalSharlana With a winter pullover on and a brolli

@SubtropicalSharlana It is, but England is on the same latitude as Newfoundland!

Our climate is Temperate Maritime, but this also makes the weather changeable. We do have much more sun than rain in Summer, with mean temperatures in the upper-60s / lower-70s F; and often very settled early-Autumn.

Though over recent years the seasons have become rather blurred, with more cooler weather in Summer, and milder Winters leading to early Spring weather.

@gol979 All right,so you despise the BBC and want to destroy it for reporting fairly what politicians say - and its journalists do press them for answers but most politicians are good at dodging awkward questions - or merely for reporting truths and views you want suppressed for not conforming to your opinions; but you have no sensible constructive alternative proposals.

I do not believe lies and I listen carefully to what the interviewees from different sides say, to try to determine which side is truthful or at least the more accurate. And by "sides" I mean those taken by the interviewed politicians; not the interviewers and analysts trying to get at the truth behind the politicians' "spin".

Where are you writing from, or for whom? Moscow? Peking? Fox News? Qanon?

@ArishMell you will never say "i listen to lies"......you just believe them. Pretty much all msm reporters are nothing of the sort, they are repeaters.

And there we go, because i have a different opinion to you i must be russian or a red statist yank.

Anyway, enjoy your day and dont forget to cancel that licence

@gol979 I listen to, and read, both sides presented by the interviewees.

I listen to independent analysts and investigative work for background details that help explain what is going on.

I do not wildly accuse people of being "liars" unless they clearly are - usually statements issued by totalitarian states. I also ask myself why a politician might by trying to evade awkward questions, not by barefaced lies but by simple avoidance.

I am also well aware of a form of unwitting bias that does frustrate journalists, when some organisation accused of failure in some way is invited to give it side of the matter but has "no-one available for comment" or simply refuses. Sometimes the reporters have to admit it has "issued a statement" that carefully dodges responsibility and is about as meaningless as those "mission statements" once popular in big, especially American-owned, companies.

I have no idea what is a "red statist yank" - anyway whatever side you actually do take I am neither "red" (i.e. Communist) politically, nor "yank" (i.e. American) as native or resident - though if I were either or both of those I might be anti-British.

I did not accuse you of being a Russian.

Oh, and I have no television nor do I use my PC as a television, so I do not need a licence. I gain almost all of my news, information and entertainment from the BBC radio services, plus some quoted by my ISP (BT) from the daily national papers whose political flavours I do account for, and a small amount via my local newspaper.

An SW PM correspondent living the the USA sometimes points me to articles of interest published by MSN and others. As far as I can determine, MSN is politically neutral in reporting from abroad at least (I don't know how it scores on reporting fairly the USA's difficult internal politics), and it does state when an article is an opinion essay rather than direct observations or deep analysis.

In the UK, both the BBC and ITV are under strict impartiality rules that do not apply to the newspapers, and a test of impartiality is whether they report both sides of contentious matters. They do - complaints to the opposite are investigated independently, and upheld or rejected as appropriate!

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP Over England

@Renaci Everything on here is pure fantasy.

@Renaci It's a curious but very common human trait to remember only the bad not the good, so create gloomy beliefs that do not reflect reality.