It has been getting warmer for several thousand years! About 10,000 years

ago you could walk from England to France and Germany because of all the

water locked up in the ice caps. Five hundred years ago you could roast an

ox on the frozen River Thames in Winter. Thirty thousand years ago lions

and hippos roamed England.

What gets to me is that all of these stories are pushed by people with an

axe to grind; academics looking to their next research grant, journalists

with a newspaper to sell. Quotes are made of 'averages' but never any

mention of the standard deviation or any other measure of distribution. In

many cases the difference from the 'average' could well be less than the

mean error in the measuring instruments of the earliest times; after all,

the Fahrenheit scale is only 250 years old and there is no mention of how

accurately temperatures were recorded.

I'm not anti global warming theories, just sceptical which is the result of

my training in flight trials - don't believe any claims (particularly from a

manufacturer) until they have been proven!

John Weller

01380 723235

07976 393631

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