Global Warming? or local?
If ever there were an example of "fuzzy", Doug, it's that article!
Quote;
"The temptation to interpret model noise as forecast information invades our living rooms every night. TV weather-forecast maps look so realistic it is hard not to over-interpret tiny details - to imagine that the band of rain passing over Oxfordshire at noon next Saturday requires postponing a barbecue. Rain may indeed be likely somewhere in the area sometime on Saturday, but the details we see on TV forecasts are noise from the models."
If it is a band of rain that is forecast (and within three to four days it is a forecast, not a model) then it is a weather front and you will get rain at about that time.
If its showers that are forecast then, as we all know, they are random.
It is long term forecasts (will it be a white Christmas?) that are models, which is why the Met Office don't do those predictions.
Even if the global warming experts are right, there is no chance that the major players (India, China, USA) will take the necessary action. So why are we flagellating ourselves?
Lets put our old light-bulbs back in and enjoy a party while we can
Quote;
"The temptation to interpret model noise as forecast information invades our living rooms every night. TV weather-forecast maps look so realistic it is hard not to over-interpret tiny details - to imagine that the band of rain passing over Oxfordshire at noon next Saturday requires postponing a barbecue. Rain may indeed be likely somewhere in the area sometime on Saturday, but the details we see on TV forecasts are noise from the models."
If it is a band of rain that is forecast (and within three to four days it is a forecast, not a model) then it is a weather front and you will get rain at about that time.
If its showers that are forecast then, as we all know, they are random.
It is long term forecasts (will it be a white Christmas?) that are models, which is why the Met Office don't do those predictions.
Even if the global warming experts are right, there is no chance that the major players (India, China, USA) will take the necessary action. So why are we flagellating ourselves?
Lets put our old light-bulbs back in and enjoy a party while we can
Quote from: pierre_pierre does that mean I can get a fire engine soon to put out Chillies fire 
What have you got against Chilly? Or penguins?
Once had to spend two nights in a tent at the bottom of a glacier in the middle of a penguin colony. They are great company , apart from the smell.....
If you could bottle it, it would be more effective than CS gas!
But I came to love penguins. Perhaps thats why I'm now a linux man. Please would you stop abusing them in your sig.