[svxistentialist]

Originally Posted by kwren

The North Pole no longer has the hole in the Ozone layer and the ice cap IS melting.

The South Pole still has the hole in the Ozone layer and the ice cap IS NOT melting.

Yes, the inmates are still running the asylum.
Keith

Keith, this probably deserves a topic of its own! Got a great laugh from that, thank you!

Now would definitely seem to be the winter of your discontent, as Shakespeare might have put it!

Weather systems and climatology have got to be the least satisfactory scientific fields of study especially from the point of view of cause and effect. The short term systems exhibit chaotic behaviour on a grand scale so that after two centuries of dedicated study we can now "predict" weather patterns locally, but only for the next 2-3 days with any reliability.

Long term climate cycles do not have recorded or reliable data going back a long enough period, so a lot of the deductions here are guesstimates, with experts differing sharply on causes and on the severity of effects. And that's not even taking DuPont's patent problems into the PR arena!

You could probably take all these predictions with a pinch of salt. Although salt is bad for your heart.

Or is it your blood pressure? Or cholesterol?

I forget.

Joe