THE BORE

General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: MrAngryFace on July 23, 2007, 03:16:58 PM

Title: Britain getting its butt kicked.
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 23, 2007, 03:16:58 PM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19905790/

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The weather facing Britain is consistent with conditions caused by the La Nina weather system, which is caused by cooling ocean waters and leads to extreme weather, Britain's Met Office said.

However, scientists said there was no clear explanation for the unusually long spell of wet weather.

Climate change may be culprit, said Tim Evans of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environment Management, adding that the situation matched predictions of how global warming would affect Britain.

Britain had one of its hottest and driest summers on record last year.

"What we now think of as extreme events will occur more often than in the past, and the extremes will get more extreme," Evans said.

Title: Re: Britain getting its butt kicked.
Post by: Wobedraggled on July 23, 2007, 03:17:52 PM
Sucks.

Title: Re: Britain getting its butt kicked.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 23, 2007, 04:44:14 PM
god doesn't like the new doctor who

hey wobe, don't you have some crazy psychic astrological explanation for all this? share!
Title: Re: Britain getting its butt kicked.
Post by: Wobedraggled on July 23, 2007, 05:53:21 PM
Quote from: Professor Prole on July 23, 2007, 04:44:14 PM
god doesn't like the new doctor who

hey wobe, don't you have some crazy psychic astrological explanation for all this? share!

WWAGD

What would Al Gore do?

Title: Re: Britain getting its butt kicked.
Post by: Mupepe on July 23, 2007, 06:01:23 PM
Al Gore would just eat some endangered fish to even it out.
Title: Re: Britain getting its butt kicked.
Post by: Wobedraggled on July 23, 2007, 06:03:58 PM
Quote from: Mupepe on July 23, 2007, 06:01:23 PM
Al Gore would just eat some endangered fish to even it out.

Farm raised endagered fish, sorry to burst that bubble.

And the world is fucked, end of story, be it weather or the middle east or hell the U.S. or Europe it's fucked.

and the repair bill is gonna SUCK
Title: Re: Britain getting its butt kicked.
Post by: Mupepe on July 23, 2007, 06:07:05 PM
endangered fish are endagered fish!  none of your hippie nonsense!  :-*
Title: Re: Britain getting its butt kicked.
Post by: MrAngryFace on July 23, 2007, 06:17:53 PM
Yeah no matter how fast we switch, if ever, from oil, we're in for 100 years of crazy ass weather and vanishing islands. Congrats.
Title: Re: Britain getting its butt kicked.
Post by: FatalT on July 23, 2007, 06:21:53 PM
HOORAY EARTH! WOO!
Title: Re: Britain getting its butt kicked.
Post by: Yeti on July 24, 2007, 12:23:57 AM
I was curious what the difference was between El Nino and La Nina, so I went to the wikipedia page. Apparently the two terms are interchangable, but I don't know where La Nina came from. I did find this interesting though:

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The name El Niņo, from the Spanish for "the little boy", refers to the Christ child, because the phenomenon is usually noticed around Christmas time in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of South America