I've written a number of blogs now where I try to get to grips with some of the numbers underlying global warming. So far, I agree that the historic figures do demonstrate global warming over the last 100+ years within a relatively wide band of poss...
Read moreDid you know that one of my first jobs was in the Pets & Cleaning Department in Fenwick's in Newcastle? And ever since, I have had a strange and haunting obsession for Household Cleaning products. Well, I am not really that fascinated in them,...
Read moreI mentioned in my first blog about walks in Ripon in North Yorkshire that I did not believe that Ripon had only been settled as a monastery in 650AD. I believe this basic historical fact about Ripon's history even less now after walking along the Ri...
Read moreAs you walk through the centre of Ripon alongside the River Skell, you get an appreciation of how many bridges there are. Sure, Ripon isn't Venice with its profusion of quaint, romantic curve bridges that play on the imagination nor the strong, engi...
Read moreAs I have explained in several of my last few blogs, I have been looking more closely at the detail of the case for global warming. I have analysed global average temperatures as provided by NASA that uses information from the Hadley Centre in the U...
Read moreAutumnal leaves are falling everywhere. They have hung on in there for quite a while longer as we have had a short spell of decent warm weather and very little wind. But even so, nature cannot be stopped and even the delicate finger-like leaves of...
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