Monte Rosa tragedy

Trencher wrote:Ise makes a very good point about the jet stream.


In North America, you watch it every day on the weather forecast in autumn, winter and spring. It totally governs what the weather will be and is very unpredictable. It's like a giant syne wave looping around the Northern hemisphere. The oscillations vary in magnitude and position.

Exactly, I should have pointed out that the effect is way more pronounced in the US than over here.

Dave Mac wrote:
Global warming is in evidence. The question is the degree of that which is man-made, and that which is an oscilatory process.

That's right. The term global warming means the whole globe of course and local conditions vary a bit. The mainstream debate's moved so far from this now though, you're one sentence summary nails it precisely. Even the term global warming has been dropped in favour of climate change to avoid just this confusion.

Tony_H wrote:I noticed the stuff about the jet stream last year, because it was running in a different position to the normal across GB, which they claimed was affecting the weather.

I think the point about extremes of weather is very valid, because what

i believe it was above scotland last summer rather then further up north above the ocean, this in turn was linked to the flooding in tewkesbury, oxfordshire and gloucester aswell as other areas!