Here in VA Beach, fall comes late so it can be
quite warm this time of year.
Not exact matches
At this
time of year, there's nothing
quite like a
warming bowl
of porridge for breakfast.
While I am probably
quite a few
years away from any kind
of housewife status, every
time I make cookies I like to imagine myself serving
warm chocolate chip cookies to beaming children and friends as I smile coyly and say, «oh no, they were no trouble at all.
Autumn is my favourite
time of year, I actually
quite like it when the nights start to draw in, when outside is cold but inside is cosy and
warm.
It's that
time of year — the temps are dipping and sometimes a little piece
of dark chocolate or cup
of herbal tea after dinner doesn't
quite satisfy the craving for something chocolaty and
warm!
If you've been following on long on this blog for
quite some
time you know that I pretty much live in this combo during the
warmer months
of the
year — floral dress and a jean jacket.
Even if it isn't
quite warm where you live yet, I love that this
time of year you can take spring pieces and layer over them.
Obviously these pictures were taken a while ago since the weather isn't
warm enough for bare legs at the moment (although it's still
quite warm for the
time of the
year!).
Usually in Australia at this
time of year, the weather is still
quite warm, the seasons are changing into autumn and it's...
Go down to your local swimming pool at this
time of year and even though the air temperature will be
warm the water will likely be
quite cold.
The models make atmospheric CO2 concentration the cause
of warming, but fail to account for either the solubility effect
of CO2 in water, the intense outgassing in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific, or the effects
of climatologists» formula for the residence
time of atmospheric CO2 (it's
quite short - lived (~ 1.5
years), not long - lived (decades to centuries), and its lumpy in the atmosphere, not global).
But it was not difficult to build up a pretty good picture
of wet and dry
years,
warm and cool
years, floods, droughts, and
quite a bit
of temperature and rainfall data kept by weather obsessed farmers from the earliest
times.
The news reports should,
quite frankly, be focussed on his admission that, as Prime Minister
of Australia for thirteen
years, during which
time he steadfastly refused to take any action to mitigate global
warming, his only investigation
of the science was read a single book, by a well known denier two
years after leaving office.
I suspect that, BAU, the rate
of warming from 1970 to 2070 could be very unusual for 100 -
year periods for a long
time into the past, though I'd defer to others who have studied climate records in more detail... (the sustained rate
of increase in GHG forcing already is
quite a bit larger than what occured in at least the last deglaciation — see graphs in ch 6
of IPCC AR4 WGI)