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February 10 2007
Come to Ireland for your Sunshine Holiday
I watched Al Gore's documentary the other day. I haven't much to add to the gazillions of words written elsewhere about that - it tells of a devastating truth as much as an inconvenient one. Seeing and experiencing the reality of global warming to a more personal, tangible level, drives home the message very effectively that we are in some trouble.
This happened to me twice recently.
The BBC do this strangely fascinating thing where they record in some detail what the weather was like in all parts of the UK each month - they've been doing it since 1998.
I was flicking through it the other day and both temperatures and hours of sunshine are pretty much consistently recorded as 'well above average' or 'exceptionally above average' for each of the last 6 months in all parts of the UK, with a smattering of broken records here and there.
It's not a proof I know, but its fairly compelling support for the idea that global warming is right with us and doing it's thing when even Scotland and Northern Ireland start looking like sunshine destinations.
And then there is snow - we used to have snow when I was a child. Not serious skiing style snow of course, but enough to close schools and cause traffic chaos. I honestly can't remember now when I last saw the council gritting a road for ice, much less one made impassable with snow.
A few days ago a small bit of fluffy white stuff fell for about 5 minutes, melting as soon as it hit the ground. It wasn't as heavy as in Dublin, above. My son will be 9 soon got highly, though briefly, excited at the idea of snow - he has never actually seen proper snow.
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