carolinephillips

The sea takes a lot longer than the land to cool down, so having the temperature around 20 degrees isn't that unusual, even at this time of the year. In spring, it will be colder and take longer to warm up. I used to like swimming in the sea in autumn- I didn't like getting out though into a freezing cold wind. (This is the UK I'm talking about here, and I was a lot younger and more resilient to cold.)

Amazulu

Sydney ain't the world champ

renth

I think the Powers that Be are using HAARP to change the weather so people spend more on coats, gloves and power to boost GDP figures.

Amazulu

what a cool project

renth

I was fishing from the beach in Exmouth, right by the Jetty at the Naval base at Point Murat where they do all the low frequency submarine comms and (allegedly) HAARP. My feet were in the wet sand and were throbbing to a pulse which I thought was my heartbeat. I was thinking "shit, I must get my blood pressure checked" but when I felt my pulse I realised that it the throbbing in the sand wasn't in time with my heartbeat so must have been coming from the naval base.

It was very strange.

asprilla

I think that I read somewhere, that there is a bit of a "mini ice age" effect... and the UK gets hit every 150 or 200yrs? Or am I imagining this ?

BadgeIsBack

This is surely just part of the puzzle in the whole climate question..!

renth

I remember when I was a kid the big thing everyone was worried about was the next ice age which was apparently about to happen. Today that's been replaced by global warming.

I wonder what the big thing to be scared of will be in 25 years time?

Probably how to survive nuclear fallout or something.

Amazulu

Yep. There'll be another socialist/left-wing attempt to destroy the living standards of the western world to try and take us down to the level of the third world

BadgeIsBack

Didn't we cover that one back in Thacher's Britain in the 80s?

These ice ages or cooling are partly explained by the earth wobbling on it's axis...M-something or other cycles..

Hino

Probably one of those 'undetectable' Collins class subs passing by......those two stroke diesels do have a bit of a 'thump' to them

renth

I don't remember the Thatcher's Britain thread..

Anyway with any luck the next ice age and global warming will cancel each other out and mankind will have to pick a different way to destroy the planet.

renth

...or maybe they were having a party and I could feel the bass.

IvanM

Nowhere else matters.

verystormy

Actually, technically, the UK is still in an ice age - it is interglacial period at present. The world climate is not doing anything unusual. It changes both heating and cooling at surprising levels.