- Bishop Hill blog - A letter from the future

One issue that you must resolve in the next 6 months is the Met Office request for £3bn for a new supercomputer to replace the one they received in 2025.  They wish to locate it at their new offices at the 500acre campus on the British Virgin Islands in the Carribean, where the 8,000 Met Office staff have been relocated following the winter of 2026 when none of them were able to access the old offices in Exeter due to the prolonged white-out.

Airports As Thermometers

It is clear from Figure 1 that in the absence of population and burned jet fuel, the temperature trend in the mid-U. S., from 1934 to 2000, has been cooling by about one degree C. It is also clear that the UHI affect in the vicinity of large cities and their airports, is about 1.5°C. Yes, fossil fuel use leads to warming, especially at airports. But if those are the only places being measured, it is like a blind-man describing an elephant touching only the trunk.

RSS Satellite Data Shows No Arctic Warming For Seven Years | Real Science

97% Of Polar Scientists Say That The Arctic Is Ice-Free | Real Science

NASA promised us an ice-free Arctic in 2012. This might be a bit tricky given that more than a quarter of the Arctic Basin is already covered with 2.5+ metre thick ice, with four more months of deep freeze remaining.

Major report: climate change could help British farmers compete globally | This is North Devon