Thank you Chris - you've picked up on exactly what depresses me the most.  According to CNN (sorry, not peer-reviwed I know) the world has had more extreme weather in the past 300 months than at any time since records began.  Yet it seems to be having very little effect on peoples attitude to Anthropomorphic Climate Change.  ACC is not mentioned in news broadcasts or documentaries (or is reluctantly mentioned, as in Attenborough's Frozen Planet).  Is it because everyone is terrified of the wrath of 'deniers' who bully with words like Monckton, Dellingbole, Limburgh and Lamont?

Or is it mortality salience?

James

On 21 May 2012, at 18:13, Christopher Shaw wrote:

Humanity, prisoners of neo-liberal ideologies, take their work to the beach whilst weather oscillations just get ever more extreme.

 

I’m rejecting statistical attempts to show these jumps from one record breaking month of weather to the next are just normal weather patterns; by the time it shows up in the stats we’ll be at 4 or 5 degrees above pre-industrial.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9279849/Forecasters-predict-barbecue-summer-to-rival-2003-as-temperatures-rocket-to-27C-tomorrow.html

 

Chris

 

(P.S Sorry for the non-scholarly nature of this post, I’ve spent all day writing a journal paper and I need to express some emotion).