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Climate history of the British isles

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  • 06-09-2011 2:00pm
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    http://booty.org.uk/booty.weather/climate/histclimat.htm

    Interesting site
    Much of the information contained in these records must of necessity be 'tentative' to say the least! Up to about 1000 years ago, we only have archaelogical evidence to reconstruct the record: some Roman chroniclers provide cursory evidence for the Romano-Celtic / British era, but it is not until roughly from AD 800 that documentary records make a major contribution - and of course, the era of instrumental record doesn't really start until the 17th century, and even then, inconsistencies / errors in the instrumentation make the early record questionable.



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    Pangea
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    Hate the term British Isles, it was a term created by the English in the 1500s to strengthen their ego. Our own Government refuse to acknowledge the term so I don't know why some Irish people use it.
    Anyway's thanks for the link. :pac:


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    Pangea wrote: »
    Hate the term British Isles, it was a term created by the English in the 1500s to strengthen their ego. Our own Government refuse to acknowledge the term so I don't know why some Irish people use it.
    Anyway's thanks for the link. :pac:

    Geography!


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    Pangea
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    Geography!

    History! look into its origins it was nothing to do with Geography and more to do with Politics.


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    Pangea wrote: »
    History! look into its origins it was nothing to do with Geography and more to do with Politics.

    Who cares, this is a weather forum!


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    Pangea
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Who cares, this is a weather forum!

    You're the one with the controversial thread title don't blame me for giving you feedback on it :pac:


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    Climate history of the British Isles, http://booty.org.uk/booty.weather/climate/histclimat.htm

    Interesting site

    Heven't studied it in depth yet, but it will be interesting to look back and see if our current climate is part of wider worldwide cycle, or just confined to the British isles? talking of which, I dont see any difference now in 2011 with our climate twenty or thirty years ago! Yes we have had two long snowy winters throughout the British isles & mainland Europe, but the summers seem to have normalised again since about 1998, (we seemed to be heating up for a few years in a row then). Re the title of this thread, well that is the name for this group of some six thousand islands, some big like Britain & Ireland, and some tiny ones like Rockall, all of which are all part of the same archipelago off the North West coast of Brittany < and thats a clue as to why our group of islands are named as such.


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