For sure there was Global Warming in Europe as temperatures in Athens Greece topped 38 centigrade with a promise of 42 at the weekend. Meanwhile the rest of central Europe sweltered, as the mercury seemed destined to add that conclusive bit of evidence to those who could ever doubt that the planet was heating up.
So yet again the illusive search for the carbon dioxide clouds resumes unfulfilled but undiminished. Meanwhile Britain was subject to strong but warm southerly winds of the sort that contributed to the so called warmest April on record. Yet as we see from the image below the real cause was not a choking cloud of carbon dioxide but simply a southerly windflow that once again meandered up from South America.
But hold the headlines. As these pictures below will indicate the sole reason for this hot spell was not the suffocating clouds of carbon dioxide stacked immediately above continental Europe, but something considerably more mundane - a strong windflow from around the South American continent that in many cases derived yet further heat from the deserts of North Africa.
So yet again the illusive search for the carbon dioxide clouds resumes unfulfilled but undiminished. Meanwhile Britain was subject to strong but warm southerly winds of the sort that contributed to the so called warmest April on record. Yet as we see from the image below the real cause was not a choking cloud of carbon dioxide but simply a southerly windflow that once again meandered up from South America.
