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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1057014" data-attributes="member: 6533">Round here we are finally having the above 100 degree weather that I love.The West Texas Summer came late this year.There is a lot of air conditioning, but I try very hard not to use it.  Too much of it always makes me ill.  Not looking forward to the end of summer and returning to a working culture that makes us wear horrificly inappropriate clothes in buildings that could never have AC reliable enough to suit their plans.Enjoy the warm weather nights if you can.  I imagine the opportunities to really enjoy margaritas on a porch are fairly limited in England.In a long term warming trend England might actually loose its current water and air currents rendering it colder.Ice and tree records are accurate as far as they go, but there is a lot of dispute over how much they actually mean for determining a global or accurate model, particularly in relation to current events.I think Scientific American had a very nice article on this recently.  That and the new survey of tree and ice data on the warm middle ages, little ice age, and the state of current affairs.With a very nice commentary on the inherently political nature of scientific inquiry into global climate change in America.  All those poor archaeologists looking forward to a quiet career of site consultation on climate history, now their field is pure rhetorical guava.</blockquote>