[BNM] [OT] Re: BNM Solar power & macbookpro

[Nick Taylor]

> On 8/5/07, Nick Taylor <nick at tangerineworks.com> wrote:
>> It was on the beeb. The gulf stream normally goes up past Scotland...
>> this time it appeared to fizzle out around the channel - this meant that
>> the normal cold complex from the north wasn't pushed back the the normal
>> warm complex from the south... causing it to piss down all over the UK.
> 
> So when you wrote:
> "Yea - apparently it interfered with the Gulf stream this year - it
> didn't go up as high as normal."
> 
> What you really meant to say was:
> "Yea - apparently it interfered with the Gulf stream this year - it
> didn't travel as far North as normal"


Nah - the context provides enough scope to work out what I meant without 
taxing the grey-cells too much. I'll stick with "up". It's easier to spell.


> I'm unable to find the article on the BBC site. Did the beeb say that
> climate change caused this change in the Gulf Stream, or was it your
> own conclusion?

Can't remember. If it's causing you to lose sleep though, I'd recommend 
writing to them - although I seem to recall it was John Snow doing all 
the talking so it may be better to write to Channel 4 News instead.

Let us know how you get on.