The end of this week’s climate change congress at Copenhagen has been marked by an upbeat message from some of the key contributors, nicely summed-up in this article by Lewis Smith in The Times of 14th March...

I wonder how many people know that 2,500 climate scientists from 80 countries have been meeting this week at Copenhagen?   A few stories have made it into the media covering individual speeches but it seems a good time...

The winter season 2008-2009 - how does it compare with past cold winters?  End of winter update.                    

My last...

This is a quick summary to see how the winter so far compares with previous cold winters.  It will be updated when the final stats for February are available.

The current winter can be compared with previous ones using the...

On 2nd February 2009 much of London had the deepest snow for 18 years. Depths of level snow of around 20cm were commonplace with considerably more in the southern suburbs and towards the North Downs in Surrey. Around Epsom,...