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In terms of titles and rankings, I think he's done as much as Henman did already, and look at the attention he got every year.

Jack started pretty below par here.

I believe this point of view has cropped up here before, and I think the rebuttal remains the same. If the style of playing change gets this team to push on and do better than they're doing now, fair enough. But those pining for older styles might be reminded that this Test team won one Test in 17 before this style of play was implemented.

East Asia come summertime is utterly awful in that regard. Air conditioning is a necessity over there. The UK is on the trajectory to be similar. Soon.

Agreed. 30 degrees C dry heat is alright, 30% humidity at that temperature isn't great, 60% and above is just brutal.

Coral skeletons and pollen remains, to name two more. And on the contrary, all of those sources provide a great deal of data that shows both historical temperature levels and air chemical composition very clearly.

I absolutely agree that the recognition and action on this matter needs to be global. However, the first article shows rather clearly that those certain Western figures are about as much use in that regard as a chocolate fireguard.

On the main topic of emissions and commensurate temperature increase, thankfully quite a few sources supply a wealth of information going back at least that far.

Yeah, I think people in the UK like the idea of nice toasty heat as long as they can then have a break from it.

Changes in temperature that cause tree ring effects are, in part, caused by emissions that then reach and effect the stratosphere. It does therefore give more information on a small part of the puzzle.

It's telling that people in the UK are now so inconvenienced by excess heat events that the above discussions are taking place on the regular.

Already looks like the only two positive outcomes for England here are winning by batting once and racking up a truly monster total, or at least matching the first innings total and rolling on to the draw.

On topic: tree rings can also tell us about emissions that have made it to the stratosphere through the aforementioned temperature variables, thus providing a solid (though limited in its own way indirect) method.

It's a fair argument. I guess we'll find out what subsequent studies show. In any case, I think the impact human activity has had on various emissions and the biosphere since the Industrial Revolution is really not in question.

No idea. No other route to that other that the obvious one because he's clearly not getting impeached, so I guess 20's given his general health?

Little bit better.

I think as long as you have legit records to draw from, using models that apply them is OK. And yes, it's obvious that the more scientific agencies doing good work stay out the way of the death-worshipping fundies, the better.

Probably not, unless something happens that either completely removes Trump from play or he somehow manages to neutralise the cult of personality around him.

This is rather ominous.

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-human-stratospheric-cooling-early.amp More (rather darkly) fascinating stuff from Phys.org. It really is a great resource for information on this topic.

20 years in the UK, more likely.

Tropical or subtropical climates of any kind are utterly brutal in summer with the humidity. See most of Asia.

And it will have a knock on effect for NASA, as well. Here's hoping they can get back on track soon.

They're really having trouble scaling up the complexity of the designs, it would seem.

You'd think at least one match wouldn't have enough play for that three days over the course of an English summer, yeah. So 3-1 England or possibly 2-2.