Climate change

The climate here is odd, especially  the relative mildness of the climate, and most especially when you realize that Bristol is on the same latitude as Moscow.

Let me express that a different way: Bristol is as far north as Moscow and 8 degrees of latitude, or more than 800 km,  north of Toronto.

Yet, as the photo demonstrates, they grow palm trees here.

The British say it’s the Gulf Current and the moderating effect of being surrounded by water that creates this moderating effect.

I think it’s the Prosecco: from what I can tell, Brits drink more  Italian Prosecco wine than anybody else in the world, invariably followed by brandy, ale and various other booze.

My theory: The Prosecco warms the Brits up, they leave the restaurant or pub like thousands of individual Prosecco-fuelled walking furnaces, that warms the country and, presto, Prosecco palms!

The Italians may not actually care whether the UK stays in the EU, so long as they can build a direct Prosecco pipeline from Milan to Dover, possibly preventing the most serious consequence of this whole  Brexit thing: collapse of the Italian economy followed shortly thereafter by calamitous UK climate cooling!

None of the members of the local scientific community agree with me on this, but then, they scoffed  at Galileo, didn’t they?.