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Fri 09 Sep 2008Blame summer on our bad weather cycle
ANALYSIS:AS OUR water-logged summer of 2008 recedes and we enjoy what remains of the September sunshine, perhaps the time is opportune to examine the claims made in the media that the abnormal Irish weather of July and August was a signal of man-made climate change, writes Ray Bates.
As expected, the climatological statistics recently issued by Met Éireann show that this summer's rainfall was well above normal everywhere. Mean temperatures for the summer were a little higher than normal, by amounts varying in an irregular pattern between zero and 0.8 degrees Celsius across the country.
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