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Does the number of VFR flyable days increase in N. Europe?

Some of the percentages above are implausible when it comes to doing actual flights. What is the source?

Narrow it down to say a departure slot of 9am to 11am and see what you get.

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Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

MichaLSA wrote:

I start to look at these statistical data guided from historians view, like the folks from CDN. Climate change is so slow, human recognition is unable to fetch by feelings, but needs raw data without bullshit interpretations – imho. Btw, the whole discussion does look different if you go for the data, not the government .

This clip has two problems. One is that you can’t use historical sea level data to predict sea level rise when the factors that would cause a rise are only recently beginning of have an effect. The other one is that this guy (from San Diego?) has apparently never heard of isostatic uplift. (In Sweden, everyone knows about it but if you’re not from Scandinavia, you’re excused.) This means that the weight of the ice sheet during the last ice age pressed down the earth’s crust which has been slowly raising again after the end of the ice age. In northern Sweden, the rise is currently about 10 mm/year, in the Stockholm area about 5 mm/year and in the Copenhagen area about 1 mm/year. It has historically been higher and is decreasing, but it will take several thousand years more before it stops. Obviously this local effect will counteract any global sea level rise.

As an aside, this effect has and continues to have major effect on Swedish coastal geography as can be seen by some towns that were harbours some hundred years ago are now kilometers inland.

Last Edited by Airborne_Again at 16 Mar 12:18
ESKC (Uppsala/Sundbro), Sweden
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