"What's With The Weather!?!"

"Sunday Telegraph, August 28, 1977: WEATHER MEN AT A LOSS... 'What is happening to the British weather? That seemingly innocuous question has suddenly become a major question for research. Even the meteorologists are cautiously echoing the man in the street's opinion that something distinctly odd has been affecting our climate to give us the extremes of the past two years... Many countries have experienced strange weather phenomena over the same period. Mr. Edwin P. Weigel of the United States Weather Bureau in Washington told me: - We don't know what's hit us. California and other western states have had two years of drought which have smashed all-time records. Water is being rationed in some parts... There are several shades of opinion on how ominous it all is and there is only a very shaky consensus on how unusual such extremities really are...' The official attitude, however, was still guarded. Experts who knew the real truth were anxious not to provoke mass panic. Kevin Miles of the Meteorological Office's 40-strong climatic research team at Bracknell, Berkshire, was quoted in this Sunday Telegraph article as saying: 'We must agree that what we have been experiencing is unusual. Reports from all over the world have confirmed our own picture of increased variability. But we have learned not to over-react to what might be seen as odd in several small parts of the globe.'" (P. 103) http://www.amazon.com/Alternative-003-3-Leslie-Watkins/dp/0380446774/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1366591604&sr=8-3-fkmr0&keywords=alternative+three+leslie+watkins+1978