WUWT
"On the whole, Norway has therefore experienced the coldest month of November since 1919, with the full 3.57 degrees below the normal level. Because the norm is regarded as cold , this is a very big difference!"
Friday, 3 December 2010
UK Covered in snow, for the second winter
WUWT
"The University of Dundee’s satellite receiving station captured this image of how the heavy snow of the past week has affected the UK.
The picture, which was received at 1145 GMT on Thursday from Nasa satellite Terra, shows almost the entire country covered by a blanket of snow."
"The University of Dundee’s satellite receiving station captured this image of how the heavy snow of the past week has affected the UK.
The picture, which was received at 1145 GMT on Thursday from Nasa satellite Terra, shows almost the entire country covered by a blanket of snow."
UK in grip of coldest winter for 30 years
Independent
"Temperatures in big-freeze Britain were on a par with the South Pole today after the country suffered its coldest night of the winter so far. And forecasters say there's no change in prospect. "
"Temperatures in big-freeze Britain were on a par with the South Pole today after the country suffered its coldest night of the winter so far. And forecasters say there's no change in prospect. "
God, I hope not
E.M.Smith
"When the facts on the ground start to make it clear that things are actually getting Really Bad, it’s time to shove all the “clap trap” aside and start to prepare for the worst and / or figure out how to do a ‘rescue’ (or ‘self rescue’).
So the snow was “fun” for a day or two. But if that report is correct, we’re heading toward cold without fuel and stores without food. Very much double plus ungood…
When agriculture fails, the rest of society follows in short order.
So, my best wishes to those in “Merry Old England”, and best of luck to those in Scotland. Good wishes to those in the rest of the UK. And may Ireland find a fair wind at it’s back… one from over the Gulf Stream, preferably.. "
"When the facts on the ground start to make it clear that things are actually getting Really Bad, it’s time to shove all the “clap trap” aside and start to prepare for the worst and / or figure out how to do a ‘rescue’ (or ‘self rescue’).
So the snow was “fun” for a day or two. But if that report is correct, we’re heading toward cold without fuel and stores without food. Very much double plus ungood…
When agriculture fails, the rest of society follows in short order.
So, my best wishes to those in “Merry Old England”, and best of luck to those in Scotland. Good wishes to those in the rest of the UK. And may Ireland find a fair wind at it’s back… one from over the Gulf Stream, preferably.. "
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Nuclear is Julia’s only real hope
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun (Australia)
"You see, it’s actually nuclear power—not same-sex marriage—that can save Gillard and Labor from destruction. Before I nail her lie, here’s a warning to Gillard from yesterday’s paper. Hundreds of thousands of Victorian households will be forced to pay up to $150 more for electricity and gas from January 1.
And from last week’s:
Rocketing power prices are pushing hundreds of thousands of Victorians into “fuel poverty”. An estimated 211,000 households are already pouring more than 10 per cent of disposable income into electricity bills . . .
But I don’t need to tell Gillard that the bungling and green follies of Labor governments, state and federal, have helped force bills so high that her party may soon be turfed out of office everywhere. .....The mega-problem is that Labor is still sticking to its mad promise to cut the country’s carbon dioxide emissions by 5 per cent of 2000 levels by 2020, to “save” an impassive planet from man-made global warming. That may not sound much, but in fact means cutting the gases of every man, woman, child, factory and farting cow by a third. ..."
"You see, it’s actually nuclear power—not same-sex marriage—that can save Gillard and Labor from destruction. Before I nail her lie, here’s a warning to Gillard from yesterday’s paper. Hundreds of thousands of Victorian households will be forced to pay up to $150 more for electricity and gas from January 1.
And from last week’s:
Rocketing power prices are pushing hundreds of thousands of Victorians into “fuel poverty”. An estimated 211,000 households are already pouring more than 10 per cent of disposable income into electricity bills . . .
But I don’t need to tell Gillard that the bungling and green follies of Labor governments, state and federal, have helped force bills so high that her party may soon be turfed out of office everywhere. .....The mega-problem is that Labor is still sticking to its mad promise to cut the country’s carbon dioxide emissions by 5 per cent of 2000 levels by 2020, to “save” an impassive planet from man-made global warming. That may not sound much, but in fact means cutting the gases of every man, woman, child, factory and farting cow by a third. ..."
Never mind the squeaky voice, Osborne: what have you got to say about THIS?
Telegraph
Here’s an open letter to the Chancellor from Clive Francis, a reader of the Autonomous Mind blog. It’s so devastatingly right (* see below) and true I think it could become a bit of an internet hit, so I’m going to reprint it here. Why not send a copy to your local MP and see how evasive his response is? "
'......As Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT said:
“Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a rollback of the industrial age”.
MUST READ: ED
Here’s an open letter to the Chancellor from Clive Francis, a reader of the Autonomous Mind blog. It’s so devastatingly right (* see below) and true I think it could become a bit of an internet hit, so I’m going to reprint it here. Why not send a copy to your local MP and see how evasive his response is? "
'......As Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT said:
“Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a rollback of the industrial age”.
MUST READ: ED
Japan refuses to extend Kyoto treaty at Cancun
WUWT
"The brief statement, made by Jun Arima, an official in the government’s economics trade and industry department, in an open session, was the strongest yet made against the protocol by one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
He said: “Japan will not inscribe its target under the Kyoto protocol on any conditions or under any circumstances.”
"The brief statement, made by Jun Arima, an official in the government’s economics trade and industry department, in an open session, was the strongest yet made against the protocol by one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
He said: “Japan will not inscribe its target under the Kyoto protocol on any conditions or under any circumstances.”
Britain has coldest year since 1996 (but it will be the hottest year since 1850 for the rest of the world)
Daily Mail
"Britain has experienced its coldest year since 1996, the Met Office revealed last night.On a day when most of the country was shivering under a thick blanket of snow, forecasters said average temperatures over the last 12 months had dipped after a run of warm years. However, the UK appears to be bucking the global trend.
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UN climate chief Pachauri ignorant of 15 years without warming
"When asked about the fact that there has been no statistically significant global warming for the past 15 years, Pachauri became evasive. Even Phil Jones, a climatologist at the University of East Anglia and a prominent global warming alarmist, admitted this fact in the wake of Climategate. "
"Britain has experienced its coldest year since 1996, the Met Office revealed last night.On a day when most of the country was shivering under a thick blanket of snow, forecasters said average temperatures over the last 12 months had dipped after a run of warm years. However, the UK appears to be bucking the global trend.
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UN climate chief Pachauri ignorant of 15 years without warming
"When asked about the fact that there has been no statistically significant global warming for the past 15 years, Pachauri became evasive. Even Phil Jones, a climatologist at the University of East Anglia and a prominent global warming alarmist, admitted this fact in the wake of Climategate. "
Why we're a laughing stock with the rest of the world
Daily Mail
"When it snows in New York, the roads are carpeted by feet of the stuff, not a slushy veneer, yet the Cadillacs glide freely along Madison Avenue all winter long.Snowploughs are out all night every night clearing everything in their path. The same goes for Stockholm and Toronto. .....No one stays off work in those countries because they can’t make it into the office; no one shivers all night in a shut-down railway station; the children aren’t given the day off school (like the pupils my daughter teaches yesterday) because health and safety regulations deem icy playgrounds and snowballing too dangerous. In these truly cold nations, the neurotic helplessness that paralyses Britain the moment a light dusting of snow falls is making us a laughing stock."
"When it snows in New York, the roads are carpeted by feet of the stuff, not a slushy veneer, yet the Cadillacs glide freely along Madison Avenue all winter long.Snowploughs are out all night every night clearing everything in their path. The same goes for Stockholm and Toronto. .....No one stays off work in those countries because they can’t make it into the office; no one shivers all night in a shut-down railway station; the children aren’t given the day off school (like the pupils my daughter teaches yesterday) because health and safety regulations deem icy playgrounds and snowballing too dangerous. In these truly cold nations, the neurotic helplessness that paralyses Britain the moment a light dusting of snow falls is making us a laughing stock."
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Cancun suffers its final indignity: a visit from 'Two Jags' Prescott
Telegraph
"John ‘Two Jags’ Prescott – Lord Prescott to his valet and also to the maitre d’ at his local Hull branch of McDonalds as he ushers him obsequiously to his private booth – is flying off to Cancun to help boost the event’s carbon footprint. Perhaps there is some other purpose to his visit too. Perhaps it has something to do with his fancy new title The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly Rapporteur. Having just watched him being interviewed by Andrew Neil on the BBC’s Daily Politics I’m afraid I’m really none the wiser."
"John ‘Two Jags’ Prescott – Lord Prescott to his valet and also to the maitre d’ at his local Hull branch of McDonalds as he ushers him obsequiously to his private booth – is flying off to Cancun to help boost the event’s carbon footprint. Perhaps there is some other purpose to his visit too. Perhaps it has something to do with his fancy new title The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly Rapporteur. Having just watched him being interviewed by Andrew Neil on the BBC’s Daily Politics I’m afraid I’m really none the wiser."
Global Warming Meets Its Stalingrad – “Cold Of The Century”
NoTricksZone
"The homeless are freezing to death, schools are closing, air traffic is paralyzed, flights cancelled, temperatures plummeting to -20°C, winds up to 60 km/hr making windchill feel like -40°C, autobahns and motorways are blocked by drifting snow, motorists stranded, trains are disrupted – that’s the ugly winter reality today in Germany. We’ve been seeing similar headlines in the UK and throughout all of Scandinavia. Global warming has met its Stalingrad. ....Meanwhile, the Climate Generals are sipping champagne and eating caviar in sunny Cancun...."
"The homeless are freezing to death, schools are closing, air traffic is paralyzed, flights cancelled, temperatures plummeting to -20°C, winds up to 60 km/hr making windchill feel like -40°C, autobahns and motorways are blocked by drifting snow, motorists stranded, trains are disrupted – that’s the ugly winter reality today in Germany. We’ve been seeing similar headlines in the UK and throughout all of Scandinavia. Global warming has met its Stalingrad. ....Meanwhile, the Climate Generals are sipping champagne and eating caviar in sunny Cancun...."
Millions endure second nightmare journey home from work as forecasters predict EIGHT INCHES of snow tonight
Daily Mail
# Woman dies after falling into freezing lake in West Yorkshire
# Body of man in his 50s pulled from stream in Surrey
# Eight inches of snow forecast tonight for London and South East
# 900 flights cancelled as Gatwick and Edinburgh airports close
# Shops running out of basics as lorries struggle to deliver
# Passengers stranded overnight on freezing trains in South East
# Police advise people not to go out unless absolutely necessary
# Temperatures set to fall to -6c, with winds making it feel even colder
# Woman dies after falling into freezing lake in West Yorkshire
# Body of man in his 50s pulled from stream in Surrey
# Eight inches of snow forecast tonight for London and South East
# 900 flights cancelled as Gatwick and Edinburgh airports close
# Shops running out of basics as lorries struggle to deliver
# Passengers stranded overnight on freezing trains in South East
# Police advise people not to go out unless absolutely necessary
# Temperatures set to fall to -6c, with winds making it feel even colder
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Ceci n'est pas un bonhomme de neige!
Telegraph
"Some of you may be looking out of your windows right now and think that the white stuff floating down from the sky is snow. It is not, of course. What the white stuff actually is the purely imaginary creation of your false consciousness. You see it because you want to see it; because in your evil, selfish, refusing-to-change-your-pampered-Western-lifestyle way you think it offers proof that man-made global warming doesn’t exist.
How can I be so sure? Well, even if you were to discount what the experts at the Met Office are telling us about this being the hottest year since at least the Holocene Optimum, the experts’ expert tells us so.
Who is the experts’ expert?
Why shame on you for not knowing!
His name is Dr David Viner, he used to work at Britain’s world-renowned Climatic Research Unit at the famed University of East Anglia, and in 2000 in the Independent he made the expert prediction that snow would soon become a “rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
"Some of you may be looking out of your windows right now and think that the white stuff floating down from the sky is snow. It is not, of course. What the white stuff actually is the purely imaginary creation of your false consciousness. You see it because you want to see it; because in your evil, selfish, refusing-to-change-your-pampered-Western-lifestyle way you think it offers proof that man-made global warming doesn’t exist.
How can I be so sure? Well, even if you were to discount what the experts at the Met Office are telling us about this being the hottest year since at least the Holocene Optimum, the experts’ expert tells us so.
Who is the experts’ expert?
Why shame on you for not knowing!
His name is Dr David Viner, he used to work at Britain’s world-renowned Climatic Research Unit at the famed University of East Anglia, and in 2000 in the Independent he made the expert prediction that snow would soon become a “rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
Commuters warned to head home early as London's rail network is crippled by snow
Daily Mail
# Rail customers warned of massive delays and suspensions
# Some lines opened over four hours late
# 16 flights cancelled at Gatwick
# Bluewater Shopping Centre closed due to poor weather
# Britain braces itself for cold evening with heavy snow forecast
# Rail customers warned of massive delays and suspensions
# Some lines opened over four hours late
# 16 flights cancelled at Gatwick
# Bluewater Shopping Centre closed due to poor weather
# Britain braces itself for cold evening with heavy snow forecast
Monday, 29 November 2010
'Hypocrisy' of Huhne at the eco summit with personal Jacuzzi in each £240-a-night suite
Daily Mail
"Campaigners reacted with disbelief at the decision to house the UK delegation at the resort. Matthew Sinclair from the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: ‘The waste and hypocrisy of the climate change travelling circus needs to end, particularly with so little expected out of the negotiations.’
"Campaigners reacted with disbelief at the decision to house the UK delegation at the resort. Matthew Sinclair from the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: ‘The waste and hypocrisy of the climate change travelling circus needs to end, particularly with so little expected out of the negotiations.’
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