The AGW folks continue to take hit after hit. With winter officially less than two weeks old, records for cold and snow continue to be set. Europe continues to be hit with record cold.
They predicted no let up in the freezing snap until at least mid-January, with snow, ice and severe frosts dominating.
And the likelihood is that the second half of the month will be even colder.
Weather patterns were more like those in the late 1970s, experts said, while Met Office figures released on Monday are expected to show that the country is experiencing the coldest winter for up to 25 years.
Patterns from the late 70’s? You mean, when the climate alarmists were predicting an impending ice age, cause by human activity? You know, the ice age that never happened?
On New Year’s Day 10 extreme weather warnings were in place, with heavy snow expected in northern England and Scotland.
A spokesman for the Met Office said: “It is certainly a while since we had cold weather like this and there isn’t any sign of any milder weather on the way.”
Considerable amounts of “showery snow” is expected over Scotland and eastern England over the coming days, he said, whilst the rest of the United Kingdom would remains dry but very cold.
He added that temperatures in the Scottish highlands could dip to minus 16 degrees while even southern areas of England could see lows of minus 7.
The cold weather comes despite the Met Office’s long range forecast, published, in October, of a mild winter. That followed it’s earlier inaccurate prediction of a “barbecue summer”, which then saw heavy rainfall and the wettest July for almost 100 years.
Hmm, so, did they use some of the “cooked” data in their predictions?
Paul Michaelwaite, forecaster for NetWeather.tv, said: “It is looking like this winter could be in the top 20 cold winters in the last 100 years.
Wow! That AGW is really making it…cold? How are they going to hide THIS decline?
Seriously though, they will blame the cold on human activity. In the 70’s, they said we were going to freeze to death in an ice age and our CO2 emissions were to blame. Then in the 80‘s to now, they’ve been telling us that we’re going roast, starve, be drowned by the rising seas, and so on, all because of warming. And again, it is our CO2 emissions that are to blame. They were wrong in the 70’s, and a growing body of evidence seems to point that they are wrong now as well.
But, they will not let the actual “inconvenient truths” interfere with their efforts. The scientists and private companies have billions, if not trillions, of dollars at stake. Politicians have tremendous power to gain, or lose, based on the actual state of the climate. So expect that the “party line” will be carbon output is causing climate change no matter what happens. It won’t matter that the “science” has been wrong at every turn. The goal is a socialist nanny state, and climate is the rationale. If reality interferes, it will be interpreted, and re-interpreted as many times as needed to achieve the goal.
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I believe that future generations should have the same opportunities that myself, and those that came before me, had. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted to do. I don’t want to have to tell my daughter, “You can do whatever the government tells you to do.” We are at a crossroads in this country; are we going to be free, or are we going to be slaves to the nanny state. I choose freedom.
But Matt, didn’t you know. This extreme cold weather we have been seeing is caused by the excess warm air over the oceans. At least, that is what one of the global warming activists told me on my blog. Since they said it, doesn’t it have to be true?
Yes, and a just a few years ago, they were saying something a bit different.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
The more these people talk, the less believable they become. It is hard to understand how anyone can still take these people seriously, they have been wrong at every turn.
That they have, but that hasn’t stopped them before. The left grabbed onto the environment as a rationale for control a long time ago. As evidence has changed, their drastic predictions have as well.
This time though, they are left with a bigger problem. As they have been more successful, they have pushed the warming thing to an extreme. Now, with evidence that the Earth is cooling becoming more and more evident, how are they going to shift gears? They are positioning themselves that no matter what happens, it’s our fault, but who is going to beleive them after their own hype about warming? At any rate, it ought to be fun to watch.
It’s getting worse now they want to restrict agriculture to create carbon offsets.
I wonder if that is the root of the next created crisis? Cloward-Piven for agriculture, if you will.
I guess when you are sitting at the top trying to set up a global government and all these “inconvenient” weather changes keep occurring messing up your plans, it is probably very frustrating having to concoct another plot.
Do you think God sits up in heaven and laughs at all their shenanigans?
I’ve theorized it for a long time, and this just confirms it. God has an incredible sense of humor. I just laugh along. After all, why argue?
To all the countries who signed Kyoto and/or did other stupid things to cripple their economies to halt global warming, I have this to say:
Gaaahaaahaaahaaheeeheeee!
It’s a lolarama with the lefties lately, isn’t it?
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I live in Virginia and when we get a snowfall, it usually melts quickly and is gone within a few days, but we still have a few inches of global warming left from a snow that fell over 2 weeks ago! In the last 2 weeks we’ve only had a couple of days where the temperature was above the freezing point which is very unusual.
It’s all about the warm air over the oceans, I hear. You see, by a convoluted process only understood by AGW activists (read: useful idiots), warmth causes cold!
stop breathing wouldya..sheesh all those carbon footprints!!
Angel, I hear you, and I understand completely. I’m only waiting for the liberals to lead by example. Then, I’ll laugh and go on with my life!