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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Amphibious Albion. |
| 2014-02-21 |
| [Mark Steyn Online] As non-British TV viewers may have discerned, the whole of the United Kingdom is presently underwater. Something to do with that rising of the oceans that Barack Obama promised to reverse? Why, yes! Mr Miliband says: "This winter is a one-in-250-year event" (yet it's nothing like as wet as 1929-30 if you count the whole of England and Wales, let alone Britain) and that "the science is clear". The chief scientist of the Met Office, Dame Julia Slingo, tells us "all the evidence" suggests that climate change is contributing to this winter's wetness. (Why, then, did she allow the Met Office to forecast in November that a dry winter was almost twice as likely as a wet winter?) Lord Stern, an economist, claimed that the recent weather is evidence "we are already experiencing the impact of climate change". In fact, before the prophets of doom drowned out everyone else, the "consensus" was that flooding was nothing to do with "climate change": Here's what the IPCC's latest report actually says: "There continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale." Here's what a paper published by 17 senior IPCC scientists from five different countries said last month: "It has not been possible to attribute rain-generated peak streamflow trends to anthropogenic climate change over the past several decades..." As for the organization Julia Slingo represents: In 2012, the Met Office agreed: "There continues to be little evidence that the recent increase in storminess over the UK is related to man-made climate change." So please will Lord Stern, Dame Julia and Mr Miliband explain why they are misleading the public about the science? That's the question my old Telegraph colleague Matt Ridley asks in a London Times column headlined "The Sceptics Are Right. Don't Scapegoat Them". Mr Murdoch has paywalled it, but Down Under the invaluable Jo Nova has excerpted a few choice quotes: At least they're saved from a Champ visit. The greens are much too soggy. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 If they could just get Prince Charles to shut up that would go a long way toward alleviating global warming. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-02-21 11:21 |
| #1 Maybe they can ship some 'wetness' to Jerry Brown in CA. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-02-21 08:57 |