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UK Met Office to hold summit to redefine all weather events as climate (change)! | The k2p blog

But rather than admit that climate models have become a fiasco, it would seem that the “establishment” is now “circling the wagons” and rationalising to be able to connect all weather events to “man-made climate change” – defined as being anything over and above “natural variability”. Why would the “natural variability” of just the last 150 years be the benchmark. Why would the Little Ice Age or the Roman Warm Period or the Medieval Warm Period not be part of the “natural variability” to be used as the reference? If the flood levels in Germany this spring reached the same level in Passau 500 years ago, why wouldn’t the weather/climate of 500 years ago also be part of “natural variability”?

Met Office brainstorms UK bad weather | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

It is, of course, highly inconvenient for the Met to have to keep on explaining why their forecasts of a rapidly warming climate have failed to appear. But isn’t it time they simply admitted their mistakes, apologized and moved on?

Leading the way with an unbiased climate panel | Watts Up With That?

Last month, U.S. Rep. David McKinley (R.-WV) hosted an unbiased climate change panel discussion in Fairmont, West Virginia. Experts from both sides of the climate debate participated without restrictions of any kind.

McKinley’s open-minded approach is one that should be copied across the United States. Considering what’s at stake—a human-induced eco-collapse if former Vice-President Al Gore and his allies are correct, or, if skeptics are right, a waste of billions of dollars and the loss of millions of jobs as we experiment with a switch away from coal and other hydrocarbon fuels to alternative energy sources—the risks are too high to do anything less.

NOAA May 2013 – Southeast States Were Cold!!! | sunshine hours

The Southeast states were cold in May 2013 according to the NOAA. Florida had the 11th coldest May in its history. Which means 108 were warmer.

Senate Environment panel to take up Sen. Sanders's carbon tax bill in July - The Hill's E2-Wire

The fees would raise $1.2 trillion through the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Sanders' bill would return 60 percent of those revenues to residents to help offset costlier energy.