Thursday, January 07, 2010

BBC interviewer absolutely grills UK Met Office’s John Hirst over weather forecasts and salary | CLIMATEGATE
Oh this is good, really good.
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In this clip, Andrew Neal grills Met Office chief John Hirst.

The best line (4:08) of the video and perhaps of the year: “Since you can’t the summer or the winter right in your forecasts, why should we give any credence to your forecast to what the temperature will be in the 2050 or 2020, which is what you do.”

This is the BBC? Sound more like Fox News, and we love it!
Tulsa World: School's out: Big chill cancels classes for safety
The frigid forecast has prompted Tulsa and area school officials to call off classes for the rest of the week.
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A quick survey of the Hamilton student body Wednesday found that about 60 students didn't have gloves or even coats, so Wiggins began scouring her school's free clothes closet for coats and called on the PTA for help in purchasing new gloves for every child who needs them.
Team Responses to MM2003 « Climate Audit
This incident was my first introduction to the Team just making stuff up. I couldn’t believe that someone described as a “Scientific American Visionary” would either stoop to making up stories or to be so foolish as to make up stories that were readily refuted by the email record. I was even more amazed that the climate science “community” acquiesced in this sort of fabrication. This was totally outside my experience.
“Experts: Cold snap doesn’t disprove global warming” « [Alarmist Joe Romm]: Climate Progress
We’ve only had about 1°F warming in recent decades, which can’t do much more than skew the odds — it certainly hasn’t warmed anywhere near enough to have driven us outside the bounds of the much larger temperature swings that come from regional weather patterns, let alone the seasons.
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And, of course, 2010 still remains likely to be the hottest year on record, given the moderate to strong El Niño we are still experiencing — more on that shortly.
Cold Snap “Proof” That Climate Change Not Happening? « 350 or bust
What is important to remember is that as more and more climate change-inducing emissions accumulate in our atmosphere (such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) our climate will become more and more unstable and unpredictable. The result will be more and more instances of extreme winter weather like parts of the world are now experiencing. There will also be more droughts, hurricanes, etc.

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