Britain's cold snap does not prove climate science wrong | Leo Hickman and George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Climate sceptics are failing to understand the most basic meteorology - that weather is not the same as climate, and single events are not the same as trends

Arctic roots of 'upside-down' weather by Richard Black, BBC | Climate Realists

[comment] 7. At 3:27pm on 05 Jan 2010, ManmadeupGW wrote:
Sorry Richard you just don't get it. It does not matter how much you an the BBC campaign on the hypothesis that man made CO2 emissions will caues danfgerous global warmin, people are not stupid. Even if this winter had been mild we know the global temperature, if there is such a thing, has been fiddled as demonstrated by the Climategate emails....It is about time the BBC started to employ professional scientists and engineers... Your last post allowed someone to traduce Steve McIntyre and you are happy to let it stand? trick or cheat

Update: seems the comments have now gone, pity!

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