I’ve been getting a lot of pressure to cover the story by warmspinner Richard Black over at the BBC about a supposed feedback between Arctic sea ice and colder, snowier, winters in the UK and the EU. For example, WUWT “elftone” says:
Richard Black of the BBC – despite getting his head handed to him on a platter twice recently – is spinning like crazy about snowy winters. The cause is shrinking arctic ice. No, really :). I’m amazed he’s able to stand:
I’ve been resisting covering this for a little bit, because I knew sooner or later some MSM media fool would mangle this story into something unrecognizable (they always do). I was right, and the result is the most hilarious global warming headline ever:
They really have lost the plot, haven’t they?
After a few hours, probably responding to people calling up the newsroom and laughing uncontrollably, some editor changed the headline to read “Melting Arctic causes snowier winters in Europe, the US “.
The Internet though, has a memory for such things. The original link was: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/global-warming-is-making-the-world-colder/story-e6frea8l-1226283672088?from=public_rss
But if you click on that you get the revised headline with revised URL.
It is still cached in some places, like this law blog: http://legalnews.findlaw.com/article/0dc48OwedZ44D?q=NASA
UPDATE: I’ve posted the Georgia Tech press release on the science here. While the idea posited isn’t totally implausible, I need to see more examples to be convinced. – Anthony
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Buffoon Broadcasting Corporation.
http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2012/02/study-cloud-heights-may-be-a-negative-feedback-to-warming/
They’re getting really desperate…
I believe it is called a “negative feedback”… Although, the warmists are not to be told…
This story, unbelievably made headline news on the BBC radio station (6 Music) I am listening to today!
If he was wearing a tutu, this might actually have some entertainment value. They have really covered all the bases on this. ” In the future, we will be having weather of some kind”. If you predict every possibility, you cannot be wrong. Abject fail.
Next headline:
‘Climate Scientists Hopelessly Confused – Say More Money is Only Remedy’
…at least I’d have to give them credit for honesty.
They’ve actually lost the plot. Their collective heads are now so far up their collective […], they seriously expect that they can say “warming makes it colder!” and your average layperson isn’t going to nearly laugh themselves to death.
Great stuff guys, you’re making yourself look more and more like the fools you are. Keep it coming.
The world is “dangerously warming” the alarmists say – caused by Mankind and his CO2 emissions.
And then the “climate is changing” the alarmists say – caused by Mankind and his CO2 emissions.
And now we hear “climate is warming causing cold” the alarmists say – caused by Mankind and his CO2 emissions.
I get the sense I am witnessing a group people at a party, mildly drunken, playing charades to the question: “Mankind’s CO2 causes…”
i just got dumber
This would leave M4GW in a bit of a quandry.
Maybe it’s the Coming Ice Age making the world warmer?
Sounds like a title directly from the fingertips of Bill Nye, the antiscience guy…
Well, yes, then the warming is not really “global,” now is it?
If you can’t understand things, be a journalist.
If you can’t be a journalist, be a headline writer.
Its all global warming all the time now, with every crystal that falls from the heavens.
Somewhere Orwell is smugly laughing to himself.
The record sea ice in the Bering Sea is also caused by missing sea ice in the Arctic.
“How it happens
If less of the ocean is ice-covered in autumn, it releases more heat, warming the atmosphere.
This reduces the air temperature difference between the Arctic and latitudes further south, over the Atlantic Ocean.
The dwindling Arctic summer ice may have severe consequences for wildlife
In turn, this reduces the strength of the northern jet stream, which usually brings milder, wetter weather to Europe from the west.
It is these “blocking” conditions that keep the UK and the other affected regions supplied with cold air.
The researchers also found that the extra evaporation from the Arctic Ocean makes the air more humid, with some of the additional water content falling out as snow.”
So, the nice cozy warm ice blanket keeps the heat in the ocean, which prevents the jet stream and cold snowy winters in Europe, when the summer ice extent is greater than it was. To everything there is a season (turn, turn, turn)
I’m going to read “1984” again.
Thankfully, here ins the U.S., the great Defunding of CAGW climate “science” is coming in November…
What I find somewhat distressing about these episodes in the MSM is that supposedly professional earth science organizations, such as the the now Gleick-free AGU, say nary a word about these idiotic press releases when they become hopeless mangled. THEY should be the ones doing the corrections…[sigh]
shrinking ice?
NSIDC website, FEB 2012
Arctic sea ice extent in the Bering Sea was the second highest in the satellite record for the month of January. Ice extent in the Bering Sea was 562,000 square kilometers (217,000 square miles), which is 104,600 square kilometers (40,400 square miles) above the 1979 to 2000 average. The record high ice extent for the month occurred in January 2000, at 629,000 square kilometers (242,900 square miles).
Headlines I’d like to see
Daily Bacon promotes heart health
Smoking extends life expectancy by 10 years
FDA reccomends vegetables be replaced by beer in food pyramid
Global Warming results in longer wangs
Free Money and Sex
Yup, that actually was worth the wait, Anthony :). I’m going to print that one out for those times when I need a good laugh, and can’t get to the BBC’s environment page.
They covered this on BBC TV news yesterday evening. How they did it without laughing I’ll never know.
Bullsh!t Baffles Common-sense … from the ‘I’m not real smart but I can lift heavy things’ brigade.
So Black has forgotten his earlier articles from about 3 years ago stating that global warming means snowy winters will be a thing of the past? Now global warming is the cause of more snow…
And they make these 180 degree U-turns with a completely straight face and expect to still be taken seriously! No wonder that they have had to resort to fraud, theft and deception out of desperation.
What is so satisfying is that Gleick did not even discover any evidence of wrongdoing, whatsoever. That is why the faked document had to be over hyped, and (by the irrational warmists) retrospectively “validated” by them to still support their own paranoid delusions.
Personally, I do not feel like I am in a war. and I dislike anyone on any side using such emotive and hate filled metaphors, for they are NOT useful or positive or helpful to anyone. That said, if Michael Mann et al feel like they are involved in a war, then I am more than happy for their weapons to be lies, U-Turns, deceptions, and slander. Their strategy to obtain their truth is is basically, “this is the conclusion, now how do we validate and prove it? For no other conclusion is acceptable”
I will stay on the side of whose “weapons” are truth, The Scientific Method and sceptical, open, yet critical minded evaluation of empirical evidence, wherever that may lead. Our strategy to obtain truth is the strict adherence to the scientific method, “How can we use these tools to accurately ascertain what is ACTUALLY happening in the climate?”
I am NOT in a war! I am NOT. I do not need to be. I am not fighting anyone. I am in a pursuit of truth, a race to gain accurate data and fill in the blanks of our knowledge.
You do not have to be in a defensive frame of mind, ‘defending a belief,’ if all you are doing is looking for truth, wherever it leads, for the truth’s strongest defence is itself!