BBC reported: Coldest December since 1981 (BBC, January 3, 2010)
It is still showing up in Google, but changes are afoot, odd that a headline like that can’t stand on its own:
And google news:
The URL for the story in the image above is:
but note the number of the story in the URL 8438408 now now goes to a different title, presto change-o!
Icy conditions lead to closure of Giant’s Causeway
Same URL:
h/t to Popular Technology
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OT: Breaking News:
1.Earthquakes and Tsunamis Strike Solomon Islands
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100104/ap_on_re_as/as_solomon_islands_quakes
2.Heaviest snowfall in Seoul, South Korea in 70 years:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100104/ap_on_re_as/as_asia_storms
talking about feedback. this is not really a feedback but does have inpact on albedo
http://www.weer.nl/index.php?eID=tx_cms_showpic&file=uploads/pics/20090104_Modis.jpg&width=500m&height=500&bodyTag=%3Cbody%20bgColor%3D%22%23ffffff%22%3E&wrap=%3Ca%20href%3D%22javascript:close();%22%3E%20|%20%3C/a%3E&md5=1938be0be7402051021591049618a1ec
it a picture of snowcover in The Netherlands. You can see the difference in albedo in snow in a forest and on land belonging to farmers. There is just a small part wich we call ‘forest’.
This is a question for Lord Monckton or anyone else. Realclimate.org stated in their latest blog:
“a study about how much of the human emissions are staying the atmosphere (around 40%) and whether that is detectably changing over time. It does not undermine the fact that CO2 is rising. The confusion in the denialosphere is based on a misunderstanding between ‘airborne fraction of CO2 emissions’ (not changing very much) and ‘CO2 fraction in the air’ (changing very rapidly),”
Can someone explain to me the difference between these two in layman’s terms? I would ask on the RC blog but the comments thread is ridiculously long.
[REPLY – In this case, RC is right. All the study claims is that 60% of what is being emitted is being reabsorbed (either immediately or over time), and that this percentage is not decreasing because the sinks are reaching their ‘capacity” to absorb. The other 40% accumulates. An estimated 8 BMTC (anthropogenic) per year is emitted, and atmospheric carbon is c. 770 BMTC or so. So CO2 atmospheric carbon goes up by a little under half a percent per year. Now my contention is that CO2 does not have the effect (esp. re feedbacks) that RC claims it has, but that is a separate argument. ~ Evan]
Good science questions. I see the warmist radicals really are not looking for science and testing their conclusions. This will be a tough year for the wrmist cartel.
If there is a causal and linear relationship, this frigid cycle must be connected to a drop in CO2.
Great response from Lord Monckton – as ever cogent, polite and packed with FACTS.
Well, using the Monckton Formula to calculate the IPCC temperature increase from pre-industrial times (278 ppm CO2) until now (388 ppm) I get:
delta-T = 4.7 * ln 1.4
which gives me
delta-T = 1.6 degrees Celsius.
In reality we have seen a temperature increase of only about 0.7 C during this period (and most of that attributable to other causes than CO2 concentration increases), if even that.
So is the rest still “in the pipeline” and about to hit us, or is IPCC wrong? My guess is that IPCC is wrong…
Minitruth at work.
“Of course I know the difference! Climate is when it’s warming and weather is when it’s not!”
I’ve noticed the ‘media’ downplaying the cold here in the USA. But, some have mentioned the new record lows. In general, reports on the ongoing very cold temps goes something like this: “below average, but not unprecedented”
It is kind of difficult to ignore feet of snow and a freeze in Florida.
It really does show that they are not just biased but are proactively pushing global warming.
There is a huge difference between their statement that the science is settled and they therefore don’t need to publish ‘non-scientific’ news and proactively changeing scientific news per se. That is very close to criminal and most certainly contavenes their charter.
They have just saved that headline and the associated HTML to use it on december 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, etc.☺
Pwince Bat Ears the serial adulterer of the house of Hanover can’t take the truth. Sadly apparently neither can Google. Many more of these sort of presto chango switches and they will lose their community.
Anthony? What happened to Monckton’s ‘reply’ post?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/04/christopher-monckton-of-brenchley-replies-to-readers/
Isnt it true that “…in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will decrease”?
-quoting Richard Lindzen – ‘Is the Global warming alarm founded on fact?’
Shouldn’t the UK chill and the Beijing record snow therefore persuade rapid climate change proponents to take a pause?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8439179.stm
usual disgraceful ****e. I wonder if Joe Abless has been emailing Richard Black? There is somethig seriously wrong with the BBC’s environment team.
I will be emailing them forthwith and urge all Britons to do similarly about this kind of nonsense..
No matter what the headlines at the BBC are people in the UK can feel global warming isn’t happening.
Arctic cold is also hitting China
A FREEZING cold front swept over much of northern China on Sunday with snowstorms snarling traffic and air travel, while some of the coldest temperatures in decades were forecast for coming days… believed to be the coldest in the capital in 40 years.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/siberian-winds-usher-in-record-lows-in-beijing-20100103-lna6.html
They manage to get the message accross in the text that it’s the coldest spell since 1981.
Having a poke around Armagh observatory and it looks like they have images of the written temp records going back 200 years.
A few more of these acurate records could provide a real insight into just what the hecks been going on these past few hundred years.
Hide the decline—Hide the decline—Hide the….
BBC Weather
Coldest night since 1995 recorded
Overnight temperatures in the south of Scotland have reached their lowest level in more than 14 years.
Figures at the Met Office’s Eskdalemuir observatory in Dumfries and Galloway hit -14C on Sunday, the coldest since December 1995.
Anthony, I suspect it’s been changed because it’s wrong – the mean (CET) temperature was more like 3.1C – nothing like as cold as December 1981 which was -.3C I think. December was the coldest since the mid nineties. OK?
…record freezing weather grips Europe, north America and Asia….avalanches in the Swiss Alps….Panhandle and much of northern Florida is under a hard freeze warning….more deaths in India….-20C in Moscow today…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1240319/As-Britain-told-expect-snow-10-days-rest-world-coping-Arctic-weather.html
My bad, the story is for N. Ireland – I’m wrong.
Ok, then it’s a BBC/leftie/comie conspiracy to decieve us all!
Did the link ever lead to a BBC article with that title? Sometimes the title of links don’t match the title on the linked page. Only today I clicked on a link on Yahoo finance entitled “US to consider lesser term for ubs whistleblower.” The title on the page was something about mid west business jumping to a 4 yr high.
In other words, it may just be an error.
I still cant get over the August the year before last. Perishingly cold, day and night, not one warm day in the UK.
And the met office said that it was warmer than average.
Forgive me for not trusting their data.
And isnt the whole northern hemisphere suffering a chill at the moment? I thought that the manmade greenhouse gas theory said that the ambient temperature of the planet would warm, given the constant value of sunlight. And yet it looks to me to have cooled, how can that be?
The Sea Ice and the Polar Temperature charts have not been updated in 5 days?
Apparently math is not a strong point for the writer of this story. “Coldest winter for 18 years-and worse to come.” Maybe they are stuck in 1999?
http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED04%20Jan%202010%2014%3A30%3A19%3A160