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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What is clearly happening is that whenever a story gets released that seems to cast doubt on global warming, the astroturfers kick into gear and get emailing their favourite head honchos like Dick Black at BBC and the rest to try to get things portrayed more favourably.
Of course in public they’ll shrilly claim that stories like these are in the “weather not climate” section, but privately they betray a different opinion.
The quality of investigative journalism has been exposed as disgraceful following Climategate. I don’t think I’ve known before the media to turn a blind eye to such an atrocious behaviour. No wonder their readership is going down while places like WUWt is going up.
“Presto change-o” Catch the Amazing BBC each night, tip your waitress and please, try the veal.
Can’t allow the ignorant masses to see the truth now, can we?
They left this bit in, though.
“Last month was the coldest December in almost 30 years according to readings taken at the Armagh Observatory.
The mean temperature was 1.5C, the coldest average measurement since 1981.”
At least for the moment…….
For fun, CNN has the following headlines:
“Dangerous cold covers much of U.S. ”
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/weather/01/04/cold.weather/index.html
And “Snow wallops China”
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2010/01/03/vause.lok.china.snow.cnn
Ready about. Lee-oh.
Change of tack, eh?
The Irish Times is not as shy as the BBC, http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0104/breaking26.htm
” December was coldest month in 28 years “
Piers Corbyn got it right! Again!
Let me guess. Roger Harrabin ghost wrote the article but Jo Abbess didn’t find it agreeable so she wrote to him saying she would get all her heavies on him and hey presto article changed.
I wonder if this is the same info:
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Coldest-December-in-three-decades.5952721.jp
“Coldest December in three decades”
We should know it is all about manipulation, deceit, and control of the masses that drive this planet’s continued wars, profits, and the slave culture.
Big fan here Anthony but not really sure every malodorous headline edit requires your, and our, attention.
Wow! That is messed up! The only mention of temperature in the “new” article is this:
“The average temperature for 2009, at 9.87C, was close to the average of 9.94C for the last 20 years.”
I love how they no longer say “The coldest December since 1981.” They now say “close to the average.” That is truly messed up!
Snow and cold records from 12/28/09 to 1/4/10 in US
http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html?c=maxtemp,mintemp,lowmax,highmin,snow
What’s that red dot in Roswell, NM??? hehe
It’s sad to see the BBC react to climate dogma in a Pavlovian fashion.
It looks like the Met office has placed a call to the BBC…..
BBC News headlines are fairly fluid – this isn’t that rare an event – I have often had difficulty following the comment threads due to this practice.
Existential crises in news rooms. How do you report on record snow and record cold and promote AGW alarmism at the same time?
“Cold would be worse without warming” would make people like AGW.
“Record cold doesn’t mean it isn’t hotter” is a bit hard to sell.
I still like the whole “AGW could cause an ice age or cause the oceans to boil” narrative. All bases covered there.
I remember the December of 1981. I lived on Loch Tayside and the loch froze over before Christmas. It was a rare event – according to the locals it was the first time since 1963 that the loch had frozen. It melted between Christmas and New Year and froze again after New Year.
January 1982 was also cold. I also remember the BBC showing the temperature ‘live’ from Braemar in the hope of breaking the record of -28.2C or so which had stood since 1885 or thereabouts. Unfortunately a front moved in from the west – the record was equaled – and that was the end of the winter.
There was a beautiful total eclipse of the moon on January 9th and I remember running the 3 miles to Archie’s pub in Kenmore and telling everyone in the bar – all 3 of them – that there was an eclipse. (I ran everywhere in those days. Until I bought a bike.)
My job then was a tree planter. How green and eco friendly is that?
And that was even before the bandwaggon left town…
People go on about the cold winters in the UK in the late 70’s. I used to keep temperature records at that time. The only long cold winter was 1978/1979. It started in late December 1978 and lasted until May 1979! Then there was 1981/82 – it started in November 1981 and lasted until mid January 1982. I also remember a big snowfall on 28th January 1978 which was all gone a few days later.
It looks as though they’re too frightened to offend the greenies. I tell you this thing has a grip of fear on the MSM, so much so that the BBC, a once reverred institution won’t report the truth in case it offends the uber-environmentalists.
Usual surreptitious BBC. If it turns out to be warm in July, they will trumptet something like “Warmest July since 2004”
I have documented another example here:
http://simonfiliatrault.blogspot.com/2010/01/climage-change-control-of-information.html
I wonder what the temperature would have been if we hadn’t caused warming? I was kinda hoping for a pary on the Thames, oh well. Luck they changed it to climate change in time, otherwsie this could be very confusing.
Coldest night for Scotland in 15 years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/8439259.stm
It must be the sun. After the winter solstice, the sunlight hours are still short. Less radiant heat and not enough CO2 to warm the blankets.
Joe Romm is now blowing off steam. Texas educators are allowing science students to question warming and warming theories. He is exhibiting anxiety because the children may read about the warming hoax. He calls it historical revisionism. The liberal news wants doctrinating headlines and the warmistas want children to not hear opposing views.
Perhaps writers should start using code phrases to avoid the attentions of the fat controller.
Oh and what the heck. From the Burlington, VT Free Press:
“Vermont snowstorm breaks record”
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20100104/NEWS02/100103021/Vermont-snowstorm-breaks-record
And they nicely list the top five snowstorms on record:
1. 32.9 inches — Jan. 2-3, 2010.
2. 29.8 inches — Dec. 25-28, 1969.
3. 25.7 inches — Feb. 14-15, 2007.
4. 24.7 inches — Jan. 13-14, 1934
5. 22.9 inches — March 5-6, 2001.
Interestingly, the same issue has the following article:
“No hoax: Global-warming data sound despite stolen e-mails”
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20100103/LIVING09/91230016/No-hoax-Global-warming-data-sound-despite-stolen-e-mails