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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From the weather isn’t climate department –
SEOUL, South Korea – Seoul residents battled the heaviest snowfall in modern Korean history after a winter storm dumped more than 10 inches Monday, forcing airports to cancel flights and paralyzing traffic in South Korea’s bustling capital.
Southern Illinois television stations are reporting near record low temperatures, the lowest since 1911, 5F according to Ch3 and 9F according to NWS, giving a 4F difference between observations only a few hundred meters away from Ch.3. Localized manmade global warming during extraordinarily low temperatures….
Why not – in the interests of balance – run an article looking at what the weather is doing in the southern hemisphere as we in the northern hemisphere go through our winter?
Google is being evil.
Things change fast! First Monckton’s reply gone, now the BBC headline… Good news however is that it still resides in the article itself:
have you not been listening at all? Did you miss the lesson where we were told that extreme weather events (like all this cold stuff) were themselves evidence for global warming. And did you no see what happened to the rude boy who put his hand up and said, ‘but Miss, doesn’t that mean almost anything could count as ‘evidence’ for global warming’?
It’s amazing how these temperature records go back to the time of Newsweek’s “Global Cooling” piece.
The Armagh Station data from the Met Office is here:
http://www.meto.gov.uk/climate/uk/stationdata/armaghdata.txt
The figures quoted by the BBC will still be ‘provisional’. Be interesting to see if the December 2009 average still looks like 1.5 C after it’s been ‘worked on’…
wattsupwiththatChristopher Monckton of Brenchley replies to readers: http://wp.me/p7y4l
Sorry for OT, please delete if you wish, but I read this item earlier this morning on WUWT and now it appears to have disappeared. I have tried the link from Twitter but get to the BBC item. What am I doing wrong?
John Goetz (08:01:39)
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20100103/LIVING09/91230016/No-hoax-Global-warming-data-sound-despite-stolen-e-mails
If you dig just a little you find (surprise – surprise) that the persons that reviewed the emails were – Seth Borenstein, Raphael Satter and Malcolm Ritter,
Nothing to see here folks, please move along!
Did you see that?
Three of the 5 years with the heaviest snow fall in Vermont were in the last decade!
Global Warming, surely!
and Russia
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/01/and-russia.html
“Moscow is covered in deep snow (picture left) and the snowfall in St Petersburg has broken a 130-year record.”
I went from the ‘World News’ page to ‘Weather’ to ‘Weather News’ and found seven thumbnail links to interesting cold, snow, flood, and avalanche stories – enough for any weather junkie – from multiple countries. So while someone may have been playing with the headlines they do seem to be well informed of such stories from around the world.
From this chart
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/CET-SWt.gif
is clear that majority of the CE temperature rise is slow recovery from LIA, and mainly by the rise in winter temperatures. Last 5-6 years shows stabilisation of the winter temps , while during last 10 years summers’ have actually fallen.
Even if GW is due to CO2 (which I believe it is not) any further warming in winters could be only beneficial to the population of UK (lower heating bills and less carbon consumed for heating).
Despite the Primary Directive’s “Prior Authorization of Speech and Acts Precept” whose violation constituted what Winston knew to be a certain path to the banks of NOAA’s never having existed data code – and as had once allegedly befallen the quasi-mythical “CRU Leaker” from a faintly preserved cultural tale sometimes recounted by the few surviving “Elderlies” who had avoided the British and American National Health Services – the BBC had apparently been infiltrated by one of the Skeptic Mutants!
Gaurdian takes the cake for absurd non-sequitur:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/03/peru-mountain-farmers-winter-cold
May have. Really.
Oh, I meant to include this in my comment about the BBC stories:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/news
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And: the folks at the AMSR-E Sea Ice office seem to be on an extended Christmas break.
@ur momisugly John Goetz
Thanks for the link to the Burlington Free Press article. I got as far as the byline and noticed that one of the authors was Seth Borenstein a journalist well-known in this blog for his unwavering commitment to forensic investigation of AGW.
A new year, same old faces!
Makes this comment almost prescient:
“But the influence of La Nina declined in the spring and the Met Office project that, barring a very cold December, this year will be the fifth warmest on record.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8377128.stm
Here is another good one, see how CNN is reporting the North American temperatures.
http://weather.cnn.com/weather/maps.jsp?region=se&mapview=radar
The radar map comes up and displays the current date. If the map won’t load (happens often), click stop and reload. Be sure you are sitting down, then click on the temperature button.
72 degrees in New York on Jan 04! LOL!
Ozzie:
They are: Quechua speakers are dying in the southern Peruvian alpine summer due to the severe cold. This is then attributed to global warming causing glaciers to melt.
I’m 20 miles from Edinburgh City centre and it was -15.2 C last night in my garden with around 20 inches of accumulated snow. This prolonged and repeated snow (3 weeks now) has not happened in my lifetime. Last week the BBC were predicting -4 C while I was reading -14C on my digital thermometer. That is too much of a UHI for credibility.
“If you dig just a little you find (surprise – surprise) that the persons that reviewed the emails were – Seth Borenstein, Raphael Satter and Malcolm Ritter…”
They did manage to get this old canard in though, I tried to register to ask them if they could point me to one article that had a definite definable link between human emissions and global temperatures This is the latest soundbite from the warmists, the overwhelming evidence is of warming, CO2 has gone up, it must be caused by CO2, that’s the overwhelming evidence. You have to give it to them, the alarmist that is, they can articulate soundbites that can fool anyone in the press.
“But the exchanges don’t undercut the vast body of evidence showing the world is warming because of man-made greenhouse-gas emissions.”
Let’s just say that AGW does cause record snowfall… I mean, come on.
Even if warmer temps put it in the air, it would come down as rain on a warmer planet, right? It is the cooler temps that produce snowfall. So, for all those saying it is because the planet is warmer, heavy snowfalls were expected, one could always ask “wouldn’t it be raining, not snowing, especially in places, like copenhagen, that usually don’t get snow?”
Peter Hearnden,
“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?”
This report does not refer to the Central England Temperature (CET) which has been repeatedly doctored and is now unbelievable, but instead to the raw data from Armagh, which unfortunately is pre-adjustment and therefore gives the real story.
It is a travesty that we can’t explain this cold is’t it?
I feel sorry for those souls left up on Tan Hill for 4 days as there was no way out due to the cold and snow.