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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I wonder if the same alarmists got to the BBC again?
The BBC Changes News to Accommodate Activist
How much did “Big Oil” have to pay to get the weather to turn cold like this?
John Goetz said:
Interestingly, the same issue has the following article:
“No hoax: Global-warming data sound despite stolen e-mails”
I see that the author is Seth Borenstein. He is aware that he is being scrutinized. But it is not stopping him at all.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/12/aps-seth-borenstein-is-just-too-damn-cozy-with-the-people-he-covers-time-for-ap-to-do-somethig-about-it/
Last “hot spot” on the south pacific, dwindling…the last WATTS from a cooling sea.
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif
[REPLY – Yikes! Look at that cooling spot spreading west off Peru! So much for El Nino! ~ Evan]
I find it incredibly odd that all of the media is so invested in the whole AGW dogma. I know that there is money to be made, but there is also money to be made in exposing the truth, etc. I believe that it is primarily the inability of humans to let go of their “previous truths” than pure greed.
Regardless, it is a sad state.
Knock! Knock! Anyone home? Anthony? Evan?
There seems to be a problem. Care to explain? What happened to Monckton’s reply? Why no explaination?
[REPLY – Don’t know. I will leave this unposted for Anthony’s attention. ~ Evan]
REPLY: unsure, it is back now. Some glitch in WordPress.com I think – A
The Guardian:
Revisionista at http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/ is a good resource for seeing how BBC news stories evolve with time.
http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/202816/diff/0/1 shows the original “Coldest winter in UK for 13 years” story.
“Coldest December on record”
The headline was paid for by big oil to sell heating oil and drive up prices. They must have caught it and sent the money back.
Joe Romm is saying hottest evah.
Pingo (08:40:26) :
“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.”
Yep, me too.
Must be hell trapped in a pub for 4 days …. especially if they run out of anything to drink. 😉
(Actually it could be quite serious being trapped up there but I would hope the pub was at least somewhat prepared since they must get similar situations more regularly than most UK pubs. And I could not resist the potential snarky humour …! Sorry.)
Peter Hearnden (07:31:49) :
My bad, the story is for N. Ireland – I’m wrong.
Ok, then it’s a BBC/leftie/comie conspiracy to decieve us all!
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‘I did a very foolish thing yesterday.’‥‘They say, many a true Word’s spoken in Jest.’
[1738, Swift, Polite Conversation i. iii.]
December 2009 was the coldest month EVER in Galway Ireland:
http://www.galwaynews.ie/10465-december-was-coldest-ever-month
“In general, reports on the ongoing very cold temps goes something like this: “below average, but not unprecedented””
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Well, yeah of course it is not unprecedented. The earth has gone from a boiling rock to 100% ice cover over it’s entire history. ANYTHING in-between these two extremes is therefore ‘not unprecedented’.
ALL weather that we experience at the moment has happened before.
Timescales are very interesting things. The warmists will use whatever timescale suits their propaganda. a record < 30 years for "unprecedented Arctic melting" or thousands of years (of corrupted data) to hide the MWP, LIA and current decline.
The trouble is that those winters in the UK are still mild by comparison to what Baltimore, USA gets every year. We just had 2′ of snow, far more than Beijing or Seoul got, and it was basically not even our worst. We were back in business in 1 day. Frankly, I went to work during the “blizzard” and had no problems. Baltimore is a cakewalk compared to Minnesota or other plains states. The UK is certainly capable of weathering a milder form of what we call winter, so, congrats to the Beeb for not going alarmist. If only we could convince them to do that with the warming that occurs every summer.
Oh, dear, and here we are in Greece, with a spring like weather (21-13C) until yesterday, a colder snap (11-8) for two days and then again south winds bringing everything up to the 18C :).
En plus, we got floods. Spring tides, full moon, combined with lots of rain in Europe emptying in the Med and 7 beaufort south winds brought the sea into seaside towns.
So of course we get the mantra ” global warming” “climate change” “human interference” galore in the news and discussions.
Disgusting.
Sigh.
Okay, folks, I’ve been following this site for a while now and I appreciate all the great work. I am a little put off by the chorus of folks jumping on recent cold weather as proof that AGW science is wrong (I’m not saying it’s right). I’m reminded of the truly idiotic people I encountered when living in NYC who would, only on hot days in the summer, complain about AGW. Shouln’t we skeptics try very hard to not play the same game as the AGW crowd?
Isn’t the real question as to whether the temps fall into the range of AGW models? There will of course be variability, right?
For a Libertarian perspective on climate change, check out http://libertariancomment.com/climate-change-whats-a-libertarian-to-do/
I have been thinking about how humans have been adapting to weather and climate since we first appeared on the Earth. Humans are made to handle warmth not cold. Having evolved in a warm climate it would be essential to do so in order to expand the habitat of humankind. As the habitat expanded humans came up with different ways to stay warm. Clothing and heated dwellings go along way to enable humans to live in much colder climates than would be in their natural range. Today we have found ways artificially heat every contained space, even our transportation, in order survive in the cold. We can now live in the Antarctic year round. Throughout history humans have found ways to stay warm and successfully spread across the globe. So why are we fighting this desire to be warm? Why in the world would anyone in their right mind want to make things colder?
It is not referred to as the British Broadcorping Castration for nothing.
Can’t say I am surprised at their continued shilling for global warming hysteria . . they have invested so much of their credibility into the whole scam it will be very difficult for them to accept reality.
BBC hides the decline 🙂
MiniTruth (BBC) is busy constantly rewriting the linked article.
It still contains the sentence “The mean temperature was 1.5C, the coldest average measurement since 1981”.
I made two hardcopies at different times. You can literally watch the sentence move down.
That does it. The BBC is right out now. Any decent blog would have made a note like “Update: Added mentioning of danger to plumbing at beginning of article because its much more important than a low temp record”.
This is no more a news source for me, no more than Der Spiegel or the NYT.
World warms as people clothe more wooly jumpers.
Weather chaos underpins climate certainty.
Cold too anomalous to substantiate counter-opinions.
World’s only six climate sceptics now down to four; two froze to death.
Record snowstorm in Burlington VT, 32.9 inches. 3 out of the top five snowstorms in Burlington have been from 2001 on. But we should just ignore the global cooling since 1998.
One of the reasons why tree ring proxies may not be reliable.
Most of the tree growth happens during warm months (spring and summer), although dendrochronologists use refinements such as the “early wood” or “spring wood” or the “late-spring wood” and the “late wood” or “summer wood”. Many factors are here at play, but it is assumed that the growing seasons’ temperatures are the most critical.
Judging by this graph
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/CETs.gif
(data from Met Office Hadley Centre, with 10 year moving average, 2005 – 2010 diminishing ma) period for 1900 – 1930 would give misleading results, since growth would reflect cool spring and summer period, rather than higher mean due to the warm winters.
It appears that CET is currently entering similar period of seasonal anomaly divergence.
Wild species are wiser than “new age” climatologists:
(too cold up there!)
“Moose Makes New Homes In Northwest Corner”
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1655&dept_id=13116&newsid=20399743&PAG=461&rfi=9
About those Mooses
Are they looking for the GISS offices in NY?