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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Quote; “Atmospheric shifts
Trends in tropical and global temperature are dictated by change in the electromagnetic forces governing the distribution of the atmosphere. The atmosphere can shift from high to low latitudes or vice versa over any time interval. Atmospheric pressure governs the strength of polar vortex activity. Vortex activity determines the flow of nitrous oxides from the mesosphere that govern the concentration of ozone and therefore the temperature of the upper atmosphere. When the temperature of the upper atmosphere changes, so does the concentration of reflective ice crystals, so changing the porosity of the atmospheric filter that determines how much sunlight reaches the surface.”
“Change in the distribution of the atmosphere is continuous. Such a change initiated the celebrated climate shift of 1978 that was followed by thirty years of warming. But a mini-shift occurs once or twice each year, whenever the polar atmosphere warms in the middle of the polar night. Regardless of the time scale, the result is the same. The warming of the polar stratosphere initiates a period when more sunlight gets through the atmospheric medium to warm the surface of the planet.” /quote
by Erl Happ and Carl Wolk
I don’t know if this comment will be in violation of Anthony’s rumored ban of electric universe.
But Erl Happ seems to have pegged the 1978 through 2008 warm period shifting to a cold period that is now very much in evidence, and by my estimates, will be around at least several more years, just due to the Solar cycle 24’s slow start in activity.
Richard Holle
JDN (09:25:25) :
I was going through a number of old items from my parents house and found a set of newspaper clippings from the 70’s. In 1977 the Chesapeake Bay froze solid. Ships were severely hampered getting to the port of Baltimore and there was concern about heating fuels.
Here’s a quote: “A large ice mass in the upper bay, compacted by heavy winds and high tides, measured 100 feet long by 40 feet wide and 20 feet high.”
Reference here
There are times I hope that global warming doesn’t reverse itself.
Willis and Anthony will like this.
http://star.arm.ac.uk/preprints/445.pdf
i suppose we should compare this with CRU. Personally I dont have time, but knock yourselves out guys
What we have here is yet another anomalous cooling event caused by global warming as explained below:
“In a world growing ever hotter, Huancavelica is an anomaly. These communities, living at the edge of what is possible, face extinction because of increasingly cold conditions in their own microclimate, which may have been altered by the rapid melting of the glaciers.” (Guardian article entitled “Peru’s mountain people ‘face extinction because of cold conditions’…”)
We’re spitting into a hot wind and getting splattered with icicles. It’s this generation’s “new physics” spawned by the previous generation’s “new math”.
CH
Hans Verbeek (07:58:03) :
Coldest night for Scotland in 15 years
In fact, the river Ayr has been frozen for the last week and the last time it did that was back in 1964.
More CO2 please it’s Baltic here! :0)
Hey Willis, Armagh appear to do their own form of TOBS adjusticationmenthoodnessville.
Nice paper and website.. later
“Cerastes (12:15:17) :
Hans Verbeek (07:58:03) :
Coldest night for Scotland in 15 years
In fact, the river Ayr has been frozen for the last week and the last time it did that was back in 1964.
More CO2 please it’s Baltic here! :0)”
Get over the illusion that CO2 will help you the slightest bit there.
More BBC confessions
Beijing disrupted by record snowfall
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8438871.stm
Coldest night since 1995 recorded
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8439259.stm
My impression is that the headline was misleading because the “coldest December since 1981” applies only to Ireland, not the UK. Or at least the data in the story. Maybe it was the coldest December since 1981 but I don’t think the Met has announced the numbers yet.
Armagh Data
There is a related paper that links the Armagh temperature record to local tree rings (see: http://climate.arm.ac.uk/publications/tree_rings.pdf ). Again this looks interesting because of the close proximity of the trees to a long and well documented temperature record. The tree rings are apparently held by Queen’s University Belfast and were the subject of an earlier effort by Doug Keenan to gain access to the these long tree ring records.
I am not familiar with the area – perhaps the earlier commentator who lives close by can clue us in on the potential for sharp micro-climate variations – Loughs, hills, river valleys, etc.
“Pay no attention to that blizzard behind the curtain.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/013042.html
It is getting “better” by the minute. Wonder if Pachauri reacts to people dying of cold in India. But he can probably blaim it on the developed world, not paying up.
BarryW (12:03:21) :
Here’s a quote: “A large ice mass in the upper bay, compacted by heavy winds and high tides, measured 100 feet long by 40 feet wide and 20 feet high.”
Nice catch. I had forgotten about that. We used to get some really nice winters for pond ice skating back then. We haven’t had thick frozen ponds or even had a good freezing rain storm for a few years. I should be so cruel as to wish for another winter of freezing rain. One winter about 10+ yr ago we had so much ice on the ground that I literally skated around the building I worked in instead of jogging.
I’ve been thinking about the fact that the AGW believers in the US live primarily along the coasts (the largest population density) and, at least on the east coast, have been getting nice warm winters for the past decade. The kids who form the bulk of the movement have no recollection otherwise. It’s kind of a fluke.
need some things clarified polar ice mass … where does it come from?
as i understan … it comes from acumulated pricipitain over the poles and to have precipitaion you need warm moist air to reach the poles with out it there would be no precipitation and no added ice mass there fore the natural calving of the glacial mass would cause it to shrink more in a colder climate than a warm one the provided ample precipitation ……
THis is where i need some in put am i totaly backwards here or is al gore?
Glenn (09:32:25) :
Come on mate. Allow us a bit of fun, we know it’s weather, just a shame that those touting AGW don’t.
DaveE.
Here in Central Pennsylvania it is very cold. Among the self-propelled small portable heating units (aka the cats), for days now only the very wildest have ventured outdoors, and then their “desire for freedom” seldom lasts more than ten minutes. This behavior started about two days before the “real” cold hit, with them not wandering too far off for too long. Currently they keep the house within their sight.
Are cats better weather predictors than the UK Met?
Let’s see, somehow there are ten cats, all adults. They consume one 3.5 lb (56 oz) bag of “Alley Cat” dry food (cheaper than the “cheap” store brands) every two days, currently priced at $1.99. Thus about a dime a cat a day.
Obviously we need more cats, they are cheaper than fuel oil for the heat provided. Eighty should be enough for this cold snap, that’s only eight bucks a day. And with that amount of litterbox output, I could experiment with “compost pile heating” as well.
Green renewable energy, here we come!
The CET for December 1995 & 1996 were colder.
It was the 7th Coldest December for 50 years.
Now January could be very interesting currently the CET is -0.78 C which is almost 5 degrees C below the 1971-2000 Average, plus the models ensembles are not showing any warm up in the medium term.
Caution is required as we are only at the beginning of the month.
“Don B (13:00:50) :
“Pay no attention to that blizzard behind the curtain.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/013042.html”
Abusing the plight of dying people to spread the gospel of global warming gives a whole new meaning to the word “moral standards”.
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“Don B (13:00:50) :
“Pay no attention to that blizzard behind the curtain.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/013042.html”
Abusing the plight of dying people to spread the gospel of global warming gives a whole new meaning to the word “moral standards”.
To elaborate: the linked articles say that people in the Andes are dying because their microclimate is cooling because the glaziers have melted because of global warming.
The propaganda hacks who constructed this piece of junk should be punished for this. It’s demeaning in the extreme.
I’m old enough to remember 1947.
Then there was 1963.
And Christmas/New Year 1981. I missed the New Year celebrations because I had to drive 100 miles because the agent had forgotten to turn the water off and the pipes burst and the house was flooded.
Then we come to 1996.
And now we have 2009/10
Does anyone detect any sort of a pattern here? Like 16-17-15-13? Not climate; just weather!
I can’t help but laugh by butt off about all this… it’s so pathetically sad that all I can do is nervously laugh at the tragic stupidity all around me.
How long do these alarmist/warmists think they can pull the wool over the public’s eyes… ? How long do they really believe that they can “hide the decline” before it gets so bloody obvious that that’s exactly what they’re doing ?! All the pretty little crayola graphs in the world are not going to camouflage empirical observation… at some point it’s going to become laughably obvious.
And how long is it going to take before people freezing their patooties off and having to shovel themselves out every second day, finally open their eyes and start questioning this AGW crap ?
And how long are the media going to continue to fool themselves until someone smacks them back into reality and forces them to report said reality(s) as it truly is ?
Oy… this has become worse than the blind leading the blind.
And we’re the denialists ??!!
“There is no pink elephant in the room, there is no pink elephant in the room…”
Even the Guardian has stopped blowing hot air for the moment:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/03/no-escape-britains-big-chill
Where I am, was 0°C during the day, and forecast to get to -3°C overnight.
Taking a walk yesterday, while the Thames certainly was not frozen (too fast-flowing) some of the smaller streams/tributaries/channels nearby had thin layers of ice on them (strong enough to support twigs and small branches – not a person). Ice in frozen puddles on the mud paths I was walking on was at least 1cm thick, where the sun hadn’t got to them and thawed them.
On a lighter note:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/03/leeds-university-cross-country-pub-snowed-in
DirkH (13:52:53) :
Abusing the plight of dying people to spread the gospel of global warming gives a whole new meaning to the word “moral standards”.
They foretell of all the disease, death, and destruction that will befall the world if we don’t immediately act to fight
global warmingclimate change.Yet they have long said of how horribly overpopulated the world is, with too many people period, consuming too many resources. Alongside the cries for “sustainable living,” they are now advocating “one child” for all developed countries, even worldwide, although this will clearly lead to large numbers of elderly and infirm people who will not be able to be supported by the smaller amount of younger and healthier people. Death and destruction do not seem to be a problem with them, as their goals will be achieved.
What may we surmise? That they do not object to death and destruction per se, but rather chaotic death and destruction, that which may harm people and things they care about most, like themselves and their things. Orderly death and destruction, where other people are directed to sacrifice, is much preferred.
The natural forces they say will be unleashed, are too random in their wrath, and these alarmists have no fondness for playing the lottery.
@Bernie
I dont think there are any microclimate variations.
N.Ireland is a small and mostly flat.
The tree ring paper failed to show good correlation with temperature record I think from a quick read if I’m not mistaken
No hockey stick in this record and it is as raw as you can get apart from standing there tonight
January may be colder though?
Noted. I should be more careful what I cut and paste. In any case, best of luck to folks in humid areas. At these temps the next few days could get pretty rough.