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
Discover more from Watts Up With That?
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
“Ok, then it’s a BBC/leftie/comie conspiracy to decieve us all!”
Your words, Peter, not mine.
If this hasn’t been mentioned above, isn’t the bbc’s “swap” in fact quite similar to what the CRU emails showed the “Team” doing in respect to “hiding” data/results and pressuring Media so that only the preferred info was released to the Public?
I see it as the same thing, or at least close enough that one has to wonder why the bbc thought it wouldn’t be seen by observers as pretty much the same thing we’ve just seen by way of the leaked CRU email and files.
What it shows, imo, is that certain propagandists actually believe that their Fantasyland, which specifically denies realilty, is reality. Or that “perception of the moment is reality” for everyone – whereas this persistent m.o. is much more the definition of complete clinical self-delusionalism on the part of the propagandists themselves, that is, well beyond the mere use of deluding propaganda tactics so as to control others or to “win”.
Without a Police State this kind of “playbook” operation can’t work, but they still keep doing it, and they will continue to do it, in spite of thereby making their own problems worse.
Fwiw, here in the U.S. the Obama Administration is doing the same thing. They think that operating within their Fantasyland bubble as derived from Political Scientists of a Marxist persuasion will have no effect in the real world and will not cause real problems for themselves and everybody else. They’ve already been proven wrong, but that’s not going to stop them anytime very soon. Just stay tuned and it’s pretty likely you’ll see it happening more in these different venues.
The Guardian have commented on the science behind the cold weather at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/04/science-behind-the-cold-weather
with the Met Office stating:
‘but it’s actually a fairly routine distribution of winter weather, the Met Office insists’.
They say some places are warmer than usual. It sounds as though they are blaming blocking anticyclones.
The BBC is trying to hide the undeniable evidence of cooling,
Global Cooling in 2009 (375 Sources)
Agreed — but it’s (all-too) human nature to do so.
In the midst of our present cold snap I found this little
piece from 2007 on the climatedenial.org web site very amusing.
It’s about the imminent collapse of the sking industry
in Europe due to AGW.
http://climatedenial.org/2007/01/24/more-snow-stupidity/
I just love the panel on the right hand side
>>This blog explores the topic of the psychology of climate change denial – >>with observations and anecdotes about our weird and disturbed response >>to the problem.
I think the sceptics should have their own counterpart to this.
>>This blog explores the topic of the psychology of climate change hysteria
>>with observations, ancedotes and analysis of embarrassing posts on >>warmist blog sites which smugly predict the destruction of mankind >>through the harmless rise in emissions of the life-giving trace gas >>Carbon Dioxide
Actually it’s probably not a bad idea to have an archive somewhere where
all these hysterical predictions can be quickly accessed.
The Guardian piece is typical of the propaganda put out by that dismal organ.
When the temperatures are unseasonably warm of course it has nothing
to do with normal weather patterns…it’s all down to mankind and his
evil intent to harry the poor cuddly polar bear to extinction. The
paper has lost all credibility for me.
Mid December 2009 I took the Argmah data from the Met Office web site : http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/stationdata/
They gave monthly Tmax and monthly Tmin figures; and for a complex function (which the temperature variation over 24 hours is) the Tavg is NOT this :
(Tmax+Tmin)/2
– eg last night we had here Tmax 0C Tmin -4.9 – but over 14 hours was below -4 and only 5 hours above -1 so the (Tmax+Tmin)/2 gives -2.45 whereas the real average (by eye as its too late to do the arithmetic) is closer to -3
So I can’t get their AVERAGE monthly temperature ( surely they wouldn’t just add the max & min together and divide by 2 – would they ? but I have a nasty sneaky feeling that is exactly what they have done – so their ‘Average’ monthly temperature is meaningless…)
Here are the results : (all in deg C)
Argmah T(minimum) series of monthly Average Temps from January 1853 to November 2009 (1883 records averaged)
Month Avg Sdev Min T
1 1.64 1.63 -3.3
2 1.68 1.64 -4.2
3 2.39 1.45 -1.0
4 3.86 1.19 0.2
5 6.28 1.04 3.8
6 9.19 0.94 6.5
7 11.01 0.95 8.8
8 10.76 1.00 7.6
9 8.92 1.15 5.6
10 6.27 1.48 2.3
11 3.42 1.40 -0.4
12 2.11 1.55 -4.2
NB the average over the WHOLE period for December is 2.11 degC
And the 10 coldest winters – also from the T min series
Argmah T(minimum) series of monthly Average Temps since 1853 (from 144 years – ie missing 11 years))
Year Month MinT
1878 12 -4.2
1874 12 -1.6
1870 12 -1.5
1879 12 -1.4
1981 12 -1.1
1950 12 -0.8
1869 12 -0.5
1976 12 -0.4
1961 12 -0.4
1960 12 -0.2
Note that these are already averaged by the Met Office – I haven’t as yet tried to find out how they worked out their averages.
SQL code :
I shoved the Met Ofice data all into an SQL data base. – just the data; I did NO manipulation of the Met office information other than making their ruddy text numeric; and removing any NULL values
Month table
SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT mm AS mmTminArg, AVG(tmin_degc) AS AvgTminArg, STDEV(tmin_degc) AS SDevTminArg,
MIN(tmin_degc) AS MinTminArg
FROM dbo.ArgmahR
GROUP BY mm
ORDER BY mm
10 coldest years : month December
SELECT TOP (10) yyyy, mm, tmin_degc
FROM dbo.ArgmahR
WHERE (mm = 12) AND (tmin_degc IS NOT NULL)
ORDER BY tmin_degc
And the 10 coldest winters – also from the T min series
should read
10 coldest DECEMBERS – doh !
and I spent ages making them tables ‘look’ nice in the edit pane – what a pain not to have wysiwyg !
Cold Wave Attributed to Global Warming
http://sify.com/news/cold-wave-attributed-to-global-warming-news-national-jegmDcafgcd.html
Sunday’s kickoff temperature, 44F, for the Tampa Bay vs Atlanta game in Tampa Florida was the 2nd coldest in the team history (since 1976). The coldest was 39F on 12/30/1989.
I live approx 10 miles from Armagh Observatory and can state that the temperature has barely risen above freezing (2-3C max) since 17 December.
Not sure if this has been posted before, but it was on Channel 10 news last night here in Australia.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/winter-wonderland-as-60-people-spend-three-days-stuck-in-a-pub-20100104-lq6x.html?autostart=1
That’s a whole heap of global warming forcing a 3 day “lock-in”.
WUWT isn’t the only site covering the record breaking cold: click
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!
More accurately: BBC/leftist/Marxist
JDN (13:13:26) :
They’re also city/suburban folk warmed by their UHI microclimates, so for them it’s AUW (Anthropogenic Urban Warming).
Changing headlines and text of the bbc news is a policy as the email that I received in response to my complaint says:
Thanks for your e-mail. On your first point, we will look at whether the
headline and/or intro need to be changed. Another possible term might be
“stolen” as it covers both possibilities.
On your second, Richard Black is the environment correspondent for the
BBC News Website. It is not in the least bit surprising that he would be
mentioned in the e-mails. Journalists do their job by speaking to people
in the field they are covering. That does not invalidate them from ever
again covering a story that involves someone they have dealt with
before.
I haven’t yet had a response from them about my questioning their orwellian changing of the reported news….
MarkA (09:18:38) :
December 2009 was the coldest month EVER in Galway Ireland:
Until the rural stations get truncated out.
“Smokey (17:00:13) :
WUWT isn’t the only site covering the record breaking cold: click”
Nice to see Bejing being reported at that site however, reported on ABC News in Australia today many Indian cities, such as New Delhi, are experiencing record cold too. Of course there have been many deaths which the poor suffer the most.
Seems record cold/cool weather is everywhere.
Glenn (09:32:25) :
I am a little put off by the chorus of folks jumping on recent cold weather as proof that AGW science is wrong
————————————————-
It hasn’t been just recent. It’s been longer. You may have picked up late in the game. Winters have been longer and colder all over the world for 3 years running.
Also refer to the ‘travesty’ cooling email in ClimateGate. Even AGW scientists are talking about it.
It hasn’t been just recent.
You can spends hours, even days, looking at previous posts in this blog to read more.
Glenn (09:32:25) :
I am a little put off by the chorus of folks jumping on recent cold weather as proof that AGW science is wrong
—————————————————————————–
This type of weather was not predicted in global warming computer models. That in and of itself does leave a mark of error on AGW science.
photon without a Higgs (17:45:22) :
Maybe “the Day After Tomorrow” freeze (not global warming catastrophe) takes a little longer than a mere 2 days
In deed, the polar regions are some of the driest locations on the Earth with respect to low precipitation amounts. From the point of view of actual precipitation, the polar regions often qualify as deserts in some areas with deposits of frozen water on the surface in some places instead of underneath the sands. The presence of substantial accumulations of snow and ice is due in part to the substantial periods of time available to accumulate and dwell despite the very low precipitation amounts. Peary Land is an example where the winds and low precipitation amounts have sometimes resulted in a landscape barren of snow and ice coverage. In these areas, the predominant sources of ice are the frozen Arctic Sea with blown snow and the flow of glaciers from farther to the south where the humidity is precipitated out of the atmosphere before reaching the surface levels of the higher polar regions.
so what should be the new hypothesis? AGW say that co2 is now the most dominant factor in the climate. This doesn’t take a time lag to justify, as if the sun’s rays hit the earth, oceans and atmosphere, then greenhouse gases should act as it happens by maintaining a different temperature than if there were no ghg’s in real time. We have a season of record coldrelated to *record* co2 levels, when it was hitherto thought that record co2 ought to lead to record warm temperatures for winter months – odd really, as c02 is more active in winter than in the summer, given that its absorbtion peaks correspond to freezing temperatures
P Wilson (18:40:11) :
photon without a Higgs (17:45:22) :
Maybe “the Day After Tomorrow” freeze (not global warming catastrophe) takes a little longer than a mere 2 days
Nah, that part happened in seconds in the movie. I saw it.