BBC swaps "coldest December since 1981" headline

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

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photon without a Higgs
January 4, 2010 8:56 pm

What is seen at this link was NEVER supposed to happen in a global warming world
http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html?c=maxtemp,mintemp,lowmax,highmin,snow

photon without a Higgs
January 4, 2010 8:59 pm

And more record cold is in the forecast.
I haven’t seen any prolonged record heat. Has anyone else?
That question is for the trolls—where are the trolls??
Bring them in!
Let us make sport!
😉

LarryOldtimer
January 4, 2010 9:07 pm

Ca+CO2+O=CaCO3 Calcium carbonate. The mollusks have been constructing thicker shells for themselves with the additionl CO2 absorbed by the oceans, thus depleting additional CO2 in the oceans. This has been demonstrated by direct measurement. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing indeed.

Claude Harvey
January 4, 2010 9:25 pm

While everyone is gloating over the cold weather they might wish to check the satellite readings at 14,000 feet (AMSU-A). Those are the one’s Roy Spencer likes to plot each month. They have not looked good for the cooling case over the past six months and they are not looking good right now.
CH

photon without a Higgs
January 4, 2010 9:46 pm

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

Wait a second—-you really do think that movie was a scientific forecast??

January 4, 2010 11:28 pm

Calvin Ball (08:27:19) :
Gaurdian takes the cake for absurd non-sequitur:
“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.”
Bingo.
“Your microclimate is getting colder because that 500-foot high wall of ice that used to be in your back yard isn’t there any more.”

mkurbo
January 5, 2010 12:27 am

In JonesII (09:00:16) SST map – does anyone know what the hot spot in south east greenland might be ??? ..it seems an odd place for a hot spot.

mkurbo
January 5, 2010 12:57 am

DirkH (13:52:53) :
“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”.
>>>
Excuse, but the AGW movement has been indoctrinating the kids for a decade. I think that is a lower form of life in my book…

P Wilson
January 5, 2010 2:10 am

photon without a Higgs (21:46:20) :
Phew no. I’m being ironic. However in the movie all was fine until global cooling came along

January 5, 2010 2:12 am

ShrNfr (07:17:21) :
Mods, please, I find this OTT ad hom.
Reply: The target, Prince Charles, by nature of his public status is fair game, but I agree that the language crosses the line so it is no more. ~ ctm

January 5, 2010 3:31 am

I watch CNBC (the business channel) quite a lot. Besides being very informative it is also very entertaining, the US staff have a light attitude and chat with each others and make jokes all the time. Today they actually discussed the fact that the IPCC computer models were way off the mark and had been unsuccessful in forecasting the global temperatures for the last 10 years or so.
They have never mentioned the climate before, to my knowledge. But then I can’t watch the channel 100% of the time. Anyway I see this as a positive sign…

D. Patterson
January 5, 2010 4:09 am

Claude Harvey (21:25:38) :
While everyone is gloating over the cold weather they might wish to check the satellite readings at 14,000 feet (AMSU-A). Those are the one’s Roy Spencer likes to plot each month. They have not looked good for the cooling case over the past six months and they are not looking good right now.
CH

I wouldn’t get too excited by warming in the stratosphere during cold weather events and jet streams such as we are seeing at present. Such warmings occur when the wind and temperature fields become disrupted enough to affect the Rossby Waves to the point where they propagate themselves into the stratosphere. Temperatures in the stratosphere can be expected to trend back to normal once the tropospheric disruptions due to blocking fronts and other causes subside and resume more normal patterns.

Bob Layson
January 5, 2010 7:14 am

There ought to be trolls

lasse
January 5, 2010 7:25 am

Global warming climatists hedging their bets.
Swanson thinks the trend [cold weather through global warming] could continue for up to 30 years. But he warned that it’s just a hiccup, and that humans’ penchant for spewing greenhouse gases will certainly come back to haunt us.
“When the climate kicks back out of this state, we’ll have explosive warming,” Swanson said. …

msnbc.msn

Enduser
January 5, 2010 9:01 am

Would you folks be so kind as to upvote this post on Reddit, and perhaps comment on it? It is in imminent danger of being buried.
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/aluki/record_cold_and_snow_in_siberia_europe_asia_north/

Bill Parsons
January 5, 2010 11:05 am

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=a9hxpKnSYowY

North China Braces for Coldest Weather Since 1950s (Update1)
By Bloomberg News
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) — Temperatures in northern China may fall to the lowest in half a century, threatening to disrupt transportation system and power supplies.
Beijing temperatures are forecast to drop as low as minus 16 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit) tonight, according to the China Meteorological Administration. Northern China may have 50-year low temperatures today, China Central Television reported yesterday.
Limiting Electricity
Some cities started to limit electricity supply because of reduced coal stockpiles, the newspaper reported, citing an unidentified official from the State Electricity Regulatory Commission.

Not gloating, just watching and wondering.
Though mortality from all extreme weather events continue to decline over the decades twice as many people die from extreme cold than from harsh warm conditions (See Table 3).
(Goklany, Death and Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events;
Global and U.S. Trends, 1900–2006)
http://www.csccc.info/reports/report_23.pdf
So… how is the best way to prepare for these conditions so that your people don’t die?
Healthy energy industry?
Good roads?
Secure coal-fired electric plants?
Working power structures?
Transparent science / news dissemination?
Isn’t it better to prepare for these conditions?

MR
January 5, 2010 12:42 pm

BBC London News tonight reports ‘Coldest for 30 years’

old44
January 5, 2010 12:55 pm

Love the subtle change from “The coldest December since 1981” to “The longest cold spell since 1981”

JohnH
January 5, 2010 2:00 pm

MET Office is at it again, Dec is an anomaly, move on nothing to see here.
The Met Office yesterday confirmed that December was the coldest in Britain since 1995. However, despite the chilly snap, the whole of 2009 was milder than 2008 and remained the 14th warmest year in the UK since records began in 1914, it added.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1240629/At-mercy-deep-freeze-Schools-shut-firms-hit–6-inches-snow.html#ixzz0bmFf2eNe

Tenuc
January 5, 2010 3:41 pm

Telegraph Headline “London colder than Antarctica”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/antarctica/4126690/London-colder-than-Antarctica.html
Says it all really. Can’t hide all this white stuff from the public, regardless of what the CRU, GISS or the BBC try to do to hide the temperature decline.
The theory of CAGW is dead, lets all enjoy the wake!

photon without a Higgs
January 5, 2010 8:20 pm

P Wilson (02:10:28) :
photon without a Higgs (21:46:20) :
Phew no. I’m being ironic.

I deduced your meaning later on.
And I agree, warm is better; the world could use a little warming right now.

Indiana Bones
January 5, 2010 8:55 pm

With each story changed to accommodate the AGW goddities – we put another arrow into the beast. They show a clear and present desire to manipulate the public perception of what they see with their own eyes. We should note each and every instance, document them all, and when the time arrives (shortly now) to demand an accounting from media managers – their will be a trunk full of evidence.
What the dying mainstream media cannot fathom is that with each “It’s Worse Than We Thought” AGW story and headline – they supply the prosecution with incontrovertible evidence. The inquiries will ask, “Who told you to change this headline, sir?” And, “Why did you continue to misdirect the public, despite the multitude of evidence to the contrary?”
Perry Mason never had it this good.

Julie
January 6, 2010 1:23 am

Apparently it was Scotland that has had the coldest Dec month since 1981.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8442310.stm
“The country has already suffered its third coldest December since records began in 1914.
The average mean temperature for last month was the lowest since 1981, which had the coldest December on record. “

George Lawson
January 6, 2010 3:40 am

Coldest winter for 100 years in many countries = more heating from electricity, coal and gas worldwide = more CO2 into the atmosphere = more global warming. Have the warmists overlooked this scenario to support their rapidly disappearing credibility?

Tempus Mutantis
January 6, 2010 10:14 am

In Denmark we are having a real winter for the 1.st time in 3 decades, with frozen lakes and meters of snow. I still believe that the purpose for the “climate-warmers” is to make us pay for breathing!Like so many failed attempts to “free” us of our money , like 9/11-scare-pandemic-scare-war-scare etc. it is done with all, really desperate means and any lie will be tried;BUT if we turn it around and remember that; without us-and the animals breathing, there would be no plants, no trees – and so –NO OXYGEN. The idiots that try to monopolize the air will have to pay us for being here instead- or give up to try to become the next Rotshit ( they own 50% of all values on Earth-thats insane). The idea that ANY ONE of the 6,5 billion peoble here should own ALL the oil, all the gas,water or air is just that INSANE!!!. What is a sign of that is the fact that NO ONE, after 10 years, publically even whispers the word :CHEMTRAILS! That many billions of tonnes of poisons and metals (see LEGEND LAB.com on the contents: Barium,Aluminium,Strontium and 10 more chemicals) that has been poured onto us – for 10 years!!!What impact is THAT having on weather??? P.S.: A vehicle that is not dependent on the condition of the surface (and need no roads,run-ways,bridges or tunnels) as f.ex. snow, HAS been invented; it is called Hover-Swift -and has allready been robbed for 1 Billion Euro by the banks (owned by competing Zionist banks). But it still exists -and will in the future.