No it’s not a time warp photo of Dicken’s time, it’s from the NASA MODIS satellite imager this week. This is like one of those “spot the cow in this photo” images, looking for the UK in a sea of white.
It must be having quite an impact in the UK. According to UK resident and WUWT commenter “borderer”:
Every single newspaper in the UK has published the following satellite image of the UK today – it shows the entire country in glowing white – snow and ice now appears the entire British Isles from John O’ Groats at the Northern tip of Scotland – to Landsend in Cornwall.
Despite this – and we are now in our 25th day of sub zero temperatures – the MET Office put up a spokesman on Newsnight last evening claiming that their forecast for a ‘very mild winter’ had ‘only been a probability!!
In other news, the Met Head gets paid extra even for botched forecasting. Remember the “BBQ summer” forecast?
“Mr. Hirst, you predicted a barbeque summer for 2009 – we don’t remember that – and a mild winter for this winter, which hasn’t happened. Why did you get a massive performance related bonus?“
h/t to Kate at SDA
Cold is the new warm
Observed faulty models are the new truth
Denial is the the new consensus
Welcome to 2010.
Snowfall used to be rare and exciting in Georgia. Now we actually have ponds frozen over. Taken about 20 miles northeast of Atlanta:
http://www.parkscomputing.com/images/IceInGeorgia.jpg
I’m a little sick of all this global warming, myself.
“spot the cows”?
Livestock being frozen to death in their thousands
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Livestock-being-frozen-to-death.5961813.jp
“THOUSANDS of farm animals face being frozen to death as Scotland experiences its worst winter weather in almost 50 years, farmers have warned.
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Some farmers have been unable, for up to eight days, to get vital supplies of supplementary feed to their livestock. They are also being hit by delays in suppliers reaching them along treacherous rural routes.”
There are also local radio reports of barn roofs collapsing under the weight of snow.
How did Scotland get away with less snow? Did the Scots sell it to the Brits, telling them the cold would mitigate the global warming damage?
Well that green thing to the west hiding under the cloud (Ireland) does not go up far enough to grab all the warmth from the Gulf Stream so on the west coast from the Mull of Galloway northwards there are bits of green.
Borderer (08:23:17) :
At -21c UK is as cold as the South Pole:
This is another example of misleading (at best), cherry-picked statistics.
At -21C UK IN MID WINTER is as cold as the South Pole IN MID SUMMER!!
Those warmers are really holding on to nothing…
Almost the whole Northern hemisphere is frozen solid yet they claim it is weather and natural variability… then to support their AGW view they point to the west coast and Alaska where we have slightly above average temperature (and not every day with that!!!). What is the area ratio between the west coast and all the area that colder than average?
So… it’s weather where it’s colder but climate where it is a little warmer. Science has no political agenda, usually!
Dodgy Geezer is correct. In the summer we can get some scorching days which has buckled rail lines and melted tarmac. Being right off the Atlantic we can also get strong winds. To be able to cope with anything would require massive investment, and wouldn’t be economic when we get extremes just now and again. For the vast majority of the time we have mild weather.
Come spring the AGWers (led by East Anglia Jones and the Temple of Doomers) will thaw out and cry—”See, it’s melting. Told you so!”
I always reckoned the mention of Climate Change would sneek into the BBC reporting due to this cold spell. In the last few days they’ve certainly been injecting various reports from their Science correspondents explaining this is just “Weather”. Odd though that just a few months they were quick to blame the “Weather” we had of the Cockermouth flooding event on “This is what we expect from Climate Change” – most odd and damned two-faced.
I currently have a complaint lodged with the Met Office over their press release of the 5th Jan:
http://www.meto.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2010/pr20100106b.html
“What’s causes the cold weather” – they just had to stick in the Climate Change card at the end.
I’ve asked them to reconcile this with their presss release from February:
http://www.meto.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2009/pr20090225.html
…when they stated:
“Peter Stott, Climate Scientist at the Met Office, said: “Despite the cold winter this year, the trend to milder and wetter winters is expected to continue, with snow and frost becoming less of a feature in the future. The famously cold winter of 1962/63 is now expected to occur about once every 1,000 years or more, compared with approximately every 100 to 200 years before 1850.””
I’ve asked them how can this 1000 year event come round less than a year after they declared it is more or less impossible. I’m waiting for their answer.
I do believe the British Public will not fall for their disinformation anymore. Especially after the Meto are also now claiming they DID infact forecast this cold spell and indeed they KNEW the AO / NAO was going negative BEFORE the end of December, but even the BBC pointed out to them their website still showed the UK as being “Orange” Warm anomaly Dec-Feb!
The Spin Doctors are certainly in full swing at the moment. Fortunately this little episode will only strenghen the UK’s sceptism, as when the Meto and BBC so obviously start telling little lies about what they think they said, it simply shows them as rather irrelevant and not to be trusted – in my opinion.
The British public are not stupid, and won’t be scammed again and again.
kadaka (09:17:00) :
Do you see the head of the dog? It has floppy ears, below you can see short front legs, as it is pouncing on Scotland. Amazing!
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Yeah, a terrier too. I think it’s actually going to land on Berwick which is just across the border.
False teeth in the North Sea anyone ??
Maybe this is what the Met Office should do. No increase in credibility, but it would sure as heck make them less dangerous.
Kadaka,
We keep pointing out to you that Scots ARE Brits.
And to whoever said that we are governed by a Scot but not for much longer, remember that Tony Blair is a Scot.
What price a third Scot in a row for PM if A. Darling takes over?
( And apologies for going off thread.)
M. Simon. If you look really closely at the second picture you can see an idiot.
NCDC’s numbers are in the database for December. 15th coldest ever in the continental US (CONUS).
Go here and select December in the “period” pull-down.
What is interesting is the continuing trend in CONUS temperatures. If your start year is 1999 and if you select “most recent 12-month period” (all the way at the bottom of the “period” list, might need to scroll it down) you see a cooling trend of -0.83 degF / decade. That is HUGE. That would translate to a trend of 8 degrees / century if it were to continue (which I hope it never does!).
It is going to take several more years for the warming bump of the last multi-decadal bump in temperatures to work through and for the trend lines to adjust. For example the trend of +0.11 degF / decade remains unchanged if you stop in 2009 or even 2006 even though temperatures for the past two years are below the trend line.
There is no need to argue about climate change, it is only a matter of just waiting….When weather stays too long it inevitably becomes climate.
Fresh Globular Warming sounds more like something you might get on your foot from someone’s pet. Be careful out there in that “rotten” warming deposit, whatever it is ! (10 quid says it’s just normal snow.)
It seems to me that Global Warming is looking like a Psychiatric Syndrome… “Global Mass Mesmerization” (GMM Syndrome). Thank God in the USA we will soon have cheap Universal Health Care Coverage coming along to help these delusional souls…. aahhh… What do you mean by “Not Covered”?
I thought the interviewer’s questions and comments were as pointed as they could be without becoming ungentlemanly and calling the head of the MET office a crazy S.O.B.
I hope this cold weather will cause people to ask two questions:
1) Do these warmist scientists know what they’re talking about?
2) What’s so bad about warming?
Ireland did get some as well, and more is to come…
order your salt now
Pamela Gray (09:22:32) :
But, Pamela, NW Calif. is supposed to be in a horrible drought. We currently are 50% ahead of last year, and last year ended up as ‘normal’. I’m dismayed to hear that you have accumulated all that drought snow, as it will only grow your glaciers with ‘rotten ice’.
Greenland’s Sea Ice is currently attempting to reach out and touch Iceland.
Great picture; but it still doesn’t stop the BBC (Barmey Broadcasting Clots), on every news broadcast, wheeling out some pilchard from the met office to tell us, not to worry because global warming is still on. They also said that 2010 is going to be the hottest year ever and the last decade was the warmest ever, despite the plateau and subsequent decline. Does Hirst know what his people are telling us?;he told Andrew Neill they predicted this.
There are names for these people, but the little ones may be watching.
An email from Piers Corbyn saying the Met Office needs to be up for manslaughter.
From: Piers Corbyn
Date: Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:29 AM
Subject: BBC covers for Met Office failure – LETTER to Gavin Esler BBC Newsnight presenter 7th Jan2010 = WA10News4 (PG+) {WeatherAction WA10No03 LINK warns of more snow deluges – How much colder would you like it, Minister?
To: WA10No4 BBC covers for Met Office failiure
Letter to Gavin Esler BBC Presenter Newsnight 7th Jan 2010
– Met Office & BBC accused of litany of lies on long range forecasting & climate change
– Reason for Met Office failed forecasts is fraudulaent (Climategate) data
– Collective manslaugter charges against University of East Anglia, Met Office and BBC called for.
7th Jan 2010
Gavin,
Further to Newsnight tonight where the Met Office and BBC so called expert lied about the reality of long-range forecasting; and your questioning was woefully inadequate and ignorant – despite efforts.
You should know that the MET OFFICE & BBC are in denial on the reality of long range forecasting and on the falsity of so-called man-made Climate Change.
You might care to read this short pdf (link) and the detailed forecast in other e-mail, or available via http://www.weatheraction.com/member.asp
We at WeatherAction predicted this very cold weather SIX months ago using solar activity (nothing to do with CO2) and added extra detail weeks ahead. Our forecasts of EXTREME events are consistently 85% reliable.
There is no need for the UK and Europe to be unprepared and run out of salt. The consequent suffering and road deaths are a direct consequence of the Met Office and BBC failed science and litany of lies.
Would the BBC care to hear from us as to why the Met Office fail, fail and fail again in medium and long range forecasting and when this cold weather will end and then return? I Suspect not.
Would you care to consider the following –
1. The Met Office statement on Newsnight that they ‘verify’ their climate forecasts against past date
2. That the said past data was fraudulently produced by, for example, the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia and exposed in the CLIMATEGATE files..
3. It is therefore unsurprising that the Met Offices climate and season ahead forecasts fail fail and fail again.
They are rooted in failed science and falsified data.
– The world has been cooling for at least 7 years while CO2 has been rising – contrary to their foreacst.
– The floody ‘non barbecue’ summers of 2007, 2008 and 2009 and the cold winter 08/09 and now 09/10 were ALL the opposite of the Met office forecast and ALL as predicted by WeatherAction months ahead. Met Office scored 0/5 and WeatherAction scored 5/5.
4. The faled Met Office forecast for this winter and the consequent unnecessary suffering and road deaths should be laid at the feet of the University of East Anglia, the Met Office and the BBC and charges of collective manslaughter be issued.
Are you a public service broadcaster or what?
Thank you
Piers Corbyn Msc (astrophysics), ARCS, FRAS, FRMetS
WeatherAction long range weather and climate forecasters
Apparently it’s not cold everywhere:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/met-office-reminds-us-its-not-cold-everywhere.php
Anthony – I’d suggest the BBC probe on bias is worth a post on WUWT.
James Delingpole(“good guy” – Scots will understand this) at the Telegraph:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100021508/finally-bbc-asks-are-we-maybe-a-bit-biased-on-climate-change/
Maybe the Catlin crew could go Lands End to John o Groats on foot to convince
the Guardian and the BBC that global warming really exists!!
” Alba (08:43:45) :
Nice to see all the comments pointing out the difference between Britain/UK and England. But how many times do we have to keep pointing this out before it gets taken on board? ”
It would be easier for the rest of us if the UK had a logical national flag, but Wales is not part of the Union Jack.
But I find it amusing that in sports England always have the Red Cross ready at hand when they play a tough opponent.
Canada’s temperatures are well within seasonal averages for this time of year, at least according to a casual flip through some old Farmer’s Almanac records. It’s -3 celsius where I am now in central British Columbia and that’s about average. It’s neither warmer nor colder than usual.
I’m not an expert. I’ve only been experiencing winters in Canada for 45 years, but really, things aren’t that different here now than when I was a kid. But I guess that kind of observation doesn’t count for much without a computer model or a degree in climatology. As they say, weather isn’t climate and local weather has no bearing on Global Trends.
Glad I have my gloves with me, though.