WUWT readers may recall this post from last year on January 8th, 2010
All of Britain covered by snow
Along with a stunning satellite image. Well, it has happened again, much earlier this year. See the newest satellite image below.
From the BBC they write:
The University of Dundee’s satellite receiving station captured this image of how the heavy snow of the past week has affected the UK.
The picture, which was received at 1145 GMT on Thursday from Nasa satellite Terra, shows almost the entire country covered by a blanket of snow.
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That’s bound to put a chill on AGW.
Could this be a year the Thames freezes over?? If it does, will anyone other than us nocice?
LOL-No wonder this year’s meeting is in Cancun. Can you picture warmistas trying to get to their meetings trudging thru a blizzard?
LazyTeenager, in a fit of wanking, said:
Did they happen to define what they meant by “more extreme weather events” by any chance or are they simply going to retrospectively declare which things are “more extreme weather events”? Did they happen to suggest a mechanism by which these “more extreme weather events” are caused by human generated increases in CO2 in the atmosphere?
I suggest that you stop visiting Mrs Palmer.
While I enjoy and appreciate all the biting sarcasm, I must admit I’m growing a bit concerned about the growing cool trend. Getting warmer? That’s fine by me. People, animals and plants all seem to love a warm environment. Getting cooler? It may sound okay in the dead of summer, but I feel for people living in Northern climes. I recently read how Russia is readying itself for a bitter winter, regardless of the heatwave they had earlier in the year. My thoughts will be for my fellow Man this winter. I hope the cooling trend is merely a passing trend and not something that’s coming down hard to stay. There’s been cold times in Earth’s history… harsh cold… some folks may need to make sure their axes are sharp and the wood’s laid up.
From the BBC:
“Cold weather ‘threatening small businesses'”
Blocked roads are preventing customers from reaching small businesses
The continuing snow and icy weather conditions are jeopardising the future of hundreds of small businesses across the UK, business groups have warned.
The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) told the BBC as many as 800-900 small businesses were under threat as a result of the cold snap.
Businesses where cashflow is vital, such as bars and restaurants, are really suffering, it said.
The Federation of Small Businesses said members were “particularly hard-hit”.
But other sectors, particularly retail and leisure, could lose out on business entirely, with potentially severe consequences for some small businesses.
“Quite a lot of small businesses are quite close to the brink now,” said Mr McWilliams.
“I think at least a few hundred, maybe as many as 800 or 900, could go bankrupt that otherwise wouldn’t have because this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”
He said businesses that rely on cash were particularly vulnerable.
The Federation of Small Business said it was “disappointed that we still haven’t learnt the lessons from previous bad weather and that the country has yet again ground to a halt”.”
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And the reason no one has learned any lessons from this is because biased scientific organizations like the UK Met plus their darling the media and those making policy….have been barking up the wrong tree for a generation now.
So no policies are set in place to prepare for….what if the world turns cold.
Sheez. As beautiful as the winter weather is….it produces severe hardship.
My heart goes out to the businesses that are struggling to stay afloat…as well as to the pensioners who are inevitably struggling to keep warm.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Positively Dickinsonian!
They were so stubbornly decided to become GREEN that they became GREEN…LAND..
“If you want, I’ll get some graphs demonstrating a rise in the average global temperature. That’s what global warming’s about. ”
We already know that its all about the graphs.
LazyTeenager says:
December 3, 2010 at 5:04 am
“In case you guys did not notice, the climate modellers PREDICTED several years ago that there would be more extreme weather events. It’s just plain cheating to claim that the scientists are modifying their story after the event.”
They also predicted that snow in Britain would be a thing of the past, just to cover all bases. Are you working in the climatologist scam circles or why do you defend these people?
Karl Craig says:
December 3, 2010 at 6:02 am
Yes. If it gets any warmer, we’ll freeze to death.
Perhaps Vicky Pope is a character straight from Alice in Wonderland
Look,
Most of the temperature, snow, rain “records” come from city centers and/or airports. Quit complaining, you rural folks; its time to move to the center of the airports. We can buy and move those inexpensive foreclosed homes.
In addition, airports have the best snow removal equipment. After removal of snow the runways heat up faster (less reflection) so your new home will be warmer. This will be needed during a “quiet Sun”.
By the way, where are those Solar Physicists? Why haven’t they predicted the “quiet Sun” . Oh, I forgot, Solar Science is settled.
You all have heard/read that the Sun is 75% H and 25% He. But in the core, the Sun is 75% He and 25% H and other things. Maybe the core runs low on H every 400 years and the migration of H into the core takes a while; maybe 50 years (see Maunder Minimum).
Bottom line -> As it gets colder [quiet Sun], move to where it is warmer. It is warmer where the AGW people measure temperature!!!
LazyTeenager says:
December 3, 2010 at 5:04 am
“In case you guys did not notice, the climate modellers PREDICTED several years ago that there would be more extreme weather events. It’s just plain cheating to claim that the scientists are modifying their story after the event.”
So now it’s “more extreme weather”? The hockey stick was all about getting warmer. The scare was more heat, more drought, less snow, less cold, less polar bears. The exact opposite is happening on all fronts. And now we retrofit and say it was all about the extreme weather: more snow or less snow, more heat or less heat, more rain or less rain, more storms or less storms. Guys, you can’t have it all ways. The warmists have predicted practically everything based on alleged AGW. So if anthing in that list happens, you are right? As a career scientist I have one word for that: “BlulSiht” That’s not the way science works. I’d be laughed out of my office and into unemployment if I conducted my science like that.
matt v. says:
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December 3, 2010 at 10:25 am
I noted in a previous post on the UK winter weather blog that the current cold spell in Europe and Asia could last for 4-5 months at least based on the past indications of SOI. Enviornment Canada prediction for the next 2-4 and even 4-6 for most for CANADA is for below normal weather. Europe will likely be the same in my opinion.
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/saisons/image_e.html?img=s234fe1t_s
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Bob in the US says:
December 3, 2010 at 3:10 am
“The UK will return to a mini Ice age because the Atlantic conveyor has been shut down due to the entry of oil into the north Atlantic, via the gulf oil being dispersed into the deep water thermoclines. It will get much worse, depending on how long the oil regulates the characteristics of the Atlantic conveyor”.
Uh, no
My poor Native Californian son, living in Oslo. He tells me that in Norway they say that there is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes. Mebee so, but this is pushing it for my central valley boy. 🙂
I’ve got to agree with Lazy Teenager. There is cherrypicking on this thread.
Among the overwhelming consensus of alarmist statements predicting all sorts of calamities, we choose the ONE that suggests snow will be a distant memory. And given enough time, that claim could be proved correct (like the monkey who randomly types-out the works of Shakespeare, given enough time.)
We’re being unfair by picking on one statement in the press when there is a multitude of others who haven’t a clue about what they’re talking about in equal measure.
Or … radical thought … perhaps it’s time for people to stop embarrassing themselves with ridiculous alarmist predictions.
Theo Goodwin says:
December 2, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Can someone tell me of another great scientist who suffered as Phil Jones, Michael Mann, and their boys suffer?
Prosper-René Blondlot comes to mind, who “discovered” N rays in 1903. It was debunked next year by Robert Williams Wood, still, there are some 300 published papers by 120 scientists during the period 1903-1906, all confirming the phenomenon and describing various aspects of it in detail. Blondot himself has probably not abandoned the notion till his death 27 years later.
American Journal of Physics 45 (3): 281-284 (March 1977)
New Light on Old Rays: N Rays
Robert T. Lagemann
There are also some more papers on N rays there.
“In case you guys did not notice, the climate modellers PREDICTED several years ago that there would be more extreme weather events. It’s just plain cheating to claim that the scientists are modifying their story after the event.”
A warmer planet actually causes less extreme events due to the more northern position of the jet stream. When the jet stream tends to stay further South extreme events increase and this not the sign of warming planet. It is plain cheating saying whatever happens is evidence to support a belief when can’t even distinguish it from a natural weather event. The climate modellers didn’t predict the jet stream positioning further South, so it is wrong because these severe events were caused by this. When this becomes clearer there is bound to be a alarmist scientist that says AGW caused this jet stream change too. (when it clearly didn’t)
Sorry, you have last sentence wrong, this is exactly what there doing and have been for many years. (most alarmists) Whatever happens is full of spin and claimed that this was predicted. If everything that happens is down to warming planet then science is dead and can’t be falsified. You are not going to get a severe cold period instead of mild period due to any AGW, it can only modify it and all recent severe weather is explained well by the postion of the jet stream and weather patterns not AGW.
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Enonym says:
December 3, 2010 at 2:31 am
Amusing to see how even my fellow norwegians from the south of our long (and cold) country seem to be unaware of the temperatures along the northern coast of Norway. It’s well above the arctic circle, but the temperatures there are nevertheless above freezing. Care to comment Steinar?
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Me! Me!
Maybe the adjacent ocean is above freezing (not frozen), and the air is blowing off the ocean?
Not to confuse local (yes UK is local) vs global climate. Local weather is often affected by changes in ocean currents which the UK depends on for their temperate climate. In the last mini-ice age, it is suspected that the NA current shut down due to previously warmer climes that caused a change in salinity of the northern oceans. Many fear that this will happen again. To get an ideal on how this may affect UK ‘weather’ in the end, draw a latitude line through London and around the globe. You ain’t seen nothing yet!
I forecast below normals for the UK for later in November. With cold blasts from 21st, 23rd and 29th.
Rex Murphy is back and gets it right again
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/12/04/rex-murphy-cancun-sun-speeds-decay-of-global-warming-charade/
Concerning your BP oil gusher Brits
Reap it and freeze
I hope the snowfall is not much heavier on one side or another. One of our distinguished congressman from Georgia says that can happen when you add weight to an island unevenly.
http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/3169-rep-hank-johnson-guam-could-tip-over-and-capsize
I dont know how much more contrarian climate evidence must be demonstrated before Al Gore will just shut up. Its time to go after these people, on all fronts with legal methods, for fraud and deceit. They have literally taken billions of dollars under false pretenses. One of my most satisfying moments would be to see Al Gore in a orange jumpsuit, wearing leg irons and stripped of his Nobel Prize.