Dr. Richard North of the EU Referendum has few words for George Monbiot regarding his recent claim that cold snowy winters are the result of “global warming”.
North writes:
It is not that he does not have a case (even if it is not very good). What makes him so deservedly look the fool it that he, alongside the climate establishment, has spent the last decade or more trying to convince us that milder winters are a sure sign of global warming. Now, in the manner of Winston Smith, Moonbat seems to believe that he can rewrite history and we will not notice.
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stephen richards says:
December 22, 2010 at 2:15 am
Gareth Phillips says:
December 22, 2010 at 1:10 am
If the Grauniad was a person he would be loathsome and that would be a fair desciption. It isn’t just Moonbat that has been vitriolic in his writing but most of their other reporters as well. The Grauniad has been failing for a very long time and has been struggling to maintain it’s circulation figures. So loathsome may not be pleasant but it is accurate.
senseseeker like R gates are so embroiled in and devoted to their religion that, as it begins to fail, they feel like they are loosing their raison-être. They do not have the ability to be open minded and read only the messages they want to see. They are like the children with their fingers in their ears making the “la la la” sounds to avoid having to listen to their parents. Sensible comment is beyond their abilities.
Thanks Stephen.
Do you think this type of behaviour only affects warmists and left wing newspapers? I must confess I have seen both sides behave in similar fashion from time to time.
“The Moonbat”! Kudos to whoever came up with that one. He’s just got to hate being called that.
Jimmy – the sun’s been up for 2 hours now but it is still -15C. Car wouldn’t start this morning despite new battery so had to take my son to Breadalbane on the bike – he was weeping after 1/4 a mile with the pain of the windchill on his face. The burns and wee lochs are all frozen solid and the big lochs will be soon if this continues. I take it things are warmer where you are.
This was a great piece by Richard North. However, I’d like to make a suggestion to WUWT and other sceptical bloggers: You should call Monbiot with his real name and not stoop to the level of using derogatory nicknames. Those nicknames don’t add anything to the story, but make it just unprofessional. And an unprofessional story is respected less by new or unfamiliar readers.
In the last few days BBC Radio 4 asked the former government scientific advisor (Dr King) and a climate scientist (Dr Palmer) from Oxford University for their interpretation of the current severe weather in the British Isles and Europe and why this event had not been foreseen by the MetOffice using their much vaunted supercomputer.. Neither came across with a plausible explanation – the former waffling on about the NAO (which he did not appear to understand). Both, however, did indicate that there was much still to be learned about climate and the need for climate scientists to have access to yet more powerful computers on which to run the ‘more sophisticated’ climate models now becoming available. Dr Palmer even thought that they should have access to security/defence systems computers. Dr Palmer was held up in San francisco airport at the time, his flight back to London being delayed my the snow chaos at Heathrow!
Moonbat is wrong. His case has collapsed. Will he have the decency to admit it? Just how much evidence do these warmist apocalypse merchants need to recant?
The next time that sea ice returns to the British coast I propose a new SI unit, the micromoonbat, being a square metre of frozen sea. Should it ever reach the threshhold of one moonbat, this would signal the formal end of the Great Global Warming Hoax. Dr. Pachauri’s successor would pronounce, at the final meeting of the IPCC, “I declare these proceedings ended,” and bang his gavel.
That was an excellent artlcle by Dr. North. I loved the phrase “Hubris, though, is invariably followed by nemesis”. Isn’t that the truth?!
Not to be outdone, the jokers at the Irish Met Office have performed a Comical Ali trick on their website. Ireland is experiencing the coldest December ever recorded, yet the weather clowns see fit to console the tax-payers with this message on their home-page:
02 December 2010
2010 in the top three warmest years, 2001-2010 warmest 10-year period.
The year 2010 is almost certain to rank in the top 3 warmest years since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The global combined sea surface and land surface air temperature for 2010 (January–October) is currently estimated at 0.55°C ± 0.11°C (0.99°F ± 0.20°F) above the 1961–1990 annual average of 14.00°C/57.2°F.
Zen question 1:
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
Answer:
?
Zen question 2:
What is the sound of one buttock talking?
Answer:
Ah! Monoboti
Vieras 3:00 am:
I would agree with you normally, but apparently George Monbiot is not totally devoid of humour and doesn’t mind his nickname. Best wishes, Dave.
David L : December 22, 2010 at 3:08 am
And finally catharsis we can only hope.
Nature is not complying, the plebs are not getting the true faith message, must be time for another Two Minute Hate about Big Oil and such to get everyone riled up, only with Steve McIntyre starring instead of Goldstein.
Moonbatia has always said AGW would produce warmer winters. Moonbatia has always said AGW would produce milder winters.
Monbiot would get a lot more credibility if he used some other evidence than Hansen’s distorted GISS arctic temperature hashed up mess. Go up there and tell the Inuit freezing his petunias off in rural Alaska that temp is way above normal, why, you don’t believe me? Look at the red on the map!
That is the explanation which appears in all the media, here in South America, in all news articles about Europe´s current winter. It seems news agencies promote this “belief”.
“While I find George Monbiot frustrating in his apparent inability to see both sides of a debate, to call his newspaper “loathsome” just indicates an underlying prejudice every bit as bad. ”
Oh yes. The Guardian deserves this appellation every bit. I now have personal experience, twice in a span of about six months, with their tactics, having heard similar stories continuously over the entire period.
The Guardian shields its ‘opinion leaders’ – folks like Monbiot and Damian Carrington – from solicited criticism and opinion, by butchering comments, and then puts on a faux puritanical act to justify its censorship.
The reason for comment deletion at the Guardian is not the reasons they state they will delete comments for. After deletion however, they sell their reasons to you and their columnists as the real ones. It is a forked tongue regime.
Loathsome is going easy on such behaviour.
2007 was not remotely the second warmest winter unless you suddenly decide to use a national record going back only to 1914 instead of the usual CET back to 1660.
Tonyb
Apparently the link has collapsed…..because of the too many hits by WUWT regulars.
Vieras said
“This was a great piece by Richard North. However, I’d like to make a suggestion to WUWT and other sceptical bloggers: You should call Monbiot with his real name and not stoop to the level of using derogatory nicknames.”
I agree totally, we should not stoop to their juvenile levels.
Tonyb
Just nuts: “Warm Winters Result From Greenhouse Effect, Columbia Scientists Find, Using NASA Model”.
I agree with Gareth and vieras, name calling/nicknames is a distraction to the well deserved skewering of Monbiot. As vieras said, it is unprofessional. I prefer to leave the name calling to the Warmers, they revel in it, or rather, wallow.
‘the need for climate scientists to have access to yet more powerful computers on which to run the ‘more sophisticated’ climate models now becoming available.’
Ahh I see the logic now, if you run enough supersuper computers the heat generated will see the end to these pesky cold winters, back to Global Warming Simples !!!!
Methinks this would be a good time for Josh to produce a classy cartoon based on the legend of the hydra. When a head was hewn off two more grew in its place. Similarly wvery time a climate head is cut another one or two grows-this time that global cooling will produce warmer winters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra
Come on Josh, this is your chance of even wider fame
Tonyb
Wise thought: Said Monbiot: “all of us knew that this time might be our (my?) last”.
Peterxema says: December 22, 2010 at 3:05 am
Here’s David King’s BBC interview yesterday morning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9308000/9308121.stm
King was a Blair appointee.
He said the current government should have prepared for a cold winter because we had a hot summer! (I don’t remember summer 2010 being hot – I remember it raining a lot). He also asked for money for supercomputers – effectively a reward for failure.
I visit North’s blog regularly, and he always has interesting things to say. I sometimes have a problem, however, with his choice of perforatives… “jungle bunny” comes to mind. Where I grew up that was a nasty racial slur. “Kermits”, in reference to the French, is another one, albeit milder and in my view funny (and my family tree is nearly purely french, although there’s an odd Scotsman or two in there somewhere).
However if you overlook the vitriol, you can find very intelligent and well documented arguments. But his critics tend to focus on his questionable name calling and thus ignore some insightful commentary.
So the met office have given up with long range forecasts but their 2 day forecasts are still excellent?
Well, that depends on how one defines excellent. I monitor the weather forecast reguarly at these times. Yesterday both the met office and the BBC 24 hour forecast was giving Wednesday as dry and sunny all day. But xcweather (an independent forecast for paraglider pilots) gave snow. A contest! I kept checking in the forecasts every couple of hours. Then, at around 8:00pm on Tuesday, the BBC updated their forecast to show snow. As I sit here it is indeed snowing, but 2 day accuracy? Not even close!