From the overhyped and virtually overheated UK Met Office meeting yesterday where they tried to explain “The Pause” Telegraph blogger Sean Thomas was there and was able to get first hand reports on what was said. Bishop Hill says: “I think we should be worried.”
First, I asked Stephen Belcher, the head of the Met Office Hadley Centre, whether the recent extended winter was related to global warming.
Shaking his famous “ghost stick”, and fingering his trademark necklace of sharks’ teeth and mammoth bones, the loin-clothed Belcher blew smoke into a conch, and replied,
“Here come de heap big warmy. Bigtime warmy warmy. Is big big hot. Plenty big warm burny hot. Hot! Hot hot! But now not hot. Not hot now. De hot come go, come go. Now Is Coldy Coldy. Is ice. Hot den cold. Frreeeezy ice til hot again. Den de rain. It faaaalllll. Make pasty.”
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For a final word, I turned to the greatest climate change scientist of all, Dr David Viner, one-time senior research scientist at the climatic research unit of the University of East Anglia, who predicted in 2000 that, within a few years, winter snowfall would become “a very rare and exciting event”.
However, he was trapped under a glacier in Stockport, so was unable to comment at the time the Telegraph went to press.
More hilarity here: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/seanthomas/100222487/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-we-have-to-trust-our-scientists-because-they-know-lots-of-big-scary-words/
Meanwhile back in the real world: yawn
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Is that a picture of James Hansen in a new hat?
“Anthony was insistent about using real screen names, so I finally gave in.
But I miss Smokey, too. ☹ ”
Phew. I have never been so glad that ‘someone’, ‘somewhere’ is not dead.
Now all I have to do is remember you are you 😉
This is how the MET guys feel about colder winters. “Oh, boy.”
Yeah, I realize Kosek isn’t a MET guy, but, this IS how the pro-AGW MET guys feel.
“… James Hansen in a new hat?”
Nope.
This is:
“Note: this is NOT Professor Scott Mandia in another costume”
Are you sure? He’s got the same expression.
The Met Office Theme song:
Hey, Louis Hoofstetter, good one. Thanks for the fine tune (if a BIT repetitive). LOL. Of course! With all that hot air they fill the studio with every day…. .
BTW, I think the guy on the album cover is a Truth in Science guy — looks might skeptical to me.
Guy on Cover: You meeen tooo tayl me theht whane I use my power tools I ame keeling thee plahnet? HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HAAAAAAA! Whaht you been smokeen mahn?
How can weather be “disappointing”?
How can the allegedly greatest minds in climate science sit in their “workshops” for a full day and only manage to produce a few vacuous statements that fail to answer any of the questions that they originally asked?
Why has every single claim made about the consequences of AGW failed to materialise?
Why do they still believe in the drivel that they spout?
Why don’t they get rid of the models in their computers and predict with some accuracy what the weather is going to do at the weekend, rather than getting it, long term forecasts and climate trends for hundreds of years totally and utterly wrong?
Henry Galt on June 19, 2013 at 10:19 am said:
But he could be such a bear.
Obviously he was/is a shill of the tobacco companies. His alternate screen name was “Morris Dancer”.
Or maybe not. \:-Q
Is the photo of a reluctant cannibal?
I want the Daily Telegraph to let Sean Thomas report on ALL ‘climate’ meetings…!
{ dbstealey says:
June 19, 2013 at 1:44 pm }
I wondered also……