London Mayor, Boris Johnson, writes in The Telegraph:
From: The weather prophets should be chucked in the deep end
For more than 20 years now, we have been told that this country was going to get hotter and hotter and hotter, and that global warming was going to change our climate in a fundamental way. Do you remember that? We were told that Britain was going to have short, wet winters and long, roasting summers. It was going to be like 1976 all over again, with streakers at Lord’s and your Mr Whippy melting before you could even lick it, and Hyde Park scorched into a mini Kalahari.
They said we were never going to have snow again, and that we should prepare for southern England to turn gradually into a Mediterranean world. There were going to be olive groves in the Weald of Kent, and the whole place was going to be so generally broiling in summer that no one would be able to move between noon and 4pm, after which people would come out to play boules and sip pastis, to the whine of a mandolin, in the dusty square that had once been a village green.
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CodeTech says:
June 24, 2013 at 1:30 pm
Excellent comment. Glad I am not the only one incensed by the rhetoric in Calgary. Premier Redford is screaming “unprecedented” at the top of her lungs.
Hey, Codetech! I’m so glad I finally “heard” your voice, here. Yes, the Alberta flooding was in the normal course of historic weather patterns, but I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT YOU. I gave you a shout out on the thread about (oh, brother, now I can’t remember the technical name LOL) the emergent (but not unprecedented) ring around the earth last week.
Glad to here you are well and never in any danger.
But, next time, callyourmotherthesecondyougethomeandletherknowyouareokay!
Your WUWT “family” cares!
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Bob Tisdale, thanks for sharing [at 1:43PM today]. LOLOLOL! Yes, everyone, didn’t you hear? The United Kingdom (excluding Northern Ireland) is not just an island nation anymore. It is now a planet unto itself, or, rather, a moon, orbiting the earth.
Yeees, ol’ boy, THAT’s what the windmills (euphemistically (wishfully?) called “turbines” by Vesla (?) et. al.) are for and THAT’s why there had to be so many. Takes a lot of energy to travel through space!
It’s called: The LAPUTA Project. (Life’s a Plum pUdding Traveling by Air) — that cozy title was to get all the tea and scones crowd on board. (Boris Johnson can work this angle (with the Fantasy Science Club), per Jimbo’s intriguing bio above, by styling himself “A One-man Jam Pot.”)
Ha, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaa!
Yes. I do know the difference between being here and what I hear. LOL. Yeah. English is my first language. I do stuff like that all the time. Its just the way my brain does it’s quick-silver work — LOL.
Kitefreak says:
June 24, 2013 at 12:30 pm
I like that image. These are our true lords and masters and we are so lucky, here in the UK, to have them running the country and looking after our best interests. NOT.
So, you’d rather have Milliband, architect of the Climate Change Act, in charge, would you?
Oh dear.
It’s all bush’s fault.
Janice Moore, and David Ball… I can assure you if I was to comment everything I want to, Anthony would be forced to suspend me… lol (wouldn’t hurt to have a topic about it, hint hint)
Yeah, my house is over 100 feet above river level. I posted pictures here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.471027686311857.1073741830.100002138882495&type=1&l=37b3e56fc0
I drove past most of those areas today, none of the flooded vehicles are even wet anymore, so the river levels are down to manageable again.
Boris is first and foremost a highly skilled political operative so we should not assume he’s entirely sincere. But he is also highly influential and appears to be positively distancing himself from the AGW crowd. WUWT readers should be pretty happy.
Boris is also a wonderful writer and damned entertaining fellow in general and I for one would be happy to see him move into No 10!
CodeTech says:
June 24, 2013 at 1:30 pm
My exact sentiments. I live in Tuxedo, and made the statememt on facebook: “Man who study river no live on floodplain”. The warmista went bonkers. They wanted the disaster to be theirs.
I am now realizing that even if it got so cold that ice sheets started to grow in Canada and Siberia, the global warmists would say “See, see, this is what climate change does! We have reached the tipping point and now all is lost.”
Wind Mills are a good gauge of how Marxist infested a country is(political/regulation class)?
You have to love Boris. The “Thinking Man’s Idiot”.
Boris was born in the USA (New York) so he can legitimately run for POTUS.
milodonharlani says:
June 24, 2013 at 12:13 pm
. . .
“Until the next ice age, when the ruins of North Sea windmills will stand quaintly upon the uplands of a resurgent Doggerland.”
That made me smile. Then I thought – they could still work. Then I thought – what about those of the floating type? Oops!
@Kitefreak June 24, 2013 at 12:30 pm:
“Having said that, I like what Boris is reported as saying here – a lot – and I do think he’s a funny, articulate and likeable fellow. I’m just saying he’s very much part of the establishment as well, so watch out!”
There is a reality in politics:
They don’t throw you under the bus until the powers that be decide you have become an albatross around their necks, one that they see no need to have around anymore.
If someone on the inside like Boris is panning global warming, it is a telling sign. Be on the lookout for more SOON – and for the pace to pick up.
I’d suggest that we follow the money – see if funding begins to dry up. That time may be coming soon. People in consistently colder-than-predicted places like the UK are exactly the ones to begin to tighten that belt.
I’m just sayin’.
Steve Garcia
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is not an ordinary run of the mill Brit, fed up of ‘newt Livingstone’ , I voted for Boris on both occasions, and to be fair he has turn out far better mayor than I expected.
His quotes are original, funny etc…
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson
judge by yourself.
Father was a Euro MP, younger brother Jo is an MP, currently he is the head of the PM Cameron’s policy unit at No.10.
“They don’t throw you under the bus until the … they see no need to have [you] around anymore.
If someone on the inside like Boris is panning global warming, it is a telling sign. [Steve Garcia at 10:34PM 6/24/13]
Good point.
LOL, maybe Mayor Johnson will do with the Fantasy Science Club what B. Hussein Obama did with his pastor of 20 years, Jeremiah (“…, D–N America!”) Wright. “Oh, (patronizing chuckle) well, those were just some crazy scientists. We let them amuse themselves in the tower out at East Anglia. We never really believed their wild tales.”
Well said Boris. Good man to replace Cameron the global warmist.
Boris Johnson is a pro poly. He was for it before he was agen it. But, at least we can thank him for finally adjusting to reality.
Note also, the Met Office has the lowest ice extent minimum at 3.4Mkm^2 for this year out of all forecasters in the June edition. Man they do let it all hang out, I’ll give them that. Of, course this could be considered a big turn-around given they believed there would be no ice and snow by about this time. Good on you Boris!
Not unless we get the start of a “1740 event” next year.
(But, if we do–wow!)
So was I. I came to this site years ago expecting to poke holes in everyone’s arguments. It was the other way round. Then I started asking questions, very polite questions, at the warmist sites I used to go to. That’s how I discovered the fact of internet censorship. So I started reading, and reading, and reading. I’m a warmist no longer.
To: To (re: 1:03PM 6/25/13)
Too cool, To! Thanks for sharing. You made my day.
Hey Codetech- from one Albertan to another, there are studies back to 1973 that showed downtown Calgary would flood with a 70 year flood. Ouch. What would happen with a 100 or 200 year flood? In the attached document the 1973 Montreal Engineering study 70 year flood for the Bow above the Elbow was 2270 cubic metres per second? You mentioned it peaked at 1458 so things could get a LOT worse. The update says a flow of 1420 cubic metres per second could be exceeded 4.5% of the time (22 year return) and they made the 1932 flood an 85 year flood. That means we can expect more of these floods regardless of any climate change. There is a lack of references in this 2010 U of C lecture series but it is clear flooding in Calgary is an expected occurrence from an engineering and planning perspective.
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~hayashi/geog515/lectures/515_0609.pdf
Looks to me like the Mayor got it bang on. I would chuck most of those forecasters in the Thames. Lol!