By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
The circumpolar vortex has put this season into the record-books. The United States has just gone through its coldest interequinoctial winter (equinox to equinox) in a century. Hat-tip to CFACT, which has just sent me the graph.
The last U.S. winter colder than this one was in 1911/12, before the First World War.
Thank you, America! Most of Britain has had an unusually mild and wet winter, for you have had more than your fair share of the Northern Hemisphere’s cold weather this season.
Global warming? What global warming?
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Jason Joice MD says:
March 27, 2014 at 5:10 am
“It seems interesting that this commenter would get skewered for suggesting this clarification and be told that his suggestion is dead wrong, when in fact the use of a much more common term has been used incorrectly: winter. Winter does not extend from equinox to equinox by any standard definition, astronomical, ecological or meteorological reckoning.”
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Technical there is no such thing as “a year without a summer,” so you might want to ride your high-horse over to wikipedia to have this page nominated for deletion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Or you could just read Rick Werme’s comment at 5:04am, specifically that part about the year with 6 months of winter.
Khwarizmi, possibly by interpretation a year without a summer means to me, the warmer temperatures and rainfall didn’t rise as would be expected as normal for the summer months. The warmest period in the climate year. Although in UK, an Indian summer means a warmer than normal Autumn.
I see no credit was given to Steve Goddard for this. It is his analysis you are quoting (that CFACT also used). I urge Mr Monckton to go to http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com for lots of other interesting work. And at @SteveSGoddard
[i]Kwharizmi: Technical there is no such thing as “a year without a summer,” so you might want to ride your high-horse over to wikipedia to have this page nominated for deletion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Or you could just read Rick Werme’s comment at 5:04am, specifically that part about the year with 6 months of winter.[/i]
Easy on the personal attacks bud. Never was on a high horse. I was pointing out an inconsistency. And who said anything about any Wikipedia article? But since you brought it up, like you say, technically there’s no such thing as a year without a summer. So you’re agreeing with me. This use of the word winter was incorrect and therefore you agree that its inconsistent to lambaste someone for incorrectly using a term while using the very next term in that same sentence incorrectly.
Jason Joice MD says:
March 27, 2014 at 10:07 pm
You could also read my web page on about the Year without a Summer at http://wermenh.com/1816.html and my Guide to WUWT includes instructions on formatting comments here, see the link in the nav bar of head directly to http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/index.html
(Basically you need to enclose html in <> angle brackets instead of [] square brackets.)
No horses necessary. 🙂
Michael Smith rightly takes me to task for not having given Steven Goddard credit for the graph in the head posting. However, in an earlier posting I had paid tribute to the wonderful work he has done in exposing the many tamperings with past temperature data by the Archdruids of Thermageddon.
We still have 6-8 inches of snowice on the ground in most places, and the frost still goes down 6 feet. Normally, spring planting would start in a week or two. People are talking June. Think about that. Yup global warmin’ must be.
Of course it’s not called Global Warming anymore, that didn’t work out so well. Climate Change, you can’t go wrong with that one.
It is snowing right now (3/29) here in central Ohio.
I want Global Warming, and I want it NOW!