Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t James Delingpole / Breitbart; One of the most widely mocked alarmist predictions ever :- In the year 2000, Dr. David Viner beclowned himself by announcing that thanks to Global Warming, “children just aren’t going to know what snow is” (see the web archive – the original was deleted). Now Dr Lizzie Kendon of the UK MET office has followed Viner’s footsteps, by suggesting “much of the snow will have disappeared entirely” by the end of the century.
Snow may not settle in most of UK by end of century, study suggests
Climate crisis likely to cause warmer, wetter winters and hotter, drier summers, says Met Office
PA Media
Mon 7 Dec 2020 18.34 AEDT…
If this trend continues only very high ground and parts of northern Scotland will experience freezing temperatures by 2080.
The Met Office stressed there is year-on-year variability with temperature and some years will be colder or warmer than the trend.
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Senior Met Office scientist Dr Lizzie Kendon told BBC Panorama: “We’re saying by the end of the century much of the lying snow will have disappeared entirely except over the highest ground.
“The overarching picture is warmer, wetter winters; hotter, drier summers.
“But within that, we get this shift towards more extreme events, so more frequent and intense extremes, so heavier rainfall when it occurs.
“It’s a big change … in the course of our lifetime. It’s just a wake-up call really as to what we’re talking about here.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/07/snow-may-not-settle-in-most-of-uk-by-end-of-century-study-suggests
The Panorama Episode is available here, but is restricted to UK viewers.
The big question – why do alarmists keep doing this to themselves?
The reason as far as I can tell is they utterly, totally believe in the wild global warming predictions of their computer models.
In 2011, The Register claimed John Mitchell of the UK MET said “People underestimate the power of models. Observational evidence is not very useful. Our approach is not entirely empirical.“
In 2015, then UK climate change secretary Amber Rudd organised a party of Royal Society alarmists to meet with prominent skeptic members of parliament Peter Lilley and John Redwood, and then GWPF Chairman Lord Lawson, to see if the Royal Society could persuade the skeptics that Climate Change is a problem.
Breitbart reports the main stumbling block was the Royal Society scientists apparently refused to accept contradictory observations as evidence their models could be wrong. When challenged, they claimed they would need an additional 50 years of contradictory observational evidence, we would all need to wait until the year 2047, before they would consider admitting they had a problem.
There is not much you can do to persuade people who appear to openly admit they discount the value of observational evidence which contradicts their computer models. Though such people do have some entertainment value, when they solemnly share their latest predictions.
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Sad to say … but 99.9% of “Glaciologists” today do not know what “snow” is.
And … 100% of “Glaciologists” today do not know what Firn is!
That does narrow it down that … 100% of “Glaciologists” today do not know what … a Glacier … is!
Ha ha! Sad and true.
Cheers,
Reg
100% of climate alarmists adon’t know what reality is. Or at least they can’t recognize it when they see it.
Seriously thought the Guardian has been a bigger joke than the Washington Post and NYT for years now.
More likely
The Guardian won’t know what the truth is.
These people are quite effectively asleep.
Trapped in a dreamworld of Chronic Depression and Magical Thinking. Trapped because of positive feedback – one of those things causes the other.
The thing that reinforces their entrapment is the Aura and Power of The Computer – a thing that they themselves program to entrap themselves and because it gives them power. It gives them ‘the ear’ of leaders/government
And when they themselves are trapped by Magical Thinking – Government set up this agency to do exactly that
Interesting Times, as the saying goes
As this story appeared on BBC website a few days ago..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55179603
Do remember, We Can Trust The BBC
We *know* we can trust the BBC because the BBC tells us so, in a little footer at the bottom of most pages.
= yet more Magical Thinking and Self Importance
“But within that, we get this shift towards more extreme events, so more frequent and intense extremes, so heavier rainfall when it occurs.”
But some climate catastrophists claim less precipitation with warming.
Oh right, whatever suits their scare-mongering agenda.
Record snow fall in the southern Yukon recently.
Must be Globull Warmong.
(Albeit somewhat north of Scotland.)
Why do they keep making these ridiculous predictions?
I think it’s because people remember extreme stuff and forget the rest.
So as an example, here in Akl, NZ, we had predictions of a dry winter, an _extremely_ dry spring, and one month’s rain in a week (oddly, during the extremely dry spring). None of it happened.
La Nina has brought on predictions of a muggy stormy, dry, wet, summer.
Next year when somebody talks about extreme weather again, we will ‘remember’ that last year’s weather was very unusual, even though it was normal.
On the off-chance that a prediction comes true, we’ll get the ‘told you so’ from the ‘experts’.
Also, there is little downside to making ridiculous predictions because no MSM outlet will take them to task. They’re too busy printing predictions of 80m sea level rise.
And the weather forecast for the UK
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/1369828/UK-snow-forecast-cold-weather-met-office-warning-winter-maps-BBC-weather-latest
Makes you wonder about the timing. No No don’t believe your eyes, that is not snow and it will all be gone in our hot future.
In Hungary ” snow is a few days of thin whiteness once or twice in a winter. ”
2018
https://xpatloop.com/channels/heavy-snow-in-budapest.html
Again, slowly: “Heavy snow” is nowadays a thin layer that lasts for 2-3 days.
I notice a consistent pattern with our murderous little marxist here.
Actual data is refuted using vague claims and recollections of childhood conditions.
@MarkWokeQueen
> Actual data
You pointed to snowfall. I’ve never said there is no snowfall. I only said snow is “a thin layer of whiteness” that lasts for a few days at most.
> is refuted
Not really ‘cos your sources described exactly what I said.
> using vague claims and recollections
> of childhood conditions.
Well, it wasn’t vague. The rest is true.
I pointed out that there was a lot more than “a thin layer of whiteness”.
How would you know what my sources showed, you haven’t read any of them.
YAWN !
January 2019:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/winter-storm-blasts-europe-13-dead-amid-heavy-snow-gusts-n956291
February 2018:
https://xpatloop.com/channels/heavy-snow-in-budapest.html
January 2014:
https://dailynewshungary.com/roads-blocked-accidents-in-heavy-snow-in-western-hungary/
nyolci is an infinite font of refuted propaganda and scientific nonsense.
Her desperate need to believe that capitalism is evil and only communism can save us prevents from recognizing any data that doesn’t support that.
I remember an old joke, basically a person complains that when they were 5, the snow came up to their chest. Now that they are grown up it barely comes up to their knees.
+1
In Hungary ” show has become negligible.”
2014
https://dailynewshungary.com/roads-blocked-accidents-in-heavy-snow-in-western-hungary/
Roads blocked by accidents not by snow 🙂 Roads get extremely slippery after a minuscule amount of almost immediately melting snow falls
2+2=5
In 1986 or 1995 it was literally snow that blocked the whole country, not mass accidents due to slipped vehicles. It took at the extreme end a week for snow plows to reach certain remote villages. Nowadays snow doesn’t last a even a few days. In 1995 the month long persisting deep snow in the inner city got so hard due to repeated surface melting during the day and freezing during the night that tire tracks acted like railway tracks, sometimes I could drive without touching the steering wheel. I haven’t seen anything even remotely approaching this.
Hungary In Winter 2020: Come To Enjoy The Scenic Views Of Snowcapped Landscapes
https://traveltriangle.com/blog/hungary-in-winter/
Like most progressives, nyolci see’s what she wants to see.
Or just outright makes-crap-up to suits its idiotology.
Hey, Mike Woke queen, this particular snow was gone by nightfall.
If you are going to use insults, at least try to use insults that make sense.
Applying “woke” to a conservative is at best, counter intuitive, at worst further demonstration that you are incredibly stupid.
Even if that snow was gone by evening, so what. Have you ever heard of UHI?
Beyond that, read the article, unless of course you are still afraid of learning something your handlers don’t want you to know.
@MarkWokeQueen
> Applying “woke” to a conservative is at best
Stop, stop! You started to raise gender issues, I thought you were woke. When I pointed out I didn’t give a shit for these you pulled the wokest bs I have ever seen. You acted like a woke queen.
Can anyone make sense of nyolci’s ramblings.
As near as I can make out she’s trying to claim that refuting her claims means I’m woke.
In the tropical paradise of Hungary
2019
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/winter-storm-blasts-europe-13-dead-amid-heavy-snow-gusts-n956291
The kids won’t see anything by then because they’ll be locked down with mask permanently attached along with opaque face shields. Covid 98 you know.
Observational evidence is not very useful.
It’s getting so that this mantra is pervading every aspect of our lives. Believe what the “experts” say, not what you can clearly see for yourself. Physical evidence to the contrary doesn’t matter, when you’re told what “reality” is by your “betters”.
You WILL believe what the Party tells you to believe.
“Notify me” didn’t go through? trying again…
On the radio 4 news in the morning sometime after 0700 hrs she said
the snowball fights and things we remember as being so christmassy when we were children wont be around in the 40`s
Now thats either 19 years away or 29 years away
and no she didnt mention the previous snow years and how infreqent they are, I think I`ve had 3 really good white years out of the last 45
the snowball fights and things we remember as being so christmassy when we were children wont be around in the 40`s
The truth is, even in this threads resident communist idiot’s childhood (70s-80s) most people could count the number of Christmas snows they had on one hand. Every year people “dream of a white Christmas” but actual white Christmas have never been all that frequent in most locations (at least here in the continental United States). People remember the time they had a snowball fight on Christmas because it was a rare special event, not because it happened all that often.
Apparently trollop nyolci is allowed to threadbomb comment streams into illogical violent insensibility…
Sad…
“Climate crisis likely to cause warmer, wetter winters and hotter, drier summers, says Met Office”
The Met Office being weaponised against the public by pushing the bogus crisis narrative, and ignoring their own data sets which show no trend in England rainfall for any season. They are publicly funded, we need accountability.