‘Why Climate Change Reminds Me of a T.S. Eliot Poem’
4th January 2011
The climate campaign establishment increasingly looks like its own self-contained and self-referential lunatic asylum, unable to exercise any self-restraint in finding positive proof of climate change in every weather surprise. Several years back, climate campaigners in Britain, citing the latest warming models, ostentatiously predicted that snowstorms would soon be a thing of the past in Britain, something schoolchildren would read about in history books or hear tales about from their grandparents. Then this fall just past, the British Met Office predicted a 60 to 80 percent change of a warmer-than-average winter this year.
But now Britain is having its second extremely cold winter in a row, with record snowfalls nearly strangling the nation. Oops.
Not to worry. The climateers have swung into action, and have explained why cooling is really warming. Judah Cohen, a private “seasonal forecaster,” took to the pages of the New York Times to explain how the warming arctic led to more snowfall over the Siberian land mass, which in turn cooled the air circulating over the northern hemisphere, and there you have it, big cold weather storms in the United States and Europe. Or, as Mr. Cohen puts it, “the overall warming of the atmosphere is actually creating cold-weather extremes.” (Bryan Walsh at Time magazine offers a rundown of similar counterintuitive explanations for why warming causes cooling.)
This is all a lot more understandable if you’ve got a Crustian Secret Decoder Ring. Being very drunk also probably helps.
January 4th, 2011 at 13:01
Freezing in Europe and Russia, Freezing in the US. Snow in Autralia in the middle of summer. So all over the globe from North to South it is very cold. And Snowy. But that is because it is warm! We are nto sure where it is warm since there is snow everywhere but some where the warmth is making every thing colder.
They predict no snow. Then they get snow and say, it is snowing because of warming. Well then why didn’t they predict the snow?
They cannot predict anything at all. Warm seasons, cold years, whatever you have they cannot predict it. So what they are peddling isn’t science.
January 4th, 2011 at 15:54
I don’t know why anyones upset about “climate change”. Don’t they know we’re all going to be killed by the ozone hole by 1997? That was, after all, the consensus, and as we all know, science runs by consensus, not facts.