A Cool Look At Global Warming

“Snow fell as the House of Commons debated Global Warming yesterday - the first October fall in the metropolis since 1922. The Mother of Parliaments was discussing the Mother of All Bills for the last time, in a marathon six hour session. ” More on this

How does the UK Met Office’s forecast compare?

“25 September 2008
The Met Office forecast for the coming winter suggests it is, once again, likely to be milder than average. It is also likely that the coming winter will be drier than last year.“

So now of course we have extraordinary cold weather in October (triggering Government cold weather payments) and floods in Devon!

It might seem an improbable title for a gripping read, but I personally guarantee that Anthony Watts’ “How not to measure temperature, part 54: Los Angeles, the city” will have you on the edge of your seat and chewing your finger nails as the tension just builds and builds.

“Global warming blamed for unusual cold spell”

‘Nuff said?

The sinning article is here:

Unbelievable!

They say that all philosophy is just footnotes to Plato. Even so it comes as a surprise to discover that green fundamentalism was known to the Ancients. (Try substituting the word “pagans” with the phrase “4X4 gas guzzlers” or “Americans” or some other bete noir of the warm-mongers):

“Shall we endure longer that the succession of the seasons be changed, and the temper of the heavens be stirred to anger, since the embittered perfidy of the pagans does not know how to preserve these balances of nature? For why has the spring renounced its accustomed charm? Why has the summer, barren of its harvest, deprived the labouring farmer of his hope of a grain harvest? Why has the intemperate ferocity and the winter with its piercing cold doomed the fertility of the lands with the disaster of sterility? Why all these things, unless nature has transgressed the decree of its own law to avenge such impiety?” –Novellae Theodosiani, 438 CE

(Spotted in Benny Peiser’s excellent CCNet)

May 7th 2007: Connie Hedegaard, the Danish Minister for Environment, leads a roundtable lunch discussion at the GMF entitled “Leading by Example: How Denmark is Showing Europe the Way to a Climate Friendly Economy.”

September 26th 2007: Connie Hedegaard, the Danish Minister for Environment, in the Washington Post: “European leaders are getting a bit impatient, not on our own behalf but on behalf of the planet. China, India and the other industrializing countries will not do anything unless the U.S. is moving.”

September 29th 2007: From Point Carbon: “Denmark’s CO2 emissions rose 16.1 per cent in 2006 compared to the previous year on the back of strong economic growth and electricity exports from coal-fired power plants, according to statistics released today.”