British Snowstorm Brings Out Moonbats and ‘Superheroes’
Saturday morning I woke up, got the coffee going and turned on the TV to check out the morning’s Premiere League soccer match. That’s how I do Saturdays this time of year, to the point that it doesn’t even feel like Saturday has started until I’ve gotten a look at the “beautiful game in stunning high definition,” as that Sylvania ad that runs every five minutes calls it. And this past Saturday, I was especially up for the Arsenal vs. Stoke City matchup. Arsenal, the only team that matters as far as I’m concerned, was coming off an annoying and unlucky road loss to Manchester United. That loss had let Man U leapfrog the Gunners to take first place, but a win at home over Stoke could right the world. So I was ready to watch the Gunners fire off, and the Fox Soccer Channel had that match on the bill.
Mother Nature had other ideas, though, and the Arsenal vs Stoke match was canceled due to snow. A blizzard had slammed the UK, burying much of the country and canceling Premiere League matches all over the place. The statement from Arsenal’s front office summarized the scene nicely.
“[Due] to a huge deluge of snow in north London starting over Emirates Stadium at 11.38am, the match referee Lee Mason made the decision at 12.07pm to postpone today’s match.”
“Approximately three inches of snow fell over this half hour period and there continues to be heavy snowfall with no apparent let up.”
Not only was this winter storm unexpected, it was supposed to be impossible. As Ed Driscoll noted, over the past several years mild winters have brought out the global warming crowd to tell us that snow in the UK is a thing of the past. Take this sample of climate journalism from March 2000.
[T]he warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
Until this past week or so, when snow buried the country and wiped out the soccer schedule, simultaneously disappointing and delighting kids all over the UK no doubt. Oops.
But the onset of what most of us call “weather” hasn’t deterred the anthropic global warming crowd. George Monbiot, the global warming alarmist so constantly alarmed he might as well change his name to “moonbat,” is out in the Guardian arguing that, yes, the return of snow is also a symptom of global warming, now rebranded “climate change.”
There is now strong evidence to suggest that the unusually cold winters of the last two years in the UK are the result of heating elsewhere. With the help of the severe weather analyst John Mason and the Climate Science Rapid Response Team, I’ve been through as much of the scientific literature as I can lay hands on (see my website for the references). Here’s what seems to be happening.
The global temperature maps published by Nasa present a striking picture. Last month’s shows a deep blue splodge over Iceland, Spitsbergen, Scandanavia and the UK, and another over the western US and eastern Pacific. Temperatures in these regions were between 0.5C and 4C colder than the November average from 1951 and 1980. But on either side of these cool blue pools are raging fires of orange, red and maroon: the temperatures in western Greenland, northern Canada and Siberia were between 2C and 10C higher than usual. Nasa’s Arctic oscillations map for 3-10 December shows that parts of Baffin Island and central Greenland were 15C warmer than the average for 2002-9. There was a similar pattern last winter. These anomalies appear to be connected.
And so forth and so on. No snow=global warming. Snow=global warming. Heads the alarmists win, tales the rest of us lose.
“Which is bad news for the future of humanity, I guess, because “Gaia Girl” and her merry band of smear heroes don’t actually exist.”
I think humanity has a chance. Gaia Girl might not exist, but neither does global warming, so at least it will be a fair fight.
This is golden. I mean absolutely priceless. It’s the best Christmas gift I’ve ever received. Thankyou, PJM and Bryon Preston, for bringing to my attention that there is a Global Warming Rapid Response Team and Global Warming super heroes that rate their enemies with a “dickhead” factor. I really, truly, couldn’t have even made that stuff up myself.
In the land of liberals, truth really is stranger than fiction.
Unless the stadium roof collapses we play real football in the snow and cold here in the US and Canada. Futbol is played by wimps. Other than that great article!
Agreed….its a fun form of exercise, I suppose.
Those guys at the pro level are certainly “fit” and “healthy” cardio-wise.
Good starter game for young kids with low/no athletic skills…
But compared to FOOTBALL, its nothing I can enjoy WATCHING.
Its a weak game of weak from countries, yuk.
Apparently football became a wussy sport this week, tdiinva.
One of the mantra’s of the Left is always, “We’ll get you through your children.” As Mr. Preston’s article shows, the AGW crowd embraces this idea with energy but without courage or intelligence. So the world is to be saved from global catastrophe by assigning a “dickhead factor” to Lord Monckton and Rush Limbaugh? What a blow for science!
I’m ashamed of giving them page views, but I had to look at their “bad guys” list to be sure I read their sites.
After perusing the list, briefly, I see that they’re also fond of class warfare.
So I guess they’re watermelons, too. Green on the outside, red inside, with hard little seeds of envy.
Shameful.
The very same Unconscious Forces that created the “1010″ exploding children created these superheroes. These people are sinking into a boiling cauldron of fear, rage, self-pity, self-loathing, and utter desperation. No doubt there was a brisk but extended fight among them as some argued that Gaia Girl must be an Avatar-like blue seductress who advertises the fact that all her plumbing has been removed so that she is ready for action 24/7/365. Pity the cooler head who prevailed in his/her belief that Gaia Girl should appear to be “approachable.” All of this conjures a vision of the Hulk sitting in his favorite chair, dead drunk, one moment pleading that God not condemn him and the next moment shouting in rage at those who told him about God.
So, basically, this douche nozzle is saying:
“yeah, its colder HERE but look, it WARMER over there”
Hint: thats whats called an “average”…and the average doesnt change much, as far as we can tell.
Unless you have millions and millions of accurate datapoints, at surface, sub surface and above surface, for thousands of years you have NOTHING TO COMPARE TODAYS MEASUREMENTS TO.
And who was around in the year 27 AD with a calibrated thermometer to tell me the temperature of, say, the Indian Ocean… surface, 50 feet down and 1000 feet above? Anyone? How about the 2 or 3 thousand years before THAT?
They simply do not have the data, and they cannot predict anything, other than how warm/cold its been in OUR lifetimes.
I’ll say it again: You can thermo-map every inch of the planet TODAY, or for the past 100 years, but without similarly accurate and numerated data sets over eons (which no one has) it is impossible to calculate the normality of these fractional decimal point “increases” they claim to see. One can never say they are “unusual” or “unprecidented” or “influenced by X”, because you have NOTHING but recent measurments to compare them to.
A dart board, a deck of cards, dice, a coin toss, or a roulette wheel has as much “mathmatical predictability” as climate science.
That doesnt mean I can tell you what will come up next.
Emirates Stadium?
Woah! What’s that all about? A serious case of dhimmitude, or am I overreacting?
No Dork, you’re not – it’s been that way for ages – dhimmitude or die.
Not unusual at all for what was Great Britain. Which of course is why it no longer is Great Britain.
The Emerits own a lot since they have most of the worlds disposable wealth. Their air line is top notch poshness.
I got confused on “air line”, there for a minute. I got to thinking you were comparing compressors and then I figured that you must have been talking about “airlines”. My bad.
…Thank You! I’ve got company!
that startling phrase “….. to a huge deluge of snow in north London starting over Emirates Stadium at 11.38am…”
…. jumped right out from my screen and attempted to drop sand and camel-dung all over the desk….but was thwarted by the ample aura of our very own Al Gore.
Is “Emirates Stadium” part of…. “Londonistan”……?
…operators are standing by….
“The Climate Science Rapid Response Team”? Chase speeding climates do they?
At least they have a web site that admits it’s all a bad joke.
This stuff is juvenile – and three cheers for that – because that’s what they have been reduced to.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of humanity-hating, anti-capitalism, wannabe world dominators.
Arsenal?1!! Really?
When they’re wrong they’re right. This closed loop beats anything the Moonies had. Are group marriages in a stadium next?
It’s also worth pointing out that the surface temperature datasets spun by Hanson and non-really-NASA GISS have increasingly diverged radically from the other three datasets, as well as the satellite record. ONLY Hanson is detecting a warming; nobody else its. Hmm…. does the word ‘consensus’ remain in the warm-mongers’ vocabulary?
According to original projections back during the 80’s by Hansen of NASA, parts of Florida should have been underwater by now. Every year the IPCC modifies their catastrophic projections in their reports.
The alarmists’ claimed warming was the result of intentional statistical manipulation by the climate data centers at NOAA, NASA, and the Hadley Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Among the ruses employed: From 1989 to 1994, the number of temperature stations used in compiling the data was reduced from 12,000 to less than 6,000. Stations showing a temperature increase were favored, while stations reporting temperature decline were dropped from the record. The data centers employ corrected, not raw, temperature values in their calculations. But corrections were done in such a way as to systematically reduce the recorded temperatures from earlier periods so as to create an appearance of upward temperature in the recent two decades. Statistical filters were employed which masked the urban heat island effect, while claiming to account for it. Sea surface temperature data was also manipulated. Satellite input was removed by NOAA in 2009 after complaints of a cold bias in the Southern Hemisphere. The immediate result was an increase in reported global ocean surface temperatures of 0.24 degrees C, leading to the nonsensical claim that the 2000s was the warmest decade in a millennium.
Both NOAA and NASA rely on the Feds for their budget. They both toe the official Green/Democratic party line that the world must be saved from “climate disruption” due to man-made global warming. Of course, the Democrats see this as an opportunity for increased taxation.
I’ve been told that cold weather doesn’t mean there is no global warming. The ‘warmers’ contend that warming doesn’t mean that there will not be cold areas. I suggest that global cooling doesn’t mean that there won’t be warmer areas. It’s equally plausible.
Does the Climate Science Rapid Response Team involve parachuting Al Gore into hot spots around the globe to cause them to cool down?
Unfortunately for Conservatives and the cause of freedom the vast majority of we conservatives have been content to live our lives without worrying about the government. This tendency of ours to mind our own business has left the institutions of power and influence open to capture by committed Leftists/Socialists who use these institutions to push their totalitarian ideologies on the rest of us. We must fight back hard or find ourselves enslaved to our governments and their clients. We can never again assume our politicians and institutions are truly serving the public good.
According to the alarmists, global warming causes everything:
http://www.hootervillegazette.com/causedby.html
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”
In the 80′s the global “cool ones” told us by the yr 2000 we’d all be human popsicles. Next we heard only kids w/snow globes would know what the white stuff is. Now store owners in Britain smart enough to still carry snow shovels have signs in their windows proclaiming ALL SOLD OUT! The climate crowd never fails to disappoint….the other side.
Thanks Bryan for the heads up – I’ve been trolling there now for the last couple days.
It appears they’ve set the site up as a pillbox to do battle with overwhelming hordes of skeptics. There is not one AGW supporter commenting there. Here is what I suggested to them:
I always found AGW to be the best entertainment because of the lengths Believers take to wriggle through the daily obstacle course of discovery and consequence handed out to them. And you superheroes are practiced and ready.
But not all Warmists are squirming. Here in California, Gore reclines in his palatial estate with a cool half a billion in options and shares. Pachauri is now at…what…one and a half billion? Is that the latest?
To which Commies(sorry, Warmists) will say smugly… “but isn’t it OK to make a buck?”
This is unfair to you superheroes. As we see on the comments on every post, there is virtually no supporter of AGW commenting here save the valiant proprietors. In fact, this site’s agenda in disseminating AGW info is completely compromised by the volume of disagreement with the site’s fundamental premise.
Therefore it is quite fair for the resident superheroes to ask Al if he could spare a few sterling to support your endeavour to keep him in Caviar in Montecito, Calif.
Since we are all waiting for actual effects of AGW, and you superheroes are working so hard to support him, it is time for you to see some form of thanks or repayment you are doing the Goracle.
I would email him your hosting bill at least. Surely he can handle that, having become officially the fastest-growing wealthy person in the States since World War 2. Faster than Zuckerberg or Jobs even.
If he can’t take care of at least some of your expenses, you might ask the following: Of the over $30 billion diverted from Cancer research in the states to AGW ‘research’, is there any stipend for marketing and message management such as you so ably supply? This would make superb sense, since the threat of Skepticism threatens to undermine such a great cause.
Whaaat a conservative who likes soccer? That cant be! (at least that’s what many of my “progressive” “open-minded” friends have told me)
By the way, Arsenal’s lost to ManchesterUnited was due to tactical superiority winning over stubborn French nonsense.