CLIMATE scientists yesterday stunned Britons suffering the coldest winter for 30 years by claiming last month was the hottest January the world has ever seen. The remarkable claim, based on global satellite data, follows Arctic temperatures that brought snow, ice and travel chaos to millions in the UK.
At the height of the big freeze, the entire country was blanketed in snow. But Australian weather expert Professor Neville Nicholls, of Monash University in Melbourne, said yesterday: “January, according to satellite data, was the hottest January we’ve ever seen.
“Last November was the hottest November we’ve ever seen. November-January as a whole is the hottest November-January the world has seen.” Veteran climatologist Professor Nicholls was speaking at an online climate change briefing, added: “It’s not warming the same everywhere but it is really quite challenging to find places that haven’t warmed in the past 50 years.”
His extraordinary claims came after the World Meteorological Organisation revealed 2000 to 2009 was the hottest decade since records began in 1850. But UK forecaster Jonathan Powell, of Positive Weather Solutions, said: “If it is the case and it is borne out that January was the hottest on record, it is still no marker towards climate change.
“It’s all part of a cyclical issue and nothing should be read too deeply into that.
“It’s been the coldest for 30 years in Britain but we predicted that and climate change always tends t o throw up anomalies. It’s all in line with predictions and I won’t be sold on climate change at all. The data is either faulty or manufactured to make it look like it shouldn’t.”
Cripes! My head hurts.
The important thing is the climatologist (ie scientists) opinion is what counts.
EVERYONE knows the deniers are gossiping on the conditions of a tree while the climatologists are debating the health of the forest.
#79–Serious==the defects and short comings of one theory do not “prove” the correctness of any other theory.
Axiomatic.
If I take everything you have posted as “the truth” you have not provided any scientific data in support of any other theory.
Fail.
The planet will NOT END..
Only human LIFE, as we know it…
Its one way to solve pollution problems..
“Grey Science?” Quite a misnomer. ha, ha.
Well it can warm up in the Midwest anytime now.
Hey, these people cannot predict a week and yet their telling us all kinds of crap like this.
Oh I think we should all just agree, to disagree…. that these climate scientists are living on a different planet from the rest of us.
This data should be simple enough to get if someone wanted to refute the claims. I don’t see them as that surprising. Maybe we’ve had fluke or anomalous seasons, but over the past 50 years, the data seems to say that most places are getting warmer. We might have different reasonings for it, but data is data.
Interesting how they CHERRY-PICKED the period between November and January. Ignoring (and avoiding) the record early snowfalls of October 2009.
http://live.tetongravity.com/_46-Ski-Resorts-Open-World-Wide-in-Historical-October-Early-Winter/BLOG/1448989/75233.html
And of course the blizzards of February of 2010. Yeah, I guess if you look for the warmer climate ANOMALIES, you can find them. Just as we can also find the bitter, colder than normal, months. With record breaking snow accumulations. Plus it’s snowing in TEXAS! Now that’s got to be the tie breaker.
Please refer to the almighty Jon Stewart on this take on the issue(s). I agree with him and his staff that we are now suffering from a blackout of total darkness!
Take care people, in just a few hours you see why!
#88, Glenn,
Don’t strain your brain. The subject is “January 2010 was the hottest January on record.”
#35 for the win
“Global warmers are closer to the religious right than they’d like to admit.”
My first thought when I hear a “fact” in support to global warming is that I don’t view said “fact” as credible because of past exaggerations.
Maybe January was the hottest one on record.
Or maybe it wasn’t.
But I won’t get my “facts” from a source with an agenda.
There’s snow on my porch!!!
Global warming doesn’t exist!
Hmyers==”All your facts are belong to us!”
Its not worth the effort, so I’ll just punch it: all facts come with an agenda. The cure is not to pick and choose those which you emotionally bond and think yourself pure, but rather to add the agenda/bias into your evaluation.
Thank you.
How dare those asswhole scientists measure the total calorie count of Earth’s atmosphere to come up with a “heat number!”
Don’t they KNOW that the right way to do scientific research is to measure the snow depth in Central Park?!?
Jerques.
>No, I’m not going to read some opinion piece that assembled a bunch of exaggerated instances.
That seems to be what you did.
>BTW, Phil Jones had nothing to do with the “hockey stick”.
Actually he cowrote a paper in 2003 with Mann which had a hockey stick shape. But yes, he wasn’t involved with THE hockey stick from MBH1998 and 1999. Though all three of them together authored a paper with Jones in 1998 called Global Temperature patterns, and with some more CRU folks in another paper called the Scope of Medieval Warming.
Perhaps you should learn some of the science rather than repeating talking points.
Wow…i guess the carbon derivative scandal must really be a major key to the success of the whole NWO / Global Government scam if they are still trying to convince the masses this BS science is legit..
REMEMBER PEOPLE…
All Western Science is a fraud.
It’s only purpose is to keep your mind and soul chained to the idea, the illusion that in order to produce energy, you must consume a physical and finite fuel source. -and believe that this is the only way. -to freedom.
—
We live in an Electric Universe governed by the physics of Plasma, Electromagnetics Torsion and Resonance. Consciousness is the glue that holds it all together.
As you begin to learn the true nature of the Universe, the illusion of the Mirror Image Reality you have been tricked into thinking is real, will shatter. You can begin to shatter the illusion of your current false reality by first understanding the truth and true nature of how the Universe really works.
Watch this video which explains in layman’s terms, the true nature of the Electric Universe:
THUNDERBOLTS OF THE GODS (68min)
-then, everyday spend 5 minutes and read the daily Thunderbolt Picture of The Day.
TPOD first explains a common picture via science’s consensus view, then explains the same phenomena via the simple, Electric model of the Universe. -no theoretical math or “theory as fact” trickery is required to explain what today’s science still wishes you to think is a great “mystery”.
Only you can shatter the illusion in which you have been tricked into living. Only you can teach yourself the true nature of the universe. Embrace the truth, the true reality, and you will never fear the unknown again.
-s
What some real scientists said about the “climatologists”.
http://climateaudit.org/2010/02/26/institute-of-physics-submission/
#97- exactly. This “we should trust all scientists” mantra, is nonsense. A year ago, hardly anyone would have believe that Toyota was making killer cars, and trying to cover it up by paying victims off. But now, the worm has turned. And all those vague reports, over the past few years, of out of control cars. Doesn’t seem so far fetched anymore. And Toyota execs have reluctantly “come clean”. Or at least as clean as they’ve been force into coming. So it may just be a matter of time now, before a few AGW spoutin climatologists defect to the “deniers” side. And the news media actually gives the the time of day, to speak their conscience.
After the Enron debacle. The Dot Com collapse. The L&S scandal. The Subprime Mortgage collapse. And the Bernie Madoff scandal. We ought to have learned something VERY FUNDAMENTAL. The “experts” can, and do, LIE! So why should some scientists be any different? They’re not Gods. Many don’t even believe in one. So what’s to keep them honest? It’s all situation ethics, with them. If their careers or favorite cause, calls for a good lie, to keep it going. They’ll lie. Or at least fudge the results enough to favor the desired conclusion.
Remember, it wasn’t too many decades ago that there was something called scientific racism. Very leaned men were convinced that whites were of superior intelligence to all other races. And they usually had some data to prove it. Tests engineered to yield results that proved their point. As we now all know, they were totally full of crap! But I guess they felt they were “savin the world”, too.
The things that are most overlooked are these. Records and measurements of temperature changes, does not prove its cause. Coincidental correlations between perceived climatic trends, and increased human activity. Is not prima facie evidence that mankind is responsible for negatively effecting the world’s climate. Nor is there the slightest proof that anything can be done, that would reverse any such trend, regardless of who or what is to blame.
The mantra of “let’s do something, ANYTHING, before it’s too late”. Is basically what the Nazis used to justify exterminating the Jews. I can well imagine a future when desperate and unchallenged climatologists begin suggesting we depopulate the earth a bit, and quickly, in order to save the rest of us. And I’m sure they’ll have the scientific data to prove they’re right. And then, maybe only after a 3rd world war, we’ll realize we’ve been had.
BTW, remember the Ozone Hole? Well here’s an interesting possible result of doing anything, before it’s too late.
http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100125192016.htm
It sounds like maybe the scientists screwed up in reverse. So you may not get skin cancer living at the south pole. But there also might not be any of it left to stand on. Way to go.