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Sun Editor Blasts Climate Change 'Lie'

Cameron Defies Tory Critics And Links Floods To Climate Change



Climate change may be to blame for the flooding and severe storms seen across Britain in recent weeks, David Cameron said today. The Prime Minister said that he “very much” suspects that the extreme weather seen over December and the new year could be attributed to rising global temperatures. Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, he said that Britain was seeing “more abnormal weather events”. Mr Cameron’s decision to reiterate his belief in global warming will encourage environmental campaigners but will have ruffled feathers on his back benches. --Laura Pitel, The Times, 9 January 2014
Let’s nail a climate change lie trotted out in the House of Commons yesterday and apparently swallowed by David Cameron. Lib Dem Mp Tim Farron said of the flooding: “The science is clear that the extreme weather is at least in part a destructive and inevitable consequence of climate change.” The Met Office says: “There is currently no evidence that links our current storms to climate change.” It even says there is no evidence the terrible floods were anything but, well, a rainy winter. Our PM “suspects” the storms are linked to global warming … but he’s not sure and he’s no expert. Shame he didn’t ask one. --Editorial, The Sun, 9 January 2014 Since the start of December the UK has seen a prolonged period of particularly unsettled weather, with a series of storms tracking in off the Atlantic bringing strong winds and heavy rain. Climate models provide a broad range of projections about changes in storm track and frequency of storms. While there’s currently no evidence to suggest that the UK is increasing in storminess, this is an active area of research under the national climate capability. --Met Office, 3 January 2014

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The floods in England have been a big story recently, and, of course, still remain a problem. The term “extreme weather” has been bandied about, along with the inevitable connotation of “climate change”. There is nothing in the data to provide the slightest bit of evidence that the floods have been the result of, or aggravated by climate change. Nor is there any indication that such events are becoming more common, or more extreme. --Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 6 January 2014 If the media aren’t talking about flooding in the context of climate change, campaigners are missing an opportunity to get more people to care about it and punish governments that don’t act. --Leo Barasi, Noise of the Crowd, 7 January 2014 If the effects of the winter storms today seem worse (although they are not), it is partly because power cuts now instantly deprive a generation that has grown dependent on them of technologies that didn’t exist three decades ago: chiefly mobiles and the internet. Their sudden loss brings isolation, alienation, and a desire to blame someone. Our own instincts have taken a step towards the primitive. The present-day explanation of the storms is that we have offended nature by burning too much organic matter. -- Christopher Howse, The Daily Telegraph, 6 January 2014 For the December-January-February period as a whole there is a slight signal for below-average precipitation. -–Met Office forecast, 21 November 2013 The Central England Temperature numbers for 2013 are now issued. Last year was the second coldest since 1996, second only to 2010. It has not been as low as this since 1990. --Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 2 January 2014 The IPCC, the global group of scientists that have come together to estimate the impacts of increased greenhouse gases, have been clear about their conclusions: “There is likely to be a decline in the frequency of cold air outbreaks (i.e., periods of extreme cold lasting from several days to over a week) in NH winter in most areas.” The bottom line: the claims that greenhouse warming causes more cold waves like we have seen this week really seems to be without any basis in observational evidence or in theory. The media needs to stop pushing this unsupported argument. --Cliff Mass Weather Blog, 6 January 2014 Coming on the heels of the Ship of Fools stunt in Antarctica last week, these are the worst of times for the climate campaign. Climate change has become what philosophers call a “non-falsifiable hypothesis.” Everything is said to be proof of climate change. The trouble with this disposition is that it violates the Occam’s Razor that most people of common sense carry about in their hip pocket: if it’s really cold over a wide area, the warming theory loses credibility. Plus the fact that once upon a time, the same group of folks told us that polar vortices like the one we are having right now was evidence of imminent global cooling. --Steven Hayward, PowerLine, 8 January 2014


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