BBC Contradictions
Watching BBC News this morning (no, I don’t know why either). Had a good laugh as they did a piece on the abundance of flowering wild plants in and around Cardiff, UK, this January. No frost to kill ‘em off yet, you see. So they are interviewing some ‘experts’ and both of them trot out the old global warming theme, conveniently forgetting that last winter was absolutely freezing. Of course, last winter was a ‘weather system’ but this winter it’s ‘climate change’. Anyway, it’s set to freeze this weekend as the wind swings round to come from the north-west, so bye-bye sweet flowers… see you in spring.
The very next item on the news was the huge snowfall in Alaska. Not a mention of the probable cause, of course – errant weather systems at work again, no doubt.
I watched that too and there have been other broadcasts since. I don’t become involved in this whole climate change/global warming debate but some of the facts are undeniable. My weather station (I’m from Newbury, Berkshire) confirms that as I type this we are 3.7c above the norm for January alone. On top of this, September through December 2011 were also well above normal, in spite of the coldest summer for something like 15 years. Ok, is a trend and are we causing it are two further issues of course. What is undeniable are the phenology trends year on year. The effect of climate on nature is a HUGE concern and I’m glad that it is once again in the news.
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Kind Regards
Tony Powell
Thanks, Tony. I don’t have a clue, really, but I do know that the science of AGW is not settled despite the media constantly proclaiming it as real. Us ‘deniers’ have never denied climate change, just the reasons for it.
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