December 2010:
Weather forecasters in Britain are speculating this December will be the coldest since 1910. Several inches of snow have blanketed Britain all the while stranding travelers and delighting children. Their cousins on the other side of the pond have been dealing with a spectrum of weather related issues from roof caving snow storms to torrential flooding.
Flashback to March 2000:
Headlines like this were commonplace – Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past. Global warming ideology was just getting warmed up and the global warming ‘scientists’ at CRU were parsing out bits of nonsense to news reporters such as:
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”.
The author of this article, Charles Onians, went so far as to state (without sourcing supporting data) that average temperatures in Britain will increase by 0.2C every decade over the next century. Ahem…it has been a decade since the article came out. Has there been a 0.2C increase in temperature as predicted? As we all should know weather does not actually equal climate, yet data does suggest we may be entering a Dalton Minimum – otherwise known as a cooling phase.
Further reading on this subject:
Don’t Look! Just hide the decline!
PS: The above photo was taken in Philadelphia earlier this year. I would have liked to post a relevant London photo, however, I don’t favor visiting London during winter – as delightful as this city can be, it’s too cold for comfort during the winter months.