Another morning, another hysterical story proving just how bad “global warming” is for dear old Blighty! The BBC provided a platform for Ruth Davis head of “Climate change” at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to give flight to her theory that Britain’s birds are being driven northwards and towards extinction by the grim advance of global warming. There’s nothing like a little one-sided climate sensationalism to get the week off to a good start!
Gus
Britain has turned into a ruthless society ?
You should have been around 50 years ago, it was far more ruthless. As a child the doctor would not see me, even to certify me after one minute as fit to go back to school at the start of term, unless my father gave him £5 – a large sum in those days – and he worked very long hours for a pittance. One week of holiday every couple of years, in a tatty seaside boarding house, was a total luxury. TV ? forget it. Chances of my father ever owning his own home, however humble – forget it.
Doesn’t anyone else thinks “Gunter” is a software that’s been programmed to write crap?
Al Beeb might try and use him for their news coverage…
Oh, I forgot. They already do.
John A – I suspect Gus is really rather young. It’s a limitation shared by so many at the BBC.
That should read “Does anyone else think…”
I need to stop my multitasking efforts. Doesn’t quite work.
Punish the monkey:
“…I have done more research than you will ever do my friend, and the planet’s climate is changing…”
Wow is that your GCSE project from your unwashed student teacher then?
No shit the climate is changing. I hadn’t noticed.
Perhaps if your leftie mates suggested cutting the human population on the planet that might be a good start?
Oh and I assume you think that flying should be stopped or cut back? Do you think that beeboids in particular should cut back on flying as they are the ones who do most of it along with rich celebrities of course.
People, the climate really is changing I tell you. We’ve just had snow, yet they are telling us that in a few months it will be warm and we will be able to walk around without coats. Then it will get snowy again. So much change in less than a year. This is some scary shit.
We have just had the coldest winter in 10 years.
No matter what they say I have yet to see any change to weather patterns in Norfolk.
Surely, if the global warming hypothesis is accepted as a given the feathered commuters aren’t being ‘driven’ north by the changing climate, they’re ranging further north to take advantage of the changing conditions. Which is what they’ve been doing ever since the end of the last ice age. This is a plus for the beaked ones not a minus. Who knows, if global warming really gets underway those summer swallows might actually winter here & breed in Greenland. Save ’em a hellofalot of flying.
Maybe if the birds are going to leave we can build the Severn barrage without upsetting them (or the RSPB). Don’t get me wrong, I like birds (esp. chicken vindaloo) but I don’t think they should get in the way of a secure and reliable power source.
What have the bloody birds ever done for us anyway?
Does anybody know when ‘British’ birds decide where to stop on their Northward return from Southern climes?
The Central England Temperature series has data on temperatures since 1659.
The warmest spring (March, April, May) was in 1893
The warmest March was in 1957
The warmest April was in 2007
The warmest May was in 1833
The hottest summer (June, July, August) was in 1976
I don’t know what, if I were a bird, I’d make of all that.
Perhaps if your leftie mates suggested cutting the human population on the planet that might be a good start?
martin | 02.03.09 – 10:23 pm | #
Don’t joke about that Martin. Read this article about Obama’s ‘science advisor’ John P. Holdren. It sent shivers down my spine.
The shivers down my spine were so strong I forgot to post the link.
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=1FDD71E4-B9E4-4FAD-9868-2936193BF8F1
Coldest winter in UK for 13 years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7921230.stm
How strange that “climate change” is not mentioned in this article
Sorry, just noticed this line
“The Met Office added that global warming had prevented this winter from being even colder.”
Which seems a bit desperate to me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7921230.stm
“The UK had its coldest winter for 13 years, bucking a recent trend of mild temperatures, the Met Office has said.”
This report is a complete travesty. The BBC has failed to attribute the falling temperatues to the policies of the new Obama administration. Ther only reason I can think for this overisght is that they are possibly institutionally racist.
“The Met Office added that global warming had prevented this winter from being even colder.”
Is this the same Met Office that predicted in early 2007 that the summer of 2007 would be the hottest on record and not particularly wet or dry, only for it to be the wettest on record and cooler than the previous year? Yeah, thought so. Don’t pay any attention to them. Or if you do, take the opposite of what they say to be true.
nrg | 03.03.09 – 4:53 pm |
Funny you should say that.
“This claim that “if it had not been for the general warming already observed in global temperatures, this winter may well have been even colder” is a scientifically flawed claim. They provide no explanation for this statement. As we have emphasized on Climate Science (e.g. see) it is the regional circulation patterns that dominate weather patterns including warm and cold periods. A slight few tenths of a degree change in the global average surface temperature hardly would have made much of a difference in this recrnt cold period..”
http://climatesci.org/2009/03/02/comments-on-uk-met-office-20082009-winter-forecast/
This is what the Met Office bases its global warming claim on:
The 1961-90 global average mean temperature was 14.0 °C.
The 1991-2000 global average mean temperature was 14.23 °C.
The 2001-2007 global average mean temperature was 14.44 °C
Jason | 03.03.09 – 4:09 pm |
Damn. Just, damn.