In the space of a few minutes on the Today programme this morning, we had two egregious instances of BBC climate change hype. First, it was claimed that 2013 was the official warmest year ever in Australia. As it happens, I was in Australia last year for a few weeks, it wasn’t that warm but the BBC managed to add that such extreme heat “fitted into the global pattern”. Really? Then two minutes later, we were treated to all the flood warnings that have accompanied the approach of a low pressure system. Again, the term “extreme” weather was causally deployed. This is not accidental, it is the BBC trying its best to inculcate the notion that global warming is still with us. They are apostles for AGW despite the facts, truly remarkable. The only “extreme” I see is their bias.
“EXTREME” WEATHER BIAS
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With ecolunatics stuck in ever thickening ice in the Antarctic , just bad weather …………..mild spell in January evidence of ‘catastrophic ‘ global warming , strange that!
Keep up ! They were evacuated by helicopter last night !
Was it a carbon-neutral helicopter?
They’re not out of the woods yet –
Don’t know why the link didn’t work – http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/03/ship-involved-in-antarctic-rescue-faces-trouble/4301325/
The eco-lunatics were evacuated, the ship’s crew remain on board.
I thought all educated individuals knew that weather and climate were two completely different thinks. Obviously Mr Vance is an exception.
Oh dear, it is YOU that has missed both the subtle change in reporting AND DV’s obvious alluding to that fact! Jeez…You What!! indeed.
‘All educated individuals.’
Indeed.
“I thought all educated individuals knew that weather and climate were two completely different thinks. Obviously Mr Vance is an exception.”
“Different thinks” ?? Yes, isn’t education a wonderful THING.
Karma, you wonderful minx you:)
Australian Bureau shows the data.
The one thing that neither the ABC or the BBC is admitting is that the BoM have changed the why they record data. They claim is it a more accurate way of measuring temperature while their critics claim it is deliberately skewed to conform to the AGW meme.
Hat tip to “Watts Up with That”
I wonder if the Christmas Turkey was relying on the BoM’s forecast for his summer getaway to the Antarctic 🙂
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/04/the-australian-bureau-of-meteorology-gets-it-wrong/
That should be ‘the way they record data’ sorry, but it’s hot around here at the moment, must be due to it being Summer or something!!
“I thought all educated individuals knew that weather and climate were two completely different thinks”
That would be canned laughter, presumably.
Yes, but canned laughter is carbon neutral.
“weather and climate were two completely different thinks”
Weather = Short term Climate.
Climate = Long term Weather.
So “weather and climate are similar thinks”
You What!! Must be a typical scientifically uneducated BBC moron type.
Weather is now more important to the morons than climate because rare and occasional, selected localised weather events are more likely to produce a result that confirms their Climate Change bias, especially now that we are moving towards Global Cooling.
Three current headlines:
BBC – “UK braced for flooding as high tides peak”
Express – “Deadly floods to cause chaos for weeks: 65mph winds and ‘exceptional’ rain on the way”
Mail – “Storms red alert: Thousands of homeowners told to pack their bags as more tidal surges, gales and heavy rain batter Britain’s coast”
Does not take a genius to work out which headlines are “extreme” and which is not but then again that would not suit David’s prejudices.
I suggest we read all the reports and see if DV is right or not before you cherry pick 0.1% of the coverage and claim him wrong. Funnily enough, without going back and checking I know David is right…as you also know.
Happy New Year Albie!
Where have you been all over the Christmas period? We were all asking of your whereabouts.
I think it is jolly mean of the BBC not to pay double for your comments over the holiday, so I don’t blame you for withholding your services.
Can you imagine how mean they’d be if they had to EARN their subscription fees.
Still look on the bright side – although they only throw you a few crumbs, it’s probably more than you’d get in the real World.
Once again, Happy New Year Albie, and may it be a prosperous one for you.
MVR
Thought BBC public sector shill and think tank sumps would not be at their padded open plan pods until at least the 6th January! You sucking up to the big Lime Green sponge of liberal tears and traumas?
I do hope you`re PAID by someone to stand as grumpy meerkat at the chasm…we like it here, you never seem to get a point we make.
Still Happy New Year 2014…
Give it a few months and the weather stats will show that we just had ordinary storms and ordinary levels of rainfall.
What’s “extraordinary” will be the lack of funding used for maintaining flood defences and how rapidly BBC reporters manage to arrive at a scene where (for a few minutes) there was flooding but now it’s all clear.
(Often it’s a road where the floor is wet thanks to the rain and people are just going about their normal business.)
At least the Express does not censor any climate scientists, they only exaggerate and misrepresent the science.
The BBC not only exaggerates and misrepresents the science, it also censors the facts, evidence, proof, correlation’s and results from experiments of scientists who are misrepresented by the BBC as denying that the Climate changes.
I know that there are plenty of ordinary people who are not all that well educated, but they do find the “Climate Change Denial” statement by the BBC, an odd and ignorant misrepresentation of scientists labelled deniers by the BBC/Guardianista types.
The BBC ignores its darlings at the IPCC on this one and merrily ploughs its own furrow (or is it dig their own hole?), continuing to link bad weather to global warming.
So yet again they are either being lazy bastards and not researching properly, or lying bastards and arrogantly pushing their 28gate mates’ eco-socialist agenda. I think we know which it is, don’t we, boys and girls?
Anyway, here in a nutshell is what the IPCC AR5 report – their latest up to datest – says about it all:
‘…..contrary to ongoing claims from that alarmist media mill side there are no mentions of tornadoes and hurricanes in the extreme weather events section. They give low confidence to tropical storm activity being connected to climate change, and don’t mention mesoscale events like tornadoes and thunderstorms at all. Similarly, they give low confidence to drought and flood attribution.’
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/03/pielke-jr-agrees-extreme-weather-to-climate-connection-is-a-dead-issue/
David Vance makes it abundantly clear that he believes the BBC are specifically tying weather and climate reports to AGW.
Therefore I can see no relevance in posting newspaper headlines about specific events that in no way claim to be tied to AGW.
One might even believe that your entire intention in posting them, knowing they didn’t mention AGW was simply so you could hang the term “prejudice” on the end. You will be calling him a racist, or possibly a bigot next.
I’m afraid that the ‘exceptional’ was not the phrase invented by the BBC on this occasion. It is the wording used by the government who coined it following a meeting of the ‘COBRA’ committee, and it refers to a combination of rain strong winds & high tides.
Now even the most committed climate change loonie will have to admit that the tides have not been made worse by the so called ‘Global Warming’.
I see a different sinister hand though – reaction to the Mandela coverage when they decided that a storm at least as bad as this one wasn’t worth covering and as a consequence received over 1000 complaints.
I see the headline news of all these storms further proof that the BBC overdid it with the Mandela coverage and they know it too! Now as a result serious storms are being given extra prominence because they got their knuckles rapped !
“I’m afraid that the ‘exceptional’ was not the phrase invented by the BBC”
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Rather going to what our most trusted cut and paster of #prasnews that suits will go large on, and why. And when it will not, and why.
There is indeed a serious conflation of nasties from this time of year coming together, made worse by bad timing on the tides as well.
Hence sensible education and warning to prepare and cope is warranted.
Bolting on adjectives is of course a mandatory, especially by an establishment equally addicted to narratives that suit.
I recall the last ‘unprecedented’ event at this time of year, describing something that hadn’t happened since the last time, a few decades ago, since records were last ignored.
It was at this point I realised the politico-media establishment were either thick or venal, and probably both.
The problem for many public sector bodies is that, over the last decade or so, they have become wedded to the notion that ‘appearance is king’ or rather president. They know that if they don’t issue warnings they will be castigated for every soggy shoe so every time a rain shower passes by they have to at least look like they are on top of it all, just in case it all goes pear shaped and someone does get flooded out. Any idea that they should just do their job is drowned by the need to look like they are doing it.
So every storm is the end of the world and all the public hears is a little boy shouting wolf. Then one day their house gets flooded because no-one was keeping an eye on the drains and Mr Public Servant can honestly say that, ‘well, you were warned.’
Hitler leads a climate change expedition but gets stuck in the ice.
Enjoy
I knew Christmas was over, but even so I asked Santa for one last wish… and he has delivered!
You get your own Downfall spoof and things really are not looking too good on the ‘tell it often enough’ PR spin out of the doo-doo.
Brilliant. No doubt there’ll be plenty of satirising of these global warming thickos on this week’s News Quiz or Now Show or whatever left-wing wankfest the BBC are currently running with.
And just because it’s biased the BBC radio 4 news takes the opportunity to take a swipe at the government tell us that despite the storms and the risks to life several jobs will be lost at the environment agency because of government cuts.
They just can’t resist the chance to have a dig !
‘..several jobs will be lost at the environment agency because of government cuts.’
Actually…. this raises a key point, and one the BBC with all its brain power and resources seems to leave behind in favour of cutting and pasting press releases it likes.
Whatever climate, or weather gets up to, with more and more people on this fair isle, there will be consequences of wet stuff and wind in winter having more and more impacts. Especially as legacy systems not designed for demand fail through being overwhelmed or not being maintained.
Now, the EA can help here.
The issue becomes more where these jobs are.
Speaking as one keeping an eye on a very swollen Wye, if the money and staffing is being taken away from the PR men and politically motivated top echelon woe-mongers I see no real issue in them being lost. They have, don’t and will not serve any useful purpose.
Bit more concerned if it’s actual engineers, though also worried about the ones who don’t seem to have grasped that sticking flood defences up river solves one problem but may create others.
Hence, while lost ‘jobs’ in the public sector can seem a useful tribal football, what those jobs are and how well fulfilled are also key factors seldom raised.
Not necessarily!
Surely these spongebob sandbags who`ve trilled the Davey tune these last few eons could surely just lie down outside Yorks pubs along the Ouse, and allow the rest of us a worry-free pub crawl!
Imagine-as Lenin sang-some EA ” family members” actually being of some USE to the rest of us-just for once!
You may say i`m a Dreamer…but at least I never had to hear Yoko” “singing” in the shower!
He died so that others may not have had to do that at least…
chrisH, you really make me laugh. Do you write a column for a newspaper somewhere? The vision of those made redundant lying down head to toe to keep the Ouse at bay whilst we all go for a pub crawl is simply magic.
‘The issue becomes more where these jobs are.’
I must have been a very good boy last year, as Santa has delivered again:
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/1/3/the-bureaucracys-media-defenders.html
“The possibility that the agency is grossly overstaffed is therefore real and the failure of the mainstream media to consider the possibility makes them look very foolish.”
As ever, the comments add yet more to the font of knowledge one garners, free, vs. the force-funded interference-running and scaremongering of the BBC and its #prasnews shunters.
Blimey, it’s getting like the No.38 bus (ok, they’re citing the same thing)….
http://order-order.com/2014/01/03/uk-environment-agency-massively-over-staffed-arguably-worlds-most-bloated-quango/
Be interesting to see quite how the shock-horror ‘reporting’ on staffing proceeds as there seem some other factors at play most of the paying public seem protected from knowing.
Interesting blog re EA
http://www.insidetheenvironmentagency.co.uk/
Hat tip Bishop Hill
IIRC Mr James Gordon Brown, once Prime Minister of this Parish was fined by the EU for some debacle in the early 2000’s. To pay this fine he cut the East Coast sea defence budget for that year which was much higher than usual because it held amounts allocated for specific failings. These were never remedied and the people on the East Coast have been waiting for storm surges with unusual dread.
Any chance the BBC might bring this up? Nope.
Winter storms –
whoda thunk it?
Notice albeeb never tells you what the jetstream is doing? My university of Life education would tell me that its looping down south of the UK and in that case the weather we are having would be perfectly normal.
Last night when I got in the car at around midnight the temperature was reading 9 deg C which is ridiculously warm for this time of year – normally we’d be lucky to see that during the day! However even the climate change loons can’t claim this is down to their hobby horse, but I’m enjoying saving on gas, and more comfortable outdoors.
You What! (One letter different and in a slightly diferent order)
Ask the warmists whether when a Hurricane hit New York it was caused by global warming and yet the intensity and numbers of hurricanes for that year were at near record lows. Curious.
When houses built on Flood Plains flood its global warming and yet the clue should be in the words flood plain.
Its funny, ref the ecoloons in the ice, abc the upside down version of the BBC described the expedition as the biggest ever australian climate change expedition. Then it became a research vessel. Then it became a passenger vessel. And finally after pressure from realists they resorted to calling it a research vessel again. However isnt it odd that the Beeb had two staff on board and yet they didnt report until the end. Huge gaps in the story when news reports went blank. Were we being managed. even on the interweb the story kept bouncing from the environment pages to the asian pages. Good AGW supporting news environment pages, bad news dumped on the asia pages. When the news came that the rescue airlift was taking place radio 4 had some artist on who had been on a painting jolly to the antarctic before and she was saying that they were stuck obviously due to global warming.
Ask youself a few questions
1) why did the govn sponsor artists to the antarctic. We are on the bones of our arses and we are paying pointless idiots to “paint along with nancy”
2) why should an artist be allowed,unchallengedd, to pontificate about the science of global warming
3) why did the beeb need to spin the story. Surely the facts should have been left to themselves rather than nuonced in some political way
BBC “Climate Change seminars” have the “Best artistic experts”
BBC “Arctic expert comedians” have the best “Drama qualifications”
Just read the bBC article regards the Severn Bore:
River Severn swells before reporter’s eyes
The Environment Agency has warned that weather conditions in some parts of Britain could be the worst it has seen for five to ten years – with the South West expected to bear the brunt of the storms. The Met Office has warned of flooding in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Steve Knibbs reports on the flooding from Minsterworth, near Gloucester, where the river Severn has burst its banks.
Wow all that flooding due to global climate change. Nice to see the bBC using the Moon’s gravitational influences as an example of Climate change oh and for those that don’t know about the Severn Bore:
http://www.severn-bore.co.uk/2014_times.html
New reports show terrifying coverage of the sea rising by the hour along the coastline! Run for the hills! One scared local who I managed to rugby tackle as he ran away described a strange pagan God who I presume he meant was responsible for the phenomenon: he called the God Istydalufarkwit.
Luckily a few hours later it receded leaving marks on the cliffs that looked centuries old.
On the lunchtime news one of the reports from Scotland said it was the worst flooding from high seas since 1974 (which was worse, apparently).
Hmmmm………1974…………..what was happening then…..
Got it! Global cooling and the onset of the next Ice Age!
Taxi, Mr Harrabin?
I do get confused…terror alert codes and now this new set of cards.
Same colours-but these are about storms( or peaky drying days as we used to call them up north-but now they`re soft as shite too!).
Can we have some co-ordination?
I suggest Battleships and Cruisers co-ordinates…chess board, coloured squares and filters for my glasses.
Today is B7 through the YELLOW filter…oh, and it`s the ROUND window today!
DotStop calling!
Given how much time the news presenters spend on the weather I want to know when Carol Kirkwood and Tomasz Schafernaker will present us with some actual news. Perhaps, telling us about the increasing number of Christians killed in Muslim countries?
I wont have a word said against Carol Kirkwood I quite fancy her and my wife allows it.
Carol is very good with those “Warm Front`s” ,when facing the camera !
I was also in Australia during June and July. The locals were amazed at the fact that I and most of the Lions supporters were in t shirts while they were in overcoats. However, I would not dare to insinuate that this was more than a subjective judgment of what is a huge continent with many divergent ecosystems and weather patterns.
In essence the atmosphere is one complex system and extremes in one part of the world cause changes elsewhere. Australia may well have been statistically hot this year but the USA is experiencing another colder than usual early winter.
Beeboids are certain about global warming, but less certain about whether a ship is struck in Antarctica’s summer ice:-
“Antarctic rescue: Chinese vessel ‘may now be stuck in ice'”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25585006
‘Stuck’ for ‘struck’ above.
According to Breakfast this morning, they have been ‘unlucky’ to be stuck in the ice, the suggestion being that ice is not a normal phenomenon there!
I know it isn’t the BBC, but the Sun newspaper today had a short report on the recuse and called those rescued, wait for it……..*sightseers*. Of course it was written by their environment expert. *Sightseers*, FFS!
I spy with my little eye, something beginning with *I*? Could be Inuits on holiday I suppose.
Considering the number of genetic defects the Norman caste display I’m surprised it’s not the Deep Ones coming back from the Mountains of Madness.
Good timing. Just yesterday the BBC reporter on Radio 4 stated
“An Australian ship also failed to penetrate the dense pack-ice that had fallen from a glacier and had been driven into normally-open ocean by strong winds”.
This is Kindergarten science! Even Professor Turkey admits it is sea ice, which is defined as “frozen seawater”.
Did he just make up this guff himself, or was he fed this info by Turkey and co?
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/bbc-in-warmist-fantasyland/
BTW
I’m just waiting for the Met Office stats for Dec, to do the precipitation analysis. I very much doubt whether it will be much different to most winters.
Last year there was a little gem buried in an 11am-slot programme on the floods of few weeks prior.
The intrepid BBC reporter was in a pub – Worcester, I think it was – and described how an old bloke referred to a very old photo of a town bridge on the wall and observed how low the normal river level was relative to the base of the arch compared to now. He’d lived in the town all his life and observed that over a period of years the authorities had stopped dredging and clearing debris from the river. So basically the normal level of the river was now much higher because it was full of silt and vegetation.
I’ve read a similar view about lack of river management expressed recently, so it doesn’t sound like a localised phenomenon. Anyway, I found this:
‘Ms McIntosh said ongoing maintenance, such as removing silt, trees, weeds and washing trollies is an essential part of preventing further flooding.
“I am told dredging would have helped to get water away [during the recent floods] rather than over-flowing onto already saturated land.”
The ADA voiced concern this summer that the River Tone and River Parret in Somerset, that flooded this week, needed dredging to prevent floods.
Around the country local drainage boards have complained that water cannot be successfully moved away from populated areas because main river courses are not being maintained.’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9714518/Did-cuts-in-dredging-rivers-cause-floods.html
So….silted up rivers, spring tides (preventing rivers from emptying), high winds, building on flood plains……bit of a no-brainer, really. But apparently not enough of a no-brainer that the brainless BBC can’t see it.
Or is that ‘won’t’?
Its all about selling the element of fear, to always rely on giving hearsay or fraudulent evidence, so they spin a perpetual churn.
They keep repeating that the public sectors are skint, so we’ll have to invest more taxes, while other public sectors see priority(green and warmachine). These priority’s are just moved subsidy’s, moved from the actual first intended/needed sectors.
The Bbc has such dis-respect for tax payers, it just keeps continually insults hard working family’s into paying more for less. The global trends just empties government accounts and siphons off into the corporate conglomerates pockets for the right to basically “cap & trade”, breathe, and paying the oligarchs a copyright to live off earths minerals.
How much invested interests in Westminster and the city state of London, (the same sector that inflated the sterling into paying more for less) need this sham to succeed?
It’s all about moulding public perception. If most of the rolling news is about the weather than the public will perceive it to be a big problem.
If the public are alarmed they will be more pliable to green taxes.
Well that’s the theory.
There has been extreme weather since the beginning of time. There always will be. This naive desire we have as humans to believe we have power over everything is what drives this ‘man made climate change leads to more extreme weather’ argument. Climate ‘science’ is actually, perversely, climate ‘religion’.
sorry for my bad spelling and grammar but i was not educated at oxbridge like owen jones so you will just have to put up with it,getting back to bbc bias in the weather forecaste just lately is really getting on my nerves,where i live today according the the bbc weather forecaste it was going to be batten down the hatches time and hide in the roof for fear of 6 ft of water flooding are propertys, i am still waiting for these 70 mph winds and this severe flooding,in fact there has not even been a shower on my patch today and just a light breeze.i think the bbc are so scared of getting the weather forecaste wrong as proved today where i live that in fact they just like to cover there backs in exaggerating these weather forecastes on a daily basis,yes certain coastal towns have suffered flooding but the clue to that is they are living next to the oceans and thats bad luck on there part but they chose to live there.will things get better in the future,not really if the predictions of are population rising to 80 million in the next 20 years are right there is going to be a hell of alot of building new propertys on flood plains.that to me is the main problem the bbc wont talk about.
Floods, heavy rain. Naw, it can’t be happening. Way back in June 2013, experts cited by the BBC predicted water shortages caused by climate change and recommended higher costs to make people aware of the inevitable shortage.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18342309
Sorry 2013 should be 2012.
The 2013 weather data for Devon has just been released by the Met Office and the surprising result(s) was that everything, and I mean everything was *average*, aka, the Norm’. Well who would have thought that? Not the BBC.
At the time of writing this, a weather system which has been developing in the far South Western approaches, has started to move North East. Within this system, there are currently, embedded thunderstorms. Unfortunately these storms when associated with a cold front can be vicious and the track of most of these embedded storms looks to be running east of Devon. If there is enough temperature in the sea to keep these storms going by land fall, expect a few tornado’s and roof flying anywhere east of a line from Exeter to B’ham, early tomorrow morning. The Met Office have not yet mentioned this new storm on any of their BBC broadcasts or bulletins. The storm I predicted 10 days ago to hit on the 6th Jan is still on schedule just in time for the majority of the U.K. to go back to work. Don’t ya just love it?
“The Magical Thinking of the Left”
By Daniel Greenfield.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/the-magical-thinking-of-the-left/
I’ve lived in Calgary now for the past six years. The weather seems about the same to me. The other day we were down at -30°C with a wind chill of -40°C. Yesterday it was a balmy +7°C with a Chinook wind coming over the Rockies from the Pacific. Today we’re back at -6°C with yet another 6″ snowfall, with more to come tonight. On Sunday when I’ll be going with my daughter, door to door, on a bottle drive for her soccer team, it’ll be -23°C and bloody cold. It’s much of a muchness here at this time of the year.
However talk to Calgarians who have spent most of their lives here and it’s a different story. For them the winters are definitely getting colder and more prolonged.
Climate changing? – According to them, most definitely.
AGW – the biggest crock of shit going.
I’ll believe the old timers before the UEA any day.
http://iceagenow.info/2013/12/record-breaking-snowfall-calgary/
And my favourite
http://iceagenow.info/2013/11/global-warming-protesters-calgary-stymied-snow-storm/
Elsewhere in Canada
http://iceagenow.info/2014/01/record-cold-northern-ontario-quebec/
And
http://iceagenow.info/2014/01/hydro-quebec-running-electricity-province/
How much of your trip to Australia did the BBC licence fee payer fund Mr Vance?
I think we should be told.
On behalf of all of us, you could always task the BBC with an FoI inquiry as such matters will surely be handled by their accounts.
Make sure you let all know how that works out.
ps: Looks like they also can impose a fee of £10 upfront, I suspect non-refundable, which seems pretty unique.
Ch 4, like many media, issues a daily round-up email. Theirs is called ‘Snowmail’, which currently may be apt or confusing, depending.
I was interested to get this one, where actually there seemed to be a glimmer of awareness that they may not be serving the public as well as they might, along with those whose loyalties are to masters who have other agendas.
‘Scaremongering about storms?
We can’t say we weren’t warned – severe flood warnings were plentiful. But over the last month, have we been getting a few too many of these warnings? “Severe” flood warnings are meant to denote a serious threat to life. And although we have had many severe warnings over the last few weeks, thankfully, there have been very few fatalities. If your house and your holidays have been ruined by flood damage then you will be acutely aware of how destructive the weather can be. But do the recent storms really merit sounding warning sirens and mass evacuations? Are we in danger of crying wolf too often and will people be tempted to ignore “severe” warnings in future?
I’ll talk to someone who could never be accused of scaremongering about storms – former BBC weatherman Michael Fish. I’m sure he is heartily sick of being asked about the infamous night in 1987 when he reassured viewers that there was no hurricane on its way to Britain. We’ll talk to him about whether public bodies now are more keen to alarm than reassure. And I’ll get his views too on the apparent rise in extreme weather events which may, or may not, be symptomatic of manmade climate change.
Living near a river, we signed up for the EA’s Floodline. First time we got a text/email combo telling us to head fro the hills we did.
In the last few days we’ve had several in a similar vein. The footy pitch got wet. Again.
We are therefore now amongst those who ignore warnings of any severity.
But one is sure many boxes get ticked and bonusses paid.
“Summer in Antarctica – An EPIC Global Warming FAIL”
http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/2013/12/30/summer-in-antarctica-an-epic-global-warming-fail/