Always fun to remember that prediction from the climate alarmists.
Delingpole also has his fun….
Remember: That Snow You See Out Of Your Window Is A Thing Of The Past
However that old climate PR spinner, Bob Ward, is getting tetchy….
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@JunkScience@tan123 Hey clowns, I live in London and there is no sign of snow here. Your blanket is a little patchy.
Trouble is the ‘clowns’ were right….
Thin but it was there….Ward’s clown feet firmly in his mouth as usual.
As we’ve looked at before the BBC claimed….
and trumpeted that loudly even though the Met. Office stated that…
For the UK as a whole its currently the second wettest on record.
Just been looking at the rainfall totals for December for England and Wales.
You know what…not a record, not a record by a long, long chalk.
In December we had 145.1 mm of rain, the year’s total for 2015 was a meagre 969mm.
1779 we had 144.4mm and in 1803 we had 145.8mm in December, and in May 1778 we had 151.8mm….look through the whole record and you’ll find vast numbers of months across the year that had more rain than this December.
In 1768 we had a total of 1247.3mm of rain for the year….that’s quite a bit more than 969mm I’d propose.
Anyone starting to think that 2015 and December were not ‘records’ at all? Maybe we had a lot of rain in one precise location but if you’re going to claim that that is somehow representative of the climate as a whole I’d suggest you’re talking out of your hat.
2015 ranks at number 167 out of 250 in a ranking of the wettest years...number 250 being the wettest…and which year is the wettest year on record?
1872, followed by 1768.
Scotland had the wettest December on record in 2015 but the wettest year is still 1938, 2015 coming in at 80 out of 85…..85 being the wettest….and if you look at the wettest months on record, ie January to December, only 2009 and 2015 make it into the records…the rest come mainly from the 1980’s and 90’s, with some being from 1935 onward…bearing in mind that the Scottish records only start in 1931 not 1766 as the English and Welsh ones do. In total Scotland had about the same rain in 2015 as it had in 1998…another El Nino year….still vastly less than in 1938.
This is curious from Harrabin…
Wet December 2015 may be trumped by wet Octobr 1903 when
@metoffice rain record is digitised. http://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2016/01/08/reporting-the-weather-across-the-uk/ …@ECIU_UK@CarbonBrief
So after all that trumpeting by the BBC that December was the wettest month on record for the UK…now not so much….and as Scotland’s data only starts in 1931 that can’t really be included. Clearly he hasn’t had time to look at Met. Office records which show, as mentioned above, that a vast number of months across the centuries have been wetter than this December in England and Wales….so October 1903 is neither here nor there….and the records, digitised or not, already show that England and Wales in October 1903 had a massive 218.1mm of rain…why does Harrabin not know this already?…it might have given him a clue as to the real state of the weather UK wide.
Are the December rains the ‘new normal’ asks Harrabin….I would suggest they are the ‘old normal’….
Is December weather the new normal? Is there a new normal? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35228779 …
@ECIU_UK@CarbonBrief@eciu@Revkin@aDissentient
Harrabon retweets this…..why when the records clearly show the rain was anything but unusual?….
Extreme UK rains (like those seen in Storm
#Desmond) are more likely with global warming http://buff.ly/21UHAk1
Wonder if anyone saw BBC “The Big Questions’ this morning? It was certainly explosive with left wing feminist rent-a-mouth harpy Kate Smurfwaite talking over everyone. However the BEST bit was when fellow leftist “Professor” Connie St Louis accused Milo Yiannopoulos of calling for the “assassination” of someone on his Twitter account. See Milo’s excellent response below. This is going to cost her.
OK folks, I’ve been away for a few days but am now back so let’s START the week early! Here you go detail the bias here!
Time flies I’m afraid and we’ve been caught out again with the open thread..so here’s another one to tide you over till we get back on track…..
The BBC has a bit of a quandary…..reporting the success of non-private school pupils in getting into Oxbridge or hiding that because the pupils come from a Free School and from a poor area of London thus undermining two of the BBC’s cherished mantras about the hated Free Schools and poverty…..both apparently anathemas to success in education.
A few days ago I heard Peter Allen claim that the school system was failing and fragmenting and Free Schools were part of the problem….not a massive rise in pupil numbers due to immigration then?
Wonder what he makes of this…….
‘East End Eton’ pupils beats top public schools to Oxbridge
A free school in one of the poorest parts of Britain, nicknamed the “Eton of the East End”, is to send eight pupils to Oxbridge this year, putting them ahead of some of the most famous public schools in the country.
The London Academy of Excellence, a free school which has been running for three years, is celebrating after eight pupils received conditional offers to study at Oxford and Cambridge.
According to the Sunday Times, the figure puts the school above some of the country’s leading public schools, with one pupil from Gordonstoun, five from Sherborne and four from Haileybury destined for Oxbridge.
It’s hard to tell what he might make of it because so far the BBC has failed to mention this remarkable success that they normally would be trumpeting from the roof tops…especially as the successful pupils are predominantly of a non-white hue….at least 7 of the eight going to Oxbridge are non-white…here’s three of them…
Toby Young in the Telegraph doubts the Left will be celebrating….he could be right…
There’s a great story in the Sunday Times this morning (££) about the London Academy of Excellence, a free school in Newham. In spite of only being open for 18 months, the specialist Sixth Form college has managed to secure offers from Oxford and Cambridge for six of its pupils. That’s more Oxbridge offers than every other school in Newham managed last year.
No doubt Left-wing critics of free schools will come up with the usual excuses as to why this school has done so well. But for those of us who believe in the policy, it’s a huge triumph.
‘…for those of us who believe in the policy‘…that counts the BBC out then. Be interesting to see the BBC take on this when they get around to reporting it……what’s the betting it’s a long list of every complaint against Free Schools they can muster alomgside a grudging acknowledgement of the success?
When we had the floods recently the BBC made a big play about the supposed North-South divide in funding channelling a Labour Party narrative but not telling us that the person making the claim was in fact a Labour council leader. [Similarly the BBC doesn’t tell us that the PCC’s who complain about cuts to police funding are also Labour party politicians.]
The BBC seems to like the sound of that North-South divide…could it possibly be because the government is trying to establish the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ and regenerate Northern fortunes and the BBC has decided to undermine that with claims of Northern neglect by a Tory government?
Last week we had a day of being told on the news bulletins that again there was this North-South divide, this time in education…..the rich Southern pupils being more successful than their poorer, neglected Northern cousins.
Now the BBC knew this was rubbish and not what the report they based their claims upon said, but anyone forced to rely on the BBC’s news service would have had that false narrative rammed down their throats all day….it was only later in the evening when the report’s author came on did we hear the truth…and he himself had to correct the BBC presenter’s take on his report.
So is there a North-South divide? No, and the BBC, as said, knew this, as illustrate by the graphic they supplied on their website……
The real problem places (should you place any faith or trust in such reports at all) are in the Midlands as well as many places in the South. [Update…the bit that looks like Northern Ireland is in fact Greater London blown up…thanks to Embolden for correcting that for me.]
The BBC clearly had a political agenda as their claims were totally false and even the report’s author had to correct them.
The BBC has been blitzing us recently with tales of woe…A&E is swamped by ever increasing numbers, housing is massively in short demand and schools can’t provide anywhere near enough places for the numbers of pupils.
Why has this situation arisen? The BBC doesn’t know but of course is happy to speculate that it is due to the government not spending enough money…due to austerity measures [and of course the BBC doesn’t spell out why austerity is need and who is to blame for such measures being necessary…ie Labour and Labour policies].
Here is one such report that tells us that ‘London places crisis to hit secondary schools’
The BBC tells us…
Pupils in London face a growing funding gap, with the school-age population forecast to rise by 12% over five years, argues a report.
“Do the Maths 2015” says the government is not providing enough cash for new school places needed in the capital.
London Councils, which represents the 32 London boroughs, plus the City of London, fears crunch time is rapidly approaching for the capital’s education budgets.
There has been “unprecedented growth in demand” for school places in London, says the report.
The number of school-age children (aged five to 19) increased by 112,000 in London in the five years to 2015.
So an ‘unprecedented growth in demand’.…and why might that be? The BBC doesn’t tell us where that unprecedented demand is coming from.
Could it possibly be that mass, uncontrolled immigration has swamped the British school system and made it unsustainable with parents unable to get the school of their choice and convenience?
Well in all likelihood that’s the answer as in the last 3 years alone we have had nearly one million migrants flood into the UK…they have to be housed somewhere, they have to be treated by the NHS and they have to send their kids to schools.
But the BBC doesn’t like to raise that problem, no mention at all of immigration in its report…The BBC’s mantra is that the problem is the government not spending enough not too many migrants. The migrants are economically beneficial to the UK…aren’t they?….
The government said it had doubled funding for school places to £5bn during the last parliament, creating half a million new school places since May 2010, with a further £7bn committed to create more places over the next six years.
Curiously the photos they provide to accompany the report have the pupils all pictured from the rear and a class of nearly all white pupils…is the BBC trying to hide the fact that London schools are predominantly non-white now? Why aren’t they celebrating the diversity?
This is the type of photo the BBC normally prefer to use:
or this….when the pupils are ‘trouble’…
We’ve got another one of those BBC ‘mysteries’….the sort of mystery that is only a mystery to the BBC because it wants to raise some issues that otherwise it couldn’t…because they are not really ‘issues’ at all.
Belgium is apparently an apartheid state. Who’d have guessed? Muslims, for naturally it is they, are discriminated against, marginalised and shoved unceremoniously into ghettoes by the racist Belgiques.
I know this because the BBC says it is so…or rather quotes a little too enthusiastically and uncritically a social worker who rants along those lines….
Has Belgium created ‘a system of apartheid’?
Well I think we can answer that immediately…’Belgium’ has not ‘created’ an apartheid system, what has happened is that thousands of unwanted Muslim migrants have landed on Belgium’s doorstep and forced their way in and refused to integrate and take part in Belgium society and culture.
Muslims have created their own ghettoes just as they do in every country, the UK included as we ‘march towards segregation’ as Trevor Phillips might say.
The BBC tells us…
A former senior police official has warned that Belgium’s failure to integrate its Muslim minority has created a de facto “system of apartheid”….Paul Jacobs. For 20 years he dealt with discrimination complaints in the Belgian police – and he’s just finished a session teaching this class “inter-cultural communication”.
So probably not a police officer, but the BBC gives that impression so he has more ‘authority’….more likely a social workery type. And what of that ‘Belgium’s failure to integrate its Muslim minority’? Not Belgium’s fault. Something like 400,000 French immigrants in London now (many Jewish as they flee the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe…of which the BBC shows little interest) and yet do they ‘radicalise’ and set out to bomb tube trains, buses and nightclubs? Has Britain set out to integrate them? No. They get on with it themselves.
Look at the way the BBC writes this up….
A heated argument broke out when Suhaila, the only non-white [police] recruit – from a Moroccan background, like many Belgian Muslims – said she could understand why young Muslims might become jihadis.
“The whole class was reacting – over-reacting,” Jacobs says. “It was the first time they had talked with someone of a Moroccan background.”
So the problem with her comment was not that she ‘understood’ the Jihadis but that the class was ‘over-reacting’ to her comment….probably because they had never met a Moroccan before…not sure how he knows that….they must all be shallow and unworldly or maybe just racist.
Loved this from the BBC…
The headmaster [of a school in Brussels], Erik Van Den Berghe, grew up in Molenbeek. “I really liked the inter-cultural environment, and I used to play basketball and football with all ethnic groups and religions,” he says.
But since then many believe the character of Molenbeek has become more Islamic – and the opportunities for social mixing have declined.
So the BBC is finally wising up….Islamisation is the problem, isn’t it?
Oh but whose fault is that? The BBC again quotes uncritically….
Divisions have been reinforced because many young Belgians of Moroccan and Turkish descent have reacted against anti-Muslim feeling since 9/11 by defiantly adopting a more religious identity.
Ah…..that old trope about anti-Muslim sentiment creating alienation and radicalisation…when the reality is that it is the other way around. Many, many, all too many, Muslims are attacking, culturally, socially, legally, politically and with bombs and bullets, Western society. People see what Muslims say and do and what the Koran orders and they don’t want that in their country.
The BBC of course has its other target of choice in its sights…Saudi Arabia…it quotes…
“Simplistic explanations are the most successful, especially the hardline talk from Saudi Arabia with its binary distinction between what is haram and what is not, between ‘us’ and ‘them’.”
These are the distinctions used by Islamist recruiters who deliberately target young people in districts like Molenbeek, she says.
Once again I say it is odd that the BBC fails so often to make mention of Saudia Arabia’s part in radicalising British Muslims…because then the BBC couldn’t blame UK foreign and domestic policy. The BBC likes to present Saudi Arabia’s fundamentalist Islam as if it was not the real thing and yet it is the closest to the real thing that any Muslim is likely to get….’them and us’ is what Islam is all about…as are all religions….just some enforce that distinction rather too enthusiastically, it is a distinction enforced by violence in the Koran.
For the BBC the Muslims in Belgium are all victims. Belgium forced them to come to Belgium, Belgium forced them into ghettoes, Belgium forced them to worship Islam, Belgium forced them to radicalise, Belgium forced them to go to Syria. Muslims have no minds of their own, no free will, no ability to think for themselves and make decisions based on their own reasoning.
Funny how in ‘moderate’ Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, there is a burgeoning Islamic radicalisation in progress with many terror groups fighting the good fight in the name of Islam. Is Indonesia also an apartheid state where Muslims (87% of the population) are disenfranchised and alienated?
Lord Hall Hall’s BBC is still peddling the Muslim terrorist narrative….Muslims are all victims, besieged and under attack by non-Muslims in Europe…one that ISIS is very happy the BBC is spreading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks6iLVlUiNY
I know some MPs think we should have ‘Jerusalem’ as the national anthem but actually bringing Jerusalem to the UK?…
Woman ‘tries to stab 15-year-old with kitchen knife on London bus’
Or as the BBC puts it……
Grandmother disarms teenager’s Lambeth bus knife attacker
A curious and convoluted title as the BBC manages to mention the grandmother, the teenager attacked but not the actual attacker’s identity…If it had been an Israeli attacker the title would have read ‘Israeli stabs [Palestinian] teenager’…so why not ‘Asian woman stabs teenager’?….and why does the BBC hide the story on the ‘England’ page when it is front page news on all the other outlets…Guardian excepted of course. Anyone would think the BBC weren’t keen for some reason to highlight a story in which the attacker is an ‘Asian’ woman in a headscarf.
If the victim had been Muslim and the attacker white the BBC would have been relentlessly telling us all about it all day in every news bulletin just as they did with that tale of a pigs head left outside a mosque recently…..left by who knows who….just as they are still disgracefully covering up what went on in Cologne…still telling us on the news that only ‘some immigrants’ may have been involved leaving you to think, if you didn’t know better, that the bulk of the attacks were by white Germans….I say white Germans because the BBC likes to deceptively use ‘German’ to mean an immigrant who is not a recent asylum seeker…allowing the BBC to kid us that the attackers were ‘German’.
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