Global warming snow hits Essex

I had to push / dig the car out of the snow the other night. Not much evidence of global warming in Essex this week.

Posted on 19 December 2009 by Douglas Carswell

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It's climate change now, remember?

If it gets hotter, it's climate change. If it gets colder, it's climate change. If it gets wet, snowy, dry, dusty, humid - it's climate change. If you car doesn't start, blame climate change. If your toaster burns your toast, it too is climate change.

Posted on 19 December 2009 11:15 by Bob Jones

Ah, but it's that "freezing warming". It's the most dangerous kind.

I've already seen muppets gullibly posting that all this snow is just as good a proof of "climate change" -- they're getting gunshy on talking about warming, for some reason! -- as a warm winter. Apparently it's proof if the weather is hot, or if it is cold; if it is wet, or not; if the sun shines, or there is cloud; all this proves global warming!

Is there any weather condition that would NOT prove it, we wonder?

Posted on 19 December 2009 11:32 by Roger Pearse

See, this is why we've switched to the term "climate change". Far too many people seem incapable of working out that "global warming" refers to _average_ temperatures.

Posted on 19 December 2009 11:55 by Dave Cross

"We're expecting a snowstorm here - rather appropriate when we're talking about cimate change"
Masrk Mardell on BBC news from Washington explaining that if Obama hadn't flown straight home the airport would have been closed by snow.

Posted on 19 December 2009 13:30 by Neil Craig

Oh dear

that shows either woeful ignorance, or a deliberate misunderstanding of climate change.

And you're an MP apparently?

Great.

Posted on 19 December 2009 16:08 by Steve Wilson

Not much in South Oxfordshire either!

Posted on 19 December 2009 16:32 by eddyh

Ahhh but that's the great thing about the global warming scam Douglas. Bad or unexpected weather can be chalked up as global warming so it's win-win for the warmists.

Posted on 19 December 2009 21:28 by Jonathan

Don't get them started on the 'weather isn't climate' argument Doug. It's hard enough trying to convince them that adaption is a better course than prevention without them saying "well that Carswell thinks snow = no warming".

On the other hand, it is nice of nature to give us weather that ISN'T an example of global warming. The more of these we get, perhaps the less they'll say.

Posted on 19 December 2009 21:40 by Mark M

The teensiest weensiest problem with Global Warming is that there is no evidence for it at all. None. Zilch. Zero.

Those computer models, on the basis of which predictions our wonderful politicos wish to roll back the industrial age, have never predicted anything correctly, for 20 years, despite contant fiddling to get them to work.

I'm beginning to consider that there might be a God, with a fine sense of humour (or possibly alarm)

Posted on 20 December 2009 08:53 by Mike G

Snow is clearly evidence of global warming, as is rain, sun, wind, cold, heat or even no weather to speak of. As the Bishop of Grimsby told me when I was a lad: "If you have faith, you will believe."

Posted on 20 December 2009 12:52 by eeyore

Unfortunately for the UK one of the predicted possible outcomes of climate change is the failure of the gulf stream as more fresh water from the Arctic ice melting stops the process of the current. I that is correct expect many more feet of snow to dig! A more accurate label than global warming is climate chaos.

Posted on 20 December 2009 15:23 by Chris Southall

At least the weather has justified my 4x4 which I actually bought for comfort having back problems. Yesterday was the first time in 30 years that I have managed to get a car from my uphill sloping drive onto the road without having to clear all the snow. It was brilliant!

Posted on 20 December 2009 17:09 by Brian E.

Now look, luvvie, we all know that Global Warming is TRUE.
This is your very last written warning.
The snow is all in your imagination. It does not exist. This is the very warmest day of the whole year.

Posted on 20 December 2009 17:21 by Mike Stallard

Nor in Cambridgeshire. ; )

Posted on 20 December 2009 21:15 by Steve John Tierney

Goodness

what a den of ranty imbecility you have here Mr Carswell. I believe it was one of Mrs Thatcher's achievements to make people proud of their ignorance?

When people don't understand something, why don't they just have the humility to say so. It looks very silly to pretend to know better based on your own pathetically inadequate, mathematically illiterate interpetation of the data (which is generally not even studied before pomposity kicks in)

Posted on 24 December 2009 21:17 by Steve wilson

New data, Mr. Carswell, now shows that 2010 is the hottest year on record so far:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100715_globalstats_sup.html

Where are you now, Mr. Carswell? Why the silence about the weather these days? I was in Essex just last week, Mr. Carswell, and it was hot, hot, hot.

Posted on 18 July 2010 12:34 by J. Clifford

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