Hot and Moist

[WTFH]

.. and then a few days later (or was it before) our UK Government selected their Secretary of State (rather than an independent planning officer) to make a final decision on allowing Fracking in the North West..

Isn't fracking about injecting water into the ground? Is there a need to do it, since the ground in the NW is already saturated?

[DodgyAgent]

The warmist nutters can't lose.

Climate cools - they were right and the measures taken were successful.
Climate warms - they were right and the measure taken were insufficient.

Whatever the outcome the socialists, scientists think they will win.

[BlasterBates]

We of course saw the sensationalist reports of the Artic's unprecedented warming last week.

NoTricksZone: "Not here to worship what is known, but to question it" – Jacob Bronowski. Climate news from Germany in English – by Pierre L. Gosselin

examining all the years since 1958 we see that a temperature spike of some 12°K or more in a matter of a few days during the November – March period occurred more than 70 times! f

It seems that the Flat Global temperatures are frustrating journalists so they need to use ordinary weather events like a temperature spike at the pole to push their message.

A sign of desperation indeed when a particularly unspectacular flood in York (I was there last week and it wasn't spectacular at all) is used as evidence of global warming. Especially when it was not due to the volume of water which was fairly normal but because of pumps being overwhelmed due to a fast run off, caused by "renewable deforestation" further upstream.

[pjclarke]

It seems that the Flat Global temperatures are frustrating journalists so they need to use ordinary weather events like a temperature spike at the pole to push their message.

Your link is to an Economist article from March 2013, not sure how temperatures then are relevant to journalism now, particularly as they have surged since, driven by El Nino.

A sign of desperation indeed when a particularly unspectacular flood in York (I was there last week and it wasn't spectacular at all) is used as evidence of global warming.

Who did that? As it happens, I grew up in York and was back for Christmas; flooding in the city is nothing new, the Kings Arms has a plaque on the wall marking previous flood levels, but I don't recollect the river ever bursting its banks down to Bishopgate, nor the Wharfe south of Tadcaster, and of course Taddy is now split by the loss of its 18th Century bridge, not to mention Elland Bridge near Halifax, also gone ....

[BlasterBates]

not to mention Elland Bridge near Halifax, also gone ....

This is a new one! when a several hundred year old bridge finally and inevitably collapses, it's due to global warming.

[vetran]

This is a new one! when a several hundred year old bridge finally and inevitably collapses, it's due to global warming.

was it made of straws? PJ is grasping!

[pjclarke]

This is a new one! when a several hundred year old bridge finally and inevitably collapses, it's due to global warming.

Oh, I very much doubt that.

[pjclarke]

NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal Record-Shattering Global Temperatures | NASA

[DimPrawn]

NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal Record-Shattering Global Temperatures | NASA

I love those alarmist "melting globe" images.

If the temp is +0.00000001 hotter than the average show it melting red.
If the temp is -0.00000001 cooler than the average show it a cool blue.

Doomed!

[pjclarke]

NASA report January as the hottest month on record, at 1.13C above the 1951-1980 average, pushing December 2015 into second place.

This is above the temperature predicted by the climate models used by the IPCC, and for climate geeks, between Scenario A and B from Jim Hansens's 1988 paper.

A lot of the warmth is in the Arctic which probably explains why the sea ice is in bad shape

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/i...timeseries.png

Of course, some people do not trust NASA, calling the data 'fiddled', indeed, some may remember an enquiry by 'respected international scientists' set up by the GWPF last April promising complete transparency and a detailed report. Here's the news

News — The International Temperature Data Review Project