Climate Consensus falls apart

[BlasterBates]

Climate change: A cooling consensus | The Economist

Oh dear...looks like the wheels are falling off the Green bandwagon.

[DimPrawn]

Wasn't income tax levied to fight the Napoleonic wars?

I'm sure we will all be paying ever larger carbon taxes long after everyone has forgotton all this AGW nonesense.....

[DimPrawn]

The weather prophets should be chucked in the deep end - Telegraph

For more than 20 years now, we have been told that this country was going to get hotter and hotter and hotter, and that global warming was going to change our climate in a fundamental way. Do you remember that? We were told that Britain was going to have short, wet winters and long, roasting summers. It was going to be like 1976 all over again, with streakers at Lord’s and your Mr Whippy melting before you could even lick it, and Hyde Park scorched into a mini Kalahari.

They said we were never going to have snow again, and that we should prepare for southern England to turn gradually into a Mediterranean world. There were going to be olive groves in the Weald of Kent, and the whole place was going to be so generally broiling in summer that no one would be able to move between noon and 4pm, after which people would come out to play boules and sip pastis, to the whine of a mandolin, in the dusty square that had once been a village green.

Like I said, people are starting to notice that climate "science" is junk science in that it's output has no value. It cannot be used to predict the future, it cannot be relied on to make policy decisions (the science is constantly being rewritten and the predictions swing from one end of the spectrum to the other).

[EternalOptimist]

Ski resorts in the Pyranees reopened after the winter/spring season earlier this month.
the first time EVER they reopened in June

20 years ago they were advised to close down and move into another business

predictive value of this pseudo-science ? zero

[DimPrawn]

2004

Global warming forces sale of Scottish winter sports resorts | UK news | The Guardian

With the pace of global warming increasing, some climate change experts predict that the Scottish ski industry will cease to exist within 20 years.

"Unfortunately, it's just getting too hot for the Scottish ski industry," said David Viner, of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. "It is very vulnerable to climate change; the resorts have always been marginal in terms of snow and, as the rate of climate change increases, it is hard to see a long-term future."

[Spacecadet]

2013

Scottish ski resorts eye summer season - Scotland - Scotsman.com

Scots could be heading to the slopes this June, with two of the country’s ski resorts predicting there will still be snow on the ground at the height of summer.

[scooterscot]

There's a few nutters skiing in Hintertuxer Gletscher right now, if you can see them through the weather...

Hintertuxer Gletscher - Ski Zillertal Tirol

[DimPrawn]

British olives anyone? | Countryfile.com

At first glance, Otter Farm could be in Andalucia or Tuscany. Rows of olive trees stand to attention while the sun dances on their delicate silvery leaves. In fact this is Honiton in Devon, where environmental scientist-turned-farmer Mark Diacono planted 120 olive trees on his 17-acre farm five years ago. He’s one of a growing band
of British farmers who are profiting from the warming climate to grow new crops that were traditionally grown in southern Europe.

FRUITS OF GLOBAL WARMING - Mark Diacono’s tips on 10 climate change crops you can grow....

I bet he's living off EU handouts now for failed crops.

[Paddy]

This morning the IR heaters were on in the station waiting room. People wearing scarves too. Mind you, the days are getting shorter now,