Ten years ago :
According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Berkshire, says ultimately, British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes – or eventually “feel” virtual cold.
And now they are trying to pretend they never said it
Steve Connor of the Independent has written a fascinating article today. ‘Don’t believe the hype over climate headlines’ is about a story that ran in the paper ten years ago with which ‘climate contrarians have been making much of’.
Steve makes some fine points about the difficulty for scientists and science journalists to find a balance between writing interesting stories that catch the eye of the reader (the fundamental job of a good journalist) and the difficulties and conveying all the tiny caveats and nuances that go with science stories, especially those about climate science.
The case Steve refers to is about the likely chances of snowfall in the future under climate change. The headline used 10 years ago was “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past”, but I can assure you that no self respecting climate scientist would ever make such a bold statement, not today or ten years ago.
The reason for this is quite simple – that kind of statement is just not true when taken out of context of the whole article that deals with all those caveats and nuances that can be so hard to understand.
The bottom line is that snow was and still is never going to vanish from our weather, although how often we see snow may well change. Snow and cold are part of the natural variability of our changing day-to-day weather.
Uhm….. I thought “Less Frequent” meant LESS frequent…not… MORE.
What will be the story when the Thames freezes over?
Key words :
“Self-respecting”
I see you picked up on that as well!
Now we know – the fraud scientists are not “self respecting”!
Does not our ‘warming’ climate eventually have to manifest itself in our “changing day-to-day weather” and result in less snow? It seems like our climate gurus are trying to have it both ways.
“Don’t believe the headlines” Are they lost or what? who believes headlines like “warmest year ever” Etc..
If they did not make stupid claims no one would claim they did! The MET office should learn to keep quiet because every comment they make draws more attention to their value in a negative way. Just like our Climatologists and the Chicken Little Brigade here in the U S. They would be better off maintaining a very low profile and riding out the storm. It is evident the Extreme Weather that is coming will be caused by and directed towards the Climatology groups! They fabricated a house of fantasy in a Flood Zone of Truth.
Down the memory hole it goes! Never happened, never said it.