Real Climate Science

If Mother Nature won’t cooperate and produce some warming, bloggers will have to step in for her.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/

According to Age UK (formerly Help the Aged and Age Concern), more than 30,000 older people die every year from preventable causes over the winter months.

Michelle Mitchell, Age UK charity director, said, “The simple fact that the UK has one of the highest winter mortality rates in Europe – higher than even Sweden or Finland – makes it clear this is very much a home-grown problem.

“Behind these shocking statistics lie deep-seated social issues, such as 3.5 million older people in fuel poverty – a figure that could rise even further under the combined pressure of soaring energy bills and plummeting temperatures.”

http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/

Someday, we all have to meet our maker. Can you face him? This isn’t some bullshit from a climate model in 100 years. This is happening in the real world, right now.

http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/

The UK consists of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and one more country which no longer has very many Englishmen living there.

http://www.coloradoan.com/

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/

The ninth coldest year in the last century.

Monbiot studying the Nixon White House playbook. These people can never admit that they were wrong.

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/12/20/cold-burn/#more-1311

http://news.smh.com.au/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12102126

h/t to Jimbo

Only needs to accelerate about 100X above the already bloated altimetry readings. Antarctic Polar Bears doomed!

http://www.chronogram.com/

December averaged -0.7C. The only colder year was 1890 at -0.8.

There might have been less UHI in 1890.

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/mly_cet_mean_sort.txt

h/t to Morgan in Sweden