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Global Warming Skeptic Predicts Brutal Winter, Warns “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”
Mediaite ^ | December 27, 2010 | Matt Schneider

Posted on 12/28/2010 8:28:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

British meteorologist Piers Corbyn appeared on Fox and Friends to not only celebrate his accurate prediction of a bone-chillingly cold winter, but to also share his disgust with what he believes to be the “failed science” behind global warming. Despite it often being mentioned that the consensus in the scientific community is that global warming is undisputedly occurring, Corbyn proudly goes against the grain and advocates for his hypothesis of the coming global cooling.

Predicting in November that winter in Europe would be “exceptionally cold and snowy, like Hell frozen over at times,” Corbyn suggested we should sooner prepare for another Ice Age than worry about global warming. Corbyn believed global warming “is complete nonsense, it’s fiction, it comes from a cult ideology. There’s no science in there, no facts to back [it] up.”

Furthermore, he disputed the underlying assumption of most scientists, arguing that higher carbon dioxide levels does not actually have the effect of increasing temperature, and instead global warming supporters “fiddle the facts to justify political attacks.”

Regardless of the politics behind the scientific debate, what everyone should be upset about is if Corbyn’s next prediction is accurate, that the “northeast and east USA [will] suffer the most horrendous blizzards for decades.” He even tweeted out his warning saying “you ain’t seen nothing yet” this winter.

Grab an extra sweater and watch the clip from Fox News below:

(VIDEO AT LINK)


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: agw; buswasright; climatechange; globalcooling; globalwarming; pierscorbyn; realmeteorologist; weather
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just a cautionary note. This fellow's like the goldbugs: prophetically right through an entire decade that's left the 'experts' largely flat-footed. I'm restraining a desire to cheer.

The trouble with being right when most others are wrong comes with the compensation mechanisms needed to stay cheery throught the shunning and taunting that comes with being easily singled out. In the goldbug case, morale is kept up with the realization that fiat currencies eventually go to zero value: the hyperinflation narrative. This kind of anchoring makes it tempting to keep doubling down when proven right again and again. You can think of it as inverse boosterism.

Eventually, though, the tide shifts and excitement turns into embarrassment. The fellow who was right when most others were wrong turns into yet another shark-jumper, like the people pushing real estate in '06 and Internet geeks in '99. Unlike the normal booster, the prescient doomsayer isn't forgiven - especially if his/her brand of doomsaying doesn't flack (or shill) for the government.

Predicting a new Ice Age is a way to get attention, 'tis true, but I'm beginning to wonder if Mr. Corbyn is approaching the shark-jumping moment. Sad to say, the prophetic minority is all-but-fated to go over the top. The psychological burden of bucking pap spread widely, and the consequent need to keep heart, get them in the end.

41 posted on 12/29/2010 3:44:47 AM PST by danielmryan
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To: 21twelve

Suspect by the time the ice sheets start moving south, there may not be much left to worry about. We really have no clue as to the physical global climate patterns that need to develop for Ice Age glaciers to grow as extensive as they have in the past. Just think about the physics involved for a little bit. We could be talking some huge and serious problems. There is a whole lot of snow required to develop a mile high wall of ice. That means a whole lot of water is coming out of those oceans and dumping down on high latitudes. May also mean coincidental excessive amounts of rain for the tropics.


42 posted on 12/29/2010 3:48:29 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: danielmryan

Piers is not always right. He is human after all. This summer he did make an error IMHO when he claimed the excessive heat in Russia was due to the active sun. The sun never really got into the active warming stage. Neutral or average activity for a short period this summer. Solar activity is currently more then 50 % below average. The excessive heat this summer was best explained by the 6 month atmospheric delay between El Nino and atmospheric warming. After all, El Nino is the number one single event generator of green house gases on the planet, simply due to the increase in oceanic water evaporation. El Nino is long gone. Now we are experiencing the cooling affects from the Super La Nina which has been occurring since early this summer. Apparently Piers caught on to all that eventually.


43 posted on 12/29/2010 3:56:55 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This brutal cold weather we have been experiencing can only be blamed on one person whose initials are GWB. We are all being punished for making his new book a best seller.
44 posted on 12/29/2010 4:52:05 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Definitely another little ice age. Real ice ages had cosmic causes and you’d have at least a century or two of warning; there is presently no plausible cause of such a thing anywhere close to us.


45 posted on 12/29/2010 4:53:23 AM PST by wendy1946
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Looking at all the data I have seen so far we should have gone into an ice age when it cooled down in 1400AD but then it warmed up for some strange reason from 1850 onward. That does coincide with the industrial revolution which started around that time...

Could it be that the warming from 1850 onward is what helped the industrial revolution to take hold? Once people were freed from the constant struggle for sustenance and survival, they had the time and opportunity to turn their endeavors toward other things? Just as with the warmists juxtaposition of cause and effect re. warming and CO2?

46 posted on 12/29/2010 5:40:11 AM PST by Roccus
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To: brityank
What we need to find is a good rat repellent!

Didn't you hear?? EPA has banned the most effective ones starting next summer:

EPA on verge of curbing use of rat poisons

47 posted on 12/29/2010 7:10:05 AM PST by CedarDave (Tagline being updated...)
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To: CedarDave
EPA on verge of curbing use of rat poisons

The vermin are now in charge, what should we expect?

48 posted on 12/29/2010 7:22:49 AM PST by SteamShovel (Beware the RINO-VIRUS...It will kill the TEA Party movement.)
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To: SteamShovel; brityank
Just posted the article on FR for comment:

Decades on, EPA on verge of curbing use of rat poisons

49 posted on 12/29/2010 7:32:28 AM PST by CedarDave (Tagline being updated...)
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To: CedarDave

Thanks for the heads up!


50 posted on 12/29/2010 7:42:07 AM PST by SteamShovel (Beware the RINO-VIRUS...It will kill the TEA Party movement.)
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To: The Cajun

Al Gore SUICIDE-WATCH would make a good sit-com..


51 posted on 12/29/2010 7:44:46 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: justa-hairyape
After all, El Nino is the number one single event generator of green house gases on the planet, simply due to the increase in oceanic water evaporation.

Since you seem to be up on all this, where is the greenhouse layer in the atmosphere? As I understand it, the model is based on a greenhouse, with a surface that is a solid, which allows the sun's rays to penetrate but not reflect. If that model works, shouldn't there be a corresponding layer in the atmosphere that is identifiable?

We know where the troposphere is as well as the stratosphere and the rest, but just where is the greenhouseosphere?
I don't buy the entire greenhouse gas theory

52 posted on 12/29/2010 7:55:22 AM PST by Cuttnhorse (Obama; a skid mark on the undershorts of American history.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Damaged Gulf Stream affects Jet Stream - Lord Stirling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI4tqbQDPKk


53 posted on 12/29/2010 8:10:47 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Roccus

Oh yeah. Warming things up did help improve conditions from survival to being able to thrive. It’s already been established by the anti-AGW climate scientists that CO2 production lags behind warming and cooling trends by several hundred or more years.

I think the warming trend since 1850 has contributed significantly to how the modern industrial revolution has proceeded since that time. Now we have a bunch of Leftists in power who want to take us back to pre-industrial times...with good intentions, of course.


54 posted on 12/29/2010 10:44:14 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: brityank

Spring of 2009, my astronomy prof had our class go outside to look at the sun through a telescope - with the help of a special filter of course. He was so disappointed because there was no sunspot activity to view. I later saw an article that said we had been in a low sunspot period and I linked it to him and said that was obviously why we didn’t see one that day.

This was interesting. Thanks.


55 posted on 12/29/2010 10:52:31 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: JLS

I have no idea. All I know is he was on 60 Minutes several years ago and I was fascinated by him. Of course, astrophysicists are my kind of people!


56 posted on 12/29/2010 10:54:59 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: justa-hairyape

Great graphic!


57 posted on 12/29/2010 10:55:50 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I really enjoyed Corbyn on Fox and Friends. CO2 being a major contributor to “Climate Change” would be a dead theory already under any normal “scientific” scrutiny. CO2 makes up only .038% of the atmosphere yet almost every living creature arguably depends on it. The villainization of CO2 is the most remarkable hoax that I have ever been aware of. The climate has far to many variables to attribute so much to the most essential trace gas in the atmosphere.


58 posted on 12/29/2010 11:27:40 AM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: jagusafr

I agree. Enjoyed his interview.


59 posted on 12/29/2010 11:28:32 AM PST by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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