Posted on 12/15/2004 10:51:31 AM PST by kattracks
Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNSNews.com) - The British government released a new climate analysis this week alleging that white Christmases in England will be just a memory unless global warming is halted.
According to an analysis by British Environment Minister Elliot Morley, England is 65 percent less likely to have a white Christmas in the year 2050 due to the effects of global warming.
Coastal areas of England will be 90 percent less likely to see any snow by the year 2080. Morely is attending the UN climate summit in Buenos Aires.
Norman Baker, the British Parliament's Liberal Democratenvironment spokesman, summed up the analysis this way: "Britons will soon be left with only dreams of a white Christmas, as the chances of it actually happening become more remote."
Despite the fact that London has experienced only six white Christmases in the past 45 years, Baker said any future lack of snow could be blamed on only one factor. "Global warming is the main reason for this shift in seasonal weather and is responsible for changing the world as we know it," Baker said.
But William O'Keefe of the Washington-based George Marshall Institute said no one should stop dreaming of a white Christmas - "just like the ones they used to know" -- based on the new British study.
"The 65 percent probability that white Christmases will disappear in London is one hundred percent wrong," O'Keefe told CNSNews.com. The Marshall Institute, which "encourages the use of sound science in making public policy," takes a skeptical view of alarmist global warming.
"The British analysis is a compilation of fiction. There is no science and no scientific basis for those projections," said O'Keefe, who is attending the U.N. summit here.
"They (the projections) are pure speculation, which get credibility because they are run through computer models that have never been validated scientifically," O'Keefe explained.
But Britain's Baker believes the analysis should prompt a call to action on climate change.
"It is not only Christmas that will be affected. In the New Year we can expect more of the extreme weather, floods and gales suffered across the Continent this year. This is a global issue, but the government needs to make reducing greenhouse gases one of its top New Year's resolutions," Baker said.
But O'Keefe noted that many alarmist climate-change claims have proven contradictory.
"The world has gone through periods over hundreds of thousands of years and million of years where it's been warmer, it's been colder; and it was only a few decades ago that the scientists who are now telling us we are going to lose a white Christmas were telling us we were going into an ice age and there would be white Christmases 365 days a year," he said.
"When people sing Bing Crosby's song in years ahead, they will still experience the beauty of a white Christmas," O'Keefe predicted, referring to the classic Christmas song.
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Global warming my big black a$$.
And that is why the From Colorado to Boston and all points between, had a very white Thanksgiving.
Gimme a break.
OPs4 God Bless America!
ROFL. It's 39 degrees, sun is shining, ice is thawing, snow is melting, up here near the Canadian border. :)
Yepper - even here in the Biloxi, MS area, we're overnighting it in the 20s.
Personally, I don't care for a white Christmas anymore. The less snow, the better. If the militant environmentalist wackos want 8 feet of snow, come see me, they can have mine.
We haven't really been into white-Christmasses since the change from Julian to Gregorian calendars. If Christmas were on 7th January (as per Julian calendar) there would be a much greater chance.
Forty six years from now?
What a wuss!
I predict flaming tongues of fire a half mile high, volcanoes erupting every 20 miles or so, and subsidence of the northwest quarter of the British Isles into the Atalntic Ocean...
... unless they send me a check for only $20 Million a month. Cheap at twice that price.
Global warming my ass. Here in Space City, the humidest place on earth, we hit 33 last night.
Amen! I just shoveled a foot of "global warming" out of the driveway.
I thought England was supposed to be underwater by then?
I shovel "global warming" about 7 months out of the year. I kid you not.
29/13 here.
The environmentalists screamed that human industrial activity was increasing the particulate matter content of the atmosphere, raising the earth's albedo. This, we were told, would cause the atmosphere to reflect more sunlight, decreasing the amount of solar radiation that would reach the surface, and slightly lowering the average temperature of the earth.
This would cause some of the far northern glaciers not to melt in the summer, but instead stick around to grow some more in the winter. Eventually, we were told, thanks to mankind's reckless industrial policy, Detroit and Toledo would be buried under huge moving walls of solid ice.
Ah, the threat of global cooling. I remember it fondly.
Eventually, people stop listening to the wolf-criers.
Wasn't that the whole nuclear winter thing?
This reminds me of a sketch from Saturday Night Live where Mike Meyers was Carl Sagan in "Global Warming Christmas Special".
WAIT A MINUTE!
Just last month, the environmentalist wackos were saying that the Gulf Steam would stop flowing in the Atlantic Ocean. This was going to end the heat transfer from the Carribean to the North Sea and cause more severe winters and shorter growing seasons for Britain and Northwest Europe.
I'm confused.
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