John Edwards and his trial lawyer buddies will probably try to figure out a way to sue the Sun for being negligently variable in its energy output.
D*cks.
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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To think Arizona is having one of the colder (not countung this week, of course) winters than it's had in years.
These folks better quit worrying about global warming and start worrying about the unchecked influx of muslims...going without snow is going to be a piece of cake compared to what the islamic nutcakes will do.
(sniffle)(tears running down cheek)
Boy, this UN Climate Summit is really producing some bad news.
(sniffle)
First we learn that global warming will hurt mommies most
(sniffle)
Now, we learn that we wont have a pretty Christmas anymore. I'll bet this means Santa won't be coming.
(sniffle)
I'll bet that global warming is gonna kill cute fuzzy bunnies, Mickey Mouse and rainbows too!
I'm so upset that I'm don't even feel like watching Powderpuff Girls
The scenario you reiterate above is possible but unlikely.
Not only do I remember the '70's doomsayers predicting a new ice age, I seem to recall it's THE SAME EXPERTS that are now predicting global warming!
What do you want to bet somebody hacked one line of code in their computer models for climate change?
Those environmental extremists don't know what they're talking about. The environment would 1)Kill us and repair itself 2)by the time they estimate it gets really bad we'd have the technology to fix it 3)Most of them are all socialist left-wingers anyways, so who cares. Plus, I'd say the environment is pretty good. Less than thirty degrees fahreinheit in Florida. Uh oh, sudden flashes of propaganda flashing through my mind, DAY.....AFTER.........TOM....RRR....OW! Uh, no effect. Still just a conservative seventeen year old.
Funny you should mention historical climates.
A few years ago, I visited the wwebsite for Castle Harlech in Wales, and was amused to read that, when it was built in 1283, they put in "a gated and fortified stairway plunging almost 200 ft down to the foot of the castle rock. Once, this gave access to supplies from the sea, but the tide level has since receded, leaving Harlech somewhat isolated upon its rock."
http://www.castlewales.com/harlech.html
The picture showed that this stairway to the sea now sits high and dry, quite a number of feet above even current high tide.
So much for global warming raising the sea levels, eh?
Well, political correctness has affected even the Welsh - the Castle Harlech website no longer has that picture!
Even though the text remains.
"I'm confused."
Obviously not a believer.
BUT.....this time around, the wolf criers have the UN AND the WTO to do their bidding. The proposed retaliation method for failure to comply with required / suggested reductions in greenhouse gasses is the WTO....who I guess will impose trade sanctions on all the bad countries. You can bet we'll be at the top of their list....nevermind the fact that this is pure, unadulterated BUNK.
Please See Patrick Michael's book on the subject: The Satanic Gases, clearing the air about global warming. This is a must read.
It's Bush's fault for switching us from Julian to Gregorian calendars.
Anything is possible.
But wait, I thought that global warming was going to shut down the North Atlantic conveyor current, and throw England into a veritable ice age, considering that they're at the same latitude as central Canada.
John Edwards and his trial lawyer buddies will probably try to figure out a way to sue the Sun for being negligently variable in its energy output.
D*cks.
I figured you for a fertilizer salesman, but a $#!# shoveler too? :)
Har har. Don't quit your day job.
Do you play poker? Is two pair more likely than a straight flush?
And it's pissin' snow here in Ireland!
It's snowing in south Texas for Christ's sake
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