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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How come they never have a Global Warming conference in December in Stockholm?
Right now it is a -2 here in SouthEast MI. We have 6 inthes of snow on the ground with 1-2 more due tonight. What global warming?
The part that cracks me up is that these people have been whining that global warming has led to conditions that have caused much colder winters.
These people really ought to make up their minds.
Gee whiz! Let's see what I can find quickly on this:
Winter Storm Warning-Corpus Christi, Texas
Snow for South Carolina Christmas Night!
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Don't fret, folks! We can still coat the landscape with dioxin flakes! That's nice and fluffy and white!
Dashing through the dioxin,
In an environmentally-sealed suit,
Gosh I love this toxin,
Isn't it too cute?
We have 2 feet of snow and it was -12 last night. Northwest Kentucky.
Global warming my big white a$$.
More live pics with current weather here:
http://www.instacam.com/search.asp?searchb...earchtype=state
It's 9 degrees here. Yup..must be that global warming
I just read a book on the signing of the Magna Carta (1210 AD).
England was so warm they had vinyards.
You should be dead.
Paul Ehrlich said so.
And by the time of Elizabeth I (1560) they were having Ice Fairs on the Thames River.
Well, I live in a 'burb south of Houston, TX. My youngest and I went outside this morning and had a snowball fight. Real snow -- good packing stuff that I remember as a youth in Michigan, not the ice pellets that pass for snow in Houston.
It will be gone by evening (thank God), but it was fun to see.
What is it that we were discussing? Oh, yeah . . . global warming. Bwahahaha!
Generally speaking, those who are screaming are making a poorer case than those who quietly caution.
Destroy the economy and you'll be singing "I'm dreaming of a green Christmas, just like the ones before the world-wide depression."
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