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Global Warming Melts Dreams of a White Christmas, Study Alleges
CNSNEWS.com ^ | 12/15/04 | Marc Morano

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 Democrat

environment 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.

See Related Articles:
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Essay Claiming 'Scientific Consensus' for Global Warming is Ridiculed (Dec. 7, 2004)
Meteorologist Likens Fear of Global Warming to 'Religious Belief' (Dec. 2, 2004)


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: christmas; climatechange; whitechristmas
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To: kattracks

How come they never have a Global Warming conference in December in Stockholm?


41 posted on 12/25/2004 6:19:09 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: kattracks

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?


42 posted on 12/25/2004 6:19:29 AM PST by TMSuchman (American by birth,rebel by choice, MARINE BY GOD!)
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To: kattracks
Global warming helping to ease the holiday rush.

43 posted on 12/25/2004 6:24:23 AM PST by oh8eleven
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To: kattracks

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.


44 posted on 12/25/2004 6:27:27 AM PST by MWS
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To: kattracks
this graph shows that we are heading for global cooling:
45 posted on 12/25/2004 6:28:41 AM PST by HighWheeler ("The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato)
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To: kattracks
Merry Christmas to you & yours, katt.

Gee whiz! Let's see what I can find quickly on this:

Winter Storm Warning-Corpus Christi, Texas

 What about this "global warming" we keep hearing liberals talk about?
 The Kyoto Protocol: “Fatally Flawed” -- Unless Kyoto has some impact on sunsupot activities, it looks like Bush's lonely, unilateral decision may have been right. This bulletin indicates that sunspots may have been responsible for much of the warming that's allegedly occurred since 1900.Of course, maybe some industrialists are up there fooling around with the sun.

 Snow for South Carolina Christmas Night!

 NOAA knows weather
 http://www.khou.com/ Some snow in the Houston area!
 http://www.wfaa.com/
 http://www.fema.gov/hazards/winterstorms/wntsft.shtm  

Snow flurries dust Houston, parts of East and South Texas
 
 Compilation of pics from the area:

http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=12503

 Massive Rescue Effort Underway...BREAKING

 Massive Winter Storm Strands Travelers (Global Warming Alert!)

46 posted on 12/25/2004 6:35:30 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: kattracks; mhking; wizardoz; MaryFromMichigan
Global Warming Melts Dreams of a White Christmas, Study Alleges

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?

47 posted on 12/25/2004 6:42:19 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: mhking
"Global warming my big black a$$."

We have 2 feet of snow and it was -12 last night. Northwest Kentucky.

Global warming my big white a$$.

48 posted on 12/25/2004 6:58:31 AM PST by auggy (http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-DownhomeKY /// Check out My USA Photo album & Fat Files)
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To: kattracks


More live pics with current weather here:
http://www.instacam.com/search.asp?searchb...earchtype=state


49 posted on 12/25/2004 7:09:10 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: kattracks

It's 9 degrees here. Yup..must be that global warming


50 posted on 12/25/2004 7:11:45 AM PST by stbdside
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To: Mike Darancette

I just read a book on the signing of the Magna Carta (1210 AD).

England was so warm they had vinyards.


51 posted on 12/25/2004 7:16:40 AM PST by eddie willers
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To: Redbob

You should be dead.

Paul Ehrlich said so.


52 posted on 12/25/2004 7:21:16 AM PST by eddie willers
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To: eddie willers
I just read a book on the signing of the Magna Carta (1210 AD).

And by the time of Elizabeth I (1560) they were having Ice Fairs on the Thames River.

53 posted on 12/25/2004 8:30:28 AM PST by Mike Darancette (MESOCONS FOR RICE '08)
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To: kattracks

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!


54 posted on 12/25/2004 8:46:19 AM PST by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: kattracks

Generally speaking, those who are screaming are making a poorer case than those who quietly caution.


55 posted on 12/25/2004 9:39:49 AM PST by Old Professer (When the fear of dying no longer obtains no act is unimaginable.)
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To: kattracks
"Britons will soon be left with only dreams of a white Christmas, as the chances of it actually happening become more remote."

Destroy the economy and you'll be singing "I'm dreaming of a green Christmas, just like the ones before the world-wide depression."

56 posted on 12/25/2004 9:49:09 AM PST by wizardoz
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