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Global Warming Melts Dreams of a White Christmas, Study Alleges
CNSNews.com ^ | December 15, 2004 | Marc Morano, CNSNews.com Sr. Staff Writer

Posted on 12/16/2004 5:59:26 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2

Global Warming Melts Dreams of a White Christmas, Study Alleges By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer December 15, 2004

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; junkscience; whitechristmas

1 posted on 12/16/2004 5:59:27 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2
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2 posted on 12/16/2004 6:06:26 PM PST by glock rocks (Play an accordian, go to jail. It's the law.)
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To: Iam1ru1-2

"During the Eocene, nearly 50 million years ago, palm trees grew in the north of England and alligators thrived far above the Arctic Circle on Canada's Ellesmere Island."

-- Science Magazine, February 7, 2003.

Those 'gators sure never had a white Christmas in England. Of course, that was a few years before Christ was born ;>)


3 posted on 12/16/2004 6:06:39 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Iam1ru1-2
If they want a white Christmas, come on up to Rochester, NY. We have about 3 inches of snow on the ground with more on the way. The weather person was talking in terms of feet this morning.

I would like a piece of climate warming for the next 90 days.

4 posted on 12/16/2004 6:08:29 PM PST by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends..)
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To: Iam1ru1-2

I would really like to be playing golf in upstate NY on Christmas day every year.


5 posted on 12/16/2004 6:13:36 PM PST by carlr (Global warming is the reason I have`nt won the lottery)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Those 'gators sure never had a white Christmas in England. Of course, that was a few years before Christ was born ;>)

Yep, about 49,997,996 before Christ was born...

6 posted on 12/16/2004 6:18:17 PM PST by dirtbiker (Solution for Terrorism: Nuke 'em 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!)
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To: Iam1ru1-2

It's a pretty big surprise all right!! The planet's only been warming up on a continuous basis since the last ice age, 20,000 years ago. It'll keep warming up for about another 30,000 years or so and then start cooling again. Then, somebody'll have to listen to all the cauterwalling about global cooling.

Wait!! We had to listen to all that crap about global cooling from the left just 30 years ago.


7 posted on 12/16/2004 6:44:47 PM PST by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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To: Iam1ru1-2
what fallacious trash........

An idiot can predict the weather 50 years from now, and cant be called wrong for 1/2 a freeking centrury. That prediction is as bogus as the global warming junk pseudoscience
8 posted on 12/16/2004 6:47:32 PM PST by aspiring.hillbilly
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

50 million years ago, Lucifer probably didn't even think about becoming Satan, and so the Earth, if it even existed then would have been the Garden of Eden entirely because the crystalline shell that predated the Ionisphere kept out harmful rays and would also cause a "global warming affect" all over the Earth, making the entire planet a tropical paradise, and just it will be during the millenial reign of Christ.


9 posted on 12/16/2004 7:03:16 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2
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To: aspiring.hillbilly
"what fallacial trash"

And just a few months ago, European scientists were predicting an "Ice Age" in Europe. I wish these quaks would get their heads together and decide once and for all which it's going to be: global warming or global ice age. Maybe they think that the northern hemisphere will experience a global ice age, and the southern hemisphere will experience global warming. It makes as much sense as what they're blabbing about, eh?

10 posted on 12/16/2004 7:08:27 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2
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To: All
OOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPSSSSS

fallacial should be fallacious.

11 posted on 12/16/2004 7:09:34 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2
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To: Iam1ru1-2

Oops! Excuse me... I just released some greenhouse gasses. Musta been those pepperoncinis I had at lunch.


12 posted on 12/16/2004 7:14:16 PM PST by Redcloak ("FOUR MORE BEERS! FOUR MORE BEERS! FOUR MORE BEERS!" -Teresa Heinz Kerry)
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Keep going, Red.

It's cold as kraut juice here in Northern Georgia, and additional methane can't hurt.

Hold the sulfides, though.


13 posted on 12/16/2004 7:58:31 PM PST by Ole Okie (Go Sooners!!)
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To: carlr

Good point! Never do we see a human happiness factor in the global warming pseudoscience. FORE!


14 posted on 12/16/2004 8:10:26 PM PST by BIGLOOK (I once opposed keelhauling but have recently come to my senses.)
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To: Iam1ru1-2
"fallacial should be fallacious" it was a play on words because it rhymes with "glacial"
15 posted on 12/17/2004 6:41:04 AM PST by aspiring.hillbilly
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To: glock rocks
It's good to see you are well. I have been worried about you since the end of the season. I found help by visiting the Nascar store every day... :o)
16 posted on 12/17/2004 6:48:13 AM PST by tubebender (If I had know I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself...)
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To: Iam1ru1-2
Here is more trashing directed at the bogus notion of GW,,,there was a huge glacier that covered half of North America 10000 years ago; called the ice age. For the glacier to form it got very very cold. Then the earth globally warmed because the local cave men contributed green house gasses by burning campfires and the glacier receded all the back to the Arctic.
17 posted on 12/17/2004 6:50:34 AM PST by aspiring.hillbilly
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To: tubebender

LOL. In the spirit of global warming, I bought my little boy a Dale Earnhardt blanket as a Christmas present.

Sigh.

How long did you say it was till Speed Weeks???


18 posted on 12/17/2004 7:55:12 AM PST by glock rocks (Play an accordian, go to jail. It's the law.)
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