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.
"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 ;>)
I would like a piece of climate warming for the next 90 days.
I would really like to be playing golf in upstate NY on Christmas day every year.
Yep, about 49,997,996 before Christ was born...
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.
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.
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?
fallacial should be fallacious.
Oops! Excuse me... I just released some greenhouse gasses. Musta been those pepperoncinis I had at lunch.
Keep going, Red.
It's cold as kraut juice here in Northern Georgia, and additional methane can't hurt.
Hold the sulfides, though.
Good point! Never do we see a human happiness factor in the global warming pseudoscience. FORE!
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???
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