Jo Abbess, BSc, WILL be pleased. After its all-too-brief flirtation with climate change reality, the BBC is back to its old ways.
Yesterday on the Today programme, one of its chief climate fear promoters (aka environment correspondent) Roger Harrabin reported the appropriately spine-chilling news that the Arctic sea ice is definitely going to melt by 2020. How do we know this? Because a Cambridge professor claims so based on ice measurements taken by Pen Hadow’s Catlin Arctic Survey.
Say what? Surely he doesn’t mean the same disastrous Arctic mission which has been described as the “scientific joke of 2009″?
They surely do.
The marvellous Watts Up With That website lists ten good reasons why the hard science provided by Catlin Arctic Survey’s research is roughly in the same league of predictive usefulness as tea leaves, chicken entrails or Gordon Brown’s treasury forecasting team.
They include, its “unrealistic vision of self-importance”, the failure of its ice radar sounding equipment “almost from day one” (a fact which the expedition only chose to reveal to the world on day 44), its presentation of false data to the world on its website (which, er, accidentally failed to mention that “live” biotelemetry data being sent straight from the Arctic wasn’t live at all) and its blatant warmist bias which left it woefully unprepared for the colder-than-expected arctic weather that cut its expedition short.
My favourite, one though, is this cruelly brief dismissal by Dr Walt Meier of NSIDC – one of the world’s most prominent sea ice researchers.
“I don’t anticipate using the Catlin data.”
I received an email from a skiing company yesterday (Powder Byrne), telling me that in Austria and Switzerland there has been masses of snow – one of the earliest first falls of snow on record. How can this be possible if it’s all melting in the Arctic?
You have to laugh – the Arctic ice free in a few years’ time when it is now – 40′ C. in summer! What kind of fools do they take us for?
It reminds me of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The pigs manage the news because they are in charge of it all over again.
Gullible old Boxer the workhorse taxpayer pays for it all, and is even grateful; the pigs know best.
Boxer needs to get himself a little lap top and read about what is really going on on the Internet.
Stupid old Boxer, will he ever learn?
I went to a talk given by Henry Worsely who 100 years to the day conducted a trek across the Antarctic in the steps of Shackleton. Along the 900 mile trek, they took photographs in exactly same positions, 100 years later. There was one mountain ridge showing a glacier and a snow line and the two photographs, separated by a century, were just about identical – in fact, very little had changed to the physical landscape as their well documented trek concluded.
It may be of interest to know that the Met. Office issued a press release on October 15th. which appears to contradict the Pen Hadow/Prof. Wadhams predictions. Specifically it states that according to Met. Office models, ice-free summers are unlikely before 2060-80.
Strangely this has not been reported on the BBC, or as far as I know anywhere else. Read it for yourself here:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2009/pr20091015b.html