‘Children Aren’t Going to Know What Snow Is’: A Global Warming Classic Flashback
**Written by Doug Powers
Ed Driscoll features this gem of a global warming story from March of 2000 that appeared in The Independent:
Among the horrors the “settled science” declared imminent was the disappearance of snow:
Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community. Average temperatures in Britain were nearly 0.6°C higher in the Nineties than in 1960-90, and it is estimated that they will increase by 0.2C every decade over the coming century. Eight of the 10 hottest years on record occurred in the Nineties.
However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
Fast forward the scare tactics just over ten years and glance at today’s headlines:
Al Gore’s globull warming SWAT team must have gotten wind that this decade-old story had been unearthed and is making the rounds, because here’s a return salvo via a headline in today’s Telegraph:
Maybe at some point an enterprising reporter will ask one of these “scientists” what would be an indication that there’s not man-made global warming. I mean, if everything is a symptom of global warming, it’ll be kind of hard to tell when we’ve fixed the problem, won’t it?
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When the pendulum swings the other way in a decade or so.
The sky is always falling. Either up, or down.
Yeah, the same people who said we’d be frozen in cubes 40 years ago are now saying the ice is gonna melt and we’re gonna fry.
Now it’s going from cold to hot to extreme weather events.
Time for a new villian I guess.
Interesting, isn’t it? How these nature-lovers cast their beloved as an evil thing.
This is what happens to academia when they become beggars for grants. They don’t do science, they become beaurocrats scratching the big hogs back while hoping they will get a little bacon.
The mentality we’re dealing with.
My sister lives in Germany, they’re getting pretty tired of digging out.
There will be snow falls in the future, of course, but like unemployment and deficit increases, they will always be “unexpected” (“freak,” “unusual,” what other synonyms you can come up with.)
BTW, what is the short list of things that are not caused by Global Warming?
Shoot! That means I can’t play the old “Oh look! Snow Gold!” yellow snow trick on the British kids that come to visit my neighbor.
To quote Euripides:
Reminds me of a joke. Man takes his torn pants to a tailor and asks: “Eumenides?” Tailor replies: “Euripides? Of course I’ll mend them. I’m a tailor.”
Unfortunately some people never learn, they think that the world began the day they were born or can’t remember anything beyond yesterday. Either way, there are far too many gullible targets for the lies and subterfuge. There are still those that believe the Global Warming and Green scams, and arrogantly defending their flawed beliefs.
You nailed it, cheapseat. Never assume that supposedly highly educated (and I challenge the assumption) are above the basest level of low-grade chicanery to stuff their own pockets or at least justify their academic existence. Education does NOT correlate with honorable behavior, at least not anymore.
The media, who regurgitate this swill, are equally amateurish and complicit in fomenting this crap.
The problem will only be fixed when the Liberal Nannies have total control of your life. They will live one way and the Proles will live another. That is when you know.
It’s what we get from our so called leaders….
Dangerous – especially because they are influential – idiots.
No different from the mentality that the “prosecution” at a witchcraft trial would likely have:
Watch Elizabeth Taylor’s trial scene
in “Ivanhoe” for an example of this.
Another example – with more yucks – would be Connie Booth’s trial for witchcraft in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”.
Nope, same villain as usual. The US.
Easy: global warming will no longer exist when the planet sheds its atmosphere and achieves the same temperature as the Moon, which is roughly freezing (0C/32F) if memory serves. That will increase as the sun ages, though, and the Earth should retain its atmosphere for a couple billion more years so the point is rather hypothetical anyway.
Meanwhile, over at Spaceweather we see a nice study of volcanic effects on global climate showing that everything except volcanic effects – PDO, cloud cover, GHG, etc. – account for just 0.1C of all warming in the period studied (the last 50 years). In other words, GHG is less than 0.1C, and that includes naturally occurring GHG.
The little indicator thing has popped. Time to take this turkey out of the oven.
No, no, no! It’s BOOOOOOOOSH’s fault!
A bit of this GW crud as seen in FL, millions of dead sea creatures from the cold!
http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2010/12/20/millions-funky-dead-sea-creatures-wash-ashore-after-record-florida-freeze
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Nature lovers. That’s an interesting concept. Liberal IDIOTS like obama and pelosi and reid constantly shriek about “the environment” yet I am certain that they have never camped out in the woods like SARAH PALIN does. I really liked watching her show. Camping out, riding 4-wheelers in the wilderness.
obama and the demonrat IDIOTS never do things like that. I am certain obama is scared of the dark. That goes back to his roots in Kenya and the tribal mentality of fearing the lions in the woods.
We have another Ronald Reagan. Her name is Sarah Palin.
Can we PLEASE elect an American president in 2012??
Then it’s not science. Science is two things — reproducible results and the theory must be able to be proven false.
If everything proves your theory true, then it’s not scientific. Because, what if it is false?!? There is always that chance. In the case of Global Warming or Climate Change or whatever the catastrophe du jour is, the keepers of the faith have told us that “scientific consensus” says it’s all man-made. There is no such thing as scientific consensus. Consensus is for politics. All of the AGW devotees are being paid by governments with agendas. The politicians think that since consensus is their way of working, they think that science should work that way too. And who is the biggest supporter of the AGW consensus scam? Why Al Gore! A politician!
Any “consensus” among science has always been proven to be false. Ideas like continential drift and insects causing malaria went against the consensus. They are now accepted as science fact because of repeated results. And in each case, the theory could have been proven false. Not so with AGW. So, it’s not science.
Maybe some enterprising reporter could ask them if they are sure this time that the snow is caused by man made global warming seeing that these same scientists said that snow would disappear. I would love to hear them stutter through an answer. It would be great if the “scientists” claimed it was a misscalculation or some other nonsense like that. Then the reporter could follow up with a question about whether or not man made global warming was also a misscalculation on their part.
Of course I wont hold my breath on that as I really do not see any “eneterprising reporters” out there anymore.
Nor are they going to know whom to trust!
Progressivism is just another idea that combines all that is bad, or immoral in man:
Lies,
false witness,
covetness,
the lack of respect,
jealousy,
envy,
the worship of false idols,
greed,
hatred.
Obviously, this disease, the corruption of power, has been around a long time.
Hmm. Maybe it’s time to buy up a bunch of beach-front properties in the Aleutians to sell to these scientists before they figure it out…
Too hot, global warming.
Too cold, global warming.
Too dry, global warming.
Too wet, global warming.
No snow, global warming.
Too snowy, global warming.
Too windy, global warming.
No wind, global warming.
Dandapani, you forgot:
No warming for a decade, global warming.
Global cooling for the past 5 years, global warming.
there’s their ‘out’
Well, The three stooges really aren’t nature lovers….although they, as a means of working for their own precious cause, assuage the really useful idiot nature lovers by superfically supporting the cause of “the environment”.
The only cause Obama, Reid and Pelosi are truly interested in is the cause of a permanently leftist controlled political “environment” naturally run by themselves and their cohorts. One in which they will live, as they already do, luxuriously, at the expense of their own effect on nature and of everyone else’s misery.
‘environmentalism’ has nothing to do with ‘nature’ or being a good steward of G-d’s creation.
It’s fascism. It’s leftist. It’s a sickness and fetish with those people.
Oooh, Connie Booth! Saucy wench was a bit of a goer, eh? (sigh)
You have that right, and you can add the newly found radical leftist “justice” (economic, environmental & social) movement as well.
Be wary of “justice”, a nicer way of making “redistribution” palatable.
Here’s an article by Steve Goddard ,”Cooking The Books At USHCN”, with an animated GIF showing how alarmists have resorted to simply altering historic data in their desperation to ‘prove’ that global warming is unprecedented and a looming catastrophe.
Steve asks ther question –
Of course we know the answer is “throw them in jail” but these are people in GOVERNMENT lying in order to keep their jobs. Politicians do that all the time and we all seem to just sit back and let them get away with it. So the real question is ….WHY DO WE LET THEM!?!?!?
Dandapani
Sun rises, global warming.
Sun sets, global warming.
Wasn’t that what Tevye was singing about in “Fiddler on the Roof?”
Just in case the original story (http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html)
gets scrubbed…
…I have archived it here:
http://www.webcitation.org/5v7fhvqhF
It was arrogant of any individual to think that man has an impact on the weather one way or another. All of the global warming stuff was theory at best, which was turned into manipulated junk science to enrich some elites. Where is all that evil rich talk when it comes to stealing money for phony green policies? Gore lining his pockets with tax payer money is good while successful businesses are bad. Global warming is the new snake oil. Neither is worth the money.
Hmm. From August until now, the average daytime temperature has dropped from around 80 degrees around here to about 30 degrees! That’s more than 10 degrees per month!! If that trend continues, we’ve got less than 4 years before we reach absolute zero!!!
We’re DOOMED!!!!
My friend is stuck in Berlin for Christmas and can’t get back to the US because of the blizzard going on there. Damn global warming!
lying gutter scum is as lying gutter scum does.
don’t you just love seeing Leftist stupidity and prevarication on parade? I would, except they never bear any consequence for their constant lies and deliberate fraud.
why is that?
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HI THUNDERHAWKK–#18. My feelings exactly on Sarah Palin being the only real conservative candidate on the political scene. I think she is the only person who will work for the American Citizens–instead of working for the Corruptocrats of both political parties.
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I loved the interview she gave to a big city lady reporter a few months ago. Sarah standing in the lake in hip boot waders gutting / cleaning fish and throwing them on shore as she talked to the infobabe. And the babe was turning green as the Sarah’Cuda showed her how real people earn a living. She’s the real deal.
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Must see:
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution…”
(…The Communist Revolution)
“Deconstructing Capitalism”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBiutQznDCA
The ruling elite of both parties loathe a “commoner” such as Palin. Such impudence that she might even think of running for the presidency. Now, she might be tolerated and marginally accepted if she ran for and won a seat as a member of CONgress, just as long as doesn’t rock the boat much and can be useful in bringing out the GOP vote, but never, never, will she be anything other than villified and mocked by the left and marginalized by the elite GOP part leadership.
If she tries to run for the presidency, that is.
I wish I didn’t know what snow is…I’m tired of it after the first one. Next!
It’s so damn hot in East Tennessee that the pond and my horses water trough barely froze last night. To top it all off a tsunami washed out my driveway. I hate global warming. Damn that George Bush.
They wouldn’t be having all of that snow if they had banned Dihydrogen Monoxide!
I still think Chris Christie is a keeper. He may compromise on some issues but not the critical ones. I’ll hope for the best but we shall see.
50 milliliters of dihydrogen monoxide and ethanol mixed in a silicon dioxide container is deadly.
That’s some dangerous element there! I know its almost done me in a couple of times while in a large body of it. : )
Every time they try to bring up “climate change” (or whatever the libs are calling it this month) throw this stuff right back at ‘em. All that nonsense is piling up higher and faster than a snowbank during a Chicago lake effect snowstorm.
RedDog and hawkeye54,
Dihydrogen Monoxide is fatal if inhaled.
I came from Alabama
Wid my banjo on my knee,
I’m g’wan to Louisiana
My true love for to see,
It rain’d all night the day I left,
The weather it was dry,
The sun so hot I frose to death;
Susanna, don’t you cry.
global warming, circa 1850
And can be quite painful in making sudden contact with it in its solid form.
Great, now all the kids will be huffing it!
I like to heat it up, add a little fermented camellia sinensis, annnd woooo! It’s gets crazy up in here!
It is snowing here right now. Again. Just check out the Vikings/Bears game tonight in the outdoors and you will see. Our local weatherperson just said that if we get 6 more inches here in Minneapolis before the end of December, we will have the snowiest December since record-keeping started. I am really getting weary of the “warmers”. They have been programed and no one knows how to fix them.
I also like to cool it down until it becomes a solid and I can add it to a flavored and carbonated version of itself, (ooo, nasty carbon, double trouble!), along with some C2-H6-O of course.
Hmmm? ‘Fix’ them?… that probably ain’t legal.
On December 20th, 2010 at 12:26 pm, Dandapani said:
Sadly they do believe that everything weather pattern is global warming. I tried to get a global warming believer to explain how 20 below normal and near single digits for a high is a sign of GW. They couldn’t but insisted it is.
Yes and the Van Allen Belt is on fire and only Admiral Walter Pidgoen and Peter Lorre can save us.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
These people get their science old movies.
Australia? Damn poor roos will freeze!
Bitter summer freeze bites eastern states as summer gives way to snow and cold
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/bitter-summer-freeze-bites-eastern-states-as-summer-gives-way-to-snow-and-cold/story-e6frfq80-1225974173962#ixzz18hcgrVht
Not if you keep your joey in the pocket!
When the funding dries up?
Heh.
Mammoth Mountain, CA – more than 13 feet of snow.
Yup. Kids may never know what snow is.
Maybe they meant “snow” like the coke Obama snorted in college.
I meant to say this earlier, but I think it was ingenious of Doug to use the “Frosty Melted” image for this story on the main page!
Because ‘Children Aren’t Going to Know What Snow Is’, after all!
A melted Frosty the Snowman, and a crying little girl… Yes, that is what the “warmers” want you to believe.
The 12 Days of Global Warming
Here’s the full list of everything that’s been blamed on Global Warming. It starts with ACNE.
My contribution to Global Warming:
Gore-bull Warming Song
(sung to the tune of Let it Snow!)
Oh, the weather outside is warming,
And the fear is so alarming,
We haven’t a place to go –
Where’s the snow, where’s the snow, where’s the snow?
Oh, what’s that white stuff falling?
It seems we need some hauling…
To help get rid of the snow,
Where’d Al go? Where’d Al go? Where’d Al go?
When we finally crank up the heat
So we don’t freeze our Christmas ba!!s off
As we try to make sense of this,
We’ll sit around the fire and scoff!
Oh, the global warming crowd is hiding
But I bet we’ll hear some chiding
The proof of warming, you know,
Is the snow, Is the snow, Is the snow!
By Babiesgrandma
Pretty cool version of “let it snow” – Babiesgrandma – I’m gonna try out your lyrics on my liberal neighbors – heh!
Have fun. I had fun writing it up. When you have a great “muse” such as gorebull warming, it’s easy to tap into the creativity side.
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