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Gorbal Worming

No, it is, really:

Arctic blast set to sweep through UK, bringing temperatures as low as -15C

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23 thoughts on “Gorbal Worming”

  1. NO, but every hot day is a harbinger of gorbal warning and a sign of a change in climate, while every cold day is just weather. In other words it is all BS and simply a political narrative. We’ll have to start a “telling on Jb” column.

    Don’t you recall all those solemn, earnest pronouncements about children not knowing what snow would be like and ice free artic and cities underwater by 2020 (and earlier). Political narrative, fit for the gullible and the simple minded.

  2. At least they admit that establishing a climate takes a very long time, as much as 30 years! The 4,543,000,000,000 years before that? Meh…

  3. Global Warming is so last century. Now it’s The Climate Crisis which is basically just another name for bad weather. This means that whether it’s too hot, too cold, too wet or too dry that always goes to prove that “Carbon” is to blame.

  4. On the subject of climate related bullshit and downright lies after 12 years of obfuscation the case of Mark Steyn against Michael “statically enhanced historical data hockey stick” Mann is finally due to commence today.

    All right thinking people should wish Mark well, not least in view of his recent health issues.

  5. @Stonyground – i thought it was now The Climate Catastrophe/ The Worlds on fire/the oceans are boiling or some such bullshit. As any fule no we need global warming to counter the predicted ice age which was all the rage in the 1970s.

  6. ‘whether it’s too hot, too cold, too wet or too dry that always goes to prove that “Carbon” is to blame.’

    I do like your reasoning Stonyground.

  7. There’s a thing called IIRC the Koeppen-Geiger climate map. It’s a map of the world with areas of climate classified and delineated. Can anyone show me an actual permanent change in climate in any area which is a change from what Herren Koeppen and Geiger described in 1900?

  8. So what this means is that the weather, the actual conditions that humans direct experience, can go up, down, left or right as violently as they like, but if the underlying climate alters by 0.25 of a degree over 50 years then we must sabotage the economy in order to reverse this? Gottit.

  9. There is another distinction between climate and weather. It’s acknowledged that weather is a chaotic system so weather forecasts become unreliable after more than a few days . It is also claimed by the experts that climate is predictable. Is there any evidence though? The experts will point to their models that accurately “predict “ past climate, however the models are tuned to fit past behaviour. With enough tunable constants any complex model right or wrong can be adjusted to fit past data, so this isn’t scientific evidence. Perhaps in 40 years we have indisputable evidence that the models are wrong. We might also have discovered that climate, allowing for the longer timescale, is no more predictable than weather and hence climate predictions are no more accurate than weather forecasts.

  10. “Global warming” is weather, and emphatically not climate. Global warming is the belief that the temperature on a given day is now a degree or so higher than it would have been in similar weather on that day a century ago.

    Global warming is nothing whatsoever to do with climate. That was an amendment triggered by the weather refusing to obey the theory (e.g., December 2010, more than a degree centigrade colder than any December since UK records began).

  11. I see the EU doesn’t want to encourage more people to use electric cars.

    Not surprising when they stop working in the cold. Currently -40ºC (or -40ºF, if you prefer) in northern Finland.

  12. @AndyF,
    ” Perhaps in 40 years we have indisputable evidence that the models are wrong.” – ahh, but that was the old version N models…the new version (N+1) models are perfect. They copied the code from that Ferguson fella….

  13. Can anyone confirm if my understanding of dredging is right:
    It reduces flooding risk, but not because there’s extra volume available in the channel (ok, there’s a bit more volume) but because rotting vegetation and muck seals the bottom of the channel somewhat so in an undredged river water doesn’t dissipate through the bottom into the soils and rocks below.

  14. @Bongo

    I’m no expert in flooding and rivers, but from an engineer’s viewpoint I’d say it was more likely that removing all the rubbish provides a smoother flow which will be quicker.
    This helps prevent the river bursting it’s banks as the water is moved away faster (obvs).

  15. Had a local article about EV cars coping with cold weather and the conclusion was they were fine, but in the detail the person testing had a 40% to 50% drop in efficiency, which once your are out of the urban areas isn’t good.

  16. Something , something, polar oscillation arriving exactly on time in the right place, just like it did last winter in the US…

    But nooo.. Must be Cow Farts and diesels…

  17. Bloke in North Dorset

    BniC,

    Anecdote alert. The 2 people I know with electric cars both reckoned they were getting about 80% of their summer mileage in the recent UK “cold snap” aka winter weather. One of the the cars is 6 years old and he reckons he’s on about 80% in summer compared to new.

    Assuming they’re both talking up the performance because they don’t want to seem like idiots for buying one in the first place, 50% efficiency from a 6 year old battery seems about par.

  18. I wonder how they are coping in Alberta where not only is it cold but the power company has been begging people not to use electricity to avoid crashing the grid.

  19. @BiND
    My 8yo EV – “plug-in hybrid” with an 11kWh battery good for a stated 50km (in practice, because I live in a hilly area, it never delivered much more than 40km) – is now at about 60% in the current cold snap, and 80% in summer. It’s had over 1,500 recharge cycles.

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