Climate Cultist Despairs: 'How Many Deep North Atlantic Depressions Must Be Named By The Met Office In Order To Convince Climate Deniers That The Non-Existent Climate Crisis Is Real?'
The BBC frets in a similar vein, though this time they are more cautious about linking perfectly normal British winter weather to an imagined ‘climate crisis’:
It has been a particularly stormy autumn and winter so far.
Since August, we have had at least one named storm a month affecting the UK. December brought three and there have already been three in January: Henk, Isha and Jocelyn.
Jocelyn is the 10th named storm of the season and comes hot on the heels of Isha, which killed at least two people.
In a typical UK autumn/winter, there would be six or seven named storms - getting to the letters F or G.
The current storm season has brought the most named storms since 2015/16, the season the Met Office started naming storms. That season we got up to the letter K, with Katie the 11th and final storm.
OMG, we’re up to K already and winter isn’t over yet! Is climate change responsible for us galloping headlong through the named storm alphabet? Mr Barlow certainly thinks so. The BBC is more circumspect on this occasion, almost balanced even (pass the smelling salts), though I’m sure it has more overtly suggested there is a link in the past:
Why has it been so stormy this year?
The main driver for storms is a powerful jet stream - fast moving winds high in the atmosphere - which meanders west to east across the Atlantic.
Areas of low pressure and storm systems develop on the movement of the jet stream and are directed to the UK.
The jet stream itself is influenced by the temperature contrast between the Pole and mid-latitudes. Over the last few weeks, very cold Arctic air has spread across the United States, leading to a big temperature difference, allowing a powerful jet stream to generate storms.
We can also look at the bigger global picture.
Suzanne Gray, Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading, says: "The number of storms that impact us each year can be influenced by meteorological phenomena occurring elsewhere across the globe such as the current El Niño event in the tropical Pacific region."
El Niño is associated with warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the Pacific that can affect weather across the world.
It is thought El Niño tends to bring wetter and windier weather in autumn and the start of winter to the UK, before a period of colder than average weather.
Interestingly, the last El Niño period was 2014 to 2016, the last time we had so many autumn and winter storms in the UK.
What about climate change?
We know climate change is making our weather more extreme so that when it rains, that rain tends to be heavier with a greater chance of flooding.
It is more difficult to link storms to climate change because "there are several different influences that are likely to be affected by climate change", says Professor Gray.
She says: "There is some evidence though that storms with strong winds (windstorms) will become slightly more frequent in the future in north-west Europe and also become more clustered, so that we experience several storms one after the other".
But all the usual suspects will continue to bleat about a mythical ‘climate emergency’ every time it gets a bit hot, a bit wet or a bit windy, even when it gets a bit cold. They can’t help themselves, poor loves. It’s like a bad case of diarrhoea and vomiting which won’t go away and gets triggered every time the weather is bad, or very nice. Only very bland, totally unremarkable weather conditions seem to calm their hysterical convulsive reactions - and we don’t get much of that here in the UK. The weather changes, rapidly, often hugely from day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year - which is why the Net Zero zealots picked just one year to convince politicians of the need to waive through the ridiculous, absurd, unscientific, legally binding decarbonisation targets which are destroying the nation as we speak.
You didn’t mention the Met Office which lies blatantly to allege that the “more intense” storms the UK is allegedly experiencing is due to “climate change”, aka man-made global warming. Paul Homewood does a great job of exposing their lies, ending with “It is time that the Met Office’s climate change work was defunded, and the organisation returned to its proud tradition as a Meteorological Office”: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/01/22/met-office-lie-about-more-intense-storms/.
Despite all the establishment clamour, there is no empirical evidence that man-made CO2 emissions have any discernible impact on the global climate. This means there is no need and no point in trying to reduce man-made CO2 emissions, notwithstanding the massive, all-pervasive efforts being wasted on this futile endeavour. The warming potential of atmospheric CO2 is already almost fully saturated (used up), as Professors Happer, Lindzen and many others have explained umpteen times, e.g. here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2nhssPW77I&t=2s.
The reason our treasonous Uniparty politicians push the Net Zero agenda supported by the likes of the bought-and-paid-for BBC, the Met Office and the CCC has nothing to do with climate. They are doing it at the behest of their Malthusian globalist overlords and paymasters to shackle and control the global populace through impoverishment, deindustrialisation, food deprivation and depopulation. Slowly but surely, more and more of the general public are coming to understand this.
Climate alarmists are living in cloud-cuckoo land to believe that unilateral UK Net Zero to eliminate our 0.8% share of global CO2 emissions, which they have no hope of ever achieving, will be a magic fix to their imaginary climate problems. Any Net Zero deindustrialising and industry offshoring in the UK will be taken up by China, India, the Far East et al. They are more than happy to take our business and clearly have no intention of following suit with the West in committing Net Zero economic suicide: https://twitter.com/latimeralder/status/1738826623242174670?t=5zlMlAXXNuqLvRO2541aTg&s=19.
The blast furnaces in Port Talbot are being shut down on the altar of Net Zero by Tata Steel who are building a vast new furnace in India: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/24/unions-accuse-tata-of-hypocrisy-over-port-talbot-closure-green-claims.
The pathetic, anti-science climate alarmists have also got their “more intense” storms fearmongering due to man-made global warming precisely “@rse about face”. It is a matter of historical fact that UK storms in the time of The Little Age were far worse than today for the obvious reason explained in the following. This has been well recorded by meteorologist the late HH Lamb and documented by Paul Homewood here: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/?s=HH+Lamb.
Further to the Daily Sceptic article on the false Net Zero advice given to parliament by the Climate Change Committee, Paul Homewood has a great guest post which ends “ … Stark, together with the Chairman of the Climate Change Committee, should be brought before a full committee of enquiry to answer for his lies, and if found guilty of intentionally misleading Parliament, he should be sent to prison”: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/01/23/the-ccc-must-pay-the-penalty-for-false-advice/.
Forgive me if I've already posted this but my youngest brother teaches geology at an American college. He studies paleoclimate, has worked all over the world. He says: "we're living in a cold, barren climate right now. And the best minds know that."
Any half educated person knows that.