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And Finally…

by Toby Young
8 March 2022 2:12 AM

In this week’s London Calling, I have to guess where James is on holiday – and I do – and James praises the British Airways staff for not once telling him to put on a mask during his 12-hour flight. We cannot agree on anything in connection with the war in Ukraine – James even takes issue with my claim that the invasion isn’t going according to plan. And James insists Shane Warne’s death from a heart attack aged 52 was caused by the ‘clot shot’ whereas I think it had more to do with his hard-partying lifestyle and his recent 14-day liquid diet. In Culture Corner, James enthuses about C.S. Forrester and Toby says he’s loving Sharpe’s Triumph by Bernard Cornwell, but he give the thumbs down to The Batman, The Sinner and Vikings Valhalla.

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Climan
Climan
5 months ago

The Green Blob has been exploiting this benign warming for years, often the fact that temperatures rose sharply at the end of the 20th century gets reported simply as “temperatures ARE rising”, which is both misleading and requires a time machine visit to the future.

I don’t buy the junk thermometer part of the article, what matters is how junkness has CHANGED (not a great deal), rather than the absolute degree of junkness.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
5 months ago
Reply to  Climan

Disagree. Claiming 1.3 or 1.8 degree increases based on readings plus/minus 2 or 5 degrees is meaningless.

One thing: Urban heat island effect is real and the actual temperature is higher in cities. If higher temperatures are so bad people would move out of those cities.

The Human Mortality Database STMF records weekly mortality for many countries. Every country I’ve looked at shows greater mortality rates in the winter or cool season. Headline scare stories about deaths due to heat are missing the point – far fewer people die of being too hot than die of being too cold.

…Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geoscience and International Affairs at nearby Princeton University. This chap is noted for once remarking: “We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialisation we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.”

What a truly wicked thing to say.

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FerdIII
FerdIII
5 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Spot on re UHE. Nullifies all urban measurement stations.
Difference of at least 4C between rural and urban areas. Your carmometer can tell you the same. When they recorded the hottest day evah July ’23, it was 34C in our Sussex ex-urban area. A far cry from the 42 C (nano second) fake measurement at the RAF based behind the greenhouse, beside the jet engine, in front of a roaring fire.
As with Rona etc. follow that money.

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JXB
JXB
5 months ago
Reply to  FerdIII

And… the wealth.s climate system has been warming for over 10 000 years.

7 000 years ago Spring in “Britain” was considerably colder than now.

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Gezza England
Gezza England
5 months ago
Reply to  FerdIII

I have seen a difference of 5C from the London suburbs and my corner of Surrey. What was more surprising was a drive to the edge of Gatwick Airport one frosty evening. Getting back in the car I spotted it was 3C but it was frosty at home. So driving home I watched it slowly drop down to read -1C at home, just 8 miles away.

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Gezza England
Gezza England
5 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

In the US there is the USCRN which is a network of unsullied rural stations set up recently in response to the contamination of UHI. It recorded the second largest month-month drop of just of 7F from Dec to Jan in the supposedly warmest January in the planet’s history. My gas use for CH said otherwise, continuing through February and it was so warm last week we had a football match abandoned on Tuesday evening for a frozen pitch.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
5 months ago

Thank you, Chris Morrison (as ever). Gaping holes that have been evident going back years, decades, centuries…

…Analysis in 2014 by two engineers, entitled, “Trends in the Central England Temperature since 1659,” (Figs 1 and 2 on pages 20 and 21):

https://www.brugesgroup.com/images/pdfs/thesunandtrendsintheCETsince1659.pdf

“With this chart we see the true nature of the warming that has taken place since 1659. It is mainly a winter phenomenon…

…The greater warmth in winter quite literally saves UK plc billions of pounds annually in reduced heating requirements. The warming also brings on spring conditions two to three weeks earlier and prolongs the summer and early autumn by a week or two. The result has to have been a useful rise in agricultural productivity.”

To which could be added elderly lives saved in winter. Net zero is a killer set on the loose by murderous politicians.

When is this Theatre of the Absurd going to end?

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stewart
stewart
5 months ago

Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, not around the eyes, into my eyes… you’re under!

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davidcraig68
davidcraig68
5 months ago

Just come back from Thailand. Thailand has had its coldest winter in 40 years. Will the BBC be mentioning that?

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stewart
stewart
5 months ago
Reply to  davidcraig68

If they do, it will be as proof of “extreme” weather. Or climate disruption caused by human emissions.

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mike r
mike r
5 months ago

I was told many years ago that “if you torture data long enough, it will confess to anything”. Still true today…

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JXB
JXB
5 months ago
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Except – these “temperatures” are not data, they are numbers derived from manipulating/torturing raw data by running them through computer programmes overloaded with algorithms to “correct” for this and that – including the one-third of the temperature leasuring stations in the UK that do not exist.

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RW
RW
5 months ago

Grass again frozen over yesterday night on Christchurch meadows although the ground seem to have mostly thawn again. Over in lala-land, a German weather service recently screamed about the first “heat wave of the year” hitting Germany, with outside temperatures expected to be around 18⁰C for a short while around noon.

The boiling point of water is also still 100⁰C and anything less isn’t “boiling.”

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Alan M
Alan M
5 months ago
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Although to be fair, it reduces to about 82 degrees atop Mt Everest. LOL I suppose the boiling point of Oxygen at -183 deg could account for the “boiling” hyperbole.

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Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago

Thanks to Chris Morrison & the DS for that lovely photo of spring flowers in the countryside of this green and pleasant land we are fighting to protect.

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JXB
JXB
5 months ago

Was this warming observed at the 103 temperature recording stations that don’t exists?

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
5 months ago

It was 4C here overnight.
As I write, at 1430, it’s 16.5C.
That’s a 12C increase.
We’re doomed.

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Hardliner
Hardliner
5 months ago
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Anyone who lives in Watford is perpetually doomed…..

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Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago
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🙂

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Bloss
Bloss
5 months ago

Greatly appreciate your endeavours, but rest assured that many of us do not listen to the BBC but enjoy each day as it comes. Hello trees, hello sky.

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