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Dec302010
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Haunting the Library
Dec 30, 2010 Blogs One of my regular email correspondents has started a blog. If the quality of the stories I've been fed in the past is anything to go by, Haunting the Library may well be one to watch.
I enjoyed this look back to an extraordinarily precise Hadley Centre prediction from 2003 that Scotland was going to suffer from [up to] 89% less snowfall. Even funnier is WWF's conclusion that this would make Scotland uninhabitable.
Update on Dec 30, 2010 by
Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill
Barry Woods points out that I still haven't linked to his new RealClimateGate blog. Fixed now.
Reader Comments (12)
It looks interesting, especially Mark Lynsa predicting no Snow, in his book High Tide back in 2004.
Maybe you should have a seperate list on your blog roll,
for all the blogs that have been started by readers of Bishop Hill
Ie
Haunting the Library,
Climate Lessons...
etc
and don't forget mine!
www.realclimategate.org
;)
Lol. We all follow the Bish! Hundreds of little bishops now, running around the internet.
Thanks for linking to my blog. I'll be back!
Took a look and put it in my favourites straight away. Thanks for the link, Y'r Grace.
Thanks!
Poor Monbiot is probably sitting right now, tearing out his hair thinking "Oh my God, they are procreating!"
H
George's flash-troll email alert list will be getting longer and more varied again.
o/t but Donna has a point: http://nofrakkingconsensus.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/world-wildlife-fund-infiltrates-uk-government/
DBD?
I followed the link and read the entry. In it, he made up a quote, and implied something that wasn't in the article. And then you repeated his erroneous assertion.
The 89% value was the high end of a range, not a precise prediction. This is exactly what makes global warming skeptics - like me - look bad. Falsifying quotes, and then criticizing them. Thanks.
MarkB
I take your point about the number range. I thought I'd corrected that shortly after the post went up, but clearly not.
What is the quote you are saying is made up?
Shub
If you are asking what I think you are, then no, I am not DBD.
It is a bit hard on the eyeball, isn't it?
I am pleased that someone has the time to collect together all the dud predictions made by the AGW industry since it started its scare back in the 70s. There must be reams of material out there in Googleland. It's time for the climate soothsayers to answer for the failed predictions we paid them for. Why is there still a thriving Scottish ski industry, where the feck are my warm, dry summers?...I want to know.
I wonder if the 5 Scottish ski centres have data for the number of ski days available for each season since 1979. Certainly for the past 5 years the centres have been opening earlier and staying open longer than they had been since I started using them in 1980. Past 4 years have been fabulous, this year shaping up to be even better than previous.