Monday
May242010
by 
Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill It's going to get even hotter
May 24, 2010 BBC Climate: Models Climate: Surface That's the headline in the Times, reporting on the recent spell of hot weather.
But wait, what's this? They actually seem to be talking about tomorrow's weather rather than climate change. In fact the whole article doesn't seem to mention climate at all.
A miracle just happened!
Reader Comments (17)
Why is the article dated for the 25th? Have I missed something?
[BH adds: I was going to put it up tomorrow, but changed my mind. I've fixed it now]
Not ovwer yet! - telegraph today
Mammoths contributed to global warming with methane emissions
Mammoths helped to fill the atmosphere with methane and keep the Earth warm more than 13,000 years ago, scientists believe.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7755563/Mammoths-contributed-to-global-warming-with-methane-emissions.html
Of course that is just the anonymous headline (journalist too embarrased to put their name to it?)
Not just mammoths, but it is still all guess work, pocket calculator stuff, in some academics office.
barry woods,
It also appears in the German online Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article7757234/Tod-der-Mammuts-fuehrte-zu-Abkuehlung-der-Erde.html
I started a post about it, but trashed it. If one wrote about every piece of idiotic science out there, you'd never find an end..
The article in The Times is currently dated May 25th. The just shows how hypercompetitive the newspaper business is: journalists will even use time machines to get the latest.
OT - but interesting.
Journalists criticise science community's handling of 'Climategate' affair
The academic science community has been criticised by BBC and Guardian journalists investigating the 'Climategate' affair...
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/538756.php?
Sorry Bish (sorry, I have no idea what term I should use). I was referring to the Times Online article. It's dated for the 25th. I take it that it could simply be a typo? Or am I still missing something (which is quite possible, I am very tired today.)
this hot spell of warm weather won't last too long as it is britain after all
I went ahead and did a mammoth post. Looks like real junk science to me.
Barry Woods
Mammoths contributed to global warming with methane emissions
So, according to what they are claiming, when the Neanderthals killed off all the mammoths, they were merely trying to protect the world from global warming. Interesting. The poor sods instead caused an ice age and frozen themselves to death, or so it would appear. If so, then the Warmist Alarmists should take heed of that and cool down their attempts to prevent warming. :)
Mighty Mammoth Methane Models Might Make More
Massive Meterological Measurements Misanthropic!
Kill 'em mutters Mmmmmmmmmmmicheal Mmmmmmmmmmmann.
PS- Gav says- ugg.
I saw the post and thought the Times has come to another large tranche of emails.
I am not giving up. ;)
Not sure if you are being subtly referential when you say "a miracle just happened" but I will assume you are.
I am not sure either if the readers know that this is probably the most important blog comment that has ever been written in the recent history of climate science.
Gosh - how I think its author should be lauded rather than remain in the shadows.
I did have a certain blog comment in mind, it has to be said...
The met office is a total waste of money !
The workings of the atmosphere of our planet are governed by the laws of fluid dynamics and unfortunately no scientist has so far been able to solve those equations.
Until the met office solves them then whatever they feed into their models is crap and as we all know what comes out is also crap.
Hmm did I put that post in the wrong place? Maybe it was a Mammoth mistake :(
The article is about weather, not climate. Neither "Climate" nor "Change" are mentioned in the article. Why should these be used in an article about weather? Weather and climate are not interchangeable terms. I don't understand what the complaint is.
Not a complaint so much as an observation. It has been traditional in recent years to elide from an observation that it is hot to scare stories about climate. I was observing that this article takes a different approach.