James Delingpole notes that some Climate Scientists are discovering honesty, before they run out of US Taxpayers Money

"Our planet has just experienced the most extreme two-year cooling event in a century. But where have you seen this reported anywhere in the mainstream media?
You haven’t, even though the figures are pretty spectacular. As Aaron Brown reports here at Real Clear Markets:

"From February 2016 to February 2018 (the latest month available) global average temperatures dropped 0.56°C. You have to go back to 1982-84 for the next biggest two-year drop, 0.47°C—also during the global warming era. All the data in this essay come from GISTEMP Team, 2018: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (dataset accessed 2018-04-11 at https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/). This is the standard source used in most journalistic reporting of global average temperatures."

"Winter wave heights off Scotland rising, say scientists"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-43920570

"Average winter wave heights along the Atlantic coast of Western Europe have been rising for almost 70 years, according to new research.

The study by UK and French scientists suggests that the coastlines of Scotland and Ireland have seen the largest increases.

The waves have grown by more than 0.7m (2.3ft) in total since 1948."

And in case you hadn't guessed:

"The researchers said it was important to investigate whether human-induced climate change was responsible."

So, in other words, they don't know, but would like money to investigate, and rather than do the scientific thing of wondering what might be behind it, it rather sounds as though they've already decided. Mind you, when I say "what might be behind it" this should be borne in mind:

"The study used a combination of weather and wave mathematical modelling known as hindcasts, and actual data, to measure changes in wave height and variability on coastlines from Scotland to Portugal."

So, some use of real data, but the conclusions are also based on mathematical modelling.

And towards the end of the article, just to make sure we've got the point (even though it starts with the conditional "if"):

""If human-induced climate change is responsible, we need to seriously start thinking about decreasing our vulnerability to extreme storm events and pro-actively adapt to a more energetic future wave climate.""

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/04/26/market-reportsubsidy-hopes-energise-drax-shares/

A reminder of where some government - or in other words taxpayers' - money is going...

Cold weather harms the UK's Economic growth, but The Guardian denies it.

https://order-order.com/2018/04/27/3-ways-the-ons-says-snow-slowed-growth/

Faisal Islam says linking the disappointing 0.1% growth figure to the bad weather is“laughable”. Guardian deputy editor Paul Johnson tweets: “ONS says weather nothing to do with it”. If you actually read the ONS release rather than the Remain spin, they confirm the snow did have a “limited” impact on slowing growth, in three separate ways, on retail trade, petrol sales and construction:

“some impacts on GDP from the snow in the first quarter of 2018 have been recorded for construction and retail sales”“The fall in retail trade was driven by a decrease in petrol sales. This could be attributed to adverse weather conditions, which impacted on travel” “There is some evidence of an impact of the bad weather on construction output… 3.3% fall in construction was the largest downward pull on Q1”

The impact might have been limited overall, it’s just not accurate and snow joke for the Guardian to report “ONS says weather nothing to do with it”…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5662769/Wood-burning-stoves-diesel-cars-blamed-rise-toxic-form-air-pollution-2011.html

Diesels and wood stoves are dirty, who knew? Err, everybody did when the smokeless zones were brought in. Shame it was just the sceptics that remembered when CO2 became fashionable to condemn as pollution.

Apr 27, 2018 at 10:18 AM | Supertroll It is worse than we thought, and gets worser.

US Country Bumpkins are not happy bunnies:
Likely coldest April since 1895 – U.S. farmers delay planting crops
Anthony Watts / 12 hours ago April 26, 2018
Farmers are suffering as the cold, wet spring has put a stunning halt to agriculture. Ice Age Farmer Report – 19 Apr 2018
Soil temperatures are below normal, and not conducive to planting yet.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/26/likely-coldest-april-since-1895-u-s-farmers-delay-planting-crops/

US Townies are not a lot happier:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/27/some-major-u-s-cities-headed-for-coldest-april-in-recorded-history/

"For some communities, April won’t just be memorable… it will might just go down in history. How? Well there are so many fascinating statistics to swoon over that we dug up! While doing some number crunching for Detroit Metropolitan International Airport, it wasn’t an eye opener that April has been about 10 F below seasonal norms. The normal monthly average daytime high is 59.1 F, we only got 49.7 as an average. Another stat that won’t come as a surprise is the lack of warmth — we have yet to crack 70ºF more than once this April in Detroit, Chicago and Buffalo!"

When Global Warmists tried to rebrand themselves as Climate Changeists, did they know their theories weren't even half-baked Alaska?