The green tax con: Climate change levies are swallowed up by Treasury
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-2012065/The-green-tax-Climate-change-levies-swallowed-Treasury.html

The 'Dissappearing' has already started.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2008/global-warming-contd

Over the last ten years, global temperatures have warmed more slowly than the long-term trend. But this does not mean that global warming has slowed down or even stopped. It is entirely consistent with our understanding of natural fluctuations of the climate within a trend of continued long-term warming.
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Global warming has not stopped

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Natural climate variations temporarily enhance or reduce observed warming

The link under 'trend of continued long-term warming' now goes to a blank page

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/monitoring/

As 2011 looks like to be a cool year I thought it would be good to record the MET office pronoucements of forecasts so if they 'Dissappear' they cannot be forgotten. Note this one says warming to be renewed after 2010.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2009/global-warming

Global warming set to continue

14 September 2009

Global warming continues to pose a real threat that should not be ignored - a claim reinforced in a new study by scientists, reported in a supplement of the August issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. This is despite very small global temperature rises over the last 10 years.

Met Office Hadley Centre scientists investigated how often decades with a neutral trend in global mean temperature occurred in computer modelled climate change simulations. They found that despite continued increases in greenhouse gas concentrations, a single-decade hiatus in warming occurs relatively often.

Jeff Knight, the article's lead author, explained: "We found about one in every eight decades has near-zero or negative global temperature trends in simulations which would otherwise be warm at expected present-day rates. Given that we have seen fairly consistent global warming since the 1970s, these odds suggest the observed slowdown was due to occur."

But why do these anomalies occur at all, whether in climate models or in reality? The answer lies in something called 'internal climate variability' - the capacity for slow natural variations in the oceans to temporarily modify climate. Computer models used to make climate predictions reproduce this intrinsic character of our climate because they successfully represent many of the necessary fundamental climate processes.

One such internal fluctuation over the last decade could have been enough to mask the expected global temperature rise. However, the Met Office's decadal forecast predicts renewed warming after 2010 with about half of the years to 2015 likely to be warmer globally than the current warmest year on record.

Commenting on the new study, Vicky Pope, Head of Climate Change Advice at the Met Office said: "Decades like 1999-2008 occur quite frequently in our climate change simulations, but the underlying trend of increasing temperature remains. We cannot be complacent. Indeed, other signals of climate change are increasing as fast, or even faster than ever due to the combined effects of global warming and natural variability - the rapid loss of summer Arctic sea ice is one such example. Early action to reduce the extent and impacts of climate change remains vital."

It's still early days, but with the half way stage of summer approaching, so far only Piers Corbyn at Weather Action can claim any success with this summer's forecast.

He argued consistently that Summer 2011 would be unsettled because of, in part, continued weak solar activity, which would at times push the Jet stream further south than normal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/2011/07/unsettled-june-weather-to-exte.shtml

Prince Chuckles is laughing all the way to the bank.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/constructionandproperty/8620905/The-Queens-income-to-rise-as-Crown-Estate-reveals-record-profits.html

The organisation’s marine estate also enjoyed a pivotal year as The Crown Estate gears up for the development of wind farms and gas storage facilities on Britain’s seabed. The value of the portfolio rose 32pc to £587m.

What the Prime Minister should be telling us
With no credible evidence for dangerous man-made warming, predictions failing to materialise, plausible alternative drivers of temperature identified, many scientific uncertainties and no credible reason for urgent action, surely any thinking person would opt to "wait and see".

Who knows? Maybe in a few years the notion of significant man-made warming will be completely rejected and you'll be praised for your foresight.

by John McLean

from Doomed Planet

Another cooling event in the offing

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8621000/Ash-cloud-fears-as-Icelandic-volcano-ready-to-erupt.html

Oh dear, our friendly troll zbd is at it again in the DM with a Christopher Booker article. She's not very popular over there with her scientific "consensus". http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2011667/Global-warming-new-ice-age-YOURE-paying-politicians-hysteria.html#comments

Roger Pielke Jr. looks at the consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster for the future of nuclear power and comes up with these quotes from deep inside the FT :

Of 570 units planned before Fukushima, only 37 have been axed or put on hold since the crisis, according to Arthur D. Little, a consultancy.

The British nuclear industry is about to enjoy a “renaissance” and the country must become the “number one destination” for investment in new reactors, the energy minister will say on Tuesday.

Charles Hendry will deliver the most enthusiastic ministerial endorsement yet of the nuclear industry’s ambition to build a new generation of power stations.

In his speech to the Nuclear Industry Association, seen by the Financial Times, Mr Hendry will say: “The UK has everything to gain from becoming the number one destination to invest in new nuclear. Nuclear is the cheapest low-carbon source of electricity around, so it can keep bills down and the lights on.”

A dozen new reactors are set to be constructed at eight sites in England and Wales, with the first due to be completed in 2018. The total cost of the programme, the most ambitious in Europe, is forecast to be at least £50bn.

Jeremy Harvey on Bishophill has written a great explanation of the Climate sensitivity controversy that I think is worthy of being published alongside Doug Keenan’s article “How Scientific is Climate Science?” in WSJ (easily found in Google).

I had thought that what the IPCC had done would be considered too esoteric to be explained to the masses and therefore unworthy of much attention but he seems to have achieved the impossible.

Comment no. 66 (this link should take you to p2 starting at comment 41 if I am lucky)

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/7/5/ipcc-on-climate-sensitivity.html?lastPage=true#comment13552977