I just watched a BBC 'science' correspondent do 3 minutes in prime
time news on the present extreme weather with no reference to climate
science and the clear links made in a number of peer reviewed papers
published since 2009 - I sent a link to this lust of one of these two
weeks ago - between reduced Arctic sea ice, warming in Arctic and
subarctic latitudes including dramatic warming in Greenland and the
pressure changes that have caused the last two strong winters in
Northern Europe and Northeast US. I begin to detect a weird conspiracy
of silence in this blatant refusal to connect weather and climate so
permitting the pointy eared climate sceptics to ramp up their anti-
scientific nonsense. The BBC even interviewed a guy from the Met
Office who simply acted dumb and said no we can't predict weather/
climate beyond a few months. Is this the UEA effect or simply the BBC
gradually morphing into Fox News, as apparently its overpaid DG Mark
Thompson would like?
Professor Michael Northcott
New College
Edinburgh
EH1 2LX
UK
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