The BBC have lapsed into what I call "passive AGW reporting" - instead of mentioning Climate Change at all, they simply big up any and all weather events, so that the idea is fostered that "extreme weather is getting worse" - proof by showing, if you like. look at the top banner coverage of this week's storms (which were not very exciting at all, and just more of what you expect from low pressure fronts and spring tides)

One of their tactics is for any weather report to seek out one local who will say "this is worse than I've ever seen", thus giving the 'unprecendented' tag to the whole thing. There will always be one local who says that, because some people love saying things are better/worse than they've ever seen. No doubt the reporters have to interview a dozen or more before someone will be prompted to say such a thing, or who fall back on the local eco-nutter who will say anything for the cause.

So while it's good that Climate Change doesn't get much of a mention on the BBC any more, the proselytising has simply changed tactic into weather-obsessed alarmism.

My son has just said that he thinks today was the hottest he has ever experienced it.

He may be right too....

Then again aren't all 12 year olds?

Lucky for us the air-con worked perfectly throughout.....

He's also of the view that CO2 is just plant food.

He also seems to know that there are no concerns over global ice coverage.

Neither is he worrying about the polar bear population. He feels they are actually not that cuddly and view humans as being a starter on the menu.

Nothing to do with me.

Honest.

Guv.

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The weird weather kick was another version of the meme. My favourite is when they say 'British weather is now so unpredictable'. Why do they think the British are famous for being obsessed with the weather?

What we are actually seeing - for the first time - is the point at which the eco-loons depart from the actual underlying science which has hitherto supported their blather.

They think they are on-message.

They don't realise the message has changed.

This has stuck with me all my life. I went to a De La Salle school in Liverpool (no sexual abuse, but extreme brutality) and at one Religious indoctrination lesson we were discussing the Apocolypse and Matthew 24.7 when a boy called McBrinn piped up and said something to the effect that wars, famine, drought, pestilence etc. were always happening. Brother Alban looked over his glasses at him and said something to the effect of:

Well spotted McBrinn, there's a lesson for all of us there. If you're going to make a prophecy, prophesise the commonplace and say it's going to be worse. That way your prophecy will always come true."

Apologies for the delay in posting this, as I've been sorting out some broadband problems (caused no doubt by climate change in some guise or other), but here's the transcript for the Radio 5 Live segment with Sir David King:
https://sites.google.com/site/mytranscriptbox/home/20140105_r5

Readers may find this excerpt interesting:

Caroline Barker: I mean, why do you think we're seeing weather this severe that we haven't seen before?

Sir David King: Well, I think the important thing to get across is the simple notion that storms and severe weather conditions that we might have expected to occur once in a hundred years, say, in the past, may now be happening more frequently, and the reason is, as predicted by scientists, that the climate is changing and as the climate changes, we can anticipate quite a radical change in weather conditions. I mean, back in 2001, I revamped the government's Foresight system, and the first piece of work I did, I convened a team of 110 national experts to specifically investigate the threat of increased flooding and coastline vulnerabilities that the British Isles are likely to face from global warming. Now in that, we made full use of the climate predictions of the British Met Office - and I just have to say that the Met Office is the acknowledged weather and climate service of the world, I mean, it is the best there is - and it was concluded, back in 2004, this 3-year intensive report, that sea-level rise, increased storm surges, increased intensity of rainfall would penetrate further inland, would impact on our towns and cities, and that British coastal defences would be subjected to higher water levels and more energetic wave attack.

Further to my last comment, just to say I've changed the transcript to show that Sir David was interviewed by Sam Walker and not Caroline Barker - I've listened to audio clips of them both, now, and it sounds more like Sam.

Also, on the BBC 24-hour TV news channel, on the evening of 2nd January, Martine Croxall and guests were reviewing the papers, and included was a headline in the Express about extreme weather. This was a comment by Robert Fox, Defence Editor of the London Evening Standard:

We are now in the middle of the phenomenon of the weirding of the weather pattern, and nobody really can explain it.

It's possible it's a ploy to switch from mitigation policies to adaptation policies. You could build a lot of flood defences with those green taxes.

TBYJ:

"You could build a lot of flood defences with those green taxes."

With the money we've put into research we could have designed a clean thorium reactor by now.