10:54am Friday 19th March 2010
RE: Climate change debate.
IT comes as no surprise to learn that Eric Alexander (March 5) could not find the time to read the papers I sent him despite one of those papers being written by one of the UK’s leading environmentalists Professor David Bellamy.
Eric prefers to base his global warming conclusions on watching his daffodils grow and being hoodwinked by a stunt organised by a warmist ship owner sailing a small cargo ship through the North East Passage at the end of the Arctic summer accompanied by a Russian ice breaker!
The Copenhagen Global Warming conference will be remembered for two facts. Firstly, it was an expensive failure and secondly, it marked the start of the coldest winter in Europe, Asia and Scandinavia for at least 31 years and in some places like Scotland over 50 years.
Recently, in the Baltic and Gulf of Bothnia there were three ferries locked in the ice with over 900 passengers on board. In addition, there were a further 26 ships all icebound.
In England and Wales, we have had the coldest winter since 1978/79.
There have been eight colder winters in the past 100 years, 1917, 1929, 1940,41 & 42, 1947, 1963 and 1979. Of the past five UK winters, three of them have been colder than average and we have had three poor summers in succession. A large part of the northern hemisphere has had three very cold winters in succession.
Over the past 12 years, there has been a global cooling trend which is showing signs of accelerating. If it continues at the present rate it will equate to a global cooling of minus 2 degrees C by the end of this century.
This amount of cooling would return the UK to the condition of the Little Ice Age of the 15th and 16th century. This is a massive difference to the IPCC projections of a global warming over the same period of plus 5 degrees C.
The unproven theory that the sole cause of global warming is the burning of fossil fuels is falling apart.
It is clear from the 'Climategate' and 'Glaciergate' scandals that the projections from the IPCC are based on 'dodgy' climate data. The Met Office, having got nine out of ten of its seasonal forecasts wrong, has now admitted that you cannot accurately forecast the weather more than five days ahead. Yet they try and forecast global temperatures 100 years in the future.
Gordon Brown was one of the world leaders at the Copenhagen Conference.
If his knowledge of global warming is as good as his knowledge of economics then I am preparing for the imminent arrival of the next Ice Age!
Anthony Weeden,Bockmer End, Nr Marlow.
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