More warming please [update 2]

You might have noticed that the Northern Hemisphere has been cold this winter—colder than a central banker’s smile—to the great surprise of warmist organisations like the UK’s Meteorological Office, who predicted a “mild” winter this year (which is not what they’ve got) and a “barbecue summer” for 2009 (which is not what they got). They now predict the Arctic weather could last at least another 10 days, “making this the coldest winter the UK has endured since the notorious winter of 1962/3.”

Mind you, this is the cousin of the organisation warning Britons at the start of the last decade they might as well dismiss any idea of a White Christmas in their lifetimes. 

    "Children just aren't going to know what snow is," said Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, [who says] within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event." [Hat tip  Tim Blair]

As Tim Blair points out, David Viner “has since become the ‘head of the British Council’s climate change programme,’ whatever that means.”  Oh irony, thy name is Warmist!

Dr Viner and his colleagues at CRU might think they can “hide the decline” in their graphs, but the people paying their wages are entitled to wonder whether or not their employees are either dishonest, or just incompetent—especially now that a decade after the prediction by the “head of the British Council’s climate change programme” every single square inch of the UK is now covered with several inches of global warming (right).

The surprising weather, coming on top of the revelations  revealed by the ClimateGate whistle-blower, is cold enough that even the BBC is starting to ask itself some questions about its own wall-to-wall warmism.

And cold enough too that even the mainstream media are noticing that cold weather is not all snowmen and toboggans. it offers tragic proof to warmists that when it comes to weather it’s the cold weather that’s a real killer. is not all bad. There’s “a real human cost” to the cold weather says Yvonne Doyle at the UK’s Department of Health, who

    “has predicted up to 40,000 excess winter deaths this year thanks to the prolonged cold spell. This would be 3,000 more than last year which also had several shorter cold snaps.
    Paul Wilkinson, an environmental epidemiologist, said: ‘The number of deaths a day is directly related to how cold it is. For each degree colder it gets there is a corresponding 2 per cent rise in the number of deaths which occur.’ ”

Cold’s a killer. Bring on the global warming.

UPDATE 1: Tim Blair is on an irony hunt:

“Britain is totally snowed:

    ‘Michael Dukes, the forecast manager at Meteogroup, says the Nasa satellite image of Britain shows snow over almost the entire country.’

“Indeed it does. But what precise area is the source of this extraordinary coldening?

    ‘He says that the swirl of cloud over East Anglia is the cumulus cloud system that caused snow showers today.’

    “East Anglia? Oh, my. The massive cold is coming straight from Hide-The-Decline Central! Britain has evidently called upon itself a Gore Effect of terrifying power.”

UPDATE 2: The BBC might be questioning its credentials. Mind you, they’re still arguing that black is white. Oops, I mean warm is cold. Watch How the big freeze fits theories of global warming.