by Sophy
One of the round robin emails that clogs up my inbox at this time of year included this comment on the unseasonally early snowfall: “Hope the global warming nuts are choking on their words.”
It certainly made me choke with indignation – every time we get a spell of cold weather it gets held up as evidence by the climate change skeptics as ‘proof’ that the climate isn’t changing after all. When the snow hit last winter (albeit not until much later in the season) I wrote this blog (March 1st 2010) on the difference between the weather and the climate.
The same arguments apply, of course, this year – and if you need some ammunition for your own climate-change-is-really-happening armoury there have been some great pieces of journalism published this week:
- The Independent interviewed the chief scientist of the Met office, who says “"The key message is that global warming continues."
- George Monbiot makes a compelling argument in the Guardian that the snow can be seen as evidence for climate change, not against it.
- And here’s a straightforward Q&A about the causes of the cold weather.
- Meanwhile, one for the skeptics - over at The Telegraph, Christopher Booker has a go at the scientific data on temperature rises: Some of the comments posted after the article are particularly illuminating.
