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Global Warming Melts Dreams of a White Christmas, Study Alleges |
Global Warming Melts Dreams of a White Christmas, Study Alleges
CNSNews.com ^ | December 15, 2004 | Marc Morano, CNSNews.com Sr. Staff
Writer
Global Warming Melts Dreams of a White Christmas, Study Alleges By
Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer December 15, 2004
Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNSNews.com) - The British government
released a new climate analysis this week alleging that white
Christmases in England will be just a memory unless global warming is
halted.
According to an analysis by British Environment Minister Elliot
Morley, England is 65 percent less likely to have a white Christmas in
the year 2050 due to the effects of global warming.
Coastal areas of England will be 90 percent less likely to see any
snow by the year 2080. Morely is attending the UN climate summit in
Buenos Aires.
Norman Baker, the British Parliament's Liberal Democrat environment
spokesman, summed up the analysis this way: "Britons will soon be left
with only dreams of a white Christmas, as the chances of it actually
happening become more remote."
Despite the fact that London has experienced only six white
Christmases in the past 45 years, Baker said any future lack of snow
could be blamed on only one factor. "Global warming is the main reason
for this shift in seasonal weather and is responsible for changing the
world as we know it," Baker said.
But William O'Keefe of the Washington-based George Marshall Institute
said no one should stop dreaming of a white Christmas - "just like the
ones they used to know" -- based on the new British study.
"The 65 percent probability that white Christmases will disappear in
London is one hundred percent wrong," O'Keefe told CNSNews.com. The
Marshall Institute, which "encourages the use of sound science in
making public policy," takes a skeptical view of alarmist global
warming.
"The British analysis is a compilation of fiction. There is no science
and no scientific basis for those projections," said O'Keefe, who is
attending the U.N. summit here.
"They (the projections) are pure speculation, which get credibility
because they are run through computer models that have never been
validated scientifically," O'Keefe explained.
But Britain's Baker believes the analysis should prompt a call to
action on climate change.
"It is not only Christmas that will be affected. In the New Year we
can expect more of the extreme weather, floods and gales suffered
across the Continent this year. This is a global issue, but the
government needs to make reducing greenhouse gases one of its top New
Year's resolutions," Baker said.
But O'Keefe noted that many alarmist climate-change claims have proven
contradictory.
"The world has gone through periods over hundreds of thousands of
years and million of years where it's been warmer, it's been colder;
and it was only a few decades ago that the scientists who are now
telling us we are going to lose a white Christmas were telling us we
were going into an ice age and there would be white Christmases 365
days a year," he said.
"When people sing Bing Crosby's song in years ahead, they will still
experience the beauty of a white Christmas," O'Keefe predicted,
referring to the classic Christmas song.
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Joseph R. Darancette
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17 Dec 2004 12:06:29 PM |
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Captain Compassion wrote:
Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNSNews.com) - The British government
released a new climate analysis this week alleging that white
Christmases in England will be just a memory unless global warming is
halted.
I guess this contradicts the last British government study that said
Britain will experience an ice age due to global warming's effects on
the gulf stream.
Jim
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17 Dec 2004 04:24:51 PM |
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On 17 Dec 2004 10:06:29 -0800, wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNSNews.com) - The British government
released a new climate analysis this week alleging that white
Christmases in England will be just a memory unless global warming is
halted.
I guess this contradicts the last British government study that said
Britain will experience an ice age due to global warming's effects on
the gulf stream.
:)
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"Why would I listen to losers?" -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Long term commitment in relationships is only necessary because it takes
so damn long to raise children. Marriage may well be some kind of trick
to keep the males around beyond sexual satiation." -- Captain Compassion
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
res0mp8t@NOSPAMverizon.net
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17 Dec 2004 10:27:11 AM |
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Why have a signature that says:
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
When you post about global warming? These are contradictions.
~Q
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17 Dec 2004 11:49:38 AM |
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:27:11 GMT, "Q" <Q@anon.com> wrote:
Why have a signature that says:
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
When you post about global warming? These are contradictions.
~Q
I certainly don't see where.
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"Why would I listen to losers?" -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Long term commitment in relationships is only necessary because it takes
so damn long to raise children. Marriage may well be some kind of trick
to keep the males around beyond sexual satiation." -- Captain Compassion
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
res0mp8t@NOSPAMverizon.net
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