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• Warm Bias: How The Met Office Mislead The British Public
• Met Office 2009 : Skiing Doomed In Scotland
• The IPCC’s 12 Days of Christmas
• It's 'the hottest year on record', as long as you don't take its temperature
• 8,000 affected by icy highway havoc
• Coldest December since records began as temperatures plummet to minus 10°C bringing travel chaos across Britain

Warm Bias: How The Met Office Mislead The British Public Posted: 18 Dec 2010 01:28 PM PST Met Office 2008 Forecast: Trend of Mild Winters Continues Met Office, 25 September 2008: The Met Office forecast for the coming winter suggests it is, once again, likely to be milder than average. It is also likely that the coming winter will be drier than last year. [reality check after the jump]

Met Office 2009 : Skiing Doomed In Scotland Posted: 18 Dec 2010 01:18 PM PST 10 February 2009 - news.scotsman.com: Alex Hill, the chief government adviser with the Met Office, told The Scotsman there was no future for skiing in Scotland because climate change would see winters become too warm for regular snowfall. Mr Hill said: "Put it this way: I won't be investing in the skiing industry. "The amount of snow has been decreasing for the last 40 years, and there's no reason why it's going to stop now."

The IPCC’s 12 Days of Christmas Posted: 18 Dec 2010 12:49 PM PST 1 On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a climate bible with integrity. 2 On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me -2 flying pigs -and a climate bible with integrity.

It's 'the hottest year on record', as long as you don't take its temperature Posted: 18 Dec 2010 12:41 PM PST Separated at birth? "He's a sly one..." We have lately heard much of the claim that 2010 will turn out to have been "the hottest year on record". No one has done more to promote this belief than Dr James Hansen, head of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), responsible for one of the four main official global temperature records.

8,000 affected by icy highway havoc Posted: 18 Dec 2010 12:31 PM PST The frozen Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao freeway It's not just the UK, US, and EU suffering from a severe pre-winter cold snap. From China Daily: A severe cold snap swept through South China and froze over sections of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Freeway in Guangdong province starting Dec 15, bringing traffic to a standstill and stranding over 8,000, chinanews.com reported Friday.

Coldest December since records began as temperatures plummet to minus 10°C bringing travel chaos across Britain Posted: 18 Dec 2010 06:02 AM PST [h/t Adam] Swathes of Britain skidded to a halt today as the big freeze returned - grounding flights, closing rail links and leaving traffic at a standstill. And tonight the nation was braced for another 10in of snow and yet more sub-zero temperatures - with no let-up in the bitterly cold weather for at least a month, forecasters have warned.

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