Record Scottish ski season

The Scottish ski industry has just recorded one of its longest and most lucrative seasons on record. Well into April skiers were enjoying record snow coverage the like of which have barely been witnessed for over 50 years. Indeed many had never expected to see the like again as talk of Global Warming had convinced many that the heyday of Scottish skiing was well and truly over. And yet here we are nearly May and people are wondering when these brilliant skiing conditions will persist to.

Once again it shows that despite the doomsayers the weather has not forgotten how to do cold and this winter (in the northern hemisphere) has proved beyond doubt that prognostications of doom lag a long way behind the reality of things.

And it wasn't just Scotland. Parts of the USA experienced incredibly severe snow falls and farther afield snow fell in the Iraqi capital Baghdad for the very first time(see pic below)



Other badly affected regions included India, China and Afghanistan, and as other posts in this site illustrate, snow even fell in the deserts of Arabia where summer temperatures routinely top 50 centigrade. And still there's talk of Global Warming!!! Well the way things are going it will be the next Ice Age that will start to worry people. Just over 25 years ago that was the dominant fear and acres of newsprint were devoted to the inexorable slide towards an icy catastrophe that never materialised. It shows just how fickle are the assumptions on which these fears are based. Meanwhile the weather carries on regardless and seemingly intent on making a mockery of human based predictions.

Britain sees heaviest snow falls for over a hundred years

In the British Isles the first week in April saw some of the coldest conditions for this time of year in over two decades. Some areas also saw their heaviest snow falls in over a century.

But wait a minute? Isn't this supposed to be the era of Global Warming? Well so much for that, because as this latest episode shows quite plainly the weather most definitely has not forgotten how to do cold. Furthermore as this site has continued to insist for a very long time, none of this would be possible if indeed we were really experiencing the true Greenhouse Effect. Remember the Greenhouse Effect? That was the great buzz phrase around a decade ago, until the evidence showed it just wasn't happening. So then there was Global Warming, and now as the evidence for this is becoming ever more slender we have the next alternative buzz phrase 'Climate Change.' Yet as we have stated innumerable times on this site Climate Change is just a statement of the obvious since the Earth's climate has always been changing and establishing just what is a normal climate for the planet is as close to impossible as impossible gets.

Yes the Earth's climate is changing. But it has always changed and will carry on doing so long after the Human Race has faded into oblivion, just like it saw dramatic changes long before the Human Race ever arrived on the planet.

Oh, and by the way the reason, for this cold snap in Britain was simply the result of cold northern air blowing down from the Arctic. No great mystery, just a question of wind direction. This is important to state, because when in the course of the Summer hotter conditions eventually prevail, these will not have been because of shifting clouds of carbon dioxide, but simply because the winds will have changed to a more southerly direction.

A White Easter

Ok, so we just got back from vacation, and what a time it was too. Here we're talking of the weather scene where most of northern Europe was treated to one of its coldest Easter's on record. Britain, Germany, France and many other nations saw heavy snow falls, that brought chaos to roads and travel arrangements in general.

But just one moment!!! Isn't this supposed to be the age of Global Warming when we are meant to be choking under clouds of carbon dioxide? Well it must have been a dream. Either way there was no sings of anything resembling a heatwave and every sign that contrary to popular expectation we are heading towards the next Ice Age. Ok, strike that last comment. But who knows!! After all there's as much evidence to support the idea of a coming Ice Age as to say we are in a catastrophic period of Global Warming.

Inevitably there were those who called attention to the fact that this was the earliest Easter vacation for around a hundred years or so. Quite correct. But even bearing this in mind average temperatures in Britain over this period were at least two to three degrees colder than usual for this time of year. It means of course that those that insist we are heading for catastrophically hot conditions in the near future have a lot of explaining to do.

No sign of Spring

As Britain approached Spring there was no sign the weather showed any signs of turning warmer in what has turned out to be a decidedly chilly, not to say freezing end to the winter. Either way there was no sign of Global Warming, and it was once again business as usual as those disposed to believe in the catastrophe of a super heated planet were left looking a little silly.

Meanwhile the Times of London drew attention to the fact that last years summer in Britain was unusually wetter than even the British Isles is renowned for being. In fact these were just the opposite conditions that the Climate Change models said would apply if the world were really heating up. These postulate drier summers and wetter, windier winters - none of which appears to be happening. And this should be no mystery. The world is not heating up, and as for Climate Change this - as we have said a thousand times before - is no more than a statement of the obvious, as the world's climate is constantly changing and there is no clear idea of what a normal climate really is.

Whatever the case, the error of the Global Warming idea, and its attachment to Human activity becomes more farcical by the day. As mentioned in earlier posts some areas of the world, including China, India and even the deserts of Arabia have experienced some of the harshest winter conditions for many years, and plainly shows that the planet has not forgotten how to do cold when it wants to. And remember none of this would be possible if the world were really under the blanket of choking clouds of carbon dioxide - the original Greenhouse Effect as it was called.

Global warming fading from view.

With regard to the whole Global Warming debate a peculiar trend is beginning to emerge within the press and media and other quasi scientific literature. It is the slow but noticeable discard of the term Global Warming in favour of the more all embracing term Climate Change.

To us this seems like a significant admission of failure on the part of those who erroneously - and despite the evidence to the contrary - have tried to maintain that the world is heating up to a disastrous extent, or any extent at all. Obviously if this were true then you would not have the anomalies of the posts below, with the harshest winter conditions, and snow that falls even in the deserts of Saudi Arabia. Of course there really never was any Global Warming and nor will this ever hasten the demise of the planet, or its people. Somewhere along the line this realisation had to occur to even the most vociferous of Global Warming advocates, and finally this message appears to have penetrated.

So what happens now? Global Warming disappears in favour of Climate Change. Now the argument is focused on anomalies that appear to have developed within the worlds climate. Talk about stating the obvious. The worlds climate has always changed to the extent where it has never been possible to arrive at a clear idea of what constitutes a normal state of global climate.

In fact open minded scientists are always discovering new patterns of climate, operating to cycles of tens, hundreds of even thousands of years, that all prove that the planets climate is in a constant state of flux and has nothing whatever to do with our activities here on Earth. For example one of the most disastrous examples of Climate Change is the one that turned the Sahara Desert from a verdant fertile plain into one of the most arid and inhospitable regions on Earth within a very short time. And this was well before the so called 'carbon imprint' of Humanity could possibly have taken effect, and shows in quite dramatic fashion how this planet has always exhibited the most extreme Climate Change properties dating back many thousands of years before the Industrial Age was ever thought of.

Solar flare connection to recent cold snaps.

As outlined in other posts below certain areas of the world, in particular the USA and northern Europe have recently experienced particularly heavy snow falls that appear to contradict the idea that the world is heating up. Indeed it is the opinion of this site that events here on Earth are a reflection of Solar energy. When for instance Solar flare activity is at a peak temperatures tend to rise and conversely when flare activity declines so do temperatures here on Earth.

With this in mind it is interesting to note that Solar flare activity (see graph below) has recently been of an extremely low, to non existent variety. Hence we have colder conditions. When this graph becomes more animated - as it soon will - then warmer conditions will return. It's as simple as that. In fact no great mystery, and certainly nothing that we as a race have much influence over. Simply put, it's like turning up the fire!!

Heavy snowfalls in the USA

While some were talking of an early Spring and global warming, the weather obviously failed to take heed. Instead some nations were treated to heavy snow falls that proves that we are still a long way from experiencing the nightmare conditions of perpetual heat that some doomsayers believe are already here. If so then how do you explain the heavy snowfalls through many US States, as well as snow chaos that struck parts of Germany, Central Europe and the British Isles where Scotland was especially affected.



Clearly the weather demonstrates that winter in the northern hemisphere is business as usual - cold and snowy just like it always was. Either way no sign of Global Warming.

For more information on the US snow storms please turn to the following link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7358637