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The news of the shipping trapped by ice in the Baltic could not have come at a worse time for the warmists.
They are desperately trying to mount a counter-attack, with Peter Stott of the Met Office Hadley Centre asserting that there is an “increasingly remote possibility” that human activity is not the main cause of climate change.
Needless to say, Stott brings nothing new to the table by way of research, relying merely on a review of 100 or so previous studies that purport to track changes in the earth’s climatic system. The recycled material, however, is dressed up in new clothes, labelled “optimal detection”, which we are told shows “clear fingerprints of human-induced global warming.”
Unfortunately for Stott, he relies on the usual poster children, highlighting not least Arctic sea ice cover, his bleatings having to compete with reports of ice-bound ferries and cargo ships.
Sceptics can, of course, make hay with these reports – as indeed the warmists have exploited any number of transient weather phenomena – but it is germane to note that the Baltic incident is partly the result of gale-force winds which are compacting the ice and making it difficult to navigate.
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Source: eureferendum.blogspot.com