{"id":393880,"date":"2010-03-05T12:28:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5295"},"modified":"2010-03-05T12:28:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:28:46","slug":"the-ice-floes-of-reality-by-richard-north-eureferendum-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/393880","title":{"rendered":"The ice floes of reality by Richard North, EUReferendum.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=469\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Richard North&quot;\">Richard North<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  The news of the shipping <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-3122-Chicago-International-Travel-Examiner~y2010m3d4-Baltic-Sea-ice-strands-thousands-of-ferry-passengers\">trapped by ice<\/a> in the Baltic could not have come at a worse time for the warmists.<\/p>\n<p>They are desperately trying to mount a <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/mar\/05\/met-office-analysis-climate-change\">counter-attack<\/a>, with Peter Stott of the Met Office Hadley Centre asserting that there is an &#8220;increasingly remote possibility&#8221; that human activity is not the main cause of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s climatic system. The recycled material, however, is dressed up in new clothes, labelled &#8220;optimal detection&#8221;, which we are told shows &#8220;clear fingerprints of human-induced global warming.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Stott, he relies on the usual poster children, highlighting not least Arctic sea ice cover, his bleatings having to compete <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/blogs\/news\/story\/25767\/ships-beginning-to-be-freed-fr.asp\">with reports<\/a> of ice-bound ferries and cargo ships.<\/p>\n<p>Sceptics can, of course, make hay with these reports &#8211; as indeed the warmists have exploited any number of transient weather phenomena \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>Click source to read more from Richard North<\/p>\n<p>Source: eureferendum.blogspot.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5295\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CtaQggC-BocnsdBE-h2bOvXfbOc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CtaQggC-BocnsdBE-h2bOvXfbOc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CtaQggC-BocnsdBE-h2bOvXfbOc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CtaQggC-BocnsdBE-h2bOvXfbOc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/fE5g74Kd21g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Richard North 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 &#8220;increasingly remote possibility&#8221; that human activity is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}