"Pollution kills polar bears" - the climate debate according to the Telegraph
The moonbat papers are gleefully trumpeting alarmist stories this morning about the latest State of the Climate report from the UK Met Office and the US NOAA, like this one in the UK Telegraph:
The State of the Climate report shows “unequivocally that the world is warming and has been for more than three decades”.
And despite the cold winter in Europe and north east America, this year is set to be the hottest on record [in other words since about 1880, ignoring all the previous warmings which were likely to have been warmer].
The annual report was compiled by the Met Office and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Both the NOAA and Nasa have stated that the first six months of this year were the hottest on record [i.e. since 1880], while the Met Office believes it is the second hottest start to the year after 1998.
None of this tells us anything about the cause of that warming, but hang on, here’s the killer argument from the Met Office:
Dr Peter Stott, Head of Climate Monitoring and Attribution at the Met Office, said “variability” in different regions, such as the cold winter in Britain, does not mean the rest of the world is not warming.
And he said ‘greenhouse gases are the glaringly obvious explanation’ for 0.56C (1F) warming over the last 50 years.
Ah, the “glaringly obvious explanation”! That’s the answer clearly! Just like the “glaringly obvious explanation” that irate gods cause thunderstorms, or the “glaringly obvious explanation” that stress and spicy foods cause gastric ulcers. It’s all just correlation, without causation.
Read it here.
UPDATE: And the ever-calm, ever-balanced ABC reports it thus:
Climate check-up ‘screams world is warming’
Peter Thorne, of the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, says the scientists were not swayed by the debate over climate data and whether it had previously been manipulated.
“What this data is doing is screaming that the world is warming, and that cannot be driven by any single individual or even a small set of groups, because the evidence is there to see – there are lots of groups doing this stuff,” Mr Thorne said. (source)
Laughable, if it weren’t so tragic.
Australian Climate Madness 
It’s “glaringly obvious” that statements from the Met Office can’t be relied on, because they’ve failed to reliably predict seasonal weather (especially those “barbecue summers”) for years.
Good on you, Simon. I had long suspected Cthuhlu or Yog-Sototh was behind that double blizzard we had in February.
Glad to see some “glaringly obvious” evidence supporting my theory.
Ahh yes, This is the same Met office that not long ago released a statement that they were no longer going to predict long range forecasts, or to put it in plain English,,,,,, “we are totally clueless & inaccurate but at least our government propaganda peddling pays the bills”.