If this keeps up, the Brits stand a chance to find out exactly how cuddle polar bears aren’t.
Warmest winter in living memory, my ass
In fact, the Met still asserts we are in the midst of an unusually warm winter — as one of its staffers sniffily protested in an internet posting to a newspaper last week: “This will be the warmest winter in living memory, the data has already been recorded. For your information, we take the highest 15 readings between November and March and then produce an average. As November was a very seasonally warm month, then all the data will come from those readings.â€
Do their math skills suck so badly that they can’t take the temperature for every day during winter and average them? That would be approximately 90 days to add together and then divide. I’d even buy them a calculator.
Or is it that they’re looking for a particular outcome?
That’s what I thought.
The problem these clowns have is that they have committed to an outcome and will do anything in their power to adhere to it – no matter how much they need to discredit themselves to pull it off! Why? They are NOT VERY SMART.
I’ve heard it said that we finally have a white Britain.
Wait, so… let me follow this. It will be the warmest weather on record, as they take the fifteen highest temps in November. They don’t take into account any other data.
Somewhere statistics professors are crying.
They take the 15 high spikes from Nov. to March. Still, taking an actual average would give them a very different number, as they well know.
Let me get this straight:
“This will be the warmest winter in living memory, the data has already been recorded.”
Lessee, according to my educayshum, winter starts on or about the 21st day of December and ends on or about the 21st day of March. It is now the 13th of January, so we are approximately 24 days into the 90-day season of Winter, and the entire season’s data has already been recorded?
The ONLY way that this satatement can be understood is as a Freudian slip. The writers, obviously part of the Glow-Bull Warming Cabal, didn’t mean to tell us that they “cooked” the data again, but they did just tell us exactly that.
Quod Erat Demonstratum. Get a rope.
Rivrdog beat me to it. I can do the same thing with summer temperatures, record the 15 lowest temperatures in May and average them, and Voila! Coldest Summer on Record! And with the data collection for summer over, our favorite global warming statisticians can take the entire “traditional” summer, i.e. June 21 through September 21 as vacation and return to their jobs
teachingindoctrinating college students, warm, tanned and rested.Oh, and if this continues, they may not need to worry about snakes in Britain, either. I wonder what mental contortions are necessary to argue that a massive snake-die-off due to subfreezing weather is actually due to global warming.