Coldest November on record

The November 2010 records from my weather station are now online (see the Archives link). It was the coldest November on record by quite a long way, with a mean temperature for the month of 4.9 C. Since December is expected to be colder than normal as well, 2010 as a whole is set to be much colder that average.

It's been a while since I've posted anything much on the global warming scam, so I'll take this opportunity to provide a bit of an update on my thoughts. Two things are fairly obvious at this point: first, any international accord agreeing to do anything much about the climate isn't going to happen and second, the number of people who are global warming believers is declining rapidly. The "science", such as it is, hasn't changed. It still consists of the same computer models that aren't capable of predicting anything (or at least, anything that actually comes true), and of course reliable data on the climate still doesn't extend any further back than the satellite era (about 30 years) so the time scale on which current trends are based is worse than meaningless on a climatological basis.

Public belief in global warming was justifiably shaken by the Climategate scandal in which it was revealed the those in charge of pumping out the scary predictions were preventing the skeptics from getting papers published, trying to find ways round the Freedom of Information act to avoid releasing their data, and massaging the data so that it supports their warmist propaganda. Public confidence fell further when it was revealed that the IPCC (the UN's panel on climate change) had cited non-peer-reviewed sources (frequently leaflets produced by greenist pressure groups) to arrive at false conclusions concerning things such as the melting of Himalayan glaciers and disappearance of tropical rain forests.

My own interest in the area is fading, since it is increasingly obvious that the warmists have lost the argument, and that most people are now simply bored with the whole thing. The conference this week in Cancun, Mexico, billed as the successor to the big Copenhagen flop last year, is attracting hardly any media attention and is virtually guaranteed not to produce anything significant. After the mid-term elections in the US, it is highly unlikely that the Americans will do anything much to satisfy the warmists, and surely it is just a matter of time until the other governments in the western world bow to public opinion and life gets back to normal.