Global Warming Climate Change Snow

It is reassuring to know that those committed to fighting global warming can hapilly identify that colder winters and crazy snow events in the UK are a sign of, and are consistent with Global Warming either through the fact that it now happens so much more rarely than it used to (argument no 1) and consequently we are less prepared than we used to be, or conversely that more and more extreme weather events are likely as we proceed down the road to climate change (argument no 2). Both of these arguments were deployed yesterday.

Those with more than one third of a brain will realise that they are contradictory and exclusive to one another. If the climate change advocates are correct and extreme weather events are to be more common then the global warming (this happens far less frequently now because things are warming up) devotees must be wrong and vice-versa. Neither however would suggest that extremely cold weather events may be proof that global warming or climate change was imaginary and that the trend that prevailed from 1980 to 2005 (temperatures have cooled since 2005) has reversed. This would be to admit that we do not have a thorough understanding of weather and climate on planet earth and that our vanity in suggesting that we could change it was simply that. Vanity.