Met Office, do I see a prediction?

Prof Sutton said: “Blocking episodes can persist for several weeks, leading to extended cold periods in winter.

“As well as such natural processes, we know that weather across the UK and Europe is being affected by higher levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. For example, rainfall events have become more intense and this is quite likely linked to a warmer climate. There is also some evidence linking the record low amounts of Arctic sea ice to UK weather, but this evidence is not yet conclusive either way.”

– The Scotsman “Stand by for 10 years of rain-soaked summers”

IS?

The much talked about Met Office one day ramble through the brambles was yesterday, media are bleeding little scratchings.

Well Mr Sutton, blocking can occur any time and that is not your field.

United Nations running a poll

NEWSFLASH! Action on climate change voted bottom of world’s priority heap

Hilary Ostrov has a mighty strange report about the United Nations using an on-line public survey.

Be no spin there would there? The story is double take variety, I don’t know what to make of it.

Item at “The View From Here” linked here.

h/t to Donna Laframboise at NoFrakkingConsensus

Windmill Huhne, more fallout, judge on judge

Oh my but as I suspected the inc..t is appearing as news breaks. Think I mentioned this previously so I was watching and waiting.

Daily Mail online has it

Britain’s top black woman judge Constance Briscoe charged with intending to pervert course of justice over Chris Huhne’s points swap case

Article here

As I recall lived close to the Huhne’s and were friends.

Some caution over a live court case is needed here and in comments.

Quote of the week: Pachauri on Planes

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) doesn’t think efforts implemented by the European Union (EU) to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in European airspace should apply to Indian jet airliners:

This from the Indian business standard website via Tom Nelson:

Under the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), the EU has threatened to fine Air India and Jet Airways (India) for not sharing their emission data. The two Indian airlines were staring at a fine of  30,000 Euro (Rs 22.60 lakh on Sunday) after the ETS.ETS, which came into effect in 2012, requires airlines to report emission data on an annual basis for flights within and to/from Europe and purchase credits in case the emission exceeds capped limits.

“We are taking up the issue first with the UNFCC, followed by ICAO rather than the other way round,” said V Rajagopalan, secretary in the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF).

Asked whether the ministry was in favour of domestic aviation emission norms for airlines, Rajagopalan said, “There are a lot of discussions going on. It’s too early to say anything.” Natarajan had even termed the EU step as a deal-breaker as far as global efforts for climate changes were concerned. However, experts are not in favour of any domestic actions.

Kilts and heat around the rear

Here is some political stuff for those who want a spot of amusement. Media links should be easy to find, ie. DIY

• News of male Swedish urban train drivers not allowed to wear shorts during a heat wave so they have taken company issue skirts, neat trick, use the rules. The mail train will approve.
• News snippet about Yeo being called out over his fiscal outside with more detail now emerged, was a not very effective newspaper sting.
• Cameron has just pledged many millions of money for war on hunger in the third world but I am pointing out that Ed Davey has been approving of English welfare cuts at the same time as news about a large increase in people relying on food banks, not a normal feature of English life. What this has to do with Davey, good question.

Added links,

• Sky news, nice legsÂ
• ITV news, ouch, photo of Eric Pickles of call them lazy notoriety, looks like should learn to find clothes that fit here, you think Yeo is bad… so will he touch his mates? “Communities Secretary Eric Pickles told ITV News that “there would be a process” in investigating claims that the Energy Select Committee Chairman Tim Yeo coached a paying client on how to influence his committee.”
  Try search    news tim yeo sting
• Can’t find any visually acceptable news item on Cameron, visual noise infested web sites, connected with “This week, British Prime Minister David Cameron, whose country holds this year’s G-8 Presidency, is hosting a “Nutrition for Growth” summit in London”
• Food banks, February story in Mirror “PM in secret food bank visit: David Cameron shamed into seeing effect of Tory policies”
• Daily Express  Energy Secretary Ed Davey told MPs this month that it was “completely wrong to suggest that there is some sort of statistical link between the benefit reforms we’re making and the provision of food banks”

Oh dear dear, sounded like heckling on BBC R4, Any Questions?

Any Questions? is long running weekly public discussion program held in front of an audience around the country where there is a panel who take questions, usually high profile politicians, maybe a spoiler.

Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth Wales with Secreatary of State for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Owen Paterson MP, Peter Hain MP, Leader of Plaid Cymru Leanne Woods & commentator James Delingpole.

I happened to turn on the radio right at the end of a broadcast, instant double take, someone was in full flight about wind turbines, hecklers audible, end of program announced by Dimblewit who sounded amused.

Obama’s Spooks “quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type”

Rodin: The Thinker

From Politico

By Dylan Dybers

The Washington Post has published a remarkable report showing that the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been monitoring the central servers of major Internet companies — Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple — and “extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.”

Nigel Farage: Memo to Davey – “science is never settled”

From Edie:

The environmental movement has become politicised, urbanised and is ‘full of profound deep ignorance’ says UKIP leader Nigel Farage.

In an exclusive interview with edie, Farage says he has been a keen supporter of environmental issues since the late 1980′s but attacked those driving the movement today, claiming that it has turned into an ‘industry’.

“This environmental industry has managed to bully weak minded politicians into making a series of decisions that actually aren’t good for biodiversity, sustainability or the environment,”

says Farage.

Claiming to be an environmentalist, Farage slammed European leaders for lacking the necessary understanding to put effective environmental policies in place.

“Twenty seven prime ministers and presidents of Europe meet for a summit and say something must be done, like banning light bulbs, for example. And then go for new light bulbs that have mercury in them. It’s ridiculous,” he says.

He also criticised Tim Yeo, stating that the chairman of the select committee on climate change was not the right person for the job.

How can a man that is earning £145,000 a year under the renewable energy industry, chair a committee in parliament? Can someone explain that to me?

Yeo, along with Labour’s Barry Gardiner, held a vote today to ensure a target to decarbonise electricity was in place by 2014. Part of an amendment to Ed Davey’s Energy Bill, the green sector, along with several industry associations, called for the Government to vote in favour. However, it received a no vote earlier today.

Democracy under attack: #OccupyGezi – Turkish Police now using live rounds

The increasingly authoritarian AKP ruling party in Turkey has been using live rounds and human targeted teargas shells and water canon like the ones Cameron intends to import to the UK to brutalize peaceful demonstrators in Istanbul and across many other cities in Turkey. The world watches. In the internet age, despots like Erdogan cannot use riot cops to kill people in secret any more.

@rustyrockets A 22 year old has just been shot by a bullet and killed in Turkey by the Police! HELP! #direngeziparki #occupyturkey

— Marjinal Denizkizi (@KozmetikDenizi) June 3, 2013

Ed Davey plays the 97% consensus trick on BBC R4 in front of Lawson

At about 22:30 BST, 4th June 2013 on BBC Radio 4, Davey and Lawson were together with the subject, well, you can guess.