Dolts of the day. Now fighting among themselves...

...further to yesterday's post. The realities of Climategate, international stasis at Copenhagen together with a bitterly cold northern winter, are forcing climate scientists into dispute. Firstly from WuWT, uncomfortable news for the warmists that... the release of embarrassingly candid emails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia has intensified, if not vindicated, suspicions that scientific misconduct has played a significant role in fueling alarmism over supposed catastrophic manmade global warming. Just days after news broke about what has been dubbed “Climategate,” Penn State University (PSU) announced that it would investigate the conduct of Michael Mann, a professor in PSU’s Department of Meteorology and a prominent figure in the Climategate emails... more, from WuWT here...

And this from the UK Daily Mail... The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists...Professor Mojib Latif, a leading member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told The Mail on Sunday: ‘A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these (oceanic) cycles – perhaps as much as 50 per cent. 'They have now gone into reverse, so winters like this one will become much more likely... Prof Latif and Prof Anastasios Tsonis, head of the University of Wisconsin Atmospheric Sciences Group are not climate change ‘deniers’. There is...a measure of additional ‘background’ warming due to human activity and greenhouse gases that runs across the MDO cycles. 'This isn't just a blip. We can expect colder winters for quite a while' But he added: ‘I do not believe in catastrophe theories. Man-made warming is balanced by the natural cycles, and I do not trust the computer models which state that if CO2 reaches a particular level then temperatures and sea levels will rise by a given amount...

All of this of course is upsetting the diehards, among them Dr David Viner, (left) who in March 2000 as a member of the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, the body now being investigated over Climategate said that within a few years snowfall would become ‘a very rare and exciting event’ in Britain, and that ‘children just aren’t going to know what snow is’.
Now promoted to head a British Council programme with an annual £10 million budget that raises awareness of global warming among young people abroad, Dr Viner last week said he still stood by that prediction: "We’ve had three weeks of relatively cold weather, and that doesn’t change anything. This winter is just a little cooler than average, and I still think that snow will become an increasingly rare event". The longer the cold spell lasts, the harder it may be to persuade the public of that assertion...