Freezing warmth on the way

The Met Office is predicting again:

A return to low solar activity not seen for centuries could increase the chances of cold winters in Europe and eastern parts of the United States but wouldn’t halt global warming, according to new research.

The Met Office-led study, published in Nature Communications, is among the first to look at the regional climate impacts of a possible ‘grand solar minimum’…

…On a regional level, the study found a bigger cooling effect for northern Europe, the UK and eastern parts of North America – particularly during winter. For example, for northern Europe the cooling is in the range -0.4 to -0.8 °C.

Winters will be warmer overall, but this suggests a relative increase in the risk of colder winters for these areas during a possible grand solar minimum.

So global warming isn’t necessarily global and isn’t necessarily warming. If this ludicrous and shameful mess of guesswork and bet-hedging is science then I’m a banana.

Here’s the Met Office’s Dr Vicky Pope in 2007  - “by 2014 we’re predicting that we’ll be point three degrees warmer than 2004″.

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