It goes without saying that the normal reaction to unseasonably warm weather is to leg it to the nearest beer garden and have a pint.
But while us reasonable folk in Britain have been busy enjoying the warm spell, the climate alarmists have all gone into meltdown.
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas has already used the weather as an excuse to wheel out the old clichés about global warming being the greatest threat to our species.
‘We shouldn’t be enjoying a heatwave in February’, reads the breathless headline on her article for the Independent. ‘This is what climate breakdown feels like’, she says.
In the Guardian, journalist Jonn Elledge asks: ‘Am I the only one who’s terrified about the warm weather?’
It is true that it was a first when temperatures topped 20 degrees centigrade this week. We’ve now had the warmest February day on record.
But that is only alarming until you consider that the previous hottest February day came in 1998 – over 21 years ago.
The inconvenient truth for the green lobby is that the current unseasonal spell of warm weather is just that: weather.
The Met Office has already said the cause of the current hot spell is a high-pressure front dragging warm air over from Africa, not global warming.
And yet the same alarmists who claim that unseasonal cold spells can’t be taken as proof that global warming isn’t real are now asserting that the current warm spell proves beyond all doubt that we’re heading for the end of the world.
The Earth’s temperature does seem to be increasing, and there’s no use denying that. However, the current rise is likely to just be part of the uncontrollable natural cycle of heating and cooling which the planet has always endured.
It is also true that a small amount of this temperature increase is likely to be caused by human activities, although the extent to which global warming is man-made remains disputed.
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Next month is Spring the Birds will Sing the Grass with Grow the Flowers will Bloom and the Sap(Climate Alarmists)will flow
It seems that the only suffering is in the minds of the insufferable alarmists.
Whilst our Brit cousins bask in balmy warmth, southern California has just experienced a month not seen in over a century: no days at all in February with high temperature 70F or above. Being touted as one of the “coldest” Febs in all history. (yeah, yeah, <70F “cold” is a relative term to the thin skinned Californians)
Whatever it is, they warned us. It’s all building up to something.
Bare arms and legs in England, rivers over flowing in California.
Droughts are a threatened species. This must be the end.
The Bel-Aire fire of 1961 hit in November and destroyed a bunch of homes and was cuased by the Santa Anas wirnds and the Chaperel Brush that grows in the area plus a controled fire that got out of control
If you tell a lie often enough and loud enough it becomes the truth. With the mainstream media spreading the lie that warm weather is caused by climate change, it is the truth.
In Western Washington we have had the third coldest February in history. After the storm three weeks ago our yard is still covered with snow and the recreational resort we belong to has nine inches. Warm and cold spells say nothing about long term climate.