Warning: extreme weather ahead

The Guardian by John Vidal | Jun. 14, 2011 (News Report)

Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of 'global weirding' Drought zones have been declared across much of England and Wales, yet Scotland has just registered its wettest-ever May. The warmest British spring in 100 years followed one of the coldest UK winters in 300 years. June in London has been colder than March. February was warm enough to ... Full Story »

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by Roland F. Hirsch - Jun. 14, 2011

This opinion piece has little journalistic merit. It is a typical anti-science warmist ideological piece. The author has done no research or he would know that the examples of WEATHER he cites are not in any way unique. He doesn't even know about the real drought of 1975-6 in the U.K. He doesn't know about the real droughts in the U.S. in the 1930s and the 1960s.He is unaware that temperatures thus far in 2011 are cooler worldwide than most of the last ten years. He does not know that climate scientists state that a warmer climate will mean less extreme weather.