Many scientists are in fact witches; we have learned in the past 10 years or so.

But this is nothing new!

As Dr. Baliunas (not a witch) points out, history proves that climate has often been far less hospitable than it is today. All witches may not agree with this statement; nonetheless, there it is – absolute and incontrovertible fact. Moreover, all truly scientific evidence demonstrates that these less habitable conditions have occurred repeatedly from far before recent pre-history.

Will these inhospitable intervals of climate on Earth repeat going forward; or will the climate behave in ways never observed before; as conjured by now-wealthy witches, posing as scientists?

Even without a close study of the sun, the answer to this dichotomy can only be that what we have seen many, many times will repeat; and what we have never seen may be only a repeated case of witchcraft!

Yes, witchcraft does repeat too. Obviously, humans do believe in witchcraft, even today it continues to repeat! Witchcraft will repeat again.

Can science overcome witchcraft? Given much time, it always does. But very often this sweet victory comes far too late; as the cost in human lives from the next, inevitable, hostile climate interval will evidence soon again. Is it 20 years, or 200 years? Apparently, based on the history of solar behavior, it will be sooner; as any reader of WUWT knows well.

There is still time to mitigate the results, of this “unfortunate” history, repeated. Our real misfortune is that, due to witchcraft, we blew our precious time and cash pumping CO2 down abandoned mines.

Witchcraft, and history

California has fired a long-tenured professor for the content of his work; because his work is not acceptable in California’s blossoming socialist agenda. There is a review of the case on April 4, 2011.

Will a UCLA Prof Lose His Job For Sticking to Science Over Politics?

and here:

The Green Regulation Machine: Saving the Planet or Killing Jobs?

The $cash has been made. Now, who will repair them?

It’s easy, silly.

Government subsidizes INSTALLING wind turbines.

Government does not subsidize REPAIRING wind turbines.

Ergo, THEY ARE NOT WORTH REPAIRING.

Much more here: The reality of wind turbines in California – video

Links from Drudge:

ENERGY CRUNCH:
NM declares state of emergency over natural gas shortage...
TX residents asked to limit use...
Outage in AZ...
San Diego shortage...
Usage at record high in UT...
CA utility told to cut pipeline pressures...
SHELL oil postpones drilling in Arctic; Dem Sen. blames White House...
Mexico cancels offer to send electricity...
Obama's Blocking Of New Plants Triggers Nationwide Blackouts?

Piers Corbyn’s predictions are quite good. So far, Al Gore has never been right, one time (except when he initiated the internet).

Ice ages follow Gore around like puppy dogs. Gore’s “karma” is world disaster, like AIDS, malaria, or world poverty and starvation.

Al Gore will be reincarnated, 60 years before the next ice age.

Unfortunately, smooth operator(?) Gore has disabled a large share of world scientists. When will our scientists resume being useful, in general?

Well, a few are useful:

Something seems to be up, but unfortunately warmth is not it. Has anybody checked with Al Gore?

If somebody wants to tax your energy suppliers, to prevent global warming, I think I would be upset.

If somebody doesn’t want cheap heating oil and coal, I think I would be upset.

Mostly I burn firewood. Looks like I am going to have to expand the woodlot. Oh, well. I’ve been planning for it for 3 or 4 years. Burning firewood is GREAT; especially when heating oil is too expensive.

BRITAIN’S winter is the coldest since 1683 and close to being the chilliest in nearly 1,000 years.

WINTER MAY BE COLDEST IN 1000 YEARS

30th December 2010 By Steve Hughes
BRITAIN’S winter is the coldest since 1683 and close to being the chilliest in nearly 1,000 years.

Latest figures reveal that the average temperature since December 1 has been a perishing -1C.

That makes it the second coldest since records began in 1659.

The chilliest on record was 1683/84, when the average was -1.17C and the River Thames froze over for two months.

But with January and February to come, experts believe we could suffer the most freezing cold winter in the last 1,000 years.

30th December 2010 By Steve Hughes

When cold air is trapped near the ground, wind is often quiet

‘Green’ Scotland relying on French nuclear power

(Seen first at Gateway Pundit. Article dated Wednesday, 29-December; emphasis added)

Over the past ten days, when temperatures have plunged across Scotland, the average power generation from Britain’s wind developments – the majority of which are in Scotland – was 261 megawatts (MW), just 10.75 per cent of the total possible of 2,430MW.

Last Monday and Tuesday afternoon wind production fell to a major low while electricity usage peaked close to its highest level.

Shortly before 5:30pm on both days, wind power production fell to 62MW and 61 MW respectively – just 2.5 per cent of its total capacity.

At the same time on both occasions, the UK’s electricity usage rose to about 60,000MW – one of the highest ever levels of demand. Electricity demand in the UK rarely rises above 60,000MW.

Wind farms are designed to run at an average of 30 per cent of their generation capacity throughout a year.

Obama graduated from Harvard so you should definitely check this out (Harvard has reserved the right to sue Obama for damages):

Obama Addresses New York on Climate

The result of increasing carbon dioxide in atmosphere is far beyond the ability of science to observe today. It is nothing. Few omnipotent big-government scientists will admit this. It is possible that even scientists can learn, though unlikely when government funds them.

This cold wave is caused by something else, and may be the harbinger of harsh reality virtually UNIMAGINED* IN SCIENCE, at least government funded science, even though it is merely the repitition of well-known history.

Large to vast numbers of human deaths could occur within the next 30 – 100 years due to intense cold and its effect on growing seasons. Government, and the vast cadre of scientists it has suborned, are helpless.

The result of increasing carbon dioxide in atmosphere is nothing of practical significance today and far into the future.

(*By “unimagined” here, I actually intend “criminally denied,” but it would destroy the flow of the brief post. I permitted myself an obscure joke at the expense of “government science.” Perhaps we will elucidate in a new post).
Story here: Coldest day ever recorded in Ireland
December 25, 2010

Coldest Day Ever Recorded in Ireland

Jack Cashill

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On Tuesday this week, the high temperature in Ballyhaise, County Cavan, clocked in at 16 degrees Fahrenheit. As Head forecaster Gerald Fleming told the Irish Times, “That’s the lowest daily maximum ever recorded in Ireland, which makes it the coldest day ever recorded in Ireland.”

This new low did not shock the Irish. They have been getting used to sub-freezing temperatures. This is the coldest December on record in Ireland and throughout much of Northern Europe. It is likely the snowiest as well. The weather has thoroughly disrupted European travel and is starting to damage the economy.

Not all winters are like this. I saw no snow the year I lived in Ireland in the early 1990s, and in the early 1980s, during the winter I spent in France-Nancy to be precise-the temperature never dropped below freezing, even at night.

For old time’s sake, I have been tracking the weather reports out of Europe. Yet in all that I have read in the mainstream European press, I have seen no attempt to reconcile the present cold with the promised heat, not even to chalk the flagrant disparity up to “climate change.” It is as if the reader is not supposed to notice.

But many do. The blogs and editorial letters boil over with outrage. Writes one not atypical letter writer in the UK, “Snowfall, ice, Arctic-level cold and all the rest have caused major disruption to the UK infrastructure in the last few weeks, not least because our gilded civil servants have been looking in the wrong direction. And they still are. . . . The country is grinding to a halt NOW, and they are still prattling about global warming in the period 2030 to 2100? These people are truly off their trolleys. They are seriously mentally ill.”

The Europeans are learning what we have always known, as Michael Savage might put it, “Liberalism is a mental disorder.”

Failure to develop energy resources in reasonable anticipation of these frequent natural events regulated by the sun will seriously compound the tragedy, either way.

Government is the mortal enemy of science and humanity.  “That government is best, which governs least,”  (variously attributed to Paine, Jefferson, and Thoreau) – which excuses Obama completely.

There’s a mini ice age coming, says man who beats weather experts

Piers Corbyn not only predicted the current weather, but he believes things are going to get much worse, says Boris Johnson, London’s mayor

The man who repeatedly beats the Met Office at its own game

Well, folks, it’s tea-time on Sunday and for anyone involved in keeping people moving it has been a hell of a weekend. Thousands have had their journeys wrecked, tens of thousands have been delayed getting away for Christmas; and for those Londoners who feel aggrieved by the performance of any part of our transport services, I can only say that we are doing our level best.

Almost the entire Tube system was running on Sunday and we would have done even better if it had not been for a suicide on the Northern Line, and the temporary stoppage that these tragedies entail. Of London’s 700 bus services, only 50 were on diversion, mainly in the hillier areas. On Saturday, we managed to keep the West End plentifully supplied with customers, and retailers reported excellent takings on what is one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

Advertisement: Story continues below We have kept the Transport for London road network open throughout all this. We have about 90,000 tons of grit in stock, and the gritters were out all night to deal with this morning’s rush. And yet we have to face the reality of the position across the country.

It is no use my saying that London Underground and bus networks are performing relatively well – touch wood – when Heathrow, our major international airport, is still effectively closed two days after the last heavy snowfall; when substantial parts of our national rail network are still struggling; when there are abandoned cars to be seen on hard shoulders all over the country; and when yet more snow is expected today, especially in the north.

In a few brief hours, we are told, the snowy superfortresses will be above us again, bomb bays bulging with blizzard. It may be that in the next hours and days we have to step up our de-icing, our gritting and our shovelling. So let me seize this brief gap in the aerial bombardment to pose a question that is bugging me. Why did the Met Office forecast a “mild winter”?

Do you remember? They said it would be mild and damp, and between one degree and one and a half degrees warmer than average. Well, I am now 46 and that means I have seen more winters than most people on this planet, and I can tell you that this one is a corker.

Never mind the record low attained in Northern Ireland this weekend. I can’t remember a time when so much snow has lain so thickly on the ground, and we haven’t even reached Christmas. And this is the third tough winter in a row. Is it really true that no one saw this coming?

Actually, they did. (Emphasis added) Allow me to introduce readers to Piers Corbyn, meteorologist and brother of my old chum, bearded leftie MP Jeremy. Piers Corbyn works in an undistinguished office in Borough High Street. He has no telescope or supercomputer. Armed only with a laptop, huge quantities of publicly available data and a first-class degree in astrophysics, he gets it right again and again.

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A Dalton Minimum Repeat is Shaping Up

It's OK with government if calamitous history repeats