Slingo Speaks: ‘…no extreme weather or climate event can be attributed solely to climate change”
Posted: April 23, 2017 Filed under: Extreme Weather | Tags: Climate Change, Climate science, Extreme weather, Global Warming, Julia Slingo, UK Met Office Leave a commentComment from the high priestess of global warming alarmism:
“No extreme weather or climate event can be attributed solely to climate change.” – Julia Slingo, fmr UK Met chief
Weather and climate: in the eye of the storm
By Julio Slingo, published in the Financial Times, 13 April 2017 (h/t to Larry Kummer)
Julia Slingo is the former chief scientist of the Met Office.
In 1972, fresh from a physics degree at Bristol University, I joined the UK’s national weather service, the Met Office. I liked meteorology because I could look out of the window and see physics in action. Clouds forming in a blue sky, and the wind blowing so often from the west
— it was not immediately obvious why that should be, and I was intrigued. (I learnt later that the UK lies right in the path of the jet stream, a band of westerly winds that circles the mid-latitudes. The jet stream arises from the rotation of the Earth — the Coriolis Force — and because the planet is heated at the equator and cooled…
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