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IN THE MIDST OF A DEEP FREEZE, the British Met Office insists it?s a warm winter: A period of hum?

By Glenn Reynolds

IN THE MIDST OF A DEEP FREEZE, the British Met Office insists it’s a warm winter:

A period of humility and even silence would be particularly welcome from the Met Office, our leading institutional advocate of the perils of man-made global warming, which had promised a ?barbecue summer? in 2009 and one of the ?warmest winters on record?. In fact, the Met still asserts we are in the midst of an unusually warm winter ? as one of its staffers sniffily protested in an internet posting to a newspaper last week: ?This will be the warmest winter in living memory, the data has already been recorded. For your information, we take the highest 15 readings between November and March and then produce an average. As November was a very seasonally warm month, then all the data will come from those readings.?

Well, that’s certainly going to enhance their credibility.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 10, 2010 (boomark / email).