Heads I win, tails you lose, Penny Wrong

Simon on Australian Climate Madness has pointed out that:
As inevitable as night follows day, scientists have claimed that the worst winter snow in London for thirty years is consistent with climate change. The UK's Telegraph newspaper reports this under the faintly amusing headline:

Snow is consistent with global warming, say scientists

Meanwhile, at the same time, our own dearly beloved Ms Penny Wong has said that the heatwave gripping south-east Australia is part of what scientists predicted would happen.
http://talbyv.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-penny-wong-or-right-3.html

At the time that she said that (28/1/09) ,the BOM issued a chart that showed the more than two thirds of Australia was experiencing lower than normal temperatures. Most of the Northern Hemisphere was also experiencing record lows.

Can it be - honto kana - that record low temperatures indicate global warming?

When will these clowns apologise?

UK's coldest start to Winter

Since Dec 1, the average UK temp has been only 1.7C, well below the long term 1971-2000 average of 4.7C for the first 10 days of the month.

10 days do not a trend make, however there are more and more stories pointing to the fact that we could be heading for cooling and - heaven forbid - another ice age.

Coolest Year since 2000

From James Randerson in the UK Guardian:

This year is set to be the coolest since 2000 according to the UK Met office. The global average for 2008 should come in close to 14.3C which is 0.14C below the average temperature for 2001-7.

Anthony Watts (wattsupwiththat.com) gives examples of failed Met Office forecasts and concludes: The message in the UK Met office press releases is that, since there is such poor skill with seasonal weather prediction, multi-decadal climate prediction must be a much less precise and accurate science than we heard promoted by the IPCC and in theclimate change press releases given out by the UK Met Office and others.

Suddenly we seem to be facinga Siberian Freeze

If China was facing a Siberian Freeze, UK thought it was.