Just a storm in a teacup over bad weather worries

The simple fact is we do not know enough yet to condemn mankind for its questionable climatic follies.

“It’s the wettest December since 1993 and the windiest since 1969,” bleated a ‘scientific’ presenter flying over a puddle that was apparently Gloustershire.

Time for a channel change. Flick!

Aberystwth’s sea front battered by waves, Somerset villages cut off by rising flood waters, chaos . . .

Flick!

The USA is facing its coldest snap in 50 years. Hawaii is shivering! Florida has frostbite! Crops are failing! Pizzas are not being delivered!

Flick!

China is now putting up more wind turbines than every other country in the world combined after nearly choking itself to . . . OFF!

And so to bed, wondering as the wind and rain battered my windows if the UK was about to do an Atlantis, if the US would disappear into the monstrous Arctic ice vortex and if China would take off thanks to its windmills?

But when I awoke the next day, nothing had really changed except the weather!

The sky was clear, the rain had stopped and the wind had abated.

Turning on the telly I noticed the USA was coping well, that a reduced number of flood warnings were in place in England and that a few folk were still stranded but assured rescuers were on hand.

The sun was out and the Blitz spirit had endured. Tally ho!

Our national obsession with the weather meant that the media were talking about nothing else and, of course, neither were we. A weathering pattern of pointless observations that has been the way of these isles since before the Romans rocked up duly poured forth, as did the doom-mongering tripe we have come to expect from crusty eco warriors.

One minute we are told the ice caps are melting, the next they are not. The same with glaciers. Or that the sea has too much salinity, or it’s lacking in it. That the world is too hot, too cold, too wet or too windy. That mankind is the cause of all this climate change and freak weather.

Home-grown cold front, PM David Cameron a man whose policies account for a great many deep depressions in households across the UK angered some in his party (and anyone with a brain) when he announced that he “very much suspects climate change is behind recent storms”.

That was quickly refuted by the Met Office, who said no significant global warming has happened.

The fact is the Earth’s surface temperature has not risen in the past 18 years, nor have sea levels. So why are we always being told they have and that we are responsible? Equally, if there is so much melting ice why were 52 scientists ironically rescued by the Chinese (the world’s polluters) from their ship last week after it became stuck in ice in a part of the Antarctic Ocean that has not seen those conditions for more than 100 years.

They went with the flow and got stuck in a floe! That is an inconvenient truth I would love to have explained!

What about flooding? Well that probably is caused by man, but only because we’re too greedy and stupid to realise that if we build on flood plains then we must expect to be flooded.

Before satellites, before computers, before thermal sea imaging and well before we were snowed under with endless reams of unfathomable data, the weather was just that The Weather.

We hadn’t a clue what was heading our way but we put up with it all the same when it arrived.

We certainly didn’t go around blaming man-made global warming and warning of dire consequences for the human race.

The simple fact is we do not know enough yet to condemn mankind for its questionable climatic follies. Decades, even centuries, will have to pass before we do and even then a tilt in the Earth’s orbit could see the data washed away.

Now what will I wear tomorrow? Waders, T-shirt, sunglasses and a Parka?