HOT HARRABIN

With impeccable timing (cold weather is never "climate" to the BBC, only hot spells are), Roger Harrabin rushes to tell us about the alarmists' pronouncement that 2010 is on course to be the hottest year ever, ever, ever, in the known history of the universe or anything. In usual lapdog fashion, he recycles the claptrap of the Met Office. Shame he did not pause for a second to look at this alternative view of the stats , or to register that - like everything else from the East Anglia econuts - their presentations are as reliable as a three-card trick huckster. They are so desperate to scare us that any old tosh will do - as this item on Met Office re-writing of statistics also shows (the point here is that the measurements were fine when they supported warmism; a re-write is going on now to make sure they do so again). Mr Harrabin, I note, does mention that sceptics don't accept the Met Office spin, but the main thrust of the subbing leaves no doubt that the BBC wants us to believe that this is AGW in all its awfulness. The Met Office predictions were in yesterday's Guardian, and I was half hoping that - for once - he would refrain from his usual alarmist Pavlovian response. I should have known better. And this is his lament that Copenhagen did not reach new binding targets on CO2 emissions.