Reality has this nasty habit of rudely intruding upon climate models – and the pronouncements of august bodies like the IPCC.
Reblogged from Bishop Hill:
A reader kindly points me to the blog of UK seed merchant Thompson and Morgan, where Emma Cooper is wondering what to plant this year:
Over the years in which climate change has been discussed in the media, there have been continual suggestions that it will be of benefit to gardeners – allowing us to grow fruit and vegetable crops that enjoy the continental climate, but fail to thrive in a traditional British summer. As those warm summer days have failed to materialise, and look increasing unlikely, I am eyeing up my new allotment with a view to planting crops that will enjoy our cool climate. ……
But 97% of the world’s “climate scientists” can’t be wrong – can they?
Tags: climate, climate change, climate models
The k2p blog 
June 8, 2013 at 12:19 pm
I wasn’t suggesting that climate change isn’t happening, rather that the results are unlikely to be the warmer summers the British media were hoping for!
June 8, 2013 at 1:26 pm
Yes indeed.
And not just the media.
Usually when reality does not match model predictions, the models are reassessed — not the data.