June 10, 2005

News Release

Weather Action Long Range Forecasters say:
NO SUPERHEATWAVES THIS SUMMER
& 'This lousy weekend - We told you so!

There will be NO SUPERHEATWAVES in Britain this summer announced Weather
Action Long range forecasters this morning in a forthright contradiction
of claims from other quarters publicised last month. "There will be
hotspells - and we know when - but none of them will be long enough to
be record-breakers. Nowhere will reach 101 degF" said Piers Corbyn
astrophysicist of Weather Action. "I am ready to bet with anyone on
this", he said

"The alarmist claims from others publicised last month alongside
government concerns are hype which have no scientific basis. They are
Global Warming Spin which will be used to pressure the G8 summit to
increase taxes and support nuclear power", he said.

"Our forecasts are based on predictable aspects of particle and magnetic
activity from the sun. This summer all the hotspells will be cut short
by solar particle enhancement of frontal activity - just like this
week's warm weather is being replaced by a relatively lousy weekend -
"We predicted this particular weather change some time ago and also
warned that whatever traditional forecasts would say about this weekend
it would turn out to be wetter and cloudier"

Mr Corbyn warned that there will be a 'bonanza' of Global Warming spin
in the build up to the G8 and it will 'all be wild assertions or dire
warnings of doom to come (after the G8 event) which will not be be
confirmed.'. He re-iterated comments he made at recent meetings at the
Royal Society and at the Institute of Physics, namely:

* 'There are no dangers from climate change, the claims of more
dangerous extremes to come are just hype - there have been less storms
in recent years not more - for example.'

* 'The so-called threat of extinctions of Arctic animals is 'total
nonsense'; the arctic was warmer than the Global warmers dire
predictions from 8 thousand years ago to one thousand years ago and they
all survived.'

* 'Particles from the Sun are the key to climate change and world
temperatures, and in the long run temperatures control CO2 - not the
other way around'.

* 'The most drastic cuts in mankind's production of CO2 envisaged would
ruin the world economy but could not lower world temperatures by more
than 0.2 deg C. That is just equivalent to people moving 30 miles North,
like moving London to Northampton. Why bother?! The dire warnings of
2degC rise in World temperatures would make Birmingham as warm as
Plymouth. Is this a problem? It happened in Roman times entirely
naturally; was it a problem then?

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