IT DOESN'T MATTER – THINK WARM, THINK HOT, DON'T THINK! – AT 7:08 P.M. ET:  The global warming "consensus" can't seem to catch a break.  Will someone please make up some figures and help them?  From London's Telegraph:

Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest winters for a century with temperatures hitting minus 16 degrees Celsius, forecasters have warned.

Insignificant!  It's a trick.  These people all work for Exxon!

They predicted no let up in the freezing snap until at least mid-January, with snow, ice and severe frosts dominating.

And the likelihood is that the second half of the month will be even colder.

And...

Paul Michaelwaite, forecaster for NetWeather.tv, said: “It is looking like this winter could be in the top 20 cold winters in the last 100 years.

“It’s going to be very cold the for the next 10 days and although there could be a milder spell at some stage the indications are that the second half of the month will be even colder.”

Obviously, a man with investments in coal.

Matt Dobson, forecaster for MeteoGroup, the Press Association's weather division, said last month had been the coldest December for 13 years. "It has been the coldest December on average since 1996," he said. "The second half of the month was very cold indeed but the first half was relatively mild. If it had been colder in the first few weeks we would have seen more records broken."

COMMENT:  It has been reported that Al Gore read this story and was given sedatives.  We wish him well.

Oh, by the way, the headline now running at Drudge is:  COLD, COLD, COLDER.

This wasn't in the script, was it?

January 2, 2010