Freezing Weather-Related Death Toll Rises to 22 in Britain
January 8th, 2010But first, we flashback to 2000: Independent: Snowfalls Are Now Just a Thing of the Past:
Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries.
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According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
Via: Times Online:
The death toll from Britain’s biggest freeze for decades reached 22 today as the country prepared for its coldest night so far, bringing the promise of even more treacherous conditions.
Thousands of homes have been left without power, schools have closed and travellers have faced chaos as the weather hit roads, rail services and airports over the last two days. The disruption is estimated to have cost businesses around £700 million.
Councils continued to struggle with a growing salt emergency as police warned drivers in many areas not to travel unless their journey was essential.
The AA expect to have attended 20,000 breakdowns today – compared with about 9,000 for a normal Thursday – and warned that conditions were expected to remain “treacherous”.
Meanwhile, the shutdown of an offshore Norwegian gasfield pushed Britain’s gas infrastructure into emergency mode, forcing the closure of industrial companies in the north of England in order to preserve supplies to homes, shops and offices.
I was saying the same thing to the gentleman at the liquor store the other day – tne only place you can buy a bottle of winem no less.
This lovely man and I talked about how this weather was for us (we discussed our age group first) NORMAL.
When we were children, this man and I agreed, THIS IS NORMAL! HAVE HAD WEIRD THE LAST FEW YEARS.
I’m wondering what kind of coincidence (conspiracy thing) is going on in the world of human beings, that less than two months after someone hacking a couple of geek data base data that the world has SUDDENDLY turned from HOT to COLD.
overnight.
I have no way of veryifying my theorum. Do you actually know that when the BBC said on the news tonight “German residents are advised to buy medicine, water, and food ahead of the snowstorm.
I dunno maybe its been one big experiment. But I think the extreme change in the weather is being brought to you by…when you name the thing.
Whoever controls the message.