Is this extremely cold weather a result of man made global warming?

Dick

Nah it's just a little snow close to the TV studios. We had much more snow last year. The +22C in Hungary a few days ago is just weather too. The temperatures are all fake anyway according to some, or are you a convert to accuracy now?

We have just had more snow than for the previous twenty five years. Only ten inches overnight which is about what Nottinghamshire used to get overnight every winter during my youth in the forties. The 1946 winter was severe however, and I do remember standing on the top of a double decker bus that had become stuck in snow drifts for twelve weeks.

Can I just say in response to HHS that I think us town-dwellers in the south are sometimes treated over-harshly on the snow issue. I often hear people say :"Oh it must have snowed down south because it is on the news etc' and why are they letting an inch of snow keep them from work, blah, blah

There might be an element of truth in some quarters, but I think the real reason why snow down here does seem to hit the headlines is because there are so many of us (over 10m in London for example), using a transport infrastruture that even on a good days is creaking (both road and rail) so throw in snow and it falls apart. We've had two people here at FW who had to stay here in Sutton last night - not because they couldn't have got home last night - but because they knew they would have had no chance of getting in today which is press day! In short I am saying if southerners make a fuss it is not through lack of trying on an individual basis - it is just that we know we are stuffed as soon as we get some bad weather.

 

Isabel Davies:

I think us town-dwellers in the south are sometimes treated over-harshly on the snow issue

Isabel, don't worry! We know you are a Leicestershire gal at heart and so you are exempted from the concept of 'soft southerner.'

In any case I reckon Hhs and the rest of us understand the problems associated with living with 10 million other people and you have our sympathy. As for staying overnight to make sure we can get to work the next day; we will all stay our hand from criticism of FW staff, so long as they don't become Bankers or Politicians.

 

 

 I think Isabel is 600-800 miles north of me.  You northerners are supposed to be tough!!

In all seriousness, it boggles the mind how the ocean currents can keep the British Isles so temperate.  Several hundred miles north of here temps are going down to -30F I am told, tomorrow the -5 with 25 mph hour winds is all I will be able to stand, remember, our stock is all outwintered.  I have a couple tough days ahead of me.

Isabel I know the traffic is a massive problem in the south. It only takes one idiot and gridlock can and usually does happen. We have our share of them too. This morning I was in town to find, a 4x4 spinning in 2wd as the owner had no idea how to switch it on, a supermarket shut due to snow on the roof. Snow in the far north of Scotland who would have thought it certainly not the architect who designed it. Various frozen chavs in trainers and Tshirts in the road as pavements are a little slushy and finally a car driver so terrified by my 4x4 that she froze in fear and would not move. Got home to find the neighbour in the yard looking for some oil cans to borrow some Kero for her Aga as she had run out. I sent her to the local oil depot where they can provide her with some. A little forethought and a little care can make a big difference pity most cannot manage it.

PS just watching the TV news and the stern faced reporter was saying "no one will get along this road today" Behind him round the corner came the local farmer in a Shogun driving along happily. Sigh.

I am feeling better now I know you aren't picking on me

I agree with Isabel. When I used to commute from Hampshire to Surrey it only took an inch of snow to quickly produce miles of tailbacks and four inches was deemed by many to be "undriveable"!

Last evening whilst seated in front of the log fire with a glass of Jura in my hand I was inspired by the idea that the notion of global warming came out of a No 10 Brain Storming session.

The question posed was. "How can we reduce public expenditure without letting on to the public"?

Someone, it might have been Veggie Benn, said that it is a pity that the world isn't warming up because then Gordon could cut winter fuel payments as no longer being necessary. Other ideas from other wealthy members of the cabinet said that as selling the gold reserves would not make them much money, "How about a Ponzi Scheme in something that doesn't have to be into boxes and sent to customers by the Post Office.

 A young chap called Millipede (on account of his ability to appear to be moving but without doing so) then yawned and somebody said that he must be tired or short of oxygen or some other gas. This comment caused laughter which awoke John Prescott from a dream he was having about a table on which sat a Roast Turkey. "Carve On." he muttered, thinking he was talking to the butler. However, he was misheard and so the others thought he was referring to 'some other gas.'

So the Car bon ponzi scheme was born. In this scheme people pay real money to be able to emit carbon gas and it is possible for one person to sell his allocation of gas emissions to someone else. Vedgie Benn was pleased because as a vegetarian he reckons he does not emit such gas and so is looking forward to selling his allocation to a carnivor such as John Prescott.

The people who thought of the Carbon Ponzi Scheme are happy because they are making a lot of money from selling something that they don't have to make or package. So successful are they that they are next thinking of selling the rights to 'sit in the sun.' A practice that can be both damaging yet beneficial to animal and human alike.

Unfortunately the glass of Jura was emptied before I could email Gordon with details of my own scheme, for selling the rights for widows to cut wood from the Forestry Commission's land.

 

 

 

Peter,

       The Socialist Thought Police will be after you and you made a big mistake in that Col Pinto would pick up that you were Drinking Wiskey from Scotland and that stuff dulls the Thoughts.That is why we are at War,Bust and Begging for Money because Blair and Brown must have drunk their Homeland Potion.

    DRINK IRISH.

 Do any of the Warmists on this forum have any idea how long we will have to wait for an increase in temperature because I am rapidly running out of coal up here and frozen daft?

Dick

bb, You cannot be serious!!  Unless perhaps the wiskey your refer to is a superior product to Irish Whiskey.

PW, I have been wondering what you drank and knew you would eventually let us know. A very good drop too, as are all the Island malts, although I prefer Dalmore and Glenmorangie  which are geographically very close together.

Dick Sunday looks nice for us around 4C. About normal for this time of year in our area but I cannot speak for anywhere else.

 -11c in my kneck of the woods and still falling. Last time it was as cold as this was 1963 and before that 1947. I only hope it warms up soon.

Dick