Winter cold, snow worst in 25 years in England
$27 TRILLION to pay for Kyoto
17 December 2010 Last updated at 06:28 ET
Heavy snow and ice cause disruption across the UK
Sign covered in snow in Belfast's Botanic Park (pci: Maurice
McCartney) Up to 25cm (10in) of snow is forecast in some areas
Several UK airports have been closed and train services cancelled
after heavy snowfalls in many areas.
Police in Northern Ireland - where conditions are said to be the worst
in 25 years - and parts of Scotland are warning against non-essential
travel.
At least 772 schools in Wales, 200 in Scotland and 600 in Northern
Ireland are closed.
More snow is forecast later and on Saturday, with up to 25cm (10in)
possible in Wales and southern England.
Energy Minister Charles Hendry has warned that more bad weather over
Christmas could lead to "very serious" shortages of domestic heating
oil.
The Met Office has issued severe weather warnings for heavy snow - up
to 20 cm - in many places, including Orkney and Shetland, Highlands
and Outer Hebrides, Grampian, Northern Ireland, Wales, the Midlands,
and the south-east and south-west of England.
Strong winds will cause the snow to drift in some areas and ice could
be a problem anywhere in the UK, with temperatures struggling to get
above freezing.
The BBC Northern Ireland weather centre said the current snow
situation was probably the worst widespread fall in about 25 years.
In 2000, similar amounts of snow fell in about four hours, but were
restricted to eastern counties.
By Saturday, heavy snow is forecast to affect southern England and
Wales, with 5-10cm likely in many places and 20-25cm possible in some
others. Forecasters say there is some uncertainty about how far north
the band of snow will reach.
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Around the UK
* Travel problems as snow hits north
* Revellers warned on 'Black Friday'
* Heavy snow brings disruption in NI
Problems caused by the weather include:
* Several major roads - including a 50-mile stretch of the A9 in
Scotland - and many minor roads are blocked by snow
* Police say conditions have been "particularly atrocious" in
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, and some motorists had to be
rescued from their cars after becoming stranded
* Flights are suspended at Exeter, City of Derry, Belfast City and
Belfast International airports
* Norwich, Aberdeen, Inverness and Isle of Man airports have
reopened after earlier closures, but flights are subject to delays and
cancellations. Disruption is possible at other airports, including
Gatwick and Heathrow
* ScotRail, and Arriva and Virgin train services in Wales are
experiencing delays and cancellations
* Friday's race meetings at Uttoxeter and Ascot have been called
off
Friday was due to be the last day of term in many schools, but
hundreds have closed their doors early because of the weather.
'Absolutely awful'
New Scottish Transport Minister Keith Brown has insisted Scotland is
"very well prepared" and the authorities are doing all they can to
keep trunk roads open.
Mr Brown's predecessor Stewart Stevenson resigned after his department
was criticised for its handling of the problems caused by the previous
bout of severe weather.
Health website
Breakdown organisation the AA said it had already received 3,000 call-
outs by 1030 GMT.
Spokesman Gavin Hill-Smith said conditions in some areas were the
"worst imaginable, even for experienced drivers", with Aberdeenshire
worst hit.
And he added: "The trouble is that the closer we get to Christmas, the
greater the pressure on people to travel - Christmas shopping,
visiting family and friends and we still have a week of Christmas
parties to go - but we just recommend that people try to be flexible
and willing to adapt their travel plans at short notice.
"The bottom line is that if road conditions are exceptionally bad, you
just have to heed the advice on when it is safe to travel."
The Association of Train Operating Companies said it would run "ghost
trains" to help keep lines open and had hundreds of ground staff on
duty to keep key junctions and points clear of snow.
Heavy snowfall during the past few weeks has caused huge disruption,
especially in Scotland and north-east England.
Airports, roads and schools were closed, and companies are now warning
of a backlog of deliveries which may not reach customers before
Christmas.
The Royal Mail is putting on 7,000 delivery rounds this Sunday in a
bid to ease the problem.
kdt...@earthlink.net
If this is mentioned to the AGW believers, they will tell you this is
weather and not climate. And although these people are in bitter cold,
they will be told that this is the effect of the devastating global
warming caused by the rise of CO2 by 1/3 since the 1920's.
In the 1990's, the calculations of CO2 and it's effect upon
temperatures led to many predictions for now and 2015.
Algore, as god of his religion, made prophecies for dire effects upon
climate. As most religous fanatics with predictions of doom and 'the
end of the world scenario', his fanatic beliefs and predictions are
not coming true, and the climatologists have absolutely no viable
theory of weather or climate.
Their only science anyway is to cheat their proxies and temperature
statistics into saying that there never has been any climate, until
our use of carbon fuels came along to ruin it. This means they should
be given absolute power of the use of energy, to bring us into the
proper and pious living of austerity and self sacrifice of modern
lifestyles.
According to theory, global warming is occuring, so all of this cold
weather is part of global warming. But the important thing, is to get
the statistics to say that 2010 is the warmest year ever, so that the
stagnant temperature streak can finally be broken and global warming
can be evidenced by global warming, instead of such things such as the
increase of ice at the poles over the past 2 years..
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_stddev_timeseries.png
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/ocean.html
KD
Desertphile
Kyoto" <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> BBC:
> 17 December 2010 Last updated at 06:28 ET
>
> Heavy snow and ice cause disruption across the UK
> Sign covered in snow in Belfast's Botanic Park (pci: Maurice
> McCartney) Up to 25cm (10in) of snow is forecast in some areas
The poor Limey bastards. Meanwhile in Northern New Mexico we had
record high temperatures this week.
--
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Rich
news:l29ng6do6bp9lu613...@4ax.com:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:56:54 -0800 (PST), "$27 TRILLION to pay for
> Kyoto" <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> BBC:
>> 17 December 2010 Last updated at 06:28 ET
>>
>> Heavy snow and ice cause disruption across the UK
>> Sign covered in snow in Belfast's Botanic Park (pci: Maurice
>> McCartney) Up to 25cm (10in) of snow is forecast in some areas
>
> The poor Limey bastards. Meanwhile in Northern New Mexico we had
> record high temperatures this week.
>
>
Hey if you're really a desertphile, you should welcome global warming.
George
wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:56:54 -0800 (PST), "$27 TRILLION to pay for
>
> > BBC:
> > 17 December 2010 Last updated at 06:28 ET
>
> > Heavy snow and ice cause disruption across the UK
> > Sign covered in snow in Belfast's Botanic Park (pci: Maurice
> > McCartney) Up to 25cm (10in) of snow is forecast in some areas
>
> The poor Limey bastards. Meanwhile in Northern New Mexico we had
> record high temperatures this week.
>
Still fiddling the figures eh
Desertphile
Only a homicidal sociopath wants the climate to change.
Desertphile
wrote:
Huh? The fucking river thawed! Idiot.
Sirius
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:02:27 -0800 (PST), George <gbl...@hnpl.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 18, 1:23 pm, Desertphile <desertph...@invalid-address.net>
>> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:56:54 -0800 (PST), "$27 TRILLION to pay for
>> >
>> > Kyoto" <rander3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > BBC:
>> > > 17 December 2010 Last updated at 06:28 ET
>> >
>> > > Heavy snow and ice cause disruption across the UK Sign covered in
>> > > snow in Belfast's Botanic Park (pci: Maurice McCartney) Up to 25cm
>> > > (10in) of snow is forecast in some areas
>> >
>> > The poor Limey bastards. Meanwhile in Northern New Mexico we had
>> > record high temperatures this week.
>
>> Yeah. Riiight. Still fiddling the figures eh
>
> Huh? The fucking river thawed! Idiot.
By the way, bright Desertphile, in message
<q46lg6t2gsvgg820f...@4ax.com> you wrote on Thu, 16 Dec
2010 15:57:22 you informed us that you did not trust the CRU data showing
only a 0.00087 per year, almost flat, temperature trend for the last 15
years -the subject of that thread- in the southern hemisphere.
You proclaimed this, quote: " Statistical significance tests are used to
confirm or refute the null hypothesis; if the test shows below 95% or 98%
statistical significance, the null hypothesis cannot with high confidence
be accepted or refuted".
Since then, I have been watching that interesting thread for your
statistical analysis contribution which would prove that your point of
view is valid and that your scientific skills are up to your proclaimed
lesson giver standing in this group.
Up to now, nothing came.
Dawlish
Complete toss. The header on this post is just lies. I'll leave most
of it, it to expose this creationist who thinks god' evening things
out, though. Read this:
Deniers’ posting of weather posts as climate is ridiculous. Read these
two links to see what’s really happened with extreme temperatures
around the globe in 2010.
http://www.mherrera.org/temp.htm
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=0
400 max temp records around the globe; 9 cold ones.
17 national max records. Not a single cold record.
Warmest global year in 130 (GISS)
Oh dear. It gets cold in some areas. It gets warm in ever so many
more.
13-160 Weather. Stupid deniers.
John
"Dawlish" <pjg...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:5b251eb9-93b5-44bf...@k22g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...
http://www.mherrera.org/temp.htm
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=0
13-160 Weather. Stupid deniers.
If I were you Dawlish, I would be a little more sceptical about what the
great IPCC juggernaut machine feeds you. Otherwise in another decade you are
in for a huge shock I fear.
Dawlish
> two links to see what�s really happened with extreme temperatures
> around the globe in 2010.
>
>
> 400 max temp records around the globe; 9 cold ones.
> 17 national max records. Not a single cold record.
>
> Warmest global year in 130 (GISS)
>
> Oh dear. It gets cold in some areas. It gets warm in ever so many
> more.
>
> 13-160 Weather. Stupid deniers.
>
> If I were you Dawlish, I would be a little more sceptical about what the
> great IPCC juggernaut machine feeds you. Otherwise in another decade you are
>
> - Show quoted text -
So I should be sceptical then..............just like the IPCC really.
Do you think that local, temporary weather conditions in the UK mean
that all 5 temperature series are corrently completely wron about the
world still warming? You won't admit to thinking that, of course, as
it would make you look stupid, but you'll be busily posting some other
local weather conditions and implying they mean something very soon.