It's not like there's anything unusual about having snow and ice here in Yorkshire or the rest of the UK for that matter.
We've not had much snow for the last 30 years or so, but we always get some and it was only a decade or so ago that Leeds was gridlocked for a couple of days due to snow and awful drivers.
In the usual British manner of today we treat any minor inconvenience as a major disaster.
It's snowy and fairly cold, get over it.
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Originally posted by sunnysan View PostLook here, while you are whinging about the country being unable to cope with extreme weather , I am taking proactive steps to address the issue by delivering broadband to the whole country(Or promising it which is just as good really).
So shut it
GB
I think money grows on trees
Gordon Brown
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Originally posted by sunnysan View PostLook here, while you are whinging about the country being unable to cope with extreme weather , I am taking proactive steps to address the issue by delivering broadband to the whole country(Or promising it which is just as good really).
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Priorities
Originally posted by Wilmslow View Post
How much longer can this madness last?
So shut it
GB
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Originally posted by SantaClaus View PostThanks Richard. I feel a whole lot better now
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostIf the early 1960s are anything to go by, until the sheep die in the fields, until cows on remote farms starve to death, until farmers start shooting themselves in desparation, until the army start using helicopters (assuming they have any in the UK) to do food drop to remote communities, until people living on boats freeze to death in the night or die of starvation if not near settlements.
Until the sea freezes around the coastline.
Until so many people go skating on rivers that stalls open on the ice to sell them food and drink.
Until all the ornamental ponds are frozen completely solid, including the coi carp and goldfish therein.
Until the ground is frozen solid and all burials have to cease. The crematoria, hospitals, chapels of rest, and everywhere else possible gets piled up with dead bodies.
What we have had is nothing yet. This is still just a normal winter.
Human memories are short, and feeble.
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Until no later than March because:
Gareth Jones, a climate research scientist at the Met Office, said the effect of global warming is unlikely to be masked by shorter term weather patterns in the future.
He said that 50 per cent of the 10 years after 2011 will be warmer than 1998. After that any year cooler than 1998 will be considered unusual.
“The amount of warming we expect from human impacts is so huge that any natural phenomenon in the future is unlikely to counteract it in the long term,” he said.
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Originally posted by Wilmslow View PostHow much longer can this madness last?
Until the sea freezes around the coastline.
Until so many people go skating on rivers that stalls open on the ice to sell them food and drink.
Until all the ornamental ponds are frozen completely solid, including the coi carp and goldfish therein.
Until the ground is frozen solid and all burials have to cease. The crematoria, hospitals, chapels of rest, and everywhere else possible gets piled up with dead bodies.
What we have had is nothing yet. This is still just a normal winter.
Human memories are short, and feeble.
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