Freezing weather
- 28 January 2012 00:55149817Just a reminder that it's expected that a very cold snap will hit the UK over the next few days. Remember to turn your thermostat to the bare minimum as any increase in the use of energy to heat our homes is bound to lead to higher carbon emissions and we all know how dangerous that is for the planet. Mr. Cameron has told us so many times.........although, strangely, not so much lately.
Has he become an evil sceptic or something? - 29 January 2012 09:50150029Yes indeed Phillip they are forecasting some cold and freezing weather this week..remember it last year..heavens..
this woman had abandoned all care, or knew full well there would be no cars to trouble her as she walked down the very centre of the road. No snow plough here.
However in all seriousness, as I know Philip is on a wind up mission above there, if it gets cold this week turn your thermostat up and keep warm. We dont want any more casualties to report.email: dover7@msn.com - Keith Sansum1
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29 January 2012 09:57150030as paulb says
if at all possible in todays climate and if you can afford to
turn heating up when requiredALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 29 January 2012 10:24150043that lady cut a lone figure on the seafront.
- 29 January 2012 11:23150051Just had this email in from Ray Newsam...our former forumite who took some time out from the forum recently.
Many thanks Ray
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Hi Paul,
I still keep checking the odd forum thread that interests me, and like many others appreciate the information you give out as a source of what's on locally.
Looking at PhilipP's thread on global warming I wondered if you might like to add this link to liven things up a bit - according to the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit the rise in global temperatures ended 15 years ago and we're in for a mini ice age where world average temperature goes down 2 degrees - bbrrrrr!
Regards
Ray
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-warming--Cycle-25-need-worry-NASA-scientists-right-Thames-freezing-again.html
Ray Newsam
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PS: I think Philip may have also used this link on another thread..email: dover7@msn.com - 29 January 2012 11:57150054I think we are technically already in an ice age as I thought it was when there was ice at the poles ?Been nice knowing you :)
- 29 January 2012 23:05150222Funny, in the same paper on the same day there was also this article, in complete contradiction.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093297/Hotter-summers-kill-5-900-year-warns-national-risk-assessment-climate-change.html
Just goes to show it's all just theories at the end of the day and no one really knows.... - 29 January 2012 23:51150226Clare, far from contradiction the article highlights the garbage put forward by those with vested interests in the issue. Read the article and see who wrote the report. That tells you all you need to know.
On the other hand find out a little about the other, sceptical or realist side and you will see the two are poles apart.
We are indeed entering a phase of cooling for the next few decades, or at least the likelyhood is for that event to take place.
Remember, also, that there has been no "global warming" whatsoever over the past fifteen years. This is fact although the die hard religionists in the climate movement tend to point to outlets such as the Daily mail as proof that it's all made up. A bit like shooting the messenger.
I mean take the "Independent" newspaper which is an oxymoron invented for that paper if ever there was one. The joker who wrote this amazing piece is presumably still employed as a writer though why is another matter.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
And people make funny remarks about newspapers such as the Mail?
Point me to a totally independent news outlet and I'll gladly read it but it just hasn't been invented yet. - 30 January 2012 00:37150227Independent of any consideration whatsoever...it behoves me to remark that when a warm-front meets a cold-front the result is termed sub- something or other. I only know that 'sublime' it is not.
All this climate talk and weather speculation is but smoke and mirrors obscuring the all too stark fact that we as a species have been heading along the wrong path for far too long. We work and re-work the 'message' so vigorously we must by now have the galaxy's shiniest turd.
So true Philip, way back when all newspapers were intent on selling newspapers all was well, nowadays they sell advertising almost to the exclusion of content worthy of regard.
What a wonderful system where both bikinis and wellingtons can be sold in the same issue.Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 30 January 2012 13:49150269If only there was a way to really convey hysterical laughter in text rather than the use of emoticons. No doubt within the next ten years technology will rise to the challenge and an app will be available.
So it was reading this little snippet that I found myself on the floor, rolling around and around much like those Smash aliens in the advert thirty odd years ago.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/01/24/uk-rio-idUKTRE80N1XT20120124
So from a new ice age to global warming to climate change to climate disruption and now sustainable development, whatever that means.
Please feel free to come up with ideas for the next catchy description. The only criteria is that it must infer collapse of our entire way of life on earth. - 30 January 2012 18:22150366It's weather, just as we know and love it in this country. If it was predictable we'd have nothing to gripe about!!
Despite all the arguments and the taking of sides, I still think it's part of nature's natural cycle of warming and cooling. The main thing to bear in mind is the length of the cycle - it's thousands of years long and includes many smaller cycles within it (such as the 11-year sun-spot cycle) and Mother Earth has been there and done that many, many times before. Just we (humankind) weren't necessarily around to record it first hand!!!Phil West
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30 January 2012 18:25150370and then yoda became a gedi knight,and every thing warmed up spring had ariived.
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30 January 2012 21:44150445Phil the voice of reason, I could not agree more what I have thought for ages.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 31 January 2012 10:25150507Ah...the cold weather gets ever closer. These two cars in 'Millers' carpark a few minutes ago have a fair covering. So it must be snowing out in the sticks...nothing here so far.
email: dover7@msn.com - 31 January 2012 10:59150511whitfield and guston were hit overnight, just rain where i am.
- 31 January 2012 11:01150512Was quite snowy at Whitfield and on the fields beside the A2 when we went through at 7am this morning. Also was snowing hard at the Deal roundabout when we got back there. Brrr!!There's always a little truth behind every "Just kidding", a little emotion behind every "I don't care" and a little pain behind every "I'm ok".
- 31 January 2012 11:03150513We woke up to a sprinkling out here in Lydden and it has just started again. Picture is of the nature reserve around 10am and is a colour picture though not much colour in it!
- 31 January 2012 11:05150514nice winter scene there, must be other members who can post some snowy photos.
- 31 January 2012 11:07150516We have just had a flurry of snow here in deepest Essex, nothing worth photographing though.
- 1 February 2012 09:02150716No further snow as far as I can tell but we have an icy blast scintillating in across the water this morning..its enough to redden yer corpuscles should you stick your gob out...
I pointed the camera towards Siberia a few minutes ago...email: dover7@msn.com
