Riots threatened! Global Warming must be STOPPED IMMEDIATELY!

[Guest ratchethack]

Thousands of individuals lacking brain tissue demand One World Government protection from Spring Thaw -- NOW!

[Martin Barrett]

I opened this thread with some trepidation.

 

 

 

Here's some Guzzi content - Monday

[Anthro]

Someone get Ratchethack drunk please

 

Anthro

[Ralph Werner]

Someone get Ratchethack drunk please

 

Are you sure that's gonna help??

[Guest ratchethack]

Blimey!

 

Wot happens when the Highways Agency puts it's faith in Algore and the IPCC -- eh, Brits?

 

 

Motorists Stranded in Snow

 

Snowbound Britain: Worst snowstorms for 18 years

 

Large swaths of Britain came to a standstill in the grip of the worst snowstorms for 18 years

 

More than 200 people rescued from their cars after being trapped in Devon

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/...d-in-Devon.html

 

The Daily Telegraph

By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter

Last Updated: 11:49PM GMT 02 Feb 2009

 

Despite five days of severe weather warnings, transport busses still appeared to have been completely caught out as up to a foot of snow fell across the country, bringing rail, air and road networks to a halt.

 

They faced a growing public backlash as one in five workers was left stranded at home, at an estimated cost to the economy of £1.2billion.

 

In London, all bus services were cancelled for the first time in living memory, as a network which had carried on running during the Blitz – and during much worse conditions in 1963 – proved unable to deal with six inches of snow. Cancelled Tube trains added to the chaos in the capital.

 

Heathrow, Gatwick, London City, Luton, Stansted, Southampton and Birmingham airports were closed for all or part of the day, causing knock-on delays at most regional airports. At Heathrow, a Cyprus Air passenger jet skidded off the taxiway, coming to rest with its front wheel on the grass.

 

Debates in the Houses of Parliament finished early while some parts of the building did not open as staff could not get in. As hundreds of train services and flights were stopped and drivers faced treacherous conditions on ungritted roads, angry commuters demanded to know why the severe weather warnings had not been properly heeded.

 

Nigel Humphries, of the Association of British Drivers, said there could be no excuse for the failure of transport authorities to prepare for “entirely predictable weather conditions”.

 

The British Chambers of Commerce said a “clear lack of preparation” had cost business dearly.

 

With more snow predicted today and further flurries expected later in the week, Britain’s battered economy could suffer up to £3billion in lost productivity by the end of the week.Snowstorms which swept the country overnight and during the day had first been forecast by the Met Office last Wednesday, when it issued a severe weather warning accurately predicting the blizzards.

 

Yet local councils and transport authorities were still accused of failing to put adequate plans in place to deal with the weather.

 

The nature of the response was summed up in London, where main roads had been gritted by Transport for London, keeping them clear, but suburban roads leading to bus depots had not been gritted, stranding the city’s entire bus fleet, which is used by six million people a day.Tens of thousands of commuters braved the cold to walk to work instead, with some even skiing through the capital.

 

The Highways Agency and local councils were also heavily criticised by motorists for failing to put down enough grit on major roads, including the M25, where a 53-mile tailback built up yesterday morning between junction 19 at Watford and junction 8 at Reigate.

 

At one stage, it was estimated that there were 1,000 miles of tailbacks across the country.

 

The Local Government Association said councils had been overwhelmed by the relentless snowfalls, which had covered roads as quickly as they could be cleared, meaning the grit had less impact.

 

The Highways Agency blamed lorry drivers for clogging up major routes after ignoring advice to stay off the roads.

 

But David Frost, the director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said the collapse of the transport network was unacceptable.

 

He said: “People of my generation saw much worse winters than this in the 1960s and 1970s, yet things kept going. Why can’t we cope now?

 

"This weather was forecast five days ago – it’s not as if we suddenly woke up to find six inches of snow outside, and it’s clear that not enough preparation has been done.”

 

Susie Squire, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance pressure group, said the excuses simply wouldn’t wash with the public.

 

“Recent conditions do not merit total shutdown, and rail companies, councils and other authorities should have been able to cope,” she said.

 

“Many other first-world countries keep going in much worse conditions. People see their fares go up and up, and yet services seem to remain at the same sub-standard level.”

 

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, blamed “some of the most challenging weather conditions” for two decades for the disruption.

 

He said: “The difficulty really has been that the volume of snow has been so huge that you can put down the grit but then it simply snows over it again and you run the risk of unleashing a 12-ton bus on to heavily packed snow or ice and turning it into a lethal weapon.”

 

But his predecessor, Ken Livingstone, said Londoners had a right to ask why buses had stopped running and 10 of the 11 Tube lines had been crippled. “Boris should have been on the phone from Thursday, when the warnings first started, making sure everyone was prepared for the snowfall,” he said.

 

"Every few years in the early 1980s we had chaos with the weather but the buses always came out. It’s quite clear the borough councils, either because they wouldn’t pay overtime on a Sunday or because they have cut everything back to the bone, didn’t grit properly, even though there was plenty of advance warning.”

 

Two brothers died on Snowdon in North Wales after becoming stranded on the mountain as the weather closed in on Sunday night. They are thought to have fallen 700ft. Motoring organisations, meanwhile, said accidents on the roads were “too numerous” to catalogue.

 

Emergency services were so stretched by the number of road accidents and weather-related emergencies that London Ambulance service said it could only deal with life-threatening incidents.

 

More than 2,000 schools closed nationwide, operations had to be cancelled at hospitals and many courts and other public buildings shut down. The Federation of Small Businesses estimated that six million people – a fifth of the workforce – had stayed home, costing the economy £1.2 billion in wages and lost sales.

 

Conditions are unlikely to improve before the weekend, as temperatures are expected to remain below freezing in most parts of the country, turning snow and slush to ice, with yet more snow expected during the rest of the week.

 

The AA is telling drivers to keep warm clothes in their cars in case of breakdowns. A spokesman said attendants had seen stranded motorists “flirting with hypothermia” by going out unprepared.

[Ralph Werner]

My God! He took our advice, got drunk, and look what happened! <_>

 

I only made it to the third paragraph.

[Anthro]

I only made it to the third paragraph.

 

Ups...

 

I just witness how Ratchet's posting took over my screen.

 

Anthro

[Guest ratchethack]

Blimey! (Part II)

 

Where are Algore and the IPCC when the United Kingdom really needs them??

 

ANSWER: Why, they're becoming quite wealthy "investing" bazillions of pounds sterling of Subject's £ in carbon cap and trade -- to stop the dramatically escalating ravages of Global Warming, of course!

 

 

Government fails to deal with chaos, displaying "astonishing and negligent amount of emergency planning."

 

Winter could be coldest for 27 years

 

Britain could experience its most severe winter for 27 years if the cold snap continues.

 

The Daily Telegraph

By Nick Britten

Last Updated: 8:38AM GMT 07 Feb 2009

[exerpted]

 

With heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures over the last two months, the country is on course to rival the bitter winter of 1982, when towns and villages were cut off, power lines were down and there was severe drifting.

 

Unconfirmed reports suggest that snowfall this week has topped the 1.8ft of snow that fell in Bingley, Yorks, in 1991, which has been the harshest winter in recent times.

 

Locals in Dartmoor have contacted the Met Office saying around 2ft of snow has fallen there in the last few days but as yet there is no official confirmation.

 

From the beginning of December, London particularly was covered in fog and heavy snowfalls coupled with strong winds saw 22ft deep snowdrifts.

[Guzzirider]

My recommendation is to wear a coat, and if you get cold, maybe a hat and gloves.

[dlaing]

Breaking News!!!B

 

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA

1000 PM PST MON FEB 2 2009

 

...THIRD WARMEST JANUARY EVER IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES...

 

WITH AN AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE OF 62.5 DEGREES...JANUARY 2009

WAS THE THIRD WARMEST JANUARY IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES SINCE

OFFICIAL RECORDS BEGAN IN JULY 1877. ONLY JANUARY 1986 WITH AN

AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 65.9 DEGREES AND JANUARY 2003 WITH AN AVERAGE

TEMPERATURE OF 63.4 DEGREES WERE WARMER.

 

Of course Ratchet may have been too busy indoors to have noticed the fine weather, and he never cherry picks his data or jump to conclusions based on scant evidence. (sarcasm intended)

Of course today is another month, February, and the weather has changed to cool rain...but either way, one should not jump to conclusions about global warming based on a little bit of local weather. All the data must be averaged out. But trying to get Ratchet to swing away from his right wing bias and admit to REAL science is an impossible task.

 

And if we look down under.

Records tumble as the East swelters

29th January 2009, 7:30 WST

 

Top temperature records across Australia’s south-east are tumbling as Melbourne residents sweltered through the city’s second warmest January night on record.

 

The minimum temperature reached in Melbourne overnight was 28.7C just after 3am today, Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Dean Stewart said.

 

This falls just behind the record minimum temperature for January of 28.8C on January 21, 1997. The overall record occurred on February 1, 1902 with 30.5C, Mr Stewart said.

 

And Melbourne can expect another hot day on Thursday with a top of 43C expected and winds that could cause big headaches for firefighters.

 

“Today’s probably the worst of the days (for bushfires) in that the wind is going to be quite fresh and blustery, particularity over western and central parts of Victoria this morning,” he said.

 

South Australia is also heading for record hot weather with national parks and reserves on Adelaide’s fringes closed as extreme heat and fire danger drag into another day.

 

The furnace-like conditions were forecast to continue until at least Sunday, likely giving the city six days in a row above 40C for the first time since 1908, after Tuesday’s top of 43.2 and 45C yesterday.

 

Emergency servicesfighters across both states remain on high alert and in Victoria more than 100,000 firefighters are fighting to control dozens of fires.

 

Police said they had 40 patrols on duty to check on people considered at risk of starting fires.

 

"Offenders should expect zero tolerance from us if they choose to deliberately or negligently start bushfires," said Chief Superintendent Silvio Amoroso. "Out of the 199 fires in the past fortnight, 18 have been deliberately lit, 13 due to negligent acts".

 

MELBOURNE

AAP

[Guest ratchethack]

...trying to get Ratchet to swing away from his right wing bias and admit to REAL science is an impossible task.

Uh-oh.

 

"REAL science" indeed. . . Now I recall a year of exploring the legitimate science vs. junk science and detailing the clearly objective differences between them that ended in an overgrown clusterfest of monumental proportions. We had the woefully ignorant and willfully blind continuing to cite Wikipedia, anonymous blogs, corrupt grant chasing IPCC junk scientists with blatantly obvious conflicts of political interest, no sources a-tall (see above), and fraudulent and resoundingly debunked hockey-stick graphs, stupidly putting this filth and dreck up against the most thoroughly sourced, credible, LEGITIMATE Scientific studies extant.

 

Yet after all that, we evidently still have a persistent popular naïve childhood delusion as abjectly absurd and grotesquely incompatible with even a grade-school comprehension of the adult discipline of science as to've actually posted this:

Truth is subjective...

 

^This belief, the ancient choice to deny objective truth, the mindless belief of only children and fools, is to be found at the very heart of the dark and foreboding Swamp of Idiocy, where countless aspirations of any hope of objectivity have foolishly meandered off since the dawn of man to founder and shuffle off their mortal coils. . .

 

The ancient Swamp of Idiocy

 

. . .[sigh]. . . No need for moderator intervention. I'm all done here. Just after a bit o' Winter fun and frivolity, that's all.

 

'Bye now.

[macguzzi]

It's lovely and warm in Scotland

[dlaing]

Uh-oh.

 

"REAL science" indeed. Now I recall why a year of exploring the legitimate science vs. junk science and detailing the clearly objective differences between them ended in an overgrown clusterfest of monumental proportions, with the woefully ignorant and willfully blind continuing to cite Wikipedia, anonymous blogs, corrupt grant chasing junk scientists with blatantly obvious conflicts of political interest, and no sources a-tall (see above), and putting it all up against the most thoroughly sourced, credible Scientific studies extant.

 

Yet after all that, we evidently still have a popular delusion as abjectly absurd and grotesquely incompatible with even a grade-school comprehension of science as this:

 

 

. . .[sigh]. . . No need for moderator intervention. I'm all done here. Just after a bit o' Winter fun and frivolity, that's all.

 

'Bye now.

You are so full of frivolous bullocks, LOL!

Stick to the facts, John.

[waspp]

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blo...08/08/25/p28062

[Mark909]

So instead of all this guff about carbon trading what we need is to find a way to induce volcanic eruptions

 

BTW, I just love the name of the Meteorologist who helped put that chart together, pure gold!