Two Stories for you, one about the snow itself, and the other about climate law being debated and passed in the middle of the unusual snow.- Anthony
London has first October snow in over 70 years
From the Guardian
Cold snap causes flight cancellations while a motorway accident kills one driver and causes severe disruption
Parts of south-east England had more than an inch of snow last night while London experienced its first October snowfall in more than 70 years as winter conditions arrived early.
Snow settled on the ground in parts of the capital last night as temperatures dipped below zero. A Met Office spokeswoman said it was London’s first October snow since 1934.
For greater south-east of England it was the first October snow since 1974. High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire had 3cm (1.2 inches). One of the coldest temperatures recorded was -4.1C in Benson, Oxfordshire.
“It is unusual to have snow this early,” the Met spokeswoman said. “In October 2003 sleet and snow was recorded in Northern Ireland, Wales, south-west, north-west and north-east England and the Midlands, but it was mainly over higher ground.”
read the entire story here
How Parliament passed the Climate Bill (in spite of the weather)
Posted in Government, 29th October 2008 12:35 GMT
Excerpt: Snow fell as the House of Commons debated Global Warming yesterday – the first October fall in the metropolis since 1922. The Mother of Parliaments was discussing the Mother of All Bills for the last time, in a marathon six hour session.
In order to combat a projected two degree centigrade rise in global temperature, the Climate Change Bill pledges the UK to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. The bill was receiving a third reading, which means both the last chance for both democratic scrutiny and consent.
The bill creates an enormous bureaucratic apparatus for monitoring and reporting, which was expanded at the last minute. Amendments by the Government threw emissions from shipping and aviation into the monitoring program, and also included a revision of the Companies Act (c. 46) “requiring the directors’ report of a company to contain such information as may be specified in the regulations about emissions of greenhouse gases from activities for which the company is responsible” by 2012.
Recently the American media has begun to notice the odd incongruity of saturation media coverage here which insists that global warming is both man-made and urgent, and a British public which increasingly doubts either to be true. 60 per cent of the British population now doubt the influence of humans on climate change, and more people than not think Global Warming won’t be as bad “as people say”.
Read the rest of the story at the Register, here
kim (11:24:39) Update: They are still at it; clashing spreadsheets, a blind and dumb referee, what a contest.
Mary is obviously used to thick wooly blankets. Some of us have experience of thin, moth-eaten ones.
For Hallow’s Eve, an ancient plaint:
The lane is very dirty.
My shoes are very thin.
I’ve got a little pocket
To put a penny in.
If you haven’t got a penny,
A half-penny will do.
If you haven’t got a half-penny,
May God Bless You.
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[…] that all seem to want to find their way indoors. Maybe there is global warming? Although the report of snow blanketing the British House of Commons in London on October 22nd for the first time since 1922 makes me wonder. The British House of […]
The real question for us Brits is this:
When did that doyen of UK socialists, the Rt Hon Gordon Brown, PhD MP, First Lord of the Treasury (aka Prime Minister) decide to resort to Dubya Congressional tactics in slipping in huge clauses of incredible implications at the last minute to obviate proper scrutiny?
What does this say about this man and those he recommended to be part of Her Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and what are people going to do about it?
You may discern that I think that slightly more than writing to the newspapers is the proper response…..
Rhys (05:37:56) How about pitch and torched feathers for this Frankenstein Fabrication?
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Flanagan (01:19:56) :
Peter Hearnden (01:22:24) :
andyw35 (23:38:03) :
Enjoying the “mild winter” in the UK this year? That AGW sure is biting hard with CO2 overwhelming all the natural variation to cause dangerous catastrophic WARMING!!!
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2008/12/this-aint-just-weather.html
And regarding politicians understanding of AGW.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/20/house_of_lords_climate/
You have politicians admitting they know nothing more than what their un-elected advisers tell them.
Stupid limeys. This is what comes from too much warm beer.