Posted on 01/08/2010 7:09:24 PM PST by justa-hairyape
Europeans in the grip of one of the toughest cold snaps in decades are worried about freezing to death in their unequipped homes, as much of the continent continues to experience a Canadian-style deep freeze.
Polar wind is sweeping across Europe, from Spain to Sweden, but people in the U.K. are in panic mode as temperatures plummet to -22 degrees Celsius. It's just five degrees shy of a record set in northern Scotland in 1982.
The government has ordered manufacturers and other corporations to stop using natural gas so that there will be enough to heat homes.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told citizens they should keep as warm as possible.
The roads are treacherous because municipalities have already run out of the salt that was supposed to last them the entire winter.
Officials are being left to pick and choose which roads will be cleared and which will be left frozen. It's left a slippery mess for cars and pedestrians to struggle through.
Parts of the Netherlands have already run out of salt, and workers were seen Friday shovelling scented bath salts onto roads in efforts to clear ice.
Some parts of rural Britain saw so much snow, they have been cut off from supplies and their animals are freezing to death because they are used to mild winters -- or suffocating to death because of roofs that collapse under the weight of snow.
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They deserve it because of the GW bull that they’re shoveling.
“British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told citizens they should keep as warm as possible.”
It is good to have leaders, or what would we do on our own?
They need some of that globull warming they were so worried about in Copenhagen last month. Little did they know that they were just beginning this killer cold spell.
I don’t mean the people freezing but rather the politicians deserving to look stupid.
Gee I hope Prince Charles is freezing his buns off and wondering where is the global warming that St. Algore has promised.
Of course, we’ve all all heard, and to some degree accept, that events like this don’t prove much about global warming. Still, the warmies have to understand that winter after winter of horror stories makes their task of selling warming hysteria pretty tough; especially since we didn’t hear that sort of thing from them back in 1998.
We are watching the collapse of a modern civilization. They are burning books to stay warm and putting scented bath salts on their roads.
Wonder how many Brits dropped their afternoon cup of tea from the amazement of the sheer brilliance of that utterance.
If it wasn’t for Global Warming, they would all freeze to death.
God has a sense of humor.
After the High Priests of the Church of Global Warming had their “summit” to plot economic domination of the world based on their phony “science”, complete with an agreement (among other haughty delusions) not to allow the globe to warm more than 2 degrees, the entire Northern Hemisphere gets the coldest winter in decades.
Gordon Brown telling citizens to “stay warm” is priceless ...
Actually the politicians deserve to look stupid because they’ve all been hyping global warming.
Has anyone looked at this from space? I’m wondering if the frozen area is in the shape of a hand. flipping someone off.
Sounds to me like Gordon Brown is encouraging AGW to keep his citizens alive. Of course in his mind he has no awareness of these contradictions.
Didn’t people die in a heat wave a few years back ... in August? What are their homes like!
Just a BLIP on the way to the total roasting of the earth due to GW!
Fuel costs more than it should because of stupid environmental regulations.
Workers either have no job or a poor paying job because of the economy, also caused by government intervention in the markets.
Governments are broke because of their stupid socialistic programs.
Life could be easier if we were not governed by idiots.
Just look at all of the stupid lapses in judgement when you’ve become so gullible to the “global warming” hoax:
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1) Europeans...are worried about freezing to death
2) ...in their unequipped homes,
3) ...but people in the U.K. are in panic mode
4) ...The government has ordered manufacturers and other corporations to stop using natural gas
5) ...British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told citizens they should keep as warm as possible.
6) ...The roads are treacherous because municipalities have already run out of the salt that was supposed to last them the entire winter.
7) ...It’s left a slippery mess for cars and pedestrians to struggle through.
8) ...workers were seen Friday shovelling scented bath salts onto roads in efforts to clear ice.
9) ...they have been cut off from supplies and their animals are freezing to death because they are used to mild winters — or suffocating to death because of roofs that collapse under the weight of snow.
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Life is tough enough. It’s even tougher when you’re stupid and gullible.
My God is an ironic God.
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