"Big Chill" Hits Europe

xtramsn ^ | March 3, 2005 | Wendel Broere

[demlosers]

Not much talk about global warming lately.

[thoughtomator]

Don't you know that dropping temperatures prove global warming?




/sarcasm

[frankiep]

"Don't you know that dropping temperatures prove global warming?"


Don't laugh. I've actually heard people try to make that arguement.

[GeronL]

When France had a heatwave thousands of old people died, how many will this cold front kill??

[thoughtomator]

So have I. That is why I am laughing. On a record-cold day last year, the High Priest of Global Warming came into town and issued a jeremiad about how we would burn the planet into a cinder.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

the sky is burning! the sky is burning! says chicken little

Oh wait, You mean it's getting cold, not hott?

[jocon307]

Oy, first it was REALLY HOT, now it is REALLY COLD. How will the Euroweenies survive?

[Spktyr]

Sounds like Hell is in the process of dropping below 0 degrees C. If it's not there already.

[spinestein]

This is BUSH'S fault!


If only he had supported Kyoto, this catastrophe wouldn't be happening.


/s

[SkyPilot]

In other news, Spain has surrendered to a space heater after the device claimed heat was "Un-Islamic." Spain issued a statement saying it was "deeply and profoundly sorry" and vowed to pull the last of its military troops out of the Capitol of Madrid.

[Cap Huff]

My daughter heard on the Dutch radio this morning that it was minus 22.5 Centigrade last night in the Flevo area of The Netherlands. I think that is an all time record for March.

Maybe we'll have tulips in July.

[William of Orange]

So have I. That is why I am laughing. On a record-cold day last year, the High Priest of Global Warming came into town and issued a jeremiad about how we would burn the planet into a cinder.

is that he who invented the internet?

[Cincinna]

Damned global warning again! It is all George W's fault.

[William of Orange]

here on the westcoast in the Netherlands it was minus 11 centigrade during the night, and we had a few inches of snow the last few days, it's abnormally cold for the time of the year and I have wasted no time rubbing it into the faces of the adherents of 'global warming' in my workplace.

Climate change? OK. Global warming? My fanny...

[thoughtomator]

Aye, the Creator of the Internet, Himself.

[Cap Huff]

I'm more or less on the westcoast too. The thermometer outside my home office showed minus 11 (12 Fahrenheid --- I will always "feel" fahrenheid temperatures no matter how much I understand centigrade). Some snow, but not nearly as much as I saw up near Amsterdam yesterday. A guy I know who lives in Alkmaar said they had two feet of snow (there I go with that crazy English system again).

I too will accept that there may be climate change (it is always changing to one degree or another [no pun intended]), but I strongly lean to the idea that fluctuations in solar intensity vastly outweigh any human induced factors.

[Straight Vermonter]

< old geezer voice>

Back in my day the temperature was the same everyday! None of this winter and summer, heat wave and cold snap nonsense.

The weather was boring and we liked it that way!

</ old geezer voice>

[Malesherbes]

I also immediately suspected Bush. After all, he just came back from Europe and must have done something to affect the weather while he was there.

[spinestein]

I suspect Carl Rove is hiding in his mountain fortress right now, listening to Bach's Toccata and Fugue and yanking the levers on his diabolical "climate change machine" while laughing insanely.

[SampleMan]

The "Global Warming-Kyoto Loving-Green Party" freaks deserve to freeze their butts off. I wonder how long they would need to stay in the freezer to shake off their idiotic ideas.