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Big freeze kills at least 80 across Europe
National Post ^ | 2009-12-21

Posted on 12/21/2009 3:24:28 PM PST by Clive

PARIS -- The death toll from winter storms across Europe rose to at least 80 on Monday as transport chaos spread amid mounting anger over the three-day failure of Eurostar high-speed trains.

With tens of thousands stranded by the cancellation of London-to-Paris trains and hundreds of flights across the continent, new accidents and mass power cuts added to the big freeze tumult.

A car veered off an icy road and knocked concrete onto rails, derailing a Paris commuter train and injuring 36 people, police said. Three hundred people had to be evacuated from the train.

Another train in the Croatian capital Zagreb hit a buffer injuring 52 people.

Croatian investigators blamed the minus 17 degrees Celsius temperatures for a brake failure, national television reported. European temperatures as low as minus 33.6 degrees Celsius have been recorded in Bavaria.

In Poland, authorities said 42 people, many of them homeless, had died of cold over three days after temperatures plunged to minus 20 degrees Celsius.

Ukraine reported 27 deaths while six people were killed in accidents in Germany and three in Austria.

France has reported at least two deaths of homeless people, and the national power company briefly cut electricity to two million people on Monday saying it was necessary to avoid an even bigger blackout amid surging demand.

More flights were cancelled in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain and main highways were blocked across Europe where some regions had more than 50 centimetres of snow.

The breakdown of the Eurostar service under the Channel, linking London with Paris and Brussels, has symbolised Europe's suffering.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


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1 posted on 12/21/2009 3:24:28 PM PST by Clive
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To: Clive

Title is wrong, they will correct it soon.

Correct title is AGW kills 80 people across Europe.


2 posted on 12/21/2009 3:28:05 PM PST by dila813
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To: Clive

Calling al-Gorabi! Your global warming isn’t working.


3 posted on 12/21/2009 3:28:05 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (A village in Kenya is missing its idiot.)
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To: Clive
They must not have heard that Global Warming had been canceled.

global cooling copenhagen snow Pictures, Images and Photos

4 posted on 12/21/2009 3:28:57 PM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: Clive

....Mean while during the same period 850 people died of hiccups in the same region....


5 posted on 12/21/2009 3:29:57 PM PST by dila813
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To: Clive

When you mock God and believe you can control the weather, this is what happens.


6 posted on 12/21/2009 3:30:01 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (10 YEARS OF FREEPING! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY EEE!!!)
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To: Clive

I guess the EU taxes aren’t high enough... and they need more restrictions on activities that might cause global warming.


7 posted on 12/21/2009 3:36:17 PM PST by Truth29
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To: Clive

Blast this infernal global warming!


8 posted on 12/21/2009 3:37:01 PM PST by vpintheak (How can love of God, Family and Country make me an extremist?)
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To: Clive
It would have been worse without global warming!

Global warming saves lives! Now we have proof!

9 posted on 12/21/2009 3:37:24 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: Clive

Prayers for those who lost their lives. And scorn for the global warming climate change money seeking crowd!

And since the dems, obama, gore, and the rest of the nuts who warship at the global warming climate change church and scream at the rest of us that C02 causes global warming, then this unfortunate circumstance means I get to scream at them and insinuate that their working to decrease C02 may very well have caused these deaths! So there! global warming nut crowd, stick that in your pipe and smoke it!


10 posted on 12/21/2009 3:52:57 PM PST by GloriaJane (http://www.last.fm/user/GloriaJane)
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To: Clive
Climategate Fraud:
The Truth*:
*UBSOTOS adjusted
11 posted on 12/21/2009 3:55:20 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (IN A SMALL TENT WE JUST STAND CLOSER! * IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: Clive

Hey, the bad weather has killed more than global warming...


12 posted on 12/21/2009 4:01:37 PM PST by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: Clive

I can’t take much more of this Global Warming! /sarc


13 posted on 12/21/2009 4:04:24 PM PST by left that other site (Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
When you mock God and believe you can control the weather, this is what happens.

You are absolutely correct. Those who think He will not take a stand on this lunacy will be abruptly awakened.

14 posted on 12/21/2009 5:11:33 PM PST by taraytarah (Our Constitution must be defended and protected from all domestic enemies.)
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To: Clive
they died from something they don't believe in, global cooling...


15 posted on 12/21/2009 5:21:07 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: Clive

This is really bad news: all those freezing temperatures are going to melt the ice.

By this time next year, the poles will look like the tropics!


16 posted on 12/21/2009 6:26:03 PM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Yes.


17 posted on 12/21/2009 6:31:30 PM PST by MonicaG (Thank you to our military & veterans, with love & gratitude. XOXOXO)
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To: Clive

Europe is brrrrrrrurning up.


18 posted on 12/21/2009 6:36:54 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Clive
"The earth has a fever."

Al Gore,satire,politics,global warming,climate change

19 posted on 12/21/2009 6:40:41 PM PST by Flag_This (ACORN delenda est)
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