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Science News: Climate change could bring 'travel chaos'
UPI.com ^ | October 22, 2010

Posted on 10/23/2010 7:06:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Rail networks in the United Kingdom face serious threats from climate change and its effects, researchers say.

Scientists from the University of Southampton say extreme weather events, projected to become more common over the next 50 years as a result of global warming, could lead to more landslides and floods.

Damage from such events could cause "widespread disruption" to travel, the researchers say.

"This is a really serious issue which needs to be addressed," lead author Fleur Loveridge-Wanker, a Ph.D. student at the University of Southampton, said.

"Climate change in the near future is 'locked in' -- it's too late to change that," she said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climategate; hoax; socialism
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1 posted on 10/23/2010 7:06:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria!”


2 posted on 10/23/2010 7:10:33 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yes, travel problems.

The difficulty with these "GW is going to mean disruptions of traffic due to landslides, etc." advertisements is that they assume people are too stupid to build roads, railroads and airports in better locations.

"BYPASS" is a word with meaning (and something I'd recommend to the folks who need to use that icy road in the picture).

Some of the GW stuff has been so bizarre that you'd have to imagine a billion people just standing there quietly as flood waters rose over their heads.

3 posted on 10/23/2010 7:12:00 AM PDT by muawiyah ("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How appropriate Dr. Wanker would be a spokesman about the effects of climate change.


4 posted on 10/23/2010 7:12:45 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fleur Loveridge-Wanker

You just can’t make this stuff up.


5 posted on 10/23/2010 7:13:32 AM PDT by pappyone
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Cooling World
Newsweek, April 28, 1975

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The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it.

(snip)

...droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases – all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.

(snip)

Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.

[end]

The Cooling World:
http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm

Original Newsweek article with scary maps and graphs:
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf

6 posted on 10/23/2010 7:14:09 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: WL-law; bamahead; carolinablonde; SolitaryMan; rdl6989; livius; DollyCali; IrishCatholic; meyer; ...
Theoretically the title is true, but what's the point? Any number of theoretical events could cause "travel chaos" as well, and most of them would also have no anthropogenic origin. Sheesh.

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

7 posted on 10/23/2010 7:14:31 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

..I’m thinking of that movie called “Airplane” and that one guy who says stupid stuff in short spots...the bald headed fem-type guy...running amuck screaming about Global Warming..

http://content9.flixster.com/photo/11/47/17/11471799_gal.jpg


8 posted on 10/23/2010 7:16:59 AM PDT by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Photo from last January 2010 showing the UK completely covered in deep ice:


9 posted on 10/23/2010 7:17:49 AM PDT by HighWheeler
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To: ClearCase_guy

LOL. Many here won’t get your reference.


10 posted on 10/23/2010 7:18:11 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fleur Loveridge-Wanker, a Ph.D. student at the University of Southampton, said.

Some people should really think about changing their names.


11 posted on 10/23/2010 7:20:16 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Been there... done that


12 posted on 10/23/2010 7:21:34 AM PDT by tubebender
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In case anyone wants to know what a Loveridge-Wanker looks like: http://www.oucc.org.uk/pictures/picos_caves/la_texa/fleur_at_entrance.htm


13 posted on 10/23/2010 7:22:24 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: vladimir998

Oh, the poor thing.


14 posted on 10/23/2010 7:25:09 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Making the best of every virtue and vice.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Men sleeping with men, women with women cats eating dog food, dogs eating cat shi*.

I don't care as long as I can get to the grocery store to restore beer supply.

15 posted on 10/23/2010 7:26:02 AM PDT by boomop1
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To: vladimir998

Ouch!!! That one will hurt for a long time :). That’s what I call ugly as a bucket of a..holes.


16 posted on 10/23/2010 7:28:49 AM PDT by 05 Mustang GT Rocks
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To: vladimir998

Ouch!


17 posted on 10/23/2010 7:32:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“. . . and we predict that next summer will be hotter than it has been ALL YEAR LONG!”

I made up the quote, but then again, maybe it’s been said somewhere by a global warm . . . rather Climate Changeist.


18 posted on 10/23/2010 7:38:13 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: steelyourfaith
Theoretically the title is true, but what's the point? ...

The point is that much more study of this issue is critical to our survival. Much travel must be undertaken by Grant moochers such as Loveridge-Wanker to many far off, warm weather, luxury hotel equipped destinations.

19 posted on 10/23/2010 8:37:57 AM PDT by Old North State (Don't blame me, I voted for Pedro)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Looks like this wanker at the University of Southampton hasn't heard that the other wankers at East Anglia University already tried this scam?
And they weren't PHD graduate students, they claimed to be actually serious scientists with decades of experience.

Unfortunately, they destroyed records and proved themselves to be ethically challenged. Meanwhile, real adult scientists worldwide uncovered a clumsy conspiracy of deceit, intimidation and fabrication that has tainted science for generations.

Ain't buying this BS even a little bit.

20 posted on 10/23/2010 3:46:25 PM PDT by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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