Posted on 12/24/2010 3:03:58 PM PST by NormsRevenge
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Heavy snow stranded thousands of Christmas travelers in parts of Europe on Friday, with Belgium's main airport closed for most of the day to landing and icy roads in Sweden choked with traffic.
Cold weather during the busy Christmas period has disrupted travel and business across Europe this week, and the prolonged period of severe weather is expected to clip economic growth in Germany, Europe's biggest economy.
A spokesman for Brussels' airport said hundreds of beds were ready for stranded passengers after the airport reopened to inbound flights following a day of delays and cancellations.
"The fact of the matter is plenty of people will stay at the airport," said spokesman Jan Van der Cruysse. "As of 4 p.m. (1500 GMT) today, the airport is open to a limited amount of inbound traffic. Departing flights continue but at a slow pace."
"We have already organized hundreds of beds with the Belgian army and Red Cross so that people don't have to sleep on the floor. It is going to be a difficult night."
"I can't remember the weather being this bad in December," he added.
In Sweden, heavy snowfall across southern parts of the country caused major traffic problems on roads and railways for the second day running on Friday.
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A passenger wearing a Santa Claus hat, looks at a departure board displaying cancelled and delayed flights at Zaventem international airport near Brussels December 24, 2010. Unusually heavy snow caused air traffic chaos in Belgium on Friday, with its main airport closing to travellers arriving for Christmas and severe delays disrupting departing flights. REUTERS/Thierry Roge
Merry Christmas to All!
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Muslim and Christian schoolchildren wearing Santa hats gather around a man dressed as Santa Claus during a Christmas party at the Small World school in Amman December 23, 2010. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji
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A car is seen stuck in a ditch along a snow covered road at Raillencourt near Cambrai, after heavy snow fell in northern France December 24, 2010. Heavy snow and frigid temperatures continue across northern Europe, stranding travellers and snarling traffic.« Read less REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
ML/NJ
If only all Muslims could be like the lady in the right-hand picture. We have Muslim neighbors who LOVE to celebrate Christmas. A Christmas tree, outdoor lights, gift exchanges, etc.
Ahhh, makes me nostalgic for the days of global warming. < sarc>
The sun has been spotless since December 15, 2010. Only a little activity before that. Looks as if we might be headed toward the Gore-Mann Minimum!
Happy Little Ice Age to us!
Happy Little Ice Age to us!
How long is the Ice Age?
Happy Little Ice Age to us!
This euro-pansy should have been at Bastogne in December 1944.
And yet the liberal brain dead trash (Merry Xmas!) still insists & legislates as if global warming was anything other than an abject lie to take our wealth.
Little Ice Age baloney....
The FRIGGING GULF LOOP IS BUSTED....
'we all looking at a MAJOR ICE AGE.....
Film at 11 here....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXUifNpnpfQ
I want to explain to you why the idea now being put forward by the AGW crowd that the cold is being caused by global warming is out of touch. You folks, the big thing you should be concerned about is the total energy of the lower troposphere of the earth, a shadowy measurement at best. There is no reliable way to measure that. And with out proving that there is feedback that is meaning an accumulation of energy that can not escape, there is no way to say there is global warming for sure.
I am going to give you an example of this, and this is why I get incensed at people that try to use every single event that occurs as an excuse to say man is changing the climate in a way that is demonstrable or destructive.
You see, it takes much less energy to heat cold dry air than it does warmer air, or water. The rise of temperatures to 10-20 degrees ABOVE normal over Greenland, where temperatures are normally brutally cold is not nearly as big a deal in the total energy budget of the earth as the drop of 3f in the tropical pacific ocean temps. In fact, I would venture to guess that the global temperature is not “suffering” at all. A drop of 10f in temperatures in a place that has a normal of 45 is more impressive energy wise than a rise of temps of 20 degrees in a place where the normal is near 25 below 0. And without that buildup of excess energy, there is no true increase in the global temp. In fact what is going on now, we can see the OPPOSITE is occurring.
I suspect a lot of the people in the AGW camp KNOW what is about to happen. With all the visibility given to this argument, its only a matter of time where people notice the up and down in relation to the enso, and will demand that the natural cycle theories are given their day in court.
As far as the blocking, I do become upset when people claim that is global warming, when I have gone to great pains to show and even forecast, the affects of low solar and volcanic activity is something that can lead to that. Its not co2 that is causing blocking and while I there is reason to debate my reasons, they make far more sense than saying c02 is causing something, that apparently must have happened before, since we are seeing weather that happened before, but in the time of solar min and in the 19-teens, after major arctic volcanic activity.
http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/bastardi-europe-blog.asp
It snows in Europe every year. You’d think they would be better prepared.
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