ABOVE: Britain's winter is the coldest since 1683
and close to being the chilliest in nearly 1,000 years
Posted on 12/30/2010 11:39:39 AM PST by NormsRevenge
BRITAIN’S winter is the coldest since 1683 and close to being the chilliest in nearly 1,000 years.
Latest figures reveal that the average temperature since December 1 has been a perishing -1C.
That makes it the second coldest since records began in 1659.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...
Damn that global warming.
...perishing -1C.
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What a bunch of wimps. -1C is about +30 degrees F.
Throw another climatologist on the barbie, mate.
Nice hat! Warm tooo.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth leaves a Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church on the Royal estate at Sandringham, Norfolk in east England, December 25, 2010. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Glowbull warming... Is there ANYTHING it cannot do?
Another freeper pointed out to me that the Thames River has changed quite a lot, and now flows faster than it once did — but I would love to see the Thames freeze over. It used to happen pretty often, but I think the last time was in the early 1800’s (during The Little Ice Age). It would be a real problem for Al Gore if it happened this year, but I guess that’s unlikely.
H/T to Drudge
“That makes it the second coldest since records began in 1659.”
How those poor people survived without parkas, waterproof boots, central heat, plowed roads, hot chocolate and Chap Stick is a miracle.
How does anyone know what the weather was say....867 years ago?
How could anyone seriously make that claim. Hyperbole is fair play, but who measured the temperature a thousand years ago and who calibrated the thermometer in 1683 or, whatever. And don't give tree rings It's good chatty-mensa B.S., but it's not science!
beats me.. ancient tree rings? lol
Le’s not get too cynical here now..
Scientists have ways of pulling stuff like this out of hot air yaknow. ;-)
“Scientists have ways of pulling stuff like this out of hot air...”
I suspect it comes from some place more sinister ;-)
Simple, just refer to this chart
Here's a news flash for you buddy, a lot of them didn't survive the winters back then for the very reasons(except for the chap stick and hot chocolate)you cite. That's one reason the populations were so low back then, a high death rate due to disease and bad weather.
‘That’s one reason the populations were so low back then, a high death rate due to disease and bad weather.’
Bad weather equals horrible crop harvest which lead to starvation.
I’ll take a little longer growing season with global warming any day. Little Ice ages are population reducers.
SC do you want to send this to Catastrophism ping list?
Ways we know what the weather was like include tree rings, silt deposits in lakes, kinds of pollen found in soil layers, success/failure of crops. There are others I am sure, including written accounts from the year(s) in question.
Yes, the little ice age caused a lot of deaths and changed the types of crops the Euros grew in order for them to survive.
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