Floods, draughts, and heataves...
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Well, Winky is proclaiming that we are all going to be doomed... Is he utterly stupid?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/8313672.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/8313672.stm
6655321 said:
Is he utterly stupid?
The same person who didn’t see the current recession coming, believed that Saddam Hussein had WMD's, sold our gold reserves at an all time low, refused to provide our troops with the correct equipment for Afghanistan, signed the country up for massive debt because he couldnt come up with a way of regulating the banks and couldnt even spot an over heated economy / property market etc etc etc etc etc As for the global warming s
t, he's "saved" the economy, now it's time for him to "save" the world before he's kicked out of no.10 and relegated to the history books as the most incompetent chancellor and then PM this country has ever sufferedGordon Brown said:
Pay me more tax and I'll control the weather
H L Mencken said:
the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary
Mencken also said that "the most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos" which is presumably why there are so many personal attacks and so much vilification directed at any individual who has the ability and will to 'think this thing out'."Oh Gordon, Gordon! I love you but we only have 50 days to save the earth!"
This now isn't even funny. The bloke is just completely and utterly deluded. He is a laughing stock and a danger to not only this country's reputation abroad but to the economic future of this nation. We need this total idiot out of power now and consigned to the dustbin of history. Note with interest that this is the lead story on the BBC the day that the Tories are due to announce massive changes to that organisation if they are elected.
GENERAL ELECTION NOW!!!!!!
This now isn't even funny. The bloke is just completely and utterly deluded. He is a laughing stock and a danger to not only this country's reputation abroad but to the economic future of this nation. We need this total idiot out of power now and consigned to the dustbin of history. Note with interest that this is the lead story on the BBC the day that the Tories are due to announce massive changes to that organisation if they are elected.
GENERAL ELECTION NOW!!!!!!
Droughts and floods. Amazing stuff, this climate change. Is there anything it can't do?
Winky said:
"On current trends, such an event could become quite routine in Britain in just a few decades' time. And within the lifetime of our children and grandchildren the intense temperatures of 2003 could become the average temperature experienced throughout much of Europe."
Err, no, Mr. Brown. Even the most outrageous predictions are for a rise of a couple of degrees. Suggesting that the average temperature will be the same as a current hot summer within that time defies credibility.It's all been done before:
"And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die".
"And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die".
It's all been done before: Part 2
"The long hot summer of 1976 which eventually ended in September of that year, was the culmination of a 16-month dry spell - the longest recorded over England and Wales since 1727. Why did it happn? The summer of 1976 had its origins in the weather of the previous year. The dry, warm weather that set in during May 1975 over much of England and Wales was followed by dominant warm, dry, sunny weather throughout that summer and led to the development of large soil moisture deficits by the end of August. Only 50 per cent of normal rainfall between June and August fell. There was no rain at all over much of England and Wales for several weeks in the latter part of July and for most of August. In particular it was dry in many parts of south Wales, south-west and southern England for 35-42 days until rain was recorded on 27, 28 or 29 August. Temperatures were highest in the southern and south-eastern areas of the country - amounting to a whopping 4 °C above average between June and August from Devon across to Cambridgeshire. Heathrow had 16 consecutive days with temperatures over 30 °C from 23 June to 8 July, its longest spell on record".
"The long hot summer of 1976 which eventually ended in September of that year, was the culmination of a 16-month dry spell - the longest recorded over England and Wales since 1727. Why did it happn? The summer of 1976 had its origins in the weather of the previous year. The dry, warm weather that set in during May 1975 over much of England and Wales was followed by dominant warm, dry, sunny weather throughout that summer and led to the development of large soil moisture deficits by the end of August. Only 50 per cent of normal rainfall between June and August fell. There was no rain at all over much of England and Wales for several weeks in the latter part of July and for most of August. In particular it was dry in many parts of south Wales, south-west and southern England for 35-42 days until rain was recorded on 27, 28 or 29 August. Temperatures were highest in the southern and south-eastern areas of the country - amounting to a whopping 4 °C above average between June and August from Devon across to Cambridgeshire. Heathrow had 16 consecutive days with temperatures over 30 °C from 23 June to 8 July, its longest spell on record".
turbobloke said:
Gordon Brown said:
Pay me more tax and I'll control the weather
H L Mencken said:
the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary
Mencken also said that "the most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos" which is presumably why there are so many personal attacks and so much vilification directed at any individual who has the ability and will to 'think this thing out'.Bloody hell.
I'm shocked. Andrew Neil on the daily politics laying into a couple of people about it. Actualy asking things that are brought up on here all the time like why is teh ice thicker. he even ended saying somthing like "you obviously never heard of the pea soupers "
after some government bod said people in teh street are noticing a tangable change in polution.
I'm shocked. Andrew Neil on the daily politics laying into a couple of people about it. Actualy asking things that are brought up on here all the time like why is teh ice thicker. he even ended saying somthing like "you obviously never heard of the pea soupers "
after some government bod said people in teh street are noticing a tangable change in polution.Pesty said:
Bloody hell.
I'm shocked. Andrew Neil on the daily politics laying into a couple of people about it. Actualy asking things that are brought up on here all the time like why is teh ice thicker. he even ended saying somthing like "you obviously never heard of the pea soupers " after some government bod said people in teh street are noticing a tangable change in polution.
I like Andrew neil, he seems one of the only true neutrals the BBC employ - if he smaells bullsh!t, he is never afraid to say so.I'm shocked. Andrew Neil on the daily politics laying into a couple of people about it. Actualy asking things that are brought up on here all the time like why is teh ice thicker. he even ended saying somthing like "you obviously never heard of the pea soupers "
after some government bod said people in teh street are noticing a tangable change in polution.I thought it would wind me up to listen to Winky blathering on about this...
But I found it quite amusing....
I hope he lives long enough to understand what a prat he's made of himself.
Have fun -----> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8313672.stm
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Edit again...read the comments, it appears they're rumbled. Which is nice..
But I found it quite amusing....
I hope he lives long enough to understand what a prat he's made of himself.
Have fun -----> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8313672.stm
Edit...you can add comments, but have to register.
Edit again...read the comments, it appears they're rumbled. Which is nice..
Edited by mybrainhurts on Monday 19th October 13:29
Edited by mybrainhurts on Monday 19th October 13:36
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