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SNOW OUTRAGEOUS
Cooling is usually a tiny village in Kent. But all of England is cooling now:
Up to three inches of snow fell in parts of southern England and temperatures were below freezing in many places even at midday.
The Arctic cold snap meant more misery for passengers at Heathrow’s Terminal 5, where British Airways cancelled more than 100 flights ...
John Hammond, a forecaster at the Met Office said: “The last time that we saw a decent widespread snowfall during April was in 1989.”
Snow historian Robert Fisk is yet to comment, but PM Kevin Rudd has discussed matters with Her Majesty:
”(The weather) is better than it was yesterday morning,” the Queen said.
Mr Rudd replied: “The snow was extraordinary.”
He’s almost landing a Dylan line there.
I am sure that the Prime Librarian acquitted himself excellently with the Queen. No doubt it was a chat she will remember and want to put in the annals of great conversations. Makes me proud to e an Australian, having such a great speaker as PL.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2008 04 08 at 06:14 AM • permalinkIt’s The Cremation of Sam McGee all over again.
#2 I think having her band greet him with ‘Copacabana’ (poncey song about showgirls- Scores anyone?) tells us everything we need to know about what HM thinks of the Kruddster.
(sorry- posted something similar on an earlier thread, but at least it’s on topic here)
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 04 08 at 06:41 AM • permalinkTerminal 5 means misery for passengers at Heathrow’s Terminal 5.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 04 08 at 07:03 AM • permalinkAnd isn’t it a violation of several Very Important EU regulations to talk about “inches” of snow in England?
The Boys From Brussels will not be amused.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 04 08 at 07:10 AM • permalinkHi all
Have just moved to blighty - not for the weather.
Note pic from Daily Mail comparing snow at the weekend to hot weather experienced at Brighton Beach on same day last year at same time linked here
As you might expect, the Guardian got a comment from the Metereological Office predicting a long hot summer and, of course, linking it to global warming - link is here
Unfortunately for the Met Office, it had to admit later that last “summer” was the wettest ever. You think they would have seen that coming. Link is here
Enjoy.
#4 thanks for your Service.
Global Haywire
Evidence is heard from students and luminaries such as Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali and Robert Fisk.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 08 at 08:06 AM • permalinkRegarding the Queen and KRudd, the ABC’s lunchtime coverage of the occasion was that “the Queen met the Mandarin-speaking prime minister”
Why this reference to Mandarin was important was not explained although my son thinks it is a directive to ALP head office to ALP Media, aka ABC, to keep reminding us that Krudd is clever. I mean to say, there can’t be many people in the world who speak Mandarin, can there?
But can’t imagine the Queen was impressed by Rudd’s language skills. She is reputed to be multi-lingual, not just bilingual like our Kev. She is certainly known to be as fluent in French as she is in English.
A sanctimonious ditty for Robert Fisk.
Now whereas where will Fisk appear,
most likely where he finds the fear,
and then he’ll rave and rant for weeks
to get attention that he seeks.he’s now clearly beaten on the snow
so he thinks he’ll head towards the heat
and talk about his desert youth
and how that heat could not be beat.But can he create an ultra farce
that seemingly comes from not his arse
and convince the sceptics far and wide
that Fisk is not a child to chide.So he declares the dust from the large black moth
is a cancer cure if boiled in broth
and the whole world swung in his direction
to see if it cured our worst infection.But years of testing came to nought
and the world’s critics all but thought
that Fisk’s a charlatan blind and bare
and his exposure’s due to the likes of Blair.Meh.
Heard on the news today some Boffin from down south has researched and says that many of the large animals in Africa may become extinct because of global warming.He got money to figure that out?
I can tell anyone who cares to listen that anything bad that happens on earth is due to Climate Change.
#13
Jeebus, if the Ruddent saluted Bush, what’d he do in the presence of the Queen - hide under her skirts?
Frighten a little mouse under her chair?
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2008 04 08 at 08:40 AM • permalinkOh Noes!
Green brewing means that we might run out of beer, but Andrew Bolt says:
Here’s my tip: The world will never run out of beer.
he he.
Glad to see that Rudd and HM had an opportunity to discuss high matters of state. The following exchange was also overheard.
Queen Elizabeth: One of your countrymen told a very amusing story the other day, Mr. Prime Minister. You have our permission, of course, to stop us if you’ve heard this one. (Clears throat). Did you hear the one about the archaeologist who found two skulls of Cleopatra? One as an adult, and one as a young child.
Rudd (Slurping spilt tea from his saucer): No. Let’s hear it.
John Hammond, a forecaster at the Met Office said: ‘The last time that we saw a decent widespread snowfall during April was in 1989.’ He was subsequently attacked by a large dinosaur. However, Mr. Hammond was fortunately saved as the large coldblooded reptile froze and was unable to continue. The sight of the frozen Mr. Rudd put the dinosaur off his feed long enough for Mr. Hammond to escape. At latest report, Mr. Hammond was attempting to launch an expedition to study the homeland of Mr. Rudd, the dinosaur has checked into a mental institute in an attempt to overcome his post-traumatic-stress over the encounter with Mr. Rudd, and the ABC reports that Mr. Rudd has learned to speak Inuit.
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2008 04 08 at 10:53 AM • permalinkDon’t worry, Australia! If your green brewers run out of beer, America will send you tankers of the resurrected original formula Schlitz beer. That stuff started more fights than Don King…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 08 at 11:36 AM • permalinkGlobal Warming Activist Pressures BBC to Significantly Alter Article
By Noel Sheppard | April 7, 2008 - 09:59 ET
NewsBusters has just learned that a British “climate activist” was responsible for getting the BBC to radically alter its “Global Temperatures ‘To Decrease’” article last Friday.
As reported Sunday, the third paragraph of what previously had been a very balanced piece about how global temperatures have been declining since 1998 was totally reworded in order to make the report just another hysterical climate change pronouncement.
On Monday, Jennifer Marohasy, the director of the Environment Unit at Australia’s Institute of Public Affairs, received and published an e-mail exchange between the article’s author, Roger Harrabin, and a climate activist affiliated with the British Campaign Against Climate Change:
Link
ChangesTsk! You right-wingers and your total disregard for the environment. Do you have any IDEA how much waste is produced to make a single italic letter “i”, let alone an “m” or, gaia-forbid, a capital letter like “Q” or the rainforest raping “&”?!
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2008 04 08 at 01:35 PM • permalinkWE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! GLOBAL WARMING IS GOING TO KILL US! KEVIN RUDD TOLD ME SO! Snow be damned, we are all going to sweat to death. Or something. I’m not entirely sure how his scenario plays out. But WE’RE GOING TO DIE!
Sell short on ‘people remaining alive on our planet’. You’ll make a killing, so to speak. At least according to Kevin Rudd.
The British Superbike Race at Brands Hatch was canceled last weekend due to Global Warmening. (Hint: It snowed like hell)
Posted by swassociates on 2008 04 08 at 02:50 PM • permalinkActually, it makes perfect sense! It just now came to me! More snow CAN kill you by warming! It’s cold outside, so you build a fire, which sets your house aflame, and you burn to death! The cause: HEAT FROM THE FIRE!
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2008 04 08 at 03:01 PM • permalinkHere, brett - let me try: italics no italics
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2008 04 08 at 06:58 PM • permalinkWell, hell - it worked in preview. :-(
Back on topic, I had no idea AlBore was in England. I thought he was in northern Minnesota.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2008 04 08 at 07:02 PM • permalinkNow don’t you dare question the Warmening Lobby Groups. Prof Don Aitkin has been warned for stating the obvious:
RESPECTED academic Don Aitkin has seen the ugly side of the climate change debate after being warned he faced demonisation if he challenged the accepted wisdom that global warming poses a danger to humanity.
Professor Aitkin told The Australian yesterday he had been told he was “out of his mind” by some in the media after writing that the science of global warming “doesn’t seem to stack up”.
The Australian link.
Posted by ErnestBludger on 2008 04 08 at 07:54 PM • permalinkOh, I think Andrea will eventually come over and mop up these italics. When we try to do it, it usually just makes more mess - that’s what I’m led to believe. Just no one touch the saucepan full of boiling bold tags on the stove over there - then there’ll be tears!
Posted by ErnestBludger on 2008 04 08 at 08:04 PM • permalinkNow you’ve done it! You’ll have to spend the rest of the day in the “Earth Hour” room as punishment.
Posted by ErnestBludger on 2008 04 08 at 08:21 PM • permalinkOh to be in England now that
Springsnow is there.
Knut the Polar BearPosted by andycanuck on 2008 04 08 at 10:29 PM • permalink
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Whistler still reports 104in of snow, so I fail to see what’s the problem.
Cheers