MP reveals fading dreams of a white Christmas
Lewes MP and Lib Dem Shadow Environment Secretary Norman Baker has uncovered new government figures that show that dreams of a White Christmas are increasingly unlikely to become a reality. Since 1957 there have been 25 instances of a white Christmas anywhere in the country, yet because of global warming the future chances of snow on Christmas Day will drop by a third by 2010 and by over two thirds by 2050. London, which has only seen snow on Christmas Day six times in the last 45 years, will be even less likely to see snow in future, and coastal areas such as the Lewes constituency will also suffer.
Commenting on this, Norman said:
“Britons will soon be left with only dreams of a white Christmas, as the chances of it actually happening become more remote. Global warming is the main reason for this shift in seasonal weather and is responsible for changing the world as we know it.
http://www.cix.co.uk/~normanbaker/pr/2004/041214_white_christmas.htm
You wouldn’t want global warming predictions happening would you? Then it could be real.
Arthur: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that?
Woman: King of the who?
Arthur: The Britons.
Woman: Who are the Britons?
Arthur: Well we all are… We are all Britons… And I am your king.
Woman: I didn’t know we had a king… I thought we were an autonomous collective.
Ahhh, picking up where Bing Crosby left off. Steve, I’m too drunk right now, could you, or anyone else, find the e-mail addys to these people and post them, so I can make fun of them directly, later? I think it would be a hoot. A mass e-mail to obliviates making fun of their refutation of reality.
Heh! Don’t get your knickers in a knot yet. One operative word is “Government”; anytime any government uncovers something grab your wallet and hold your hat.
There’s a pretty well accepted model that, due to diversion of the Gulf Stream, London may get a white Christmas every year, beginning in November. (Look up “Climatic Flip-Flop”)
If not, you can sure have some of mine; I’ve lots.
Or Madagascar is supposed to be nice this time of year.
“Climatic Flip-Flop”
Hammering that propaganda anvil again I see.
Tell me Michael, has climate ever changed before? Or is it something new in the last 150 years caused by man?
All this goings on with doom and gloom does sound awfully Monty Python-ish doesn’t it?
Sir Lancelot: We were in the nick of time. You were in great peril.
Sir Galahad: I don’t think I was.
Sir Lancelot: Yes, you were. You were in terrible peril.
Sir Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
Sir Lancelot: No, it’s too perilous.
Sir Galahad: Look, it’s my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can.
My favorite MP quote from Life of Brian:
Boring (CAGW) Prophet: There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight O’clock.
Steve,
How are you enjoying the minus 30 windchills this morning? Did you take your bike out for a ride?
If white Christmases occurred every year Bing Crosby wouldn’t have needed to dream about them.
It would appear that the `White Christmas’ statistics have been slightly messed up the last few years.
Based upon the last 2 winters, I do not think Britons see it as a “dream”, but a nightmare!