the mean temperature for England for March was 2.6 °C – making it the second coldest on record, with only 1962 being colder
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In 2002, The UK government announced that global warming would wreck the UK by 2012
Global Warming Effects Could Kill 10,000 in the UK by 2012
A report released by the British government warned the country’s National Health System to expect thousands more deaths and complications from heatwaves, malaria, and contaminated water as global warming effects progress in the next five years
The report, “Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK”, was written by Professor Bob Maynard and colleagues with the Health Protection Agency. It is being issued as official government advice to hospitals, nursing homes, and other medical institutions run by the government’s nationalized health care system.
The biggest danger to health, and the most likely to occur, is a major heatwave. The report predicts a heatwave will occur by 2012, causing between 3,000 and 10,000 deaths.
Actually, according to the much longer Central England Temperature data series, which goes back to 1659, this was the joint 12th coldest March on record, with a figure of 2.7c, but was colder than 1962, which had a temperature of 2.8c according to that series.
According to CET, this was the coldest March since 1892, which also recorded a temp. of 2.7c, and you have to go back to 1883 with a temp. of 1.9c to find a lower March temperature.
This March was also colder than most of those in many years of the 1600’s and 1700’s, although earlier records may not be entirely reliable.
For some reason however, the Met. Office seems to prefer to use the much shorter 1910 data series.
… and “global cold” killed 250,000 Brits (1:25). The greens are happy! The deads are not contaminating the planet anymore. ho ho.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9959856/Its-the-cold-not-global-warming-that-we-should-be-worried-about.html
This is what results from following the crazy CAGW religion and the “teachings” of Pope Gore and Cardinal Hansen. Don’t burn carbon, freeze to death…..this defies logic and demonstrates how insane the CAGW evangelists and their carbon credit masters are.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304443/Lee-Halpin-Filmmaker-27-freezes-death-sleeps-rough-make-documentary-homelessness.html
More leftist lies. The colder than average temperatures are killing people, meaning that warming would actually save lives.
Time to lock theses highly dangerous people up, and for good.
We are still awaiting super duper El Nino as well as super duper exponential warming. All the missing heat must still be hiding under Antarctica, ready to pounce on us! Just you wait!
I always prefer to look at the CET max series (on the grounds that global warming would be more of a worry for max temps than min). For CET max, March 2013 was *the* coldest in the record going back to 1878. The coldest day, 0.8degC, was the coldest for any in the second half of March.
And, woe is me, I live fairly near Pershore which is one of those CET thermometers…
Rich.
The really devastating statistic is that the cold, primarily due to conditions such as thrombosis and pneumonia, primarily due to an inability to adequately heat poorly built, uninsulated british housing has been identified as responsible for as many as 30,000 easily preventable depths this winter – almost all elderly who needn’t have died if adequate heating was available.
The anaomaly for summer deaths in heatwaves is 1,000 – adequate ventilation and hydration would probably reduce that to an insignificant number.
At 30:1 cold easily wins as the natural enemy of humanity.
Imagine your grandparents or single grandparent shivering to death, struck down with pneumonia or thrombosis or stroke, as a result of EU directives on “green” energy which forces many to be unable to adequately heat their homes during the long winter nights and bleak overcast days.
Another triumph for climate science !