From Wikipedia:
The winter of 2009–2010 in the United Kingdom (also called The Big Freeze by British media) is an ongoing meteorological event that started on 10 December 2009, as part of the severe winter weather in Europe. A persistent pattern of cold northerly and easterly winds brought cold moist air to the United Kingdom with many snow showers, fronts and polar lows bringing snowy weather with it. The winter weather brought widespread transport disruption, school closures, power failures, caused sporting events to be postponed and 25 deaths.
Wind farms produced ‘practically no electricity’ during Britain’s cold snap
The cold weather has been accompanied by high pressure and a lack of wind, which meant that only 0.2% of a possible 5% of the UK’s energy was generated by wind turbines over the last few days.
In Britain, the tradition of the “stiff upper lip” means you find a solution, even if that lip is stiff on account of being frozen. To wit:
Reports Of Elderly Burning Books To Stay Warm
Temperatures this week are forecast to plummet as low as -13ºC in the Scottish Highlands, with the mercury falling to -6ºC in London, -5ºC in Birmingham and -7ºC in Manchester as one of the coldest winters in years continues to bite.
Workers at one charity shop in Swansea, in south Wales, described how the most vulnerable shoppers were seeking out thick books such as encyclopaedias for a few pence because they were cheaper than coal.

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Not that I want people to suffer
ModernAgeFan (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 12:02AM EST (link)but,
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
As many times as I have been to Europe and had to listen to all the Klima Wandel crap, it is gratifying to see them getting an object lesson in the fallacy of climate change theories. But if the IPCC said it, it must be true!
Obama and Al Gore are still smoking something
louesc (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 11:26PM EST (link)Obama’s Administration is using valuable CIA spy satellites to record climate change Obama is not concerned with the safety of America. and of course Gore has a hand in this. Here is the video.
http://www.americanpatriotsprevail.com/Obamas_CIA_Being_Used.html
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If endless supplies of "An Inconvenient Truth" were burned...
rbdwiggins (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 12:19AM EST (link)it might be possible, given enough time and provided no ash was allowed to escape, to raise the actual temperature of the earth’s atmosphere to its current level…
…with a little cooperation from the sun.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
The only improvement would be roasting algore over a fire made from his books! nt
nessa (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 1:06AM EST (link)“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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That would be an Environmental Catastrophy
Michael Dugas (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 12:01PM EST (link)..of epic proportions. SuperFund would have to be called in to clean up all that grease that will be rendered from Al’s…..well you get the picture. Of course we could always work out how much bio-diesel could be made from Al’s rendering….might be profitable..Have to get back to you on that one.
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paragraph 4.
“…dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the zeal for a firm and efficient government.”
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It's cold here in California too
Neil Stevens (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 2:39AM EST (link)I took this picture on the way home today:
It may be hard to tell but off in the distance are some really, really white mountains. That’s San Gorgonio Mountain and surrounding peaks, I believe.
When it’s *cold*, if you’re *lucky* the highest peaks out there will get a bit white at the top. It’s *rare* that they’re entirely covered, snowing as low as Yucaipa.
I have to think it very nearly snowed where I live, and it’s snowed in Moreno Valley I think twice in the last 20 years.
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I see them, nice shot
Cheryl (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 3:15AM EST (link)cold up here too, snow on Mt. Diablo.
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America, than the whole force of the common enemy.” –Samuel Adams
“The administrative state has inserted its big paws into our houses, from the toilet bowl to the light socket. Now if it would just stretch those paws from the one to the other at the same time, we might begin to recapture the spirit of ’76.” –Scott Johnson, Powerlineblog.com
Oh yeah
Neil Stevens (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 3:51AM EST (link)And that’s quite a hill I have to go up, then down, then back up, then back down to go to and from the grocery store, huh? heh.
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UK cooling was predicted in the past
weave2 Sunday, January 24th at 7:10AM EST (link)Global warming that cools UK was predicted in the past due to the Gulf Stream being interrupted.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2005/dec/01/science.climatechange
Far as I’m concerned though, if one accepts the premise that global warming is real and it’s caused by 100 years of industrial activity and an extra 5 billion people on the planet, then the logical way to reverse it is to go back to being an agrarian society, kill 5 billion people, and wait and see if it makes a difference.
I believe it makes more sense to wait and see and figure out a way to adapt if it is indeed real.
This may not be the warmest decade afterall.
stratdaddy Sunday, January 24th at 7:32AM EST (link)We’ve seen the graphs. Even if the data has been tinkered with, even if the numbers are exaggerated, even if there is no proven causation between global warming and fossil energy, it’s warmer, right? Not so fast.Climategate hasn’t even finished warming up yet (no pun), and a story is breaking over at NOAA and NASA/GISS about some serious data tampering. It seems the people in charge of collecting the tempurature readings reduced the surface station sampling by 75% from the late 1970s to 1990. Interestingly, the selected stations tended to be in warmer climates. Add in some new math and, voila, global warming. Marc Sheppard has the story at American Thinker: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/climategate_cru_was_but_the_ti.htmlThis just keeps getting bigger. Shouldn’t be long before some of Al Gore’s GMI carbon credit clients want their money back. Then the fun really starts.
Sorry, got an extra word in the link. Try this...
stratdaddy Sunday, January 24th at 7:36AM EST (link)http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/climategate_cru_was_but_the_ti.html
stratdaddy- I read that article
Scope (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 9:01AM EST (link)and there are also others. A well respected Climatologist from the University of Colorado has said that “Climategate USA” is going to hit the news big time over the next few weeks. Seems that the UN is quietly trying to back away from the Global Warming bunk. They should have been a whole lot more honest about the lies before Copenhagen. The debacle in Copenhagen took the UN down more than a few pegs, as to their credibility. Unfortunately, Obama is turning the US over to this corrupt worldwide socialist organization, whose only goal is to bankrupt the world so that they then can redistribute the wealth back into their own pockets. The UN and the IPCC are as useless as The League of Nations.
There's a credibility sub-basement? Who knew? nt
Steve Maley (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 10:57AM EST (link)The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
Yes Vladimir- It's called
Scope (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 12:03PM EST (link)HE11. Now, that just may be the place that Global Warming does exist. No peer review necessary.
How can you say the IPCC is useless?
jayburd (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 11:16AM EST (link)The head of the IPCC, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, is set to make 10 million pounds over the next five years from British taxpayers. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7005963/Taxpayers-millions-paid-to-Indian-institute-run-by-UN-climate-chief.html
And the UN has enriched plenty of people over the years.
One of my heroes- Ralph Smeed’s blog- http://smeedonstate-ism.com/index.htm
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“If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill.
The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The
difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the
money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%.Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.” – Thomas A. Edison
Wrong choice of words...
rbdwiggins (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 12:14PM EST (link)Useless may accurately describe the League of Nations, but by design, the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are fraudulent, corrupt and destructive organizations.
On another pressing note: Regarding anthropogenic global warming, CO2 regulation and the routine fraud, manipulation and deceit conducted over the past three decades by agencies of the federal government, it’s time to petition SCOTUS to set aside, or reverse, their ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, No. 05-1120.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
Have to agree. EPA is the immediate threat.
stratdaddy Sunday, January 24th at 2:46PM EST (link)Murkowski(R-AK) on thursday announced that she wants an up or down vote on the EPA endangerment finding. It’s highly unlikely to become law, no real hopes on that right now, but the disappointing thing here is the tone from the republicans. They still sound like AGW is a real problem that needs solving…with market based solutions, of course. This kind of posturing is not going to get them back into power. Republicans need to tell the voters, in no uncertain terms, AGW is a fraud and they intend to end it’s reign as an instrument of policy. See video below. Great post izoneguy. Bloom gets it. Every republican in DC should get a link to this clip and loop it until it’s burned into the backs of their skulls.
I guess "Global Warming" means we all freeze to death
izoneguy (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 9:47AM EST (link)The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Good thing we have a hockey stick.
MikeWas (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 10:50AM EST (link)With all this ice, we’ll need it.
Won't do much good...
rbdwiggins (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 12:27PM EST (link)Mann’s Hockey Stick is broken.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
This winter instead of using the abbreviation
throwback59 Sunday, January 24th at 11:38AM EST (link)LMAO (laughing my a** off) in my emails I find myself using FMAO “Freezing my…”
Weeks of below average temps means nothing to the Climate-gate deniers but let the temps hit 50 one day and they are out in force spewing global warming trash.
Central Florida
muffin Sunday, January 24th at 11:45AM EST (link)had temps in the low 20′s for almost a week. We also had snow, ice, and sleet. We were ALL wishing for some of that global warming when the rug was pulled out from under our normal warmer temperatures. I looked like the Michelin Man with all the clothes I was wearing trying to stay warm.
Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer
What a glorious post, Vlad
redneck_hippie (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 11:55AM EST (link)It is one thing for us evil capitalistic, monarchless, carbon-wasting, rubes here in the New World to bash the hockey stick.
But when Europeans are doing it, well, it is glorious.
The straw man of Global Warming Theory has
4life (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 12:00PM EST (link)cought fire and is incinirating before our eyes. It is beautiful and just in the nick of time, like the election of Scott Brown. However, corporate and governmental policies based on this falacious theory are still in place. Will the EPA reverse it’s classification of CO2 as a pollutant?http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1946095,00.html
The big damage of Cap and Trade is hopefully dead now, but what about the damage already done?
So, will the Nobel prize have to be given back
Scope (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 2:19PM EST (link)http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/01/ipcc_scientist_admits_glacierg.html
“One wonders how much longer the chairman (IPPC) and perhaps the organization itself can survive all the recent revelations.”
Has anyone seen Mr. Gorebal Warming lately? I heard he was spotted sunbathing, in a bikini, in the Tundra.
UK Times-'Natural Disaster' claim in UN Report also faked, Obama mentioned, 1/24
katesmith (Diary) Sunday, January 24th at 4:13PM EST (link)Claim that more hurricanes and storms would happen around the world due to AGW was based on unpublished comment someone picked up and ran with. Article references scientists who warned IPCC the claim was no good. This one claim was basis for which $100 billion was demanded from so-called rich nations in Copenhagen to be given to poor ones (article). Also
quotes Obama making statement based on this false claim, when he said the world will be having more storms. Gordon Brown and Miliband quoted in article making specific catastrophic predictions based on the false claim. Based on this claim, Hillary Clinton said the US would contribute to the $100 billion fund (apparently agreeing with false claim that things like auto emissions caused Bangldesh’s climate). Obama in a 1/14 Guardian story appears to be distancing himself from the UN already. 2 things need to happen now: Al Gore’s movie must be removed from schools. The Supreme Court now has grounds to reverse the decision that CO2 is a dangerous pollutant. Obama has made claims that climate is a national security matter, so that is obviously now false.