Friday, September 12, 2008

Piers Corbyn | Green Zealots - a threat to us all
Oil companies - check their websites - and governments love Global Warming hysteria because it enables them to profit from risng energy prices, carbon fixing and trading and 'Green' taxes. The problem now is that daily brainwashing by media and 'experts' on the green gravy train is past a tipping point so much that action from green zealots threatens law and order and energy infrastructure.
John Redwood MP asks: Why is it so cold?
One of the surprises about global warming is how cold it has become for two summers in a row in the UK.
I always reckoned to turn my heating on at the beginning of October after resting the boiler for five months and keeping the bills down.
When visitors came one week-end in August I relented and put the central heating on for them. After sitting in my office with woollies on for the first few days of September, I gave up and put the heating back on so I could cosy up to the radiator.
I don’t feel I have had a summer this year. My main memories are of cricket matches I wanted to play in cancelled owing to rain and the worst weather on my English holiday break I ever experienced.
BBC News, 2000 | Cold weather kills thousands
Their study suggests that 26,596 people die from the effects of cold weather in London every year.

This compares to just over 2,000 people in Finland, where winter temperatures are twice as cold.
BBC News, 2002 | UK has 'most cold weather deaths'
More people die from the cold weather in Britain than in any other European country, including Siberia.

Up to 50,000 more people die in the UK during the winter months than in the summer, according to new research.
Citywire, 2008
It noted that between 20,000 and 25,000 people in the 65-plus age bracket die in the UK every year as a result of cold weather – termed cold-related deaths – and it was unmoved by a package of measures that it said fail to tackle fuel poverty.

Special adviser to the charity Mervyn Kohler said: ‘This is a flimsy and failing package which does little to help older people struggling to cope with soaring fuel bills.’

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