Posted on 04/06/2008 9:02:16 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
Snow fell across London on Sunday before an Olympic torch relay through the capital that is expected to attract anti-China protests.
About 80 athletes and celebrities will carry the torch by foot, bike, boat and bus during a 31-mile (50-km) journey starting at Wembley Stadium and ending in Greenwich.
The 2008 Games take place in Beijing from August 8 to 24. The next Summer Olympics are in London in 2012.
Anti-China protesters are set to appear at key points along the route. Police have said they will be dealt with firmly if they try to disrupt the torch's journey.
The event has drawn "substantial" interest from groups who plan to stage protests against China's human rights record and its crackdown on independence campaigners in Tibet, Scotland Yard has said.
Police have been notified of at least six protests, including one outside Downing Street where Prime Minister Gordon Brown is due to greet the flame, carried by a local schoolboy.
About 2,000 police officers will be on duty during the day, including some on bicycles to keep up with the torch.
Organisers will be hoping no more torchbearers drop out of the event after a handful withdrew in the run-up to Sunday.
The BBC's deputy director general Mark Byford backed out due to concerns his participation would compromise the corporation's journalistic standards.
China's ambassador to London, Fu Ying, was expected to take part despite concern she would act as a focal point of protests.
Tens of thousands of spectators are expected to line the route.
Among those they will be cheering on will be tennis player Tim Henman, girl band Sugababes, actress Denise van Outen, news presenter Trevor McDonald, violinist Vanessa Mae, yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur and Arsenal footballer Theo Walcott.
Former rower Steve Redgrave, who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympics, will start the relay and it will end when the flame is handed to middle distance athlete Kelly Holmes, who won two gold medals at the 2004 Games.
The Olympic torch arrived on Saturday evening from St Petersburg, Russia, and heads to Paris after London.
The route will take in 21 international cities and every Chinese province before the Beijing Games open.
Yep. More global warming...
So what? It’s not news. It’s snowing here, too. Algore says it’s not snowing and even if it is it is further proof of climate change.
Algore nowhere to be found.
Will reappear in July when hot dogs are roasting for picnics — and declare doom.
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
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Here too. And the deer already ate E V E R Y T H I N G down to the ground.
Rain, snow, drought, hail, heat wave, cold snap, temperate or harsh weather, it matters not. All are triumphant “confirmations” of Global Warming. (Currently being rebranded as “Climate Change”.)
That’s the beauty of Global Warming Theory, it’s extremely robust with respect to data - all observations confirm it with probability 1.0.
You have deer, which is not such a bad deal. We have rabbits and they also eat the shrubs, but from the bottom up. We can’t eat the rabbits since they all have some disease. Venison would be a fair trade for a shrub.
This is not news either (sarc):
1. I mentioned some of the worldwide extreme cold events in recent time. Since then many more have made the headlines:
* China experienced its worst snowstorms in 50 years, affecting millions of people. More than 100,000 houses collapsed under the weight of snow
* Avalanches in the Indian Kashmir, caused by the worst snowfall in decades, killed 22 people
* A record-breaking cold spell in Vietnam killed about 60,000 cattle
* On 30 January, 20cm of snow fell in Jerusalem
* North America was hit by severe winter storms
* The exceptional cold spell also affected the Arctic. Sea-ice between Canada and Greenland reached its largest extent in 15 years. In many places the ice was 10 to 20cm thicker than last year
* The northern hemisphere recorded its largest snow cover since 1966 (reversing the trend of Professor Storey’s Figure 4c)
* On November 17, 2007, Buenos Aires recorded its lowest temperature in 90 years
The list goes go on and on. However, the amazing aspect of these cold events was the fact that
environmental organisations and most of the media maintained a deafening silence about the majority
of these extreme cold spells. They certainly never wondered if this was typical for global warming. It would have been a different story had there been a heat wave, like the 2003 one in Europe.
That should be the news. CNN should be alarmed every hour on the halfhour at this silence.
OwlGore should be in London - his screaming and ranting would warm up the place quickly .....
And I still ask “What ended the last ice age 25,000 years ago?” Neanderthal fires???
And he will spend $300 Mils to brainwash you. You see, global warming appears to be happening everywhere, except where you live.
I take it ALgore was vacationing in England?
... and saw that picture of him with flames coming out of his mouth .... would of been in poor taste I suppose if the flames came from somewhere else ....:)
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