The Big-Freeze: Thousands trapped in Europe as death toll rises to 600 ( The Globe is warming?)

JoNova ^ | February 15th, 2012 | Joanne

[PapaBear3625]

I have to wonder why it is that every time there is a cold spell or a hot spell in Europe, hundreds of people die. When we have hot or cold spells in the U.S., there may a couple deaths here or there, but nothing like the death tolls in Europe.

A few hundred deaths is not a big deal in a place with several hundred million people. It might just be that the reason we don't hear anything similar here is that we don't have nationwide reporting. A few homeless dead of cold in NYC, a few more in Detroit, I could see it adding up to a couple hundred nationwide.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

That carbon tax seems to be working.

[Rummyfan]

In my four years in Sicily this has been the coldest winter of them all. And we aren’t getting anything near as bad as Northern Europe.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx for the ping Ernest_at_the_Beach !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Hoffer Rand]

A lot of houses in Europe do not have central air and heat, because the climate is usually more moderate and doesn’t vary so drastically in termperature. That makes it more difficult to control internal temps during periods when the external temps do spike drastically in either direction.

[Marine_Uncle]

Dr. Gore, Dr. Gore, where are you. We need you. :)

[Little Bill]

I normally have four to six feet of snow in my yard, here in NH. Right now, I have 4 inches of ice, damnedest thing. I bought enough wood to withstand what I though was going to be a hellatious winter, with propane at $4.09 a gallon. I got the $4.09 right.

[hinckley buzzard]

The jet-stream explanation is correct, being pushed around by oscillations in the Pacific Ocean. This stuff here, and in Europe, is weather-- not climate. The two should not be discussed as if they were one, either by us or by warmist hysterics, who admittedly are far more likely than we to be the perpetrators of misleading junk science.

Enjoy the temperate weather in the US--next year we could just as easily be getting what Europe is getting now.

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[GreyFriar]

Thanks for the ping. And Germany has closed down coal plants due to “CO2 global warming pollution” and nuke powerplants for fear of earth quakes and tsunami’s damaging the plants in Germany like happened in Japan. And is now having a shortage of electricity to heat people’s homes. AND PEOPLE ARE DYING — LITERALLY FREEZING TO DEATH.

[metmom]

Meanwhile...BARE GROUND in central and southern New Hampshire, with temps in the low 40’a on Valentine’s Day! I absolutely love it!

Well, someone has to take a hit for the team.....

I was wondering who was getting the nasty stuff because when it's abnormally warm in one place, it's going to be abnormally cold somewhere else. It's just the way the jet stream works.

The long range forecast from Accuweather for NYS is above average, like in the lower 40's.

Two more weeks and February is over, then at the most, we have the potential for 2-3 weeks of crappy weather at the beginning of March and basically, we're done.

Looks like we dodged the bullet this winter.

[metmom]

Looks like your average winter on the Tug Hill in NY, right off the east end of Lake Ontario.

Adam’s Center is THE snowiest spot in the country. It regularly gets lake effect snow with rates of 5 inches per hour, for hours on end.

[denydenydeny]

“The lack of readiness should come as no surprise because for decades the sensationalist message of global warming has dominated the public area,”

Global Warming = the Hindenburg of public policy.

[SunkenCiv]

I don’t like winter, but I haven’t known how to act this year, the mildest winter in memory. Of course, last week we experienced some of the worst driving I’ve ever had the displeasure of...

Thanks Ernest!

[okie01]

It was 1961. I was driving through Marquette, Michigan on July 4.

And ran into a sleet storm...

[caww]

I grew up in the High North of Bradford Country Pa. Almost on the N.Y. state border. Ski-Doo Country! Had a log cabin on the mountain and let me tell you we saw some snow!!!! We use to go up for a week-end there and more than once get snowed in.

This winter here in Western Pa. has been the mildest I’ve seen in awhile.....it’s like winter past us by!

[justa-hairyape]

Was that a storm coming off Lake Superior ?

[wolfcreek]

Anyone wondering how an ice age starts?

[palmer]

Now if 600 had died from a heat wave we'd all know that an oil pipeline was to blame.

Far more than 600 have died. The winter death rate for Europe and similar climates is much higher than the summer death rate. When people die in a heat wave they are also in the 100's from heat stroke, etc. But the heat waves are always presented in the biased media as "excess" deaths over the summer baseline. That's so they can say there were 1000's of deaths. But the summer baseline is low, and the excess is always lower than the normal winter deaths (never mind an extreme winter).

[palmer]

Anyone wondering how an ice age starts?

It's a good point. There are 100 or more feet of snow in parts of Alaska that won't melt this summer. It may be that there will be some glacier growth in Europe, although I'm not as sure about that.