Britain under snow

[tudorsailor]

Here's a nice satellite image of Britain gripped by arctic conditions

So much for global warming!

Tudorsailor

 

[reginaldon]

Long time since we have experienced such an overall snow covering - this Global Warming is quite something - roll on the Ice Age!

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Here's a nice satellite image of Britain gripped by arctic conditions

So much for global warming!

Tudorsailor

One possible result of global warming would be for the UK to be glaciated, as are many other parts of the world at this sort of latitude. Global warming could cause changes in ocean circulation that would stop the nice warming effect of the North Atlantic Drift that we benefit from now. If you look round the world, you will see that western Europe generally and the UK in particular are MUCH warmer than most places at equivalent latitudes, which are only marginally inhabitable.

The effects of global warming are not necessarily the same everywhere.

 

[jpcarter30]

Come on chaps, surely you realise that climate change is monitored over a number of years not a week-end in snowy Britain.
Spectacular photography it has to be said though it still isn't as cold as when I used to go to school in shorts in the late 60s. Most definitely heated up as any gardener will tell you.

 

[VicS]

it still isn't as cold as when I used to go to school in shorts in the late 60s

Positively tropical by the late 1960s. You should have tried it in the late 1940s and the 1950s

 

[Moodyjim]

That's only because you don't wear shorts in winter anymore. Everybody knows that the greatest body-heat loss is through the knees.

 

[reginaldon]

Come on chaps, surely you realise that climate change is monitored over a number of years not a week-end in snowy Britain.
Spectacular photography it has to be said though it still isn't as cold as when I used to go to school in shorts in the late 60s. Most definitely heated up as any gardener will tell you.

Think you'll find it was - Exeter -18 C earlier this week. In my memory, '30s onwards, only '47 & '63 in that league, so far '47 tops it. with villages cut off for weeks in Derbyshire - I was working in the Peak District in that year, there were still drifts remaining in June.