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Ponce
17th June 2011, 09:15 AM
I like this one.......The Transport Ministry is encouraging people who have brought hybrid vehicles to switch to petrol- and diesel-driven cars........we have to heat up the planet.
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The Ice Age is coming... don't panic!

By Richard Littlejohn

Last updated at 10:50 AM on 17th June 2011

At last, some good news for polar bears. The world is about to enter a mini Ice Age. Scientists working for the American Astronomical Society are predicting a significant drop in solar activity over the next decade.
Last time this happened, between 1645 and 1715, global temperatures plummeted and the River Thames froze over every winter.

While climate change alarmists insist we are heading for meltdown, the truth is that the world has actually been getting cooler in recent years.
Chilly: We can expect to see more of this weather, experts predict
Although the findings from the National Solar Observatory in New Mexico are bad news for the global warming industry, they are not necessarily good news for the rest of us. Politicians are bound to exploit the new evidence for their own purposes . . .
Britain will lead the world in tackling global cooling, the Prime Minister announced today. Unless we act now, he warned, the planet could soon freeze over.
He was speaking after the emergency United Nations climate change summit at the exclusive Cool Runnings ski resort in Jamaica. A new Global Cooling Bill will be brought before the next session of Parliament, aimed at increasing carbon emissions by 60 per cent.
The Energy Secretary has given the green light to a modern generation of peat-fired power stations and ordered an increase in drilling for North Sea Oil. Fossil fuels are believed to hold the key to reversing the drop in temperatures.
Alternative energy companies will be given billions of pounds in grants to dismantle wind turbines. These will be smelted down and converted into giant mirrors designed to reflect the sun’s rays in an attempt to reopen the hole in the ozone layer.
Thousands of these mirrors will be erected in areas of outstanding natural beauty all over Britain.
Landfill sites will be converted into vast open-air incinerators, operating around the clock in an attempt to maximise carbon output. Town Halls are to introduce twice-daily dustbin collections to provide the raw materials to keep the home fires burning, although this is expected to lead to a 300 per cent increase in council tax.
Households which fail to produce sufficient combustible material will face heavy fines. Anyone using more than one dustbin will go to prison for five years.
Those people who have installed solar panels, double glazing and loft insulation will have to pay higher taxes. This is necessary to recoup all the money spent in the past subsidising the installation of solar panels, double glazing and loft insulation.
It is hoped that by 2025, every home in Britain will be heated by a wood-burning stove.

The Transport Ministry is encouraging people who have brought hybrid vehicles to switch to petrol- and diesel-driven cars. Road tax on electric cars will rise to £5,000 a year.
London’s congestion charge zone will be scrapped, except for bicycles and low-emission vehicles.
Cyclists and drivers of the Toyota Pious will be charged £100 a day to enter the capital. The Mayor said the money raised will go towards a new fleet of motorcycles, powered by two-stroke engines, which will replace the current Boris Bikes.

The Prime Minister praised Lord Prescott, the EU’s special rapporteur on climate change, for setting an example. If we all drove two Jags, global cooling would be reversed within weeks.
The forthcoming high-speed rail link through the Chilterns will coincide with the reintroduction of steam trains throughout the country.

Aslef leaders welcomed the decision and immediately announced plans for a nationwide strike ballot in support of demands for a 30 per cent pay rise, the reintroduction of footplatemen and an end to flexible rostering.
Defence industry sources said Britain’s two new aircraft carriers, due in 2020, will be powered by coal.
A major expansion of air travel is also planned, with a sixth terminal being built at Heathrow at a cost of £100 billion. This will be funded by a new air passenger tax designed to replace the old air passenger tax.
The smoking ban introduced by the last government is to be scrapped. Cigarettes have been shown to make a significant contribution to greenhouse gases. Ministers believe the threat of a new Ice Age far outweighs any minor concerns about public health.

Local councils have already begun to place adverts in the Guardian for a new army of global cooling advisers on salaries of up to £100,000 a year, plus a gas-guzzling car of their choice.

The Prime Minister has been deeply influenced by Senator Al Gore’s latest film, Ice Station Zebra, about the perils of global cooling. One memorable scene features a lonely zebra shivering to death in Tanzania.
This film will be shown to every schoolchild in Britain over the coming weeks.
If the drop in temperatures continues, there are fears that dangerous species once thought to be extinct could soon reappear.
The spectre of mastedons, woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers wandering the streets of Tunbridge Wells in search of prey is very real, the Prime Minister warned.
He was asked why Britain was rushing ahead in setting tough new targets for increasing carbon emissions, at a time when China was going nuclear and closing coal-fired power stations at the rate of one a day.
The Prime Minister said the future of the planet was at stake. We owe it to our children not to repeat the mistakes of the past.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2004463/Cooler-Earth-The-Ice-Age-coming--dont-panic.html#ixzz1PaNH45eT

Horn
17th June 2011, 09:42 AM
Next stop Ice Station Zebra


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du7ls7v2uYQ

Ponce
17th June 2011, 11:48 AM
In the UK they have been already were told to expect a mini ice age like in the 1600 to the 1700's......for one thing I haven't really have had a "summer day" here in Oregon and the days are always cool......I already made plans for this winter and my sun heat box was already updated and ready to go, last year my kerosine use was at a minimal and I can use less if I have to..... the time to take action and to plan is to do it ahead and not when is happening...............my last resort in preservation is a tent in the middle of my living room heated with a candle and with the food that I will be using for the next three days around me so that they wont freese, everyday I will bring in new food to defrost as I use the ones inside......inside I will also have my monitors, working with solar power, that will also keep the place warm and my lap top.....of course :)

What scares others I only see as a challenge to overcome and a new adventure....."When you plan ahead you won't be scared of what's ahead"... Ponce

PS: Of course my cat will also be inside with me.....my dog will still be outside in a enclosed insulated box that I will build and a heated pad.

Horn
17th June 2011, 01:04 PM
All's you need is a couple bottles of blackberry brandy, a bear rug, and a young woman?

When the jets move south...


How The Sun Could Control Earth’s Temperature


Stephen Wilde writes: The Holy Grail of climatology has always been to ascertain whether, and if so how, the sun might affect the Earth’s energy budget to cause the climate swings observed throughout history despite the apparent inadequacy of the tiny variations in Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) that occur from one series of solar cycles to another.

I think that there is a plausible mechanism whereby those tiny solar changes could be amplified enough by natural features of the Earth’s climate system to achieve the observed outcome. This article also shows how the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) has failed to account for the various real world observations that have been accumulating since the late 1990s. The ideas set out in this article provide a potential solution and progress my earlier New Climate Model found here (http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=6482) by focusing on the effect of solar variability.

http://www.irishweatheronline.com/features-2/wilde-weather/the-sun-could-control-earths-temperature/290.html