I thought global warming was going to make the Gulf Stream shut down and smother England under hundreds of feet of ice.

Call me a killjoy, but I rather welcome the prospect of not having to defrost my car in the mornings.

I'd love to have a couple of palm trees in my Chicago back yard.

George W Bush ruined Christmas!

I'll book my 2015 winter reservations for the sunny Cornish coast later this week.

Here's an idea:
Let's have a world wide ban on all forms of auto racing!

Brit:
Actually, this will help liberate Christmas (the religious celebration of Jesus' birth) from the secular sludge that Western culture (the Church included) dumped upon it over the centuries.

No reason Santa can't wear Bermuda shorts.

Sentimental tripe or bull---- rhetoric from the chicken littles. Beats the scheduled coming ice age. Just slip on some boxers under the Kilts.

Scotland and the red planet have the same problem.

I just purchased some farm land in the Yukon. I'll be planting wheat and barley next spring.

Farm land? Man, you'd better buy your Baffin Island beachside timeshare condo on the Canadian Riviera before they're all gone!

Isn't Bush costing his oil and gas industry buddies all this extra revenue from higher winter heating oil and natural gas bills by causing all this global warming with his evil weather machine (which as we've seen, can be used during the summer and fall months to direct hurricanes into Democratic Party strongholds in costal areas)?

John: That's why they've arranged it so that global warming also causes unusually cold weather.

I thought global warming was going to make the Gulf Stream shut down and smother England under hundreds of feet of ice.

That may yet occur, but everyone reading this blog will probably be dust by the time it happens.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at October 5, 2005 4:39 AM

I happened to live for seven years during the 80s right in the area under discussion.

During which time, except for one winter, it snowed rarely, and what little there was didn't stick around for long.

So either they are slow to pick up on the obvious, or there is nothing to be seen here.

Michael: Get some sleep, man!

Jeff:

I can't even remember the last proper white Christmas in southern England, which is where I live. About 1989? We generally get a couple of days of light snow in February or March, and that's it.

Why do they even print this stuff?

Isn't that supposed to be Winter Festival. I thought Christmas was just an historical reference in Europe.

I wouldn't know what they do in Europe, Pilgrim.

Brit,

I am curious about why you do not see England as part of Europe. What view do you take on the EU?

I was being flippant, but also I meant it. By 'England', of course, you mean the UK.

I take the same view most Britons take on the EU.

I like the idea of an EU facilitating economic migration and trade (but in fact at the moment the EU tends to restrict trade). I like the fact that the euro makes going on holiday a cinch (but heaven forbid that we ever have it).

But that's about it. There are many more things I don't like about it. Notably, I don't like the way the French and Germans insist upon the rules then happily break them (France being the only EU country fined for breaking the trade rules). I especially loathe the CAP.

But above all I don't want it to threaten national sovereignty one iota. Unfortunately, it does.

Brit,

That would be my main complaint if I were British. I don't know why I am so possessive of sovereignty but I am. I suspect it is more about tribal individualism than the threat of EUnity or something equivalent in the US. I guess states rights would be somewhat equivalent but only in a limited way. I just don't like to be told how to live by bureaucrats.

Pilgrim:

There's one overwhelming reason: if we don't like our Government's decisions, we can get rid of them at the next election.

If we don't like EU decisions, we can't.