Europe Suffers Due to Record Cold and Snow

We’ve been paying quite a bit of attention to the fact that the weather in the US has been colder, and stormier than usual this December. There has been record cold, record early cold, record snows, and record early snows. Now, some people would say that this is just an aberration, and there are always times when the weather does something out of the norm for a certain area. However, the record cold and snow is not restricted to the US, as the BBC reports.

More than 80 people have died across Europe as days of snowstorms and sub-zero temperatures swept the continent, causing traffic chaos for millions.

At least 42 people have frozen to death in Poland over the last three days and another 27 in Ukraine.

Another 13 people died in car accidents in Austria, Finland and Germany, where temperatures fell to -33C (-27F).

Air, rail and road transport links were disrupted across northern Europe where more snow was expected in coming days.

80 dead is no joke. This is obviously some severe weather.

Eurostar said it would run a “restricted” service on Tuesday after a three-day shutdown stranded some 75,000 people.

Only passengers originally due to travel Saturday or Sunday would be eligible, and the remaining backlog would be cleared over the next few days.

The crisis prompted French President Nicolas Sarkozy to call the head of national rail carrier SNCF, the majority stakeholder in Eurostar.

Meanwhile Eurotunnel – which carries vehicles under the Channel between England and France said its terminal at Folkestone was at “saturation point” and closed its shuttle car service to new arrivals.

The “Chunnel” has been around for a while now (1994), raising the suggestion that there is something unusual about this new weather pattern, as this has never happened before.

Treacherous travel conditions also caused havoc for rail services.

Fifty people were injured when a train hit a buffer in the Croatian city of Zagreb, while 36 were injured when a passenger train derailed in Paris.

Parts of the continent saw 20in (50cm) of snow over the weekend.

In France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, airport operators struggled to clear runways amid thick snowfall, with major disruption to flight patterns.

In France, a second wave of snowstorms hit the country’s north on Sunday with Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport warning as many as one in five flights was likely to be cancelled on Monday.

Germany’s third largest airport – in Dusseldorf – was also closed because of Sunday’s heavy snow.

In Belgium, the three biggest airports – Brussels, Charleroi and Liege – were completely shut. Severe delays and cancellations were reported at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.

Moscow said it was deploying 9,000 snow ploughs to clear the city’s streets.

So, there are now two continents that are suffering with the early onset of severe winters. The long-term forecasts for the US, at least, call for a cold winter with many storms. Are people going to make the connection and finally figure out that AHW is a fiction designed to cripple capitalism and realize that the Earth is going into a cooling spell? Will they realize that the scientists really were trying to, “hide the decline?” Will the scientists, media, and governments be able to hide that decline when people can open their windows to see and feel it?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m no scientist. But there are 31,000 (including 9000 PhD’s) scientists that do say that AGW is a hoax. I know many of you probably haven’t, as the MSM and government only talk about 2300 scientists that support AGW.

© Matt Ross

Originally posted at Conservative Hideout 2.0

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