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| 2006-10-27 |
| From the BBC, which never misses an opportunity to peddle alarmist claptrap. More than 23,000 elderly people died as a result of being too cold last winter in England and Wales. The year before the toll was 29,000, which is nearly 10 people aged 65 or older every hour. Yet temperatures only dropped to 4C on average. "But if you wait for a bus and you assume a bus is going to come in five minutes and it doesn't come for 45 minutes, and you are at a windy stop with no shelter and without adequate clothing you can get very cold indeed. "Public transport is a menace from this point of view. It doesn't have to be, but we tend not to have very well heated waiting rooms for trains and bus shelters that are not wind-proofed. That is probably a substantial source of problems," he said. Professor Keatinge also warned that global warming could make the situation worse rather than better. "Global warming is making our winters milder and that could be dangerous. If people stop worrying about cold they get more careless about heating their homes and wearing warm clothing." Apart from this idiocy, it's quite an interesting article. GRTWT |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #3 But if you wait for a bus and you assume a bus is going to come in five minutes and it doesn't come for 45 minutes, and you are at a windy stop with no shelter and without adequate clothing you can get very cold indeed. Solution - let's put Mussolini in charge; at least he made the trains run on time... |
| Posted by: Raj 2006-10-27 18:41 |
| #2 womens and chilluns to suffer most. Old people will have no "I walked uphill in snow, both ways, to school" stories to tell! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-27 18:38 |
| #1 Lol - great catch, phil_b! |
| Posted by: .com 2006-10-27 18:27 |