A climate warming twofer from the UK Daily Mail

Reading The Daily Mail, I ran into these two articles concerning the current global warming political hysteria. Number one:

The REAL inconvenient truth: Zealotry over global warming could damage our Earth far more than climate change
Over the past half-century, we have become used to planetary scares. In the late Sixties, we were told of a population explosion that would lead to global starvation.

Then, a little later, we were warned the world was running out of natural resources. By the Seventies, when global temperatures began to dip, many eminent scientists warned us that we faced a new Ice Age.

But the latest scare, global warming, has engaged the political and opinion-forming classes to a greater extent than any of these.

And a bit more:

Now, I readily admit that I am not a scientist; but then neither are the vast majority of those who espouse the currently fashionable madness. Moreover, most of those scientists who speak with such certainty about global warming and climate change are not climate scientists, or Earth scientists of any kind, and thus have no special knowledge to contribute.

Those who have to make the key decisions aren't scientists either. They are politicians who, having listened to the opinions of relevant scientists and having studied the evidence, must reach the best decisions they can - just as I did when I was Energy Secretary in Margaret Thatcher's first government in the early Eighties.

A long and well thought out essay. The author, Nigel Lawson, has written a book on his thoughts: An Appeal to Reason Number two is a bit of a lighter story but it too concerns Global Warming

Wonderful pictures: The day April showers turned Britain white
It ruined many a game of golf, as the little white balls would have been rather difficult to spot.

But the snow that blanketed Britain on Sunday probably provoked the most cursing at Heathrow's Terminal 5.

They have a dozen or so photos of the current snowfall. Here are four:

england_April_snowfall_deer.jpg

england_April_snowfall_Windsor.jpg

england_April_snowfall_Leamington.jpg

england_April_snowfall_sheep.jpg

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