Climate change may kill thousands in UK by 2017

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You have to just marvel at these people. The following is like saying that drug will stop many from dieing at such a young age, but this will more than likely cause a large rise in death of the elderly LMFAO!!!!!!!!!

 

LONDON (Reuters) - There is a 25 percent chance(thinking that means a 75% chance it won't happen) that a severe heat wave will strike England and kill more than 6,000 people before 2017 if no action is taken to deal with the health effects of climate change, a report said on Tuesday.

 

The report for Britain's Department of Health estimated more than 3,000 people could die in an intense summer hot spell in southeast England, with just as many more dying from heat-related deaths over the summer.

 

Until 2012, when London stages the summer Olympic Games, the odds of thousands dying in summer heat each year will be 1 in 40, the report said, and thousands more could die each year as a result of other effects of global warming and air pollution.

 

"In terms of conventional thinking about risks to health, a risk of 1 in 40 is high," the report said.

 

Tens of thousands died across Europe in a heat wave during the summer of 2003, including over 14,000 people in France, but so far people living in Britain have coped with rising temperatures.

 

Although more summer deaths are expected, fewer people will die in Britain as a result of cold winter weather, as the world warms up because of rising carbon emissions from human activity.

The report, an update of a 2002 study, was re-issued on the same day London's mayor said owners of the most polluting cars will have to pay 25 pounds ($48.77) a day to drive them in the city center in a measure to cut down on carbon emissions.

 

 

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Don't tell wisconsin about global warming LOL

 

Today's snow could break record

 

Today's predicted snowfall won 't simply be the 41st day of measurable snow accumulation this winter.

 

If, as the National Weather Service is forecasting, another 3 to 5 inches of snow falls on southern Wisconsin by the time the storm blows through Tuesday morning, it will put the winter of 2007-08 into the record books as Madison 's snowiest.

 

Or as some weary residents might call it, the most cursed.

 

Just 2.1 inches of snow is needed to tie the 1978-79 record of 76.1, and the inevitable march into the record books is expected to resume this afternoon, said Bill Borghoff, a meteorologist with the weather service 's Sullivan office. A snow advisory begins today at 3 p.m. and is slated to last until noon Tuesday.

 

"Madison will break the record, " Borghoff said, adding that Thursday and the weekend offer chances to pad the record with yet more snow.

 

While Sunday 's wind chill advisory has expired, today probably won 't offer much reprieve from the bitter cold, with a high only around 8 expected, Borghoff said.

 

"Cold temperatures will help to keep the snow a little more fluffy than we have seen recently, " Borghoff said.

 

Slippery roads Sunday -- mainly caused by Saturday 's snowfall being pushed back onto the roads by high winds -- kept law enforcement busy throughout the region, State Patrol dispatcher Jon Morrison said.

 

"It 's too cold for the salt to work, " Morrison said, noting sand is the only option when conditions get so cold.