On 13/07/2010 22:20, Lawrence Jenkins wrote:
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On Jul 13, 1:18 am, Joe wrote:
On 11/07/2010 22:14, Dawlish wrote:

On Jul 11, 7:37 pm, Adam wrote:
On 09/07/2010 20:59, Dawlish wrote:

Because of the heat, some in the SE will *die* tonight, who wouldn't
have done, had it been cooler;

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Here you go:

http://tinyurl.com/356qwk6

I know. It's just sad when someone just can't see that and tries to
perpetuate their agenda-ridden health and safety polemic when some
people won't have survived the night. Such selfishness and lack of
concern for others is just inexcusable.

Not really, life is all about risk. Is it worth putting out heat
warnings frightening people, when literally one or two may die? There’s
always been a risk of vulnerable people dying in excessive heat or cold.
It is common knowledge and inherent in humans that vulnerable people
should be looked after in excessive heat or cold. The population don’t
need to be told by governmental agencies how to look after vulnerable
people. It's a sense of proportion that has gone out of the window
with the NHS and UKMO. The same lack of proportion from governmental
agencies induces fear and paranoia into the UK population.

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Joe Egginton
Wolverhampton
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I think the idea about "common knowledge" is destroyed in Liz's post
Joe. Go back and read it again. The number and way that older people
died in that canicule was a national embarrassment to France and it
has changed the way that the French react to such forecast heat - and
rightly so. I'm afraid the population really does need to be told how
to look after vulnerable people and the authorities need to put these
plans into place. To do so, they need the first rate advice from the
Met Office. The heat this weekend was very well forecast and the lack
of reported problems is very probably testament to the way the health
service reacted to the excellent advice given to them.

Probably didn't last long enough to really bite hard, but eventually the
figures will come out. The Torygraph had a relatively balanced article
on the risks of the heatwave for vulnerable groups.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...-heatwave.html

Vulnerable groups also include youngsters who are more likely to get
into difficulty swimming in cold water during a heatwave too! A problem
made considerably worse by alcohol.


Paul, or shall I call you by your surname as you do me; but I digress.

Now this mini warm snap over the last week was not exceptional unlike the
heatwave that hit France in 2003 was exceptional with some parts of France
being above 40c for seven days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave The last weekend in
particular was feeble compared to what happened in 2003.

So how many died or did the meto and NHS warnings save thousands.

In 2003 the UK had about 3000 extra deaths during the heatwave. That is
not a trivial number. France has special problems in that everyone who
is fit and well leaves the cities at the same time to go to the seaside.
This includes most of the medical staff too!

No the exercise was far more about deflecting from real problems within the
NHS and a fillip for the UKMO AGW cause. Don't forget that UKMO a tax funded
organisation, have taken it upon themselves to become the high priests of
AGW praising Al Gore as a hero the man to save the world; now what would
they say about his beach home? You can huff and puff all you want on this
one as can anybody else, but the fact is that Al Gore's dire warnings of sea
level rise and his actual practice of then buying a sea front home in
untenable and should be an embarrassment to UKMO. However it seems to be
like water of a ducks back where the ideologues at UKMO are concerned, This
would never have happened twenty years ago.

Typical paranoid half-baked righttard garbage - afraid of the facts.
Parts of the UK that are usually well supplied by the Lake District now
have hose pipe bans. AGW is beginning to alter our climate summers will
be hotter still in the future and very probably drier.

Is it all an UKMO conspiracy to distress senile rabid rightwhingers?

Regards,
Martin Brown