"Jim Green" "nospam !!!" wrote in message
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I have been a lurker here for a couple of years and I am truly
astonished about some of the participants obsession with cold spells.
The excitement and anticipation seems very strange to me, who the hell
wants a cold spell? Otherwise I can see no advantages only problems for:
drivers, homeless people, the elderly who are too afraid to turn their
heating up.

I have come up with three reasons that might explain your obsession:

1. Apart from extreme weather, hot or cold, meteorology is actually dead
boring. I mean taking temperatures and rain fall readings are actually
the metrological equivalent of train spotting. So the hankering for that
elusive cold spell keeps you all going.


Really so you think that meteorology is boring. That is only an assertion
and a subjective one at that. I think you are being very unkind.


2. You have a unhealthy desire to see people in distress: drivers,
homeless people, the elderly etc.


That is an unkind thing to say at the very least. I don't think anyone on
this ng wishes to see anyhting like that at all. We all talk about it, so do
I. When they chips are down a week or so of cold weather in winter is all
most of us would want to see, myself included. I don't wish to see my
elderly parents suffer and neither does anyone else. I like the look of snow
and a decent frost but I am not into cold weather the way I used to be. The
fact that our climate seems to be warming is a very good thing.
Why? There are many reasons for that.


1. Lower heating bills.

2. More growth in the garden.

3. Less clothes to be worn in winter.

4. Nicer summer weather and the pleasant feeling of warm spells which make
us all feel much better.

5. The ability to be able to wear T shirts and shorts more often.

6. Lower laundry bills beacause we need to wear less clothes.

7. Warming, I just love it. It is much nicer for the human system. I used
to live in a hot climate.



3. A cold winter, like the ones long ago, would allow you to push your
heads even further into the sand with regards to Global Warming. This
probably applies more to the older user of this newsgroup, it stands to
reason that as you have been around longer you have done more damage to
the planet than the younger participants. Try pulling your head out of
the sand, it may lead to tears and a few sleepless nights but the sooner
you face facts the better.



Get real about this global warming rubbish and pull yourself together.
Firstly you berate us all for wanting colder weather and then you criticise
us for so called burying our heads in the hand about global warming. I take
it then you like cold weather. Of course you don't. Well just shut about
about global warming. I don't care much for the global warming argument at
the best of times, but to see it used in a nasty argument like this based on
irrational assertions is just too much.
How and why you came onto this ng I just don't know. We are all used to
reasonable arguments on here. You don't seem to be.