On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 17:04:53 UTC+1, Mike.Trigger wrote:

"Since 1880 the average length of summer heat waves over Western Europe
doubled and frequency of hot days almost tripled."

http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-ma...0=10&b_start=0

When they take all the trees and put them in a tree museum and people went to Granada to see Coronation Street and not the Caribbean. Whatever happened to that show?
A weird paradise and I think we all lost the plot.

Wasn't 1880 the year of living dangerously?
In Stoke on Trent there was a pottery kiln in every street. Consumption was on everybody's lips. And good old British Management ruled the waivers.
But at least the weather was getting better?
It must have seemed like a bargain!