When Air Conditioner sales are up in the UK and it's time for me to come over and open a "Snow Tire Store".

Hundreds Stuck

Coming from Canada, I can sympathise sort of..........not!(no fatalities) I used to shake my head and laugh whenever I would hear that Vancouver BC got an inch (couple of Cm's) of snow and the city would come to a screeching halt, because they had to find someone to drive their only snowplow.

Time was, when,.... I am sure there were hardly any snowfall in the UK, unless you lived in the mountains or Highlands, I used to live in chatham, UK and I remember (the old school uniform) going to school in the middle of winter, with shorts on, don't suppose you can do that now.

The older chaps on this site from the UK must see the difference in the seasons, I am seeing the difference here in Nova Scotia, we used to get snow in November and have it hang around until April, I can't remember the last time this happened.(over the last 30 yrs or so)

It seems our weather is becoming more and more what the weather in the UK used to be like,(temperate) just a lot of rain (easy to shovel) during the winter and spring.

So is it just me??? is it a millenium cycle sort of thing, or is the next ice age just around the corner. Or is it what a lot of people refuse to believe and that the Earth is getting it's weather patterns screwed up because of or a result of all of the pollution we are putting in the atmosphere.

That brown dot covering the most of southern asia is not the lens cap on the satellites camera, it's a cocktail of crap, and it's getting worse.

http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm...985&language=1

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/08/12.../pollute020812 stories are old, but what has happened since.?