From Gateway Pundit:
Brrr… COLDEST DECEMBER EVER Causes Record Deaths in London
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, December 18, 2010, 7:31 PM
The cold weather is causing record deaths in London this year putting a strain on mortuaries. Overall the government says that 15 percent of the deaths in London are related to the record cold this year.
(Daily Mail)
The mortuaries can’t keep up.
The London Daily News reported:
“Fatal accidents, flu and the cold weather have put mortuaries in the capital under “severe pressure” following research carried out by the London Daily News. With local authorities sharing mortuary services in London like Enfield, Barnet and Haringey to save money, mortuaries are not able to cope with the number of deaths occurring in the capital in the build up to Christmas. Overall the government claims that 15 per cent of all deaths in London are related to the cold weather, this is likely according to statisticians and health experts to increase by a further 10-15 per cent in the next months.
Funeral directors have also spoken about “record number of funerals” in the last months, with one funeral director planning to recruit more staff in the New Year to deal with the demand.
“We normally have about ten funerals a week, now its more like twenty, the reason for this growth has something to do with the weather, but it could also be down to a number of other factors like old age”, a funeral director in north London who spoke anonymously.
Europe is suffering through the coldest December on record.
The Daily Mail reported:
* Millions begin the big Christmas and New Year getaway early as the AA urged motorists to beware of the ‘worst driving conditions imaginable’
* Quarter of train services disrupted, travel warning in Kent
* Experts warn of a backlog of up to 4 million of parcels which could remain undelivered this Christmas
* The NHS issues an urgent appeal for blood donors as concerns grow over shortages
* Councils reveal plans to share grit amid fears the cold snap could last until January 14
* Odds shortened even further on a ‘White Christmas’ in some parts of the country next Saturday
Swathes of Britain skidded to a halt today as the big freeze returned – grounding flights, closing rail links and leaving traffic at a standstill.
And tonight the nation was braced for another 10in of snow and yet more sub-zero temperatures – with no let-up in the bitterly cold weather for at least a month, forecasters have warned.
The Arctic conditions are set to last through the Christmas and New Year bank holidays and beyond and as temperatures plummeted to -10c (14f) the Met Office said this December was ‘almost certain’ to become the coldest since records began in 1910.”
It’s obvious, from the picture above, that things are bad, but are made worse for English drivers who insist upon driving on the wrong side of the road. Many recent immigrants are thinking of returning to the much-missed warmer climates from which they came. “These English temperatures are intolerable for us. When we came here, we were told that there was ‘Global Warming’, and that we would not suffer so much in the winter. We have been lied to, by the leading English scientists. But, it’s not bad here in the summer.”
To rectify the obvious unfairness, members of Parliament are considering funding “Adjustment Subsidies”. They would allow monies to be made available for immigrants to temporarily relocate to warmer climates during the winter, at least until they’d become “adjusted”, and could live in England year-around.
“It’s only fair.”, insisted the member from Swansea. “They didn’t come here expecting this sort of suffering. Many of them were promised that Global Warming would, in two or three years, bring our winter temperatures to parity with those, for instance, in Somalia. No one could foresee that the freezing temperatures brought on by Global Warming would cause pain and homesickness to our immigrant partners. The freezing weather necessitates temporary relocations to warmer, native climates. The new ‘Adjustment Subsidies’ won’t be permanent. For the first ten years of residency, recent immigrants may need six months in their warmer homeland. For the second ten years, four months in warmer climates may be all that’s necessary. In the third ten years, only two months. Then, we’ll study the problem to see if they’ve been fully, and fairly, acclimatized.”
