The fairy tale of "Global Warming" can now join the history books along with other once popular theories such as 'the world is flat' and 'the moon is made of cheese'.
Sure, its better to take a drive with your Hummer...
Brains are full of cheese too
From 20minutes.fr, Google Translate (too lazy). You might :idea: get the whole picture :
"...Europe knew the hottest autumn since tens even of the hundreds of years. This softness puts in danger the beginning of season of the winter sports in the Alps and starts again the debate on the climatic reheating.
To the Netherlands, the weather royal Institute indicated that the autumn 2006 was hottest that the country has known for three centuries, with an average temperature of 13,5 degrees Celsius.
The institute takes again the assumption of the climatic reheating of planet, but announces also the influence of the wind of the south which blew more than usually on the country after a summer already particularly hot. In the center of Great Britain, the autumnal temperatures were never seen since the beginning in 1659 of the recording of the weather data, that is to say the oldest register in Europe.
The average temperature estimated for this year is 12,6 degrees Celsius, the preceding record with 11,8 degrees going back to 1730 and 1731. In Austria also, the autumn 2006 hottest is ever recorded with temperatures from 1,5 to 2,5 degrees higher than the average. In Germany, the recorded autumnal temperatures this year are highest since 1901, with an average of 12 degrees between September and November, is 3 to 4 degrees more than the average of the statements since the beginning of the XXème century.
France is not in remainder: this autumn beats all the records recorded since 1950. According to Patrick Galois, forecaster with Météo France, the softness which extends on all Europe is explained by the presence of an anticyclone on the Central Europe or of the East and by winds blowing of the south or west. âIt is necessary to go to Siberia or Lapland to find temperatures negativeâ, underlines it. Thus, in Moscow, it makes between 2 and 5 degrees, which is completely unusual at one period when, generally, the thermometer largely fell in lower part from zero.
Season of the winter sports compromised Météo France envisages a continuation of softness, âbut with more reasonable temperatures, about 10 degrees in the next days and with falls of snow on medium mountainsâ. There will be âperhapsâ snow with Christmas, known as the meteorologist, whereas the beginning of season of the winter sports appears compromised in the Alps. Thus, in Switzerland, where the autumn is hottest since 1864, and where it is necessary to go up to more than 2.500 meters of altitude to find temperatures negative, several winter sports resorts had to defer their date of opening for lack of snow.
Idem in the Austrian Alps, where there is no snow in lower part of 2.000 meters altitude, whereas in Vienna the rose trees are in flowers. In Germany, heat delays the entry in hibernation of the bats, and the migratory birds do not consider their departure towards the south. In Poland, in fact the heathers took again their flowering in wood around Warsaw.
In Sweden and Finland, the bears gave up beginning their hibernation, whereas the capital of Norway, Oslo, remains hopelessly private of snow. The autumn also beats records in the south of Europe, with in particular 26 degrees Celsius on the beach of Valence, in the east of Spain, and 16 degrees on November 30 in Milan in the north of Italy, of ever seen since the beginning of the XXème century. Portugal records records of heat going back to 40 years. Only Greece, where an autumnal temperature of 15 degrees Celsius is in the standard at this season, does not announce any record of heat..."
Source :
http://www.20minutes.fr/articles/2006/12/05/20061205-Environnement-Records-de-chaleur-en-Europe.php
Added, might worth a read :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita
