Around 2,000 passengers were trapped in the Channel Tunnel overnight as four Eurostar trains broke down amid freezing temperatures that have brought travel chaos to Britain.
Is this too much of it ot not enough?
Climate change, eh?
December 19th, 2009 · 12 Comments
Tags: climate change
12 responses so far ↓
1 Matthew // Dec 19, 2009 at 10:17 am
Similarly, I got a tax rebate the other day and yet people go on about the government raising taxes too much!
2 Anna Raccoon // Dec 19, 2009 at 10:40 am
Global warming?
It’s snowing in the Dordogne this morning – we never get snow…..
3 Studlea Phatt Katt // Dec 19, 2009 at 11:45 am
What a shame the UK delegates to the Copenhagen Conference were not on the train.
4 Brian, follower of Deornoth // Dec 19, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Aha! It’s getting cold. Quick: change from Global Warming to Climate Change!
Oddly I find it starts getting cold around now most years, but then I’m a nasty denialist; what would I know about it?
5 Surfers Gold Coast // Dec 19, 2009 at 12:14 pm
You know.. I have given this some thought. IF they where serous about this, instead of CAP and TRADE, it would JUST BE CAP!!! sorry about the caps… Anyways, Merry Christmas!
6 Pogo // Dec 19, 2009 at 12:58 pm
@Anna Raccoon: It’s snowing in the Dordogne…
That’s nothing. I just had an email from my neice who lives in Dubai, and it was hailing yesterday!!!
7 Georges // Dec 19, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Is this too much of it ot not enough?
As anyone seeking funding in regards to ‘climate change’ would tell you, the answer is an emphatic, “BOTH!”
8 Monty // Dec 19, 2009 at 7:39 pm
It’s just a weather system from Arctic Siberia. We usually get this once every winter. Nasty, nippy, bit generally short lived.
The Eurostar breakdown though, is worrying. The systems ought to be robust enough to withstand this easily. And the response to the situation of those passengers was wholly inadequate.
9 Tim Almond // Dec 19, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Can someone explain why a train suddenly going from cold to hot weather would break down, especially as these are electric?
Tim adds: My guess is (and it’s very much a guess) about humidity rather than temperature directly.
10 The Pedant-General // Dec 19, 2009 at 11:06 pm
“Tim adds: My guess is (and it’s very much a guess) about humidity rather than temperature directly.”
Well both as I understand it.
Train v cold indeed having been through northern France at ~200mph in properly subzero conditions suddenly launches into tunnel with high humidity at 25C. Massive condensation apparently.
Still a bit odd though…
11 diogenes1960 // Dec 19, 2009 at 11:08 pm
but who killed The MEP…
12 diogenes1960 // Dec 19, 2009 at 11:10 pm
during the 90s I remember snow in one year in hemel.
Since 2003, it has snowed in 3 years.
The world must be getting warmer.
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