China. Mexico. Florida. These were just some of the places mentioned.
It is all very well for some (& Edward Miliband is the worst offender I have heard) to sneer that of course such is not inconsistent with global warming. I understand the argument they are putting, but it sits badly with the previous emphasis on vineyards on the Tay, small island countries sinking beneath a rising tide & polar bears forced into extinction. Young master Edward in particular should listen to the tape of himself & consider whether it might not, in fact, have been more politically savvy to explain without condescension to the voters who genuinely do not understand.
On a related point, Carl Mortished (one of my favourite columnists) was the only journalist I have read who explained why there was a bit of a panic about gas supplies last week - a hiccup in production at the Troll gasfield, not just the high demand because of the bad weather which everybody else implied.
He also pointed out that although we are supposed to have enough wind turbines to provide 5% of our electricity, on January 7, a freezing but windless day, the turbines provided only 1 in every thousand units of electricity that we needed to keep the blood flowing & the wheels turning.
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