Did the Government believe its own propaganda on global warming?
WITH all the media hype and Government propaganda over the past six months over global warming, it is somewhat surprising to many people that Britain should be experiencing the worst winter freeze for 30 years.
The Met Office has issued more severe weather warnings for the whole country this morning with temperatures remaining well below freezing.
The AA has attended 20,000 breakdowns a day this week compared to less than 9,000 on a normal day, and it says it has been so busy because of the icy conditions on the roads.
So many people have fallen over on icy pavements and broke bones that some hospitals have run out of plaster with which to set them.
The accidents on our roads and pavements have been caused because local authorities have run out of their stocks of grit and salt with which they treat public areas during freezing weather.
It’s surprising that councils should have been caught short this winter because the same thing happened last winter and no lessons seem to have been learnt from the chaos that ensued then.
Once again depots have insufficient salt reserves and the Cheshire mine that produces most of Britain’s supply is now struggling to keep pace with emergency demands and only has a few days’ supply of “surface salt” left.
Salt is mined from deep underground and that is why orders to the company have to be placed well in advance. It is very apparent that it wasn’t done this year so now the British people are paying the price.
The British National Party has made a number of Freedom of Information requests to local authorities regarding the ordering of grit and salt supplies in recent years. It has also asked whether the Government issued any guidelines as to the quantities councils should order.
“In the light of the problems we experience 12 months ago, you would have thought that this time we would have been well prepared for the current cold snap,” a BNP spokesman told the website.
“Our concern is that the Government might have believed its own propaganda about man-made global warming raising temperatures and taken a gamble that this winter wouldn’t be so cold. We need to know whether it advised councils not to stockpile grit and salt.
“Hopefully our FOI requests will shed some light on this.”
