People have you forgotten that in winter it doesn't become fully light until around 09:00am in the mornings, and the light starts to go around 2.30pm and here it is often pitch dark by 3.30pm in the depths of winter. Here in GB we have had three Russian style winters in a row. The winter of 2010-2011 saw temperatures in the Scottish Highlands plummet to a record breaking low of -23 C and we had three weeks of thick, deep snow which game close to paralysing the country.
I don't believe in global warming, the weather patterns we have been experiencing show the opposite:global cooling. Our summers are short, overcast and wet, and our winters have been long, severe, and bitterly cold. Here in Scotland last winter, abandoned cars littered the road, hospitals announced that all non-emergency operations were cancelled and that ambulances would only respond to emergency calls. On the news each night food shortages were reported. Pictures showed large supermarkets completely devoid of bread and milk, and there were fears that small businesses might go bankrupt because staff couldn't get to work and goods could get to shops, factories and offices. Here in Glasgow, all bus and train services were cancelled and Glasgow airport was operating on just 10% of its capacity, as no sooner where the runways cleared of snow than a very heavy snowfall dumped even more snow back on them, all this lasted for three weeks.
