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Global Warming ??????

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Frederick

Frederick Report 27 Aug 2010 17:42

I bet nobody mentioned global warming 99 years ago.

Saturday, 26th August. 1911.
London;; Reported that Two thousand five hundred children have died in the recent heatwave.

Monday. 28th August. 1911.
The recent record-breaking heatwave with temperaturesof up to 97 degrees has set Britain's death rate soaring. With a mortality rate for all ages of 19 per 1,000, London is now the second most unhealthy city in the world.
It is children who are most at risk. During the last week of July, 382 children upto the age of two died in the city. In the week just ended, the figure rocketed to 855.
Questions are now being asked as to whether the authorities have done all they could to counter the distressing loss of life.


Could be an answer to families and members of families being on the 1911 Census then disappearing from the records after.


F.

suzian

suzian Report 27 Aug 2010 22:38

The hole in the ozone layer appears to have gone out of fashion too!

Sue x

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 28 Aug 2010 00:34

Then there's the 'reverse' causal reaction of global warming - ie colder winters.
(from wikipedia)
During the Great Frost of 1683–84, the worst frost recorded in England, the Thames was completely frozen for two months, with the ice reaching a thickness of 11 inches (28 cm) in London. Solid ice was reported extending for miles off the coasts of the southern North Sea (England, France and the Low Countries), causing severe problems for shipping and preventing the use of many harbours. Near Manchester, the ground was frozen to 27 inches; in Somerset, to more than four feet.

The Thames also froze in:
1695, 1709, 1716, 1740, (1768), 1776, (1785), 1788, 1795, and 1814.
Yet were the populace informed that this was an 'Ice' age and it was their fault?

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)

suzian

suzian Report 28 Aug 2010 01:07

Hi Maggie

I very much doubt that when the Thames froze in any of the years you mentioned that ye olde populace spake onto each other thus:

"gadzooks, papa"" (for in such a way did they spake) "shiver my timbers, a reverse causal reaction is upon us"

"be stille, my childers - worry yourselves not with such ungodly stuff"

"but papa, this is seriously interfering with my research"

"Ye olde ilfe's a bugger, my son - keep skating"

Sue x