Comments by "Acid Joke" (@PWMoze) on "Europe's Cold Winter Threatens Energy Supplies || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. In the UK with weather forecasts are predicting rain (of course) and wind (as usual), not snow (so no white Xmas). The only weather crisis we are facing seems to stem from continual regional flooding. Meanwhile government subsidies linked to energy prices are being withdrawn, so the cost of living crisis continues, despite inflation coming down slightly.
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  2.  @Art-is-craft  You may well be right. I was just pointing out that, in this case, the UK does not fit the picture Peter is painting. I know he is talking in very general terms and I am being very specific but I enjoy gently pushing back against the narrative because I think it adds detail to the discussion. The UK enjoys slightly different weather patterns to mainland Europe because we get the benefit of the jet stream, which warms our coastal waters and raises our average temperatures. Our problem is continued unseasonably high levels of rainfall. The subsequent flooding of people's houses, town centres and agricultural land, the sewage spills and polluted coastal waters, infrastructural damage and interruption to local and national services effects people's lives in the UK much more than dropping temperatures.
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  3.  @Art-is-craft  Politically no, geographically yes. You are being silly.
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  4.  @NimbleBard48  Of course, and your observations are useful and interesting. I know about Polish winters, I visited Krakow and Zakopane for New Year in the nineties. It was COOOOOLD! We do not get conditions like that in the UK, we just have floods with pollution funning into rivers caused by overflowing sewers. So we won't be having a white Xmas, we will be having a shite Xmas.
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  5.  @allanchapman7986  Nigel Farage would love that!
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  6.  @NimbleBard48  Watched the video and the guy says the effects of the polar vortex collapse are unexpected but usually short lived. Doesn't really fit what PZ is discussing. Plus the guy is an engineer, not a climatologist or a meteorologist. Interesting though. Thanks for the link.
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