[Dave Connolly]

Hi Guys,
           Once again I'm listening to the wind blowing a gale outside.Been doing this job on and off since I was 16 and have never known it to be so bad for so long.My fathers been in the game for almost 28 years (60 and still climbing ladders...hes nuts!) he also reckons hes never seen anything like it in all his time.
        Just wondered what you all thought about the climate changes and if you worry bout how it may affect our work in the future,have to admit its got pondering a bit.
 
Cheers.

[Pj]

yes

[Adam Boss]

yes also,

20 years cleaning and never known winters as mild or as wet as this year.
Need cold and frosty weather to get back to normal.

Regards

[Pj]

I have cleaned windows in a blizzard this same week in past years, in temps -3 + more than once!

But I couldn't clean for 2 days this week!

70mph gusts and mad sudden downpours.  Something is definitely wrong

[Dave Connolly]

Need cold and frosty weather to get back to normal.


Exactly,this is the time of year I used to love working in the most.Cold and crisp....you seem to work harder and faster in typical winter conditons but not these.

[Pat Purcell]

I ve ben in Boston 20 years this is the firsty winter i remember with no snow in december or so far in January

[matt]

forecast is for cold and frosty next week, so you may be in luck

[gaza]

IM GOING TO LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO BE A NUISENCE TO MY KIDS ,
and when  Im dead will I be bothered what our generation put on them ? no

 gaza Ithink this global warming is the devil burniing all the siinners of the  world

 gaza

[Easyclean Windows]

Global warming................has man made this happen? who made the ice age happen........exactly the world is changing it allways will but politicians need to blame mankind to be able to extract more taxes from them to fill their coffers simple as

[telboy]

Easyclean you got it right

[russ_clark]

spot on easyclean

[eddie d]

we"re not helping though.

[Moderator David@stives]

Your all going soft, I live in the southwest tip of England ad i am used to this weather every year.

So far I have not missed one day to the weather in fact there has only been 2 days where i failed to earn over £100 and one of those days were down to laziness.

What inspired me to work was watching OCS cleaning a big job i lost to them in real wild and wet weather. They didnt seem to mind they may lose the job through it.

So i thought if they can do it so can I.

You wont get rich sat at home gazing out of the window.

Dave

[KarlJones]

Here in the midlands, never thought I would see a year like this.  No snow, this is the first time I can remember the snow taking this long to arrive.

Worried?

Well, we are on this rock, hurtling through space, which happens to be full of other big rocks and a few hot things floating about in it too.

We spin at about 1 mile a second, we cirlcle the sun at about 20 miles a second, and the sun itself is shooting around the milky way at about 150 miles a second, the milky way is moving around the other galaxies at around 185 miles per second.

In total, we are moving about at about 350 miles per second on a good day Sitting on the back of a rock (thats about 21,000 MPH) .

I am not supprised the weather changes a bit when your travelling about like that.

[windows_chepstow]

Expect dodgier weather than usual this year, since it's an El Nino year; I think they come round every four years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o

[chrismroberts]

Humans are very, very small, and this planet is a lot bigger and tougher than we know.  Its been around for billions of years,  but we've only started keeping records of the weather in the past few hundred years. 

Mankind knows absolutely nothing about the forces in the atmosphere around us.  The climate is changing, of course it is, but its always been changing.  I agree with Easyclean, its just scare mongering... and another way for the government to rip us off! :S

[Moderator David@stives]

Did anyone see the programme about the damage a volcano did all over europe which happened about 220 years ago.

apparantly it turned the sun red for weeks and polluted the atmosphere and the ground with sulphor dioxide, It even killed sheep which grazed on grass which was affected a year later.

The worst bit was when the gas hit the moisture in your lungs it turned to acid and gave you a slow unpleasant death.

[chrismroberts]

Yeh I saw that, interesting wasn't it? Seems strange that it killed so many Brits and had such a big effect on the country, but its almost forgotten.

[david-maunder]

the poles could  switch positions , does it matter to the planet .

no..... 99 % of the life on this planet, has already been and gone...

why should humans be any different.. :

[mogy]

Im more  worried how much the  goverment will tax us ,on related things  in the pretence it will do anything  posative .........I rather think it will just fill their  coffers.
 Mogy