‘Global Warming’ Archives
Another month – another meeting.
First, there was the notorious G20 junket. Then we had the Copenhagen Accord. Now we have another meeting. This time, it is the The High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing, held today at 10 Downing Street, London. This meeting precedes the next meeting , which is the Cancun climate change conference later this year. Today's meeting was attended by political "big-hitters" such as Guyanan President Bharrat Jagdeo, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Ethiopian Prime [...]
Global Warning
Recently. there was a ridiculous sentence on the evening TV news and it sums up what is wrong with the reporting of Global Warming: "Thousands of people have died worldwide as a result of climate change caused by global warming and the Greenhouse Effect." More confusion between HOT WEATHER and CLIMATE CHANGE. The Greenhouse effect is not a new phenomenon. In 1824, French scientist, Forier first described the "greenhouse effect". Nearly 150 years later in 1965, a President's Advisory [...]
Global Cock-up
Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has admitted a huge "error". In 2007, the IPCC said that Himalayan Glaciers "would be gone" by 2035. There was no misunderstanding - they were quite unequivocal. Their 2007 statement shocked the scientific world because in places, Himalayan glaciers are between an eighth and quarter of a mile thick. Such a robust statement from the IPCC suggested that we were well and truly on the slippery slope to out-of-control Global Warming. [...]
Copenhagen Cash
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has flown into Denmark - presumably on her Nimbus 2000 and told the delegates at the Copenhagen climate change/cash for the G77 meeting, that her country was prepared to "work towards mobilising $100 billion a year" for developing countries. The wording of that statement is very clever. It does not say that the USA will contribute $100 billion per year. Neither does it suggest that the Americans will be contributing anything . They will work [...]
Global Warming Roots
All species expand as much as resources allow and predators, parasites, and physical conditions permit. When a species is introduced into a new habitat with abundant resources that accumulated before its arrival, the population expands rapidly until all the resources are used up.” - David Price, Energy and Human Evolution Then they die. The Copenhagen conference of Climate change has degenerated into chaos. The G77 states, led by African countries want money to "help them deal [...]
Copenhagen Crap
Is it something we said? The Africans walked out - from under the collective banner of the G77 states. The G77 developing countries, blocked the United Nations climate talks overnight by walking out of several of the key meetings in protest over the failure of wealthy nations to put firm targets on the table under the Kyoto Protocol. (In case you're wondering how many countries belong to G7 - it is 120. The original G77 was founded in 1964 by the "Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven [...]
Eco-friendly Vibrators?
"Run Rabbit....run rabbit..." The Copenhagen Conference on climate change reminds us that there are many ways in which we can help the environment. For some consumers, good environmental citizenship is important even when choosing sex accessories. No longer will the eco-conscious tolerate mass-produced plastic personal vibrators because they are made with softeners called phthalates. Some body lubricants contain toxic chemicals more typically found in antifreeze and many leather [...]
Copenhagen Cool
15,000 delegates and officials, 5,000 journalists and 98 world leaders and 1200 limos will be in Copenhagen this week for the biggest Global Warming Synod of all time. About 150 private jets will be landing and all the hotels are fully-booked. It will be so crowded that some of the jets will have to fly to Sweden to park and then return later in the week to pick up their passengers. Celebrities, film stars - even Desmond Tutu will be arriving - all want to do their bit for Global Warming - [...]
Global Warming – the last word!
It is unlikely that President Obama will be attending the Climate conference in Copenhagen. They say that it is because he has other things on his mind. The U.S economy is faltering, the dollar is about to "tank" and the unemployment rate has just crossed 10%. There could be another reason. He may be one of the few world leaders who is a heretic to Man-made Global Warming. NOT Global Warming - just the Man-made bit. Global warming is man-made. It is man-made in the same sense that [...]
Freaked Out Over SuperFreakonomics
The following article appeared in the Wall Street Journal on 27th October 2009. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author Brett Stephens. Brett writes the Journal's "Global View" column on foreign affairs, which runs every Tuesday in the U.S. and is also published in the European and Asian editions of the paper. In 2004, Brett was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, where he is also a media fellow. (more...)
Joint-up Government
Two executives at the Royal Bank of Scotland have been suspended after alleged corruption at its overseas mortgage operation. The bankers were allegedly asking foreign estate agents for payments worth tens of thousands of pounds in return for referring customers. Many of the suspected practices have taken place within the last 12 months and since the government bail-out. (more...)
Question Slime
"Mr Griffin, stop holding that comb under you nose and do please put your arm down." The British are instinctively racist - and that's in spite of enjoying what is culturally the most diverse population in the world. There has been a growing fascination with the political far-Right since Fascism's heyday of the 1930s. Even King Edward Vlll experienced a certain "frisson" when in the company of either Adolf Hitler or Oswald Mosley. Many of England's ruling classes found a certain [...]
Wednesday September 30th 2009
So the Sun will not be supporting the Labour Party. No real problems there, except the usual one. Why should an Australian like Rupert Murdoch have any say in which newspaper supports which Party. The Sun is read largely by the drooling classes who are very susceptible but regrettably, there is very little that can be done. The Sun’s sister paper , the News of the World, no doubt is poised with some salacious Labour politician scandal ready-to-go. The Sun will not just be [...]
Tuesday September 29th 2009
Interesting statistic which doesn’t appear to be receiving the publicity that it deserves: In the United States, a house is foreclosed or repossessed every 7.5 seconds. As usual, the politicians are taking care of business at the macro-level, while the grass-roots are burning. It is an excellent idea for Gordon Brown to take-on the other two Party leaders in televised debates. Any future Conservative or Liberal vote should be a “pro” Conservative or Liberal vote and not an [...]
Monday September 28th 2009
Excellent headline grabbing by that jug-eared gargoyle Andrew Marr. He is without doubt a supreme journalist but his questioning of Gordon Brown yesterday was inexcusable. Suggesting that Brown needs prescription drugs to get through the day, followed by Brown’s admission that he has trouble with his eyesight was a direction that no journalist should steer. There is a real danger that if the Tory Press goes down the ” Brown’s a sick man and therefore unfit for office” route, there [...]
Sunday September 27th 2009
Just down the road in Brighton THEY are arriving for the Labour Party Conference - or should that be the New Labour Party Conference. Did we elect Labour or NEW LABOUR? Anyway, that’s now just a technicality or a long-forgotten dream of how things could or might have been. Here’s a Labour FACT, given to me by a friend who used to be Chief Barman at the Grand Hotel. More Champagne is consumed at the Labour Party Conference than at all other conferences and he told me stories of vintage [...]
Saturday September 26th 2009
The American Fed has issued the following statement: “To provide support to mortgage lending and housing markets, and to improve overall conditions in private credit markets, the Federal Reserve will purchase a total of $1.25 trillion of agency mortgage-backed securities and up to $200 billion of agency debt.” Now we can watch the demise of the once-mighty American Dollar. Fund Managers and Investors will now start dumping dollars like confetti. A TRILLION is a million millions [...]
Friday September 25th 2009
Friday September 25th 2009 The mole who leaked the MPs’ expenses information to the Daily Telegraph has revealed what motivated him to do so - apart that is, from the £110,000 fee that he was paid. It now appears that his primary motivation was not money but the fact that serving soldiers were “moonlighting” at the House of Commons. They were working in the Security department and protecting the Civil Servants who were dealing with confidential matters - one of which was [...]
Thursday September 24th 2009
The Government has criticised the Football Association for not reforming itself. It has also asked the F.A to spend more time and resources on ethnics and women as well as telling them that they should provide better leadership. Perhaps when the F.A has completed its restructuring it can then give H.M Government a few tips. Talk about Pot-Kettle. A recent U.S survey shows that many Americans think that Tony Blair is the British Prime Minister. Someone ought to tell them who the real UK [...]
Wednesday September 23rd 2009
Apparently, there is a small but statistically significant rise in patient deaths when junior doctors start work in August. Perhaps the same survey should be done with slightly different parameters: Before pubs open and after closing time. A friend sent me a cartoon yesterday which, for the first time, explained the constant Midde East conflict . Jewish man looking up at the sky saying, “Now, let me get this straight God. The Arabs get the oil and you want us to cut the end off [...]
Tuesday September 22nd 2009
Did you see Darth Mandelson being questioned on the subject of bankers’ bonuses last night? As Business Secretary, he has the power to stop the bankers in their tracks. But he cannot and he would not answer any bonus-related questions. General Stanley McChrystal, the top US commander in Afghanistan has warned that the war there could be lost unless there is an increase in troops within a year. He is asking for an additional 30,000 troops. This is truly developing into another [...]
Monday September 21st 2009
It now appears that Womens World 800m champion Caster Semenya was tested ages ago and there has been concern over her sex for months. The issue did not suddenly materialise at the last Word Championships. The whole thing has been handed so badly that there is every likelihood of IAAF resignations. Baroness Scotland will probably resign this week. If every politician who made a mistake resigned, Westminster would be empty by now. It looks as if Megrahi is going to be the first [...]
Monday September 7th 2009-Friday September 18th 2009
Friday September 18th 2009 There has been some concern that Romell Broom may have suffered mental anguish when two Ohio State officials failed to find a vein in order to deliver a fatal injection. According to Broom’s lawyer, Broom had suffered both “mental and physical injuries” and apparently became distressed and appeared to cry. Broom was convicted of raping and then killing a 14 year-old girl. We’re too fat, we drink too much alcohol, we’re unfit, we ingest female [...]
Socialist? Moi?
The current Labour government is having a very tough time and a very bad situation is made worse by what appears to be a lack of leadership and management skill. Gordon Brown seems to feel that you can manage by changing the rules or by organising enquiries. You can imagine Brown being informed that more and more people are on the breadline and solving the problem by having an enquiry whose purpose would be to confirm that the breadline is in the right place and if not, recommending where [...]
Global Warning.
" This morning it was as big as Nigella's arse." We are currently experiencing the coldest December for 30 years. There are sectors of society which are welcoming the news - for instance, the antiques trade has always enjoyed a severe cold-snap - especially if it was linked to old dears not being able to afford to heat their homes. Really severe cold weather has always livened up antiques markets and auction houses. By late Spring there should be a very welcome glut of Clarice [...]
VAT are you saying?
Alistair the house elf This Government and the banks have a lot in common. They have both enjoyed many years of negligible economic turbulence and zero competition. The good times may have continued if either had noticed that Wall Street had invented the real weapons of mass destruction - the financial ones. The banks had sliced, chopped, diced and mixed bad mortgages and fashioned them into contaminative instruments of death with a built-in time fuse. The bankers' handiwork has [...]
Let’s burn some money!
"Joker burning money" The Prime Minister has announced a £1 billion energy package that could help households across the UK save more than £300 a year on their energy bills. Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Brown said the Government will legislate to channel £910 million from energy companies into energy-saving initiatives such as providing loft insulation and cavity wall insulation free of charge to elderly and low-income households and at a 50 percent discount to [...]
Oil be damned!!
"All species expand as much as resources allow and predators, parasites, and physical conditions permit. When a species is introduced into a new habitat with abundant resources that accumulated before its arrival, the population expands rapidly until all the resources are used up." - David Price, Energy and Human Evolution Then they die. It has been demonstrated on numerous occasions that all species suffer population collapse or species extinction if they overshoot and degrade [...]
Something is heading for the fan and it’s Brown!
Mervyn King The phrase "Boom Bust" will always be associated with the Tory years. It was the Socialists who embedded the link in our minds. That means that they need another phrase to explain the current Boom-Bust cycle. Uprecedented Growth/Credit Crunch looks good. Make no mistake, by the end of 2008, inflation will be at 10-12% per annum, house prices will have fallen even further and by the end of this year, unemployment will have reached (but not peaked at) two million and [...]
Dave the Con!
What has been electronically removed from the picture below: Some say that Cameron is like Porsches, truffles, and Ricky Gervais : overrated - but in the Land Of No Leaders the pretty one is king. We had a look at Gordon Brown's lack of leadership style so in the interests of even-handedness, fairness and all that nonsense, let's have a look at Eco Dave, the ozone-free, unleaded, bio-diversified (with the tiny carbon footprint) toff. Firstly, he is extremely likable but is he a [...]
The Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change
This declaration was made on March 4th 2008. (The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change’, March 2 - March 4, 2008 was attended by over 500 people (scientists, economists, policy makers, etc.), with over 100 speakers delivering keynote addresses, or participating in panel discussions.) The Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change ‘Global warming’ is not a global crisis We, the scientists and researchers in climate and related fields, economists, policymakers, and [...]
