Wednesday, August 16, 2006
More hot air
IT’S another miserable day, which means all the head in sand people can go on about how scientists are wrong about global warming.
Still thinking of siding with the scientists though as, while they don’t know the effect it will have on Britain, they do know that global warming is a) happening, b) is bad and c) will get worse before it gets better.
To me, it seems fairly bloody obvious that the rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has heated the earth and that will mean the melting of the ice caps – which is happening at an alarming rate. Already, coastal areas in Britian are having major problems holding back the tide, with some areas set to disappear.
At the moment, drought also seems a problem though that might change if our mild weather because of the jetstream disappears because the jetstream moves away.
Of course, knowing this seems to be doing sod all of any good because USA can’t be arsed cutting carbon emissions and if they don’t, we’re all stuffed.
Doing our own bit in Britian would be a good idea though. At last, people are waking up to the fact that recycling is not a good thing – it’s a necessity. Though it would help if councils actually made it easier to recycle.
The sooner someone invents a workable clean car, the better as well.
Sadly, nimbyism rears its ugly head everytime someone proposes a windfarm. These are basically great ideas because they produce no carbon emissions – unlike gas, coal and oil stations – are sustainable and don’t rely on exports – unlike gas, coal and oil – and don’t require their waste to be buried for thousands of years – unlike nuclear.
However, these facts are nothing compared to the horrible thought that a windfarm might be placed near where you live. For get that it doesn’t actually blot the skyline and doesn’t really produce noise, it’s just not on.
And how many times must protesters say: “It’s not that I object to windfarms in general, it’s just that it’s not appropriate to be sited here.”
Yes, very inappropriate to have it on a hill where there’s lots of wind.
Protesters should be given the alternative of a windfarm, nuclear power plant or waste disposal ground. Then watch them realise windfarms aren’t a bad idea. Cretins.
Still thinking of siding with the scientists though as, while they don’t know the effect it will have on Britain, they do know that global warming is a) happening, b) is bad and c) will get worse before it gets better.
To me, it seems fairly bloody obvious that the rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has heated the earth and that will mean the melting of the ice caps – which is happening at an alarming rate. Already, coastal areas in Britian are having major problems holding back the tide, with some areas set to disappear.
At the moment, drought also seems a problem though that might change if our mild weather because of the jetstream disappears because the jetstream moves away.
Of course, knowing this seems to be doing sod all of any good because USA can’t be arsed cutting carbon emissions and if they don’t, we’re all stuffed.
Doing our own bit in Britian would be a good idea though. At last, people are waking up to the fact that recycling is not a good thing – it’s a necessity. Though it would help if councils actually made it easier to recycle.
The sooner someone invents a workable clean car, the better as well.
Sadly, nimbyism rears its ugly head everytime someone proposes a windfarm. These are basically great ideas because they produce no carbon emissions – unlike gas, coal and oil stations – are sustainable and don’t rely on exports – unlike gas, coal and oil – and don’t require their waste to be buried for thousands of years – unlike nuclear.
However, these facts are nothing compared to the horrible thought that a windfarm might be placed near where you live. For get that it doesn’t actually blot the skyline and doesn’t really produce noise, it’s just not on.
And how many times must protesters say: “It’s not that I object to windfarms in general, it’s just that it’s not appropriate to be sited here.”
Yes, very inappropriate to have it on a hill where there’s lots of wind.
Protesters should be given the alternative of a windfarm, nuclear power plant or waste disposal ground. Then watch them realise windfarms aren’t a bad idea. Cretins.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Off on a tangent
Just been wondering about Tony Blair’s Arc of Extremism speech.
Is it me or did he have a look at George Bush’s Axis of Evil speech and just get out a thesaurus?
Either way, I think it’s pretty harsh on the mathematicians. They get a bad press already what with it being a very dull subject at school. Now they’re having graphs and circles associated with terrorism – that surely can’t help.
I wonder whether Blair passed up other neat phrases – I quite like tangent of terror, though that does sound like a Theme Park ride.
It was nice of Blair to recognise that the world would be a better place if we talked to each other, rather than trying to blow each other to bits. Shame he realised that after he took us into an illegal war with Iraq that has put the chance of World peace back a couple of decades.
What’s scary is that all the things I thought would happen if we went to war have pretty much come true. Increase in extremism, bombings in Britain, more intransigence against the West rather than an increase in democracy and absolutely nothing done about Al Qaeda because all the focus is on Iraq.
What’s even scarier is that if I thought this would happen and I would not qualify myself as an expert on world affairs or the Middle East situation, than how come no-one told Blair this would happen? Or maybe Blair didn’t heed the warnings because his head was too far up George Bush’s bottom to hear…
Was going to write about the Israeli-Lebanon crisis but, I can’t be arsed to honest. It’s like watching a younger brother squabbling with his older brother. (He started it. But there was no need to hit me with a stick. Well I’m going to keep hitting you until you stop. No you stop first. No you etc)
If everyone just grew up, stopped bothering about pride and applied some humility and common sense, then it could get sorted. Sadly, that ain’t going to happen anytime soon.
Is it me or did he have a look at George Bush’s Axis of Evil speech and just get out a thesaurus?
Either way, I think it’s pretty harsh on the mathematicians. They get a bad press already what with it being a very dull subject at school. Now they’re having graphs and circles associated with terrorism – that surely can’t help.
I wonder whether Blair passed up other neat phrases – I quite like tangent of terror, though that does sound like a Theme Park ride.
It was nice of Blair to recognise that the world would be a better place if we talked to each other, rather than trying to blow each other to bits. Shame he realised that after he took us into an illegal war with Iraq that has put the chance of World peace back a couple of decades.
What’s scary is that all the things I thought would happen if we went to war have pretty much come true. Increase in extremism, bombings in Britain, more intransigence against the West rather than an increase in democracy and absolutely nothing done about Al Qaeda because all the focus is on Iraq.
What’s even scarier is that if I thought this would happen and I would not qualify myself as an expert on world affairs or the Middle East situation, than how come no-one told Blair this would happen? Or maybe Blair didn’t heed the warnings because his head was too far up George Bush’s bottom to hear…
Was going to write about the Israeli-Lebanon crisis but, I can’t be arsed to honest. It’s like watching a younger brother squabbling with his older brother. (He started it. But there was no need to hit me with a stick. Well I’m going to keep hitting you until you stop. No you stop first. No you etc)
If everyone just grew up, stopped bothering about pride and applied some humility and common sense, then it could get sorted. Sadly, that ain’t going to happen anytime soon.
