It Continues

[poliphilo]

The pundits are scurrying around the TV studios to assure us that present conditions in no way challenge their theories of global warming. I don't believe them.
 
Yesterday temperatures in parts of Britain dropped to within a degree or two of the temperature in Antarctica.

We had to go shopping yesterday or we and the in-laws would have run out of essential supplies- which In my father-in-law's case means Muller fruit corners. The car was nestled into a sort of a bunker outside the house- and I had to dig it out. Then, when we came home at the end of the afternoon, I had to dig it back in again. The roads round town are dodgy and they haven't gritted the sidestreets since the last fall of snow. They haven't collected the rubbish either. We didn't risk driving down Dot and Eric's street. Ailz parked at the top of it and I carried their groceries the final quarter mile on foot.

I'd been warned we might find the supermarket shelves stripped back to the bare metal. This wasn't the case. Sainsbury's Oldham  had all the essentials. A cheery,  "look at us surviving the blitz" spirit was in evidence. A sales assistant we know by sight proudly told us about her walk to work. Christmas puddings were on sale at 75% off- and I treated us to what would have otherwise been a very expensive one. It gave me vivid dreams. 

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But what if the scientific analysis is dodgy- as some of us think it is? There are vested interests on both sides of the debate.

Back in the 70s the experts were confidently predicting a new ice age.

Man made climate change has become the principal dogma of a new orthodoxy- with adherents who are witch-burningly intense in their beliefs. Orthodoxies should always be probed, tickled and mocked.

A great piece about fear, witches and global warming

[tf-1.livejournal.com]

http://underdogsbiteupwards.blogspot.com/2010/01/fear-witch-for-it-is-you.html

Everyone should read this

Re: A great piece about fear, witches and global warming

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Good article.

Re: A great piece about fear, witches and global warming

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

This is excellent! I copied it out and saved it on desktop for frequent reference, and perhaps to pass on to others....

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

My personal theory is that the politicians want the UK to be more self-sufficient in fuel, which makes a lot of sense. We don't want to be reliant on countries like Russia, who could put the price up on a whim and decide to cut us off if we don't pay what they're asking.

However, it's probably not a good idea to say this publicly, so the politicians have grabbed the global warming theory and are playing it up for all it's worth so that they can urge us to be more economical with energy and also to encourage alternative sources, even if, initially, they are more expensive, which means that market forces won't shift production in that direction until it's too late.

Well, I think it's as good a theory as any of the others that are floating around the Internet. :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We certainly do have a problem- or will soon have a problem- with our energy supplies. We need to find other ways of powering our civilisation or- sooner or later- the lights will go out.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

If the scientists win this one, then we get a somewhat cleaner world, along with a - hopefully - reduced dependency on oil and thus a reduced interest in those contentious parts of the globe in wch oil abounds. We are also likely to make some useful and unexpected technological innovations along the way, as we work to increase efficiency and develop alternative energy sources.

If you and the oil companies win then what's in it for the rest of us? The smug satisfaction of putting those uppity climatoligists in their place, perhaps? It's going to make a lot hippies cry, so I suppose there's always that.

I'm sorry, but even if the science were 'dodgy' - a claim for wch there is no credible evidence - I just don't see how your rebellion makes any sense at all, even stylistically.