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

[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.