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Global Warming is a load of Hot Air

Grandad March 10th, 2007

I watched a programme last Wednesday.

It was a documentary about Global Warming.

Yes. I know you are all sick to the teeth of the subject. I know you are all doing your bit by switching off lights and driving less and cancelling jet flights [but I bet you're not!].

This program was an eye opener.

Global Warming is not man made. It has nothing to do with carbon dioxide. It has nothing to do with industry. It is entirely natural and normal. We can do nothing about it.

Before going any further….

Watch the Documentary

It is over an hour long, but it will change your mind. Unless you have been totally brainwashed, of course.

Earth

I know this sounds politically incorrect, but we have be fed a load of bullsh*t going back to the Thatcher era. Governments, scientists and journalists are propagating the idea for their own ends.

We see the Sun as being a little white ball in the sky, 93 million miles away. Wrong. That little white ball is only the visible part of the sun. It is much much more. It is x-rays, and particles and solar wind. In fact, technically, we are inside the Sun, as it’s sphere of influence extends way beyond us. It affects every aspect of human existence. It is infinitely more powerful than anything that we can do as mere mortals.

Scientists have produced graphs that show a close relationship between ‘Global Warming’ and CO2 levels. But scientists have also produced graphs that show an exact relationship between ‘Global Warming’ and Sun activity. And what’s more the latter graphs show an exact relationship going back thousands of years.

The Earth is warming. But it has been a lot warmer in the past few thousand years. Long before there was any pollution.

The whole thing is cause by a natural variation in Sun activity, which has been going on for millions of years. And there is nothing we can do about it.

So why do the governments, the scientists and the journalists insist that there is ‘Global Warming’?

Governments like the idea, because they can use it to get the popular vote. It is politically correct. But also it is a very nice argument in favour of Nuclear Power. They can also use it as an excuse to keep the Third World from developing and becoming a threat, economically.

Scientists like it because they can get funding. If a laboratory looks for government funding for a project “examining the socio-economic effects of nose picking” they won’t get a red cent. But if a laboratory looks for government funding for a project “examining the socio-economic effects of nose picking and it’s impact on global warming” they are virtually given a blank cheque.

Journalists like it because it is popular news. They are effectively driving the whole issue. It is no longer news to say that sea level will rise by 5cm, so they start warning about levels rising by 5m. Much more newsworthy, and scary. And there is a whole new breed of eco-journalists whose job depends on our fears.

And they all produce fancy mathematical models to scare us and predict catastrophe in the near future. But those models are based on incorrect data.

There is a link to the programme here.

Take a look. It is an eye-opener

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Significant events

Grandad March 10th, 2007

This has been quite a week.

It is a week that will go down in history.

Why?

Is it because I was on television? No. Fame is ephemeral. You will all have forgotten that by today, if you haven’t already.

Is it because I have been showered with compliments for a couple of days? No. Compliments warm the heart and are very flattering, but I am a quiet modest bloke. I won’t change.

Is it because Herself left me? No. A lot of you berated me for this, but I had no hand in it. She does this from time to time. She builds up a head of steam and suddenly - bang - she’s gone. It doesn’t last for long. I put it down to hormones.

Is it because Herself came back? No. As night follows day, so she returns after one of her tissiky spells, as we call them.

Is it because I broke my favourite mug yesterday? No. That hurt, but I’m sure I can replace it. Though a mug is like a friend, and is difficult to replace. I had a hard enough time finding that one.

So what is so significant about this week?

It is the week that Herself started to blog.

I know it gave her delusions of grandeur. That is temporary. I expected it. But it has given her the bug.

For months now she has been complaining about my blog. She claimed I spent too much time at the computer. She accused me of nipping out at three in the morning to check my mail [not true - I'm only going for a pee]. She accused me of being obsessed, because every now and then, instead of throwing lumps of coal at the TV, I’m mutter “I must blog about that”. She got a bit jealous when my stuff appeared in the Irish Times, and when the TV crew came around to film. She got jealous when women started to write to me, and even more jealous when I wrote back.

“I can’t understand what this blogging thing is all about. It is silly. It is writing nonsense on the Internet for dimwits to read” she’d claim.

That has all changed now. She has seen the light. She is getting a great kick out of it.

Now she never shuts up about it. Blogging used to be a banned subject of conversation in the house. I’m thinking of re-introducing that ban.

She is much happier now as a person, as she can get things off her chest. She is amazed that people reply to her posts. She has found a whole new world. She is constantly talking about what she is going to post about next. She is excited at her new found method of expression.

But best of all, even if she tires of it [which I hope she won't - I've been on to her for months to try it], she will never nag me again about my blogging.

She understands.