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Whether the weather

Grandad February 22nd, 2010

I am getting more than a little pissed off with this weather.

We had another big snowfall over the weekend, and the grass is all white outside the window.  Again.  I never thought I would say this, but I am very tired of snow.

It’s costing a fortune too.  Luckily the neighbour is bearing the brunt of the oil usage, and I reckon I have used well in excess of  thousand litres since the start of the year.  I know this because he was complaining to me the other day how he keeps having to fill his tank.  I told him he should get a more efficient system in and pointed out that he wouldn’t have seen the oil delivery truck outside my place in ages.

One thing I am getting through at a rate of knots is seed for the birds.  I love my birds [just ask Herself or Sharon] and believe in looking after them. The little buggers are cleaning out the feeders at the rate of one a day.  I had a little accident the other day, and included some of my special seeds.  We are hearing some rather strange and startling birdsong ever since.

I have been around for a while, and I remember some pretty stiff winters.  This one beats them all however.  It has been fucking freezing here since the middle of December.  Of course the Climate Alarmists are going to have some problems with it.  It is going to make a nasty little dent in their supposedly upward trending graphs, and I have a suspicion that they are going to accidentally lose the figures for this winter.  Either that or they will have placed 100W light bulbs next to their thermometers, to ensure that their readings conform to their computer models.  Apparently that is known as a ‘trick’ in the trade.

This time last year, it was quite pleasant.  It continued to get warmer and we had quite a heatwave in May, I think it was?  There was a feeling in the air that the entire summer was going to be a scorcher, but of course it turned out to be a fucking miserable summer after all, like every other fucking miserable summer.

I’m hoping that this Godawful weather is going to lead up to a surprise heatwave that is going to last for months.  I am hoping that just for once, we are going to have a decent summer like the ones we used to have back in the 50s and 60s.

I’m not banking on it though.

Global Cooling

Grandad December 29th, 2009

Haven’t we been having lovely weather for the last couple of months?

Right through November, all we had was rain.

Now we are in The Big Freeze.

Here are just some of the news items for the last week or so:

  • 29/12/2009 Pedestrian injuries rise due to icy conditions
  • 29/12/2009 Big freeze leads to postponements in Scotland
  • 29/12/2009 Met Eireann forecasts snow for today
  • 29/12/2009 Midlands and west suffer icy roads again
  • 28/12/2009 Woman killed, 18 hurt in Wexford crash as ice grips many counties
  • 26/12/2009 Gardaí warn motorists of treacherous roads
  • 26/12/2009 Bus services cancelled around the country
  • 26/12/2009 Icy conditions continue on roads
  • 25/12/2009 Couple rescued from Dublin/Wicklow mountains
  • 25/12/2009 Rain everywhere today
  • 23/12/2009 Gardaí warn of difficult driving conditions
  • 23/12/2009 Major disruption to bus services in South West
  • 23/12/2009 Weather hits bus services
  • 23/12/2009 Drivers urged to take extreme care
  • 22/12/2009 Bus services worst hit in Limerick and Kerry
  • 22/12/2009 €750,000 raised for flood victims
  • 22/12/2009 Temperatures may drop to -6C tonight
  • 22/12/2009 Italy deploys army to help clear snow
  • 22/12/2009 Overnight freeze hits commuters
  • 22/12/2009 More travel chaos hits UK as new snow freezes over

Isn’t it strange how the Global Warming people have become very quiet of late?

Car in river

Climate Change and the dissenters

Grandad December 17th, 2009

According to popular ‘consensus’ the world is heading for its greatest tragedy in the history of mankind.

The scenario is that millions are going to die and thousands of species are going to be eradicated.  Billions of square miles of the planet are to become uninhabitable and life will be so radically changed for all of us as to be unrecognisable.  Already billions are being spent to try to reverse this.

This is surely an apocalyptic scenario?

And here is where I want an answer to a very simple question.

If I were diagnosed with a virulent cancer and the prognosis were grim and the only way to survive is to have both arms and both legs amputated what would I do?  Would I immediately book myself in for surgery or would I ask for a second opinion?  Would I be sensible if I were to go for those amputations if I heard that many eminent surgeons were saying that I don’t have cancer at all and that it is just normal aging affecting me?

If I were the leader of the world and I were presented with the evidence for climate change what would be my most sensible recourse?  Would I immediately call together all the heads of state and demand that they mend their ways to avoid the impending tragedy?  Or would I plough all my resources into research to discover the precise extent of the problem?

There is increasing evidence that not only is Global Warming a completely natural event but that in fact that the figures are all wrong and that the world has been cooling for the last ten years.  There is an increasing number of eminent scientists that claims the calculations are not only in error but that they have been deliberately falsified.

If I were World Leader I would be delighted with this news.  Here is a ray of hope.  I would immediately call a world conference of scientists, both AGW believers and AGW skeptics and would have them debate the issue.

Why on earth would I be insane enough to not only deny the skeptics’ claims but to even refuse to listen to them?

If I received a letter from a large group of scientists and professors refuting the AGW stance I would halt all discussions and have the letter thoroughly investigated.

So here is my very simple question.

Why are the skeptics being ignored?  How can there be global consensus where there is obviously a large body of dissent?

WHY IS THERE NO DEBATE?

Whether you are a believer or not, that surely must be puzzling?

Out of the mouth of babes

Grandad December 12th, 2009

You know me and my attitude to Global Warming scientists. Right? 

You know I believe absolutely everything they say. Right?

They are, after all scientists who know what they are talking about, so who am I, a mere mortal, to question them?  Right?

"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts… Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." – Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports.

Stanford Professor of Climatology?  His word must be taken as gospel.  Right?

"We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy." – Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation.

We couldn’t possibly doubt the UN?  Could we?

"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe." – emeritus professor Daniel Botkin

An emeritus professor?  He must be right?

"It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true." – Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace.

Greenpeace are on the side of the angels?  Right?

There was that terrible scare of the files that were ‘liberated’ from the CRU.  I’m delighted to see that the experts are more than willing to answer questions on this scandal.

It makes you think?

I hope so.

Tips the hat to Captain Ranty-Freeman.

Well, I’m buggered

Grandad December 9th, 2009

Well, ladies and gentlemen.  Have you all got your tubes of KY jelly, your jars of Vaseline and your boxes of Kleenex at the ready?

You had better have, for today is the day when we all get royally bum-fucked.

Today, you are not only going to be raped, but you are going to enjoy it.  Because it is, after all your ‘patriotic duty’?

Having handed the country over to the bankers and the builders for the last few years, the government have discovered that the coffers have been cleaned out, and the bankers and builders are now happily sunning themselves in various tax havens.  It is up to us as ‘patriotic citizens’ to fill the coffers again.

We all have to ‘feel the pain’.  Cowen told us so.  After all, isn’t he taking a massive pay cut down to a miserly €228,466?  The poor man.  How will he ever subsist on that paltry sum?  I must send him the address of his local St Vincent de Paul.

Knowing that he is cutting his salary to a mere fifteen times what I get, will of course make my pain that much easier to take.

I know I am going to be hammered with their fucking carbon tax.  For all of you who question why the governments are pushing the Global Warming agenda so hard, there is your answer – a fucking massive new revenue stream that we can’t complain about because ‘it’s for the good of the planet’.  I filled up on oil yesterday, and I’m filling the car today, even though I don’t need to [I’m still running on petrol I bought in Caen, in France]

So my advice is to just sit back, and enjoy the ride [as it were].

If the clergy don’t fuck us up the arse, the government will.

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