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Democratic science

July 12th, 2011

In the comments on this site yesterday, TT suggested that I was “anti-science”.

Considering that over the past years I have consistently thrown the mockers at Global Warming and the Anti-Smoking crusades, that may appear to be true.  In fact, just the opposite is true.

In my school days, one of my favourite subjects was physics.  I later went on to study physics as part of my third level course.  So while I wouldn’t call myself a scientist, I do think I know a little bit about theories and experimentation.

The process in science is quite simple.  You formulate a theory, and you then design experiments to test that theory.  If the results of the experiment fit in with the theory then you know that you are on the right path, and if they don’t then you discard the theory.  Simple.

Modern science however takes a different path.  You formulate your theory and if the experiment doesn’t prove the theory you discard the experiment.  The reason for this is simple – modern science is driven by cash and ideology, and has nothing to do with the search for truth and enlightenment.

This distortion of science seems to have become the accepted norm.  I have seen advertisements for research where they have gone so far as to state the desired outcome in return for the funding.  If you don’t find what they want you to find then you don’t get the cash.  Is anyone going to find other than the desired outcome under these conditions?

In the case of Global Warming, so much has been invested that Global Warming has to be fact.  Industries have sprung up on its back, taxes have been imposed and a multi trillion industry has grown.  It is inconceivable that Global Warming could be false.  Is any government or academic institution going to back research that proves it is false?  The fact that many eminent scientists dispute it is hushed up, as it HAS to be true, whether it is true or false.

Similarly the Anti-smoking science has reached the status of a cult religion.  To speak out against it is heresy.  No doctor in his right mind dare claim that Environmental Tobacco Smoke is harmless despite very strong evidence that it is.  Even the World Health Organisation is ignoring its own research and is declaring the argument closed.  There is massive funding at stake here both from governments [via so called charities] and the pharmaceutical industry.

Science these days has become a democratic affair.  Whether the arguments are right or wrong, what counts is the number of people who believe those arguments.  We constantly hear such lines as “the clear consensus of opinion” and “the science is established”.  No one dare argue the cases they will be pilloried and ridiculed.

I would just ask you to consider one little fact -

Once upon a time, the Earth was flat and also was the centre of the Universe.  That was considered to be an “established fact” and to argue against either “fact” was an act of heresy.

Just ask Galileo.

A very inconvenient truth

June 15th, 2011

Oh dear!

We have a problem.

Apparently our climate could be heading for another mini ice-age.  [Thanks Ranty]

This is very bad news for the Global Warmists as it can be verified by any amateur astronomer.  Tweaking the figures isn’t going to disprove this one.

So now what?  Having convinced the sheeple that everyone is murdering the planet by breathing, farting and burning incandescent lighbulbs, are they going to have to admit they got it hopelessly wrong?

What are they going to do with all those fucking useless windmills?

How are they going to justify all those carbon taxes that we are forced to pay?

How are they going to cope with all the lights going out, now that they are shutting down all those nasty CO2 producing power stations?

How are they going to admit that their Global Warming theories are not unquestionable after all?

Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

Huston, we have a problem!

This is going to be very fucking interesting………

A green and black future

April 25th, 2011

Head Rambles Manor.  Date: 25th April 2031

You are lucky that I am able to write this as I have had no power for the last week or so.

We have been having quite a spell of reasonable weather.  We have had a few sunny days and it has been dead calm with the odd light breeze.  As a result of this, we are having one of our regular blackouts, as the wind-farms haven’t been able to generate more than a couple of megawatts.

I am reasonably warm, as the new house has been built of hay-bales which are quite good as insulation.  The neighbours didn’t fair so well last week however when their hay-house burned to the ground.  I managed to charge a few batteries during the sunny days, but they discharged again after I boiled a couple of kettles.

The one thing that is bothering me is that I am fucking starving.  There isn’t any food to be had anywhere.  I blame the Local Produce Law which they enacted a couple of years ago that states that all food shops are forbidden to sell anything that is produced more than five miles from the shop.  That’s all very well, but all the farms around here are growing nothing but rape seed and rushes for use as fuel, so the only way to obtain food is on the black market.  I could travel a bit further afield to do my shopping but the battery in the car is flat yet again.  The fucking thing only seems to last about twenty miles before it needs a recharge, and then of course there is no electricity to recharge it.

I have taken to buying those old car batteries.  It is illegal of course because there is nowhere to dispose them when they run flat.  I have a mountain of the damned things filling the garden at the moment, and am thinking of building an extension out of them, just to clear some space.

There is a rumour doing the rounds that we are to have some windy days over the coming week or two.  That would normally cheer me a bit as at least I could boil a kettle to have a cuppa, but now there is that new law that states that domestic users can only use electricity when there is none, because if there is power, then it all has to be given to industry and the like.  In the last four months, the factories have been up and running for about twenty days.  No wonder the shelves are bare.

The great irony is that the directorate in the United States of Europe have been introducing all these draconian measures for the last few years to save the planet and so far it hasn’t made the blind bit of difference to World Climate or anything else for that matter.  All they have done is to make life miserable.  Because of their complete lack of success they are talking about  introducing new laws next month that will make euthanasia compulsory for the over forties as they now reckon that it is our exhaled breath that is causing this mythical Global Warming.

I would light up and relax with a nice pipe-full of baccy but the only place left where we can smoke is in a designated one acre field to the west of Dingle.

How I wish I was back in 2011……

Let joy be unconfined

December 21st, 2010

I love this day.

For me, the Winter Solstice is the highlight of a dreary winter, as it is the day when it stops getting darker each evening.  At 11:38pm tonight, the sun will start its slow but inexorable climb back up the heavens.  Each evening I shall rejoice in the fact that days are getting longer.

Normally we would still have the worst of the winter excesses ahead of us, as January and February are usually the worst months for weather.  It is going to be interesting to see what this winter can throw at us as if it is going to get worse,then fun and games shall abound.  As I write this, Global Warming is once again falling – we have had a couple of inches of it since I got up.  Once again, records are being broken on successive nights as the temperatures fall lower and lower.  If the worst is yet to come then it shall be interesting to say the least.

Tonight I shall raise a glass to celebrate this day of days.

I doubt I’ll bother dancing naked in the garden.

Too fucking cold.

Six inches of Global Warming

December 16th, 2010

When is this fucking Global Warming going to end?

Last month we had record breaking falls of Global Warming.  I have never seen so much in November before.  Virtually every night the temperature reached record levels, with each night breaking the previous night’s record.

Now they are issuing severe weather alerts with further falls of Global Warming expected from tomorrow onwards.

And before any smart arse gets their nose in, I know the difference between climate and weather.  If we had say five inches of Global Warming and it left it at that, I would say that is weather.  However this latest batch of Global Warming is international, continent wide, unprecedented and occurring for more that just one year.  Last year was shit too, but yiz have all forgotten about that by now?

Our gubmint is going frantic at the moment buying up stocks of salt for the roads.  They were caught with their pants down before and are trying to make amends this winter. 

But why are they buying salt?

For as long as I can remember, roads were gritted with sand [or grit?] and it did a perfectly good job.  There are countless tons of the stuff lying around the country.  During the spell of Global Warming last winter, there was pandemonium as there wasn’t enough salt.  A few quarry owners stepped up to the mark and offered free sand for the roads.  Did the gubmint take them up on their offer?  Did they fuck!  They just ordered tons more salt at God knows what cost.

Salt is bad stuff.  It corrodes cars, is expensive and is also bad for any animal that walks on it.  Sand, on the other hand is readily available, cheap [or free] and doesn’t damage anyone, or anything.  The only drawback with sand is the small mess it makes after the Global Warming has thawed. Considering that most of our roads are falling asunder, I would have thought that a wee drop of sand wouldn’t make the blindest bit of difference.  So why the fuck are the gubmint using salt?  It makes no sense whatsoever, especially as we are supposed to be broke.

The longer I live, the more confused I become.

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