After a few weeks of understanding the shape of things to come, it is fairly obvious that periods of heightened volcanic eruption follows the behaviour of tropical storms closely.
No Nobby Prizes for the work. You have to have theories that fit in with what everyone else is saying for to get them. And for money you need a government wind-up.
I have just watched a video called “The great global warming swindle“. It’s makers seem to think it was just an idea by a lone philosopher following the time when all the climate bods in the backroom had been talking about a new ice-age.
In the early 1960’s Britain had been ravaged by severe winters and the unions in charge of coal mining workers were causing political mayhem every winter ever since. In the mid 1970’s Margaret Thatcher came to power following a dirty tricks campaign sponsored by the US under the generous auspices of Richard Nixon.
By this time the miners had got themselves a union boss who was capable of making the government pay them for lung diseases and Margaret Thatcher saw the opportunity of killing two birds with one stone. All she needed was a little manipulation.
Once rumour has it that she put money on the table for universities to do climate research. And that ladies and gentlemen is why nearly all the argument for global warming comes from the one weather station in the world supporting the theory.
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The very idea of basing anything to do with weather on the output of one station should be immediately and obviously daft to all of you my dear readers. But you are too stupid to have thought about it until now. And that is how rumours and politics work.
This site is extraordinary lumpy. I am using Linux with KDE and I’ll bet they are using Windows Server with lots and lots of Javascript.
OK. You may remember Bob Gedolf and Band Aid?
He set up a pop music charity that Thatcher’s government refused to recognise as a charity. (Refused to free the proceeds from taxation.)
She also refused to release some butter from the butter mountains that were a major part of the British News in those days, Edward Heath having taken us all in to the Common Market fiasco.
She famously never spoke a straight sentence or answered a direct question in her regime. It imploded eventually as do all unpopular governments everywhere unless shored up by even more unscrupulous agencies. But she was confronted by the rather naive pop star about the medical properties of butter for starving people.
The situation in Ethiopia continued until the weather finally changed. Hey; why don’t we blame her inactivity on the piracy menace in that part of the Indian Ocean?
Bob Geldof became disillusioned with national governments everywhere, not having realised that sending money to Ethiopia was like sending petrol to a house on fire. You can read his memoirs about it on his web page:
http://www.bobgeldof.com/
Never mind all that, this site wants me to spell realised with a z.
I think I have had enough of this. How about you?
I hate meddling automatic spellcheckers.
As for Geldof & co, I remember perfectly well the [i]Band Aid[/i] megahit – and I think people should be willing to donate their [b]after tax[/b] money to causes they find worthy. It is not as if the participants in the concert / on the record lost any money. They all seem to have come out on the winning side, free advertising and all.
My take at the time was that we ought to start a “snuff aid” instead – collecting money for a contract on Mengistu. The situation in Ethiopia was not going to improve with him around, especially since starvation among his political adversaries was seen by his government as beneficial.
So – political change is more likely than weather change to have been behind any improvement. Improved data collection and analysis have shown that the “desertification” the media were running over with was bogus, and the disaster area has moved to wherever the military/political conflicts are raging at any time.
Why the hell my profile has to appear below my initial post is beyond my understanding.
As for spell-checkers; I can’t do without them. I am not a trained typist thus never look at the screen until too late.
Communism seems to have had the same impact on all the citizens of every country it is allowed to roam free on:
mass satarvation from political control at a distance and of course the corruption endemic in all political systems.
The trouble with dictatorships is that you can’t do anything about them short of violence.
Mengistu (From Wikipedia)
Haile Mariam Mengistu born 27 May 1937) is an Ethiopian politician who was the most prominent officer of the Derg, the Communist military junta that governed Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987, and the President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1987 to 1991.
I don’t think the Johnson option of killing everyone in the country (like what he started in VietNam) was a very good idea. It’s odd to think that at home he started out as one of the most radical socialists their country had produced in the White House.
Too bad it turned into a ****-storm.
Too bad he made Richard Nixon look like a positive change for the better.
Too bad they will never get it right now, not after George the thickest.