Climax

Now the term war on climate change has finally been coined can any more of you see that it is just an arrogant fantasy. No, it's still just me isn't it?

"The War on climate change" or "you're all arses" for short is simply a way for Gordon Brown and the tax fiends to bugger the fuck out of the earning man by stealing all his hard earned.

Every response to global warming / environmental terror/ shock horror quake I have heard so far is a tax on us or a barrier to freedom of movement. Petrol Taxes, taxes on rubbish, plastic bag taxes (Eire), taxes on flying, taxes on bigger cars, taxes on road use, taxes on industry, taxes on whatever, is that all we can do? If it really is so scary then taxing everything is a waste of time, we'll all be under water/dehydrated or frozen to death in a matter of months, taxing is another way of simply rationing life's pleasures for the rich while Rome burns (to mix a few metaphors).

When the scientists couldn't convince us that global warming was a result of burning said misappropriated oil, good old Gordon gets an economist to convince us. Sterns' report is about as scientific as a Doctor Who plot.

The correlation between rising CO2 levels and the earths temperature does not fit and because it is only based on our ability to record current temperatures cannilly avoids reference to previous changes in global temperature including both major and minor ice ages and much more temperate times as recent as the 16th century.

We have devised an explanation to fit the outcome of an experiment where we do not know what the inputs are. It is, at best a guess, and our panicking over it is generating an excuse to take more money off us for a supposedly virtuous cause.

Science does not support the facts and only weak trends are evidenced by a relationship between CO2 and temperature. Other correlations include increased sun spot activity, no doubt due to us eating mars bars or cattle farting, world weather cycles over generations and decades rather than years, fluctuations in the earths core temperature etc etc. Ask a scientist if CO2 levels in the earths atmosphere have ever been higher? They will say ooh yes, actually 40% higher in the Pleistocene era or whatever- did the world end, no, thought not. Was the change the result of some cataclismic happening dont know err- Ask them about ice ages and when will the next one be- We don't know, were we hit by a comet? We don't know but we do know that driving a car makes the worlds temperature rise preceptibly don't we- err no actually we don't.


Arrogance. Now that we can measure the weather and fly to the moon we can explain everything. Man, particularly English man, is obsessed with the weather. Now we think we understand it , we can explain away the geophysical changes in our climate and our planet and not only can we explain it but we can take responsibility for it, its our fault through our pathetic actions on this two million year old rock of which we have only a vague understinding. Come on get real. Pigs farting have a greater impact on CO2 than we do. OK so we grow the cows and pigs ... yes thank you to the veggies, that all lays at my door too - perhaps we should tax meat more...

So come on show me, give me the real deal, not that the weather is changing or the earth is warming, I can see that stupid. Show me that it is down to us with incontrovertible scientific evidence.

Show me:-

a) that it is mans fault that the worlds temperature is rising;

b) that you can protect my children from my accelerating consumerism;

c) that if I deny myself the pleasures of travel etc that it will make a difference; and

d) that the UK was more pleasant when it was cold and we had crap summers.

Extremists- no not really

Anyway back to the subject of terror on the streets and the wonderful war on terror. This now reminds me of a hollywood conspiracy.

Arnie flies to a new planet to uncover his lost memory. Apparently random terroists are blowing up air terminals and being chased by the police, civilised society thinks these terrorists are dreadful people and support the state war on terror.

Then the director lets us get to know the terrorists and we realise that their position is not so alien. They are disenfranchised in that no matter what public opinion says the Government of the day does what it wants anyway (Iraq ring any bells yet?). They have no political power to influence change. They have a bonifide cause re persecution (Arnie's related to being a mutant) on earth it relates to being a muslim/arab and wanting to live where you have always lived ie Isreal. But the state won't let you (Isreal not UK) and the larger self appointed world policeman allows the supression to continue for political expediency (Chehnya, Israel, Nepal, Kenya) so how do you fight against the self appointed world government (US - with UK Poodle) you become a freedom fighter and join the revolution (Well Arnie does anyway).

As the head of MI5 has said today, the terrorists are now here for a generation unless we change the perception of the world policeman, unless we stop tolerating oppression in Israel, Chechnya Africa etc. The image of the UK and our position as world terrorism target no 2 is simply becuase of Tony's and previous administrations' unswerving and niaive support for the dumb Bush dynasty (DBD). What he fuck have we got to gain from continuing support to the Isreali government that repeatedly fucks over its own and neighbouring populations. The ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem and areas around it has never been identified as an offence against humanity and yet it should be.

I do not support terrorism, war or killing in any of its forms, but normally I consider that if soldiers want to fight then let them, not my problem. Similarly with Governments, voting just encourages the bastards, but now, really now, they have pissed me off to a very great extent. I am not a muslim or likely to go out blowing up airports but I am beginning to have some sympathy with those that do. If I have some sympathy how must it be to a dissenfranchised muslim teenager in Bradford or Luton?

The stupidity of a one nation focus on foreign policy and the blind faith in one ideology against another (Crusader label anyone?) simply plays into the hands of the extremists. We preach tolerance but in the case of Israel it could properly be called appeasement. If our Government wants to turn this around then give the Israeli's a proper public and embarrassing bollocking, suggest sanctions against them and move against their interests, freeze their assetts and lets get some brotherhood going with the largest minority in the UK, the Muslin minority who contribute so much to our country and at the end of the day take so little from it.

Chester minute

A very poor pun to open a very sad blog. We have to spread Chester the wonderhounds ashes to the four winds this weekend and I am not sure where he should go. He arrived back in a small pine box with a brass plate. I thought we may have to bury the whole thing but we, in the midst of moving house, are concious that a shrine to Chester in our current location may not retain the level of respect he deserves when we are gone. We have agreed as a team that he shouldn't stay in a box for ever but should be freed.

His favourite place was the river so it seems likely a burial at sea ( well in the two foot stream) will have to be conducted.

What do you do, do you take him in a bag and unceremoniously dump him, fiddling and trying to get the bits out of the corners, or do we need an ethereal ball from which his ashes gently smoke as we swing it? I have in mind one of those incense balls like the monks in the Da Vinci Code.

Sun rise or sun-set, music or chanting, or perhaps something Chester would understand, put him in the tennis ball chucker thing and launch him down the river followed by a few dog biscuits. The latter is probably the best solution. So chow chow to Chester on Sunday. Whoosh!

The river in question is of course a chalk spring that feeds the local drinking water supply, trout lakes and watercress beds. No doubt there are rules and regs about disposal of much loved pets in said waterways, you probably have to buy a licence. Just a warning then, don't eat farmed trout this weekend, especially not with a watercress sause.

Is this it?

Other blogs are often quite funny. Don't be fooled this is not one of them. There appears to be a network of blogs quoted on other random sites but they all read each other and behave like a mutual claque (- good word claque go look it up). In order to get read by others do you have to join the claque by leaving comments and your own sad terminal address or do people find them at random and decide they like the look of it. :- Today children I am talking about popularity...Rants often appeal to others but really I dont feel like ranting today, and no-one so far has so offended that they deserve the abuse. Clever links to You Tube etc can often prove the attractive feature but not plain old writing. The quality of the words is perhaps the key. I can't quite fathom what I've missed but do come across as a negative pompous twat much of the time so maybe that needs to be addressed.

Descriptions of often mundane events appear in many blogs and these I cannot fathom- everyday life is pretty dull here, in Belgium, Iceland or the arse end of Ireland so what is it? Being offensive to the Turkish or Johnsons can also get an audience but really what do you come here for ? What do I go there for ? To hear tales of other peoples lives and snippets of gossip interspersed with clever stuff about the world we live in. That is what is missing from here so if you are reading this, sod off until I have something interesting to note. I will then let the world know by leaving arrogant links to here all over your comments pages.