BBC gone cold on global warming?

In the past, I found a good barometer of the latest propaganda from the warmists was to search the BBC for their copy-and-paste warmist articles.
I can’t find any! Searching BBC + “Global warming” brings up nothing but other people talking about global warming (or perhaps more accurately, the word “global warming” perhaps as an out of date link on a page with recent news).
Indeed, I thought I had found an offender in Paul Hudson’s article “Still no sign of spring“, but reinforcing my previous post … it was a sceptic comment that brought up the subject and not Paul Hudson.
The daft thing, is that if anyone were to suggest erecting massive skyscrapers throughout the British countryside based on the flimsiest evidence … the chattering classes as represented by the BBC would be the first to object. So, starting from where we are now, there is no way on earth anyone could introduce the policy of destroying the countryside on the basis of such flimsy “evidence” on the climate.
So, we do not carry on the policy of wind because it is supported, by the chattering classes, but because attacking the policy means attacking their own actions. In short, all that is keeping this bandwagon going, is the momentum it gained from a decade of spin … because those usually tasked with applying the breaks (politicians, green groups, environmentalsists, etc.) are too damned embarrassed by their own hypocritical actions attacking the sceptics to now do the job.

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Away from the battle – Global warming looks even deader.

After I stopped spending all my time campaigning to end the nonsense of Global Warming, I had anticipated some changes in view. But not the one I’ve had.
SCEPTICS ARE TOO BELIEVING OF GLOBAL WARMING.
Yes! One of the biggest culprits for continuing the scam is the way sceptics are still thinking there is something to fight.
Strangely, the main change I’ve felt is “what on earth was I fighting?” Because the only people I see seriously suggesting that global warming may still be real are the sceptics. (I discount “UFO-spotting” type commentators)
To use an analogy. It is like a battle field. The leaders are still very much preoccupied hacking away at a very small group of people, and for those close to that action, it looks as if there is a fierce battle. But walk away, and there is only one side left on the battle field as the opposition have fled. Indeed, so decisive is the victory that most people don’t see the point in hanging around to watch a foregone conclusion.
As for those like the wikipedia climate “team”. They remind me of the soldiers in an impenetrable armoured car … which has run out of petrol. Yes, the natives are incapable of penetrating their armour. But sooner or later they are going to have to get out of their armour and climb down. The only question is this: is their best strategy to wait out the natives in the hope their anger will disperse, or … will making them wait longer and longer just infuriate them more? …. and I should also comment about the soldiers who have already turned “native” … who no one seems to notice except me.
As for the politicians …. they are as ever, like some Gadaffi madman, sitting in their bunker broadcasting the delusion that their forces are winning, that the rebels are a few isolated individuals …. still clinging to the words of their hand picked special advisers that victory is inevitable … but somehow all those so learned advisers now seem to have left the country and want nothing to do with the noble leader.

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How the state controls us – destroy real marriage

Throughout history and long before, society has been made up of families. This was the basic building block of society. It is in the bible, it was such an intrinsic part of Greek culture that the family was the unit of democracy. Your name is your family name, indeed many clans were considered families of the chieftain.
Even the gods were considered to be families. We see this in the Norse family of gods, the Greek and then the Roman.
Then along came Caesar … Caesar wanted to be considered a god like Alexander the “great”.  These developed the concept of the individual … the god who was not part of a family. Then came Jesus … the fatherless Jew (without an earthly father) …  but yet again, sSlowly, and steadily, those cultures that valued the family turned this god into a family: father, son and virgin Mary.
2000 years later, we see yet another attempt to destroy the family, to deny the legitimacy of the union between a man and a woman which is the unit of the family tree of humanity.
Why would they do it? Why would these politicians seek to destroy the family unit and assert their illegitimate power to redefine marriage in their own perverse concept of society?
Because the real family is a threat to these politicians? These are the politicians who try to indoctrinate (aka poison the minds of) our children in school by teaching them the global warming religion that says that everything we humans do is evil … unless it is sanctioned by the holy church of Global Warming fanatics who will allow us indulgences to emit CO2 (aka breath … in the bible the direct Greek translation of pneuma is both breath & holy spirit=CO2).
But their indoctrination has failed. They don’t understand that it was because it was total claptrap, so instead like all zealots they seek to assert their power even more and this time it is to destroy the essential bond of society: the family, and replace this family-orientated society with a new society where the family is just a cosmetic relationship which can be made and broken at the behest of politicians.
In other words, a society where children do not rightly belong with married couples – but instead they belong to the state.
Destroy the family to empower the state … to empower the politicians whose utter stupidity gave us the non-science of global warming, almost sent Europe into the economic quagmire (and still might).
And all for what? To give gay people the right to be a heterosexual couple who have promised to support any children of that coupling? Well let them have the right to have a womb/penis even if it is physically impossible … if that is what they really want … but don’t take away my right to be married.
So let’s be sensible.
There are many people in society who form relationships which are not marriage. Gays are but one. Many sons live with their mothers. Some siblings live together for their whole lives. Some relationships are sexual some are not. What does that matter if they either cannot (or should not as in the case of close relatives) produce children.
The whole point about marriage is that it is part of the family tree of life. Getting married used to mean you were going to produce children if the couple were fertile. Now it means children are an option, but still a very likely one.
That is not true of gay couples, nor siblings nor many other long-term relationships which have as much right as anyone else to have some legal protection if e.g. one partner falls ill. Why are gay people so selfish that they cannot see the benefit of long-term couples for the many people who are not gay? Why are they so hostile to hetero-sexual couples, who need marriage for the legal protection of children, that they feel they have to destroy marriage and replace it with McDonald’s plastic-relationships one-size fits everyone “marriage”.
I thought civil partnership was a great idea. I didn’t realise that [some] gay people** are actually deeply hostile to heterosexuals. Perhaps that is because of the way they have been treated, but personally, I’ve become less sympathetic to gays, the more they try to destroy our society …. the society that gave them the right to be proud of themselves.
My belief is that this is just another group of zealots who are doing no real good for most of the people they claim to represent who have yet again got the ear of the idiots in parliament and are yet again railroading their idiotic ideas through parliament and yet again championed by the idiots in the BBC.
Addendum
**My attention had been drawn to this part of the article. Although the style of the blog is sometimes “tongue in cheek”, I accept it could have been better phrased. I was not referring to any individuals but to the publicly portrayed views of high profile gay groups & particularly those professional lobbyists who come across as being deeply hostile to heterosexuals.

Historical Note

After this article was written I joined UKIP and was appointed Scottish spokesman on Energy and Climate. A journalists who hated UKIP, wanted to destroy UKIP, and so tried to create an attack on me by blatantly lying about what I had said in this article calling me a “homophobe” … which clearly was entirely unjustified and I did think of suing, but I’m glad I did not.

Because, by lying about me, that journalist raised the profile UKIP in Scotland and  Scotland in UKIP, and that led directly to David Coburn, an openly gay candidate and a good speaker, standing in the European election. He won! That showed that UKIP could win even Scotland. I’m sure, that one MEP, was the straw that showed if Cameron didn’t do anything UKIP would soon be making it impossible for the Tories to get elected anywhere. That led to the Brexit referendum, and that led to us leaving the EU … which is exactly what that journalist lied to try to stop. So ….

Karma!!!

Yes, I was just one little guy, who really didn’t do anything except stand up for what I believe, and found themselves almost by accident, being the target of the vile hatred & lies of one journalist who was hated even by his colleagues.

I really didn’t do anything myself, but it is kind of funny, when I think about it.

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Kyoto really is dead

I woke up this morning to find that there had been so many attempts from China to post spam on the village website I run for lenzie that they had stolen all my bandwidth.
Then, over coffee, I thought I’d check to see how interest in Kyoto had progressed after it effectively came to an end in December …. although obviously reported as a great success that they had a new agreement (forgetting to mention it was an agreement to talk about a new agreement to give some kind of official agreement to allow the remaining small group of countries to commit economic suicide).
Well … I need not have bothered.
THERE HAS BEEN NO REPORT AT ALL IN ANY NEWS MONITORED BY GOOGLE SINCE THE 11FEB. Indeed, there is a risk that simply by posting this, I may become the sole worldwide article on Global warming for some time.
And there are still some who will try to say it is the greatest problem facing humanity.
If it wasn’t for the fact that government lay plans years in advance and books and films can’t just be shelved … they’d be no one talking about global warming any longer. The stages

  • First they tried to convince us with the evidence
  • Then when we showed the evidence didn’t support them, they manufactured the evidence
  • Then when we explained that their “evidence” didn’t prove their case
  • They tried to tell us we (the majority) were the ill-informed minority
  • Then when it became clear we were far from ill-informed and far less a small minority.
  • They tried to ridicule us
  • Then when we laughed at their attempts to ridicule us
  • They tried to sue us
  • Then when they realised that threatening to sue when the evidence supported us
  • They tried to tell us we were mad. etc.
  • Finally … in the face of overwhelming evidence and lack of public interest in their non-science they get over their tantrum, they stop writing idiotic papers to journals and stop helping to write ridiculous articles for journalists … it all goes quiet
  • and then they try to pretend it never happened.
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Lovelock not a visionary – just a NIMBY.

When I read James Lovelock writing:

“I bow my head in shame at the thought that our original good intentions should have been so misunderstood and misapplied. We never intended a fundamentalist Green movement that rejected all energy sources other than renewable, nor did we expect the Greens to cast aside our priceless ecological heritage…” (link)

my initial thought was “too little too late”. The man is an idiot, anyone with any intelligence looking at wind should have known that this huge industrial business had only one philosophy: “destroy your ecology to save the planet (also known as: make us loads of money)”.
The big difference between this load of lying cheating money-grabbing developers and every other run of the mill lying cheating money-grabbing developer which the greens so strongly opposed … was that the wind developers (superficially) suited the world view of Greens like Lovelock. And Greens don’t look at any issue except superficially until, like Lovelock, the reality of the windmills looming over their homes makes them look just a bit deeper … and suddenly they change their mind.
But the irony is that Lovelock is the master of skin-deep philosophy! Gaia is the “theory” that a minuscule skin deep layer of living matter on earth makes the whole planet “alive”.
If I sound particularly cynical, it’s because even in the early naughties when I was a member of the Green party and even on the executive, I couldn’t believe how little any of them knew about wind energy and clearly Lovelock was one of these naive idiots. Most literally thought a few house sized windmills so small you would need signs to tell everyone they were there … would replace the power stations. The reality, is that it “sounded a good idea” … and that was enough for them.
Which reminds me. I’ve not noticed any sceptics highlighting the evidence that Bacteria cause rain This is important because the lack of enough organic agents in the clouds to trigger rain was perhaps the sole remaining argument against cosmic ray induced climate feedback. Now it has been shown that rain is (relatively) heavily polluted by organic materials apparently as part of a bacterial mechanism to aid their dispersal by promoting rain … it’s the final nail in the coffin of the denialists of solar climate impacts. (But it hardly matters as it was already over)
So what does matter?
Having spent some time away from global warming, I was genuinely surprised this morning to read an article where someone still talked about it as “true”. Not till afterwards did I realise that “it’s just not done” any longer to be madly keen on global warming. It is the genuinely mad, the religiously bigoted and/or the scientifically illiterate who “believe” in global warming – not sensible people. No, sensible people now avoid the subject … because it now attracts the lunatics bores of the party who’ll argue anything to death. Only these people still care about it. It’s frankly embarrassing to see people on both sides getting so het up. Get a life!
The reality is that most people now want to “save the world” but are de facto in the sceptic camp … CO2 does cause warming … but its effects do not warrant any more increase in my fuel bills. So, why have argument when we all agree? As a political movement “global warming” is dead … with the proviso that just as there will always be train spotters there will always be people who also believe in global warming – but they will grow up!
But what does still matter is the way that such an outlandish philosophy took hold of academia and UK politics and the corruption, deceit, lies and a cauldron of other anti-democratic activities were mixed together for this poisonous propaganda.
Why it does matter is because it shows that UK politics and very particularly Scottish politics  (and in that regard I include politicians, media commentators and academic “experts”) was wholly and completely deluded and viciously attacked anyone who dared to question them. And it shows that when they are so completely deluded – they allow nothing to stop them. Not science, not the facts. The voice of reason is very easily squashed by the relentless and ruthless dictate of the BBC and its puppets in government (and I mean it that way). It really was like living in a Nazi state … thank goodness, it was something quite benign – if you call the destruction of UK industry benign – but it hardly matches concentration camps. But what if next time it does involve concentration camps? What this episode shows is that nothing will stop them! It really is very very worrying that we are controlled by a single group that can be so deluded.
Indeed, Neil Craig in his question “can you name a single scientist who is not government funded who believes in global warming” …  has hit the nail on the head. Not that government funding is the cause … instead government funding, or more accurately “civil servants” were the drivers of what can only be described as a bizarre religion. I’m reminded of mithraism in the Roman empire … a religion that solidiers seemed to have particularly liked. Likewise, the religion of “global warming” was one that somehow atuned to the civil service mentality.
And that is by far the biggest lesson we have to learn from this debacle. This was a “state-funded” religion … in the sense of a religion particularly endorsed by those who take their earning from the state. And the fact it was so dominant in the UK, more so in Europe and particularly in Scotland, shows the dead-hand of the state funded mentality: I haven’t checked, but it is almost certain that economic performance is inversely proportional to a country’s enthusiasm for the global warming religion … or perhaps we should admit it … the anti-consumerist religion … the anti-profit, anti-industry religion.
The Most Chilling words of Lovelock
Of all that Lovelock wrote, the most chilling is contained in these words:

“that our original good intentions…”

for in these words, he makes it clear, that this was not a movement responding to something. Lovelock’s green movement was not acting purely in response to a need. Instead it was much much more. It had an aim, an intention that went far beyond the particularly response to any immediate concern. The reality appears to be that “Global warming” was just a convenient means to an end – a convenient means that people like Lovelock never seriously questionned because it justified their politics. And let’s not forget that Lovelock’s politics justified the chilling echo of the Nazi state: those calling for concentration camps for sceptics. It justified the wholesale lies and deceit that hid the destruction of wildlife and natural landscape to “save the planet” aka line the pockets of wind developers.
So, yes, isn’t it good that Lovelock has finally seen the light … it only took 16 years of no warming!!!
I think I might have had more respect for this individual if he wasn’t just another NIMBY here today-gone when it’s a windmill in my backyard … live in the countryside … consuming a lot more energy travelling anywhere, using all the convenience of the modern manufacturing world … whilst constantly sticking the knife in … to those who made that world happen.
I might have respected him more if he’d stuck to his guns and said: “despite the fact my backyard is going to get these birdkilling monsters … I still believe in them”. He might then have had some credibility as a “visionary” … because perhaps in 100 years or more, we may need to kill birds to get power this way.
But now all he appears to be is another behind the times – do what I tell you not what I do – Green (as in Naive) NIMBY.
Addendum
Strangely this article from new Scientist (a notoriously alarmist & deceptive in its alarmism rag) more or less backs me up:

  • Kyoto is effectively dead … but …
  • All that this green debacle  has done is to INCREASE fossil fuel use as UK industry has been pushed abroad.

Let’s reiterate that. If it wasn’t for Kyoto something like 10% of our fossil fuel use (which more or less equates to economic output) would now be located in the UK. The civil-service & BBC hatred of the UK has caused at least 10% of industry (25% by other figures) to move abroad.
 

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Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

There’s a new group in Scotland: Scotland Against Spin.
Whilst I’ve not been involved myself, I know some of those involved and it has been a difficult process getting it going. Trump … well Trump is the kind of person who sucks goodwill out of voluntary organisations and that may well have been the end for CATS.
So, Scotland Against Spin. has been left picking up the pieces after CATS went home to sup on milk.
But Scotland Against Spin. is the best chance of bringing back some common sense to Scotland, I urge every Scottish Sceptic to donate.
So, I went to Bishop Hill looking to contribute to the discussion he would be having … and nothing was there.

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What is so complicated about a putting a comment in a photo?

It was my wife’s parent’s 50th and it seemed a nice idea to get a few old pictures scanned for a book. But then seeing the state of some of the pictures and knowing that in a few years many may be beyond repair and/or lost as lives moved on, I thought it would be sensible to make a digital copy of the best pictures to share with everyone.
But who were these people? Where were they taken? When were they taken? Being my wife’s family, I didn’t even recognise my wife as a child let alone cousins and long dead relatives. So, it was obvious I had to record these details.
And the answer seemed obvious. My Canon camera came with software called Zoombrowser Ex which had a facility to add tags or keywords.  There are four categories “people, places, events & Other”. So, I started adding a few tags … then I wondered how anyone I sent the pictures to would see the tags … or failing that, how I could list the details of the pictures I sent. Which is when I realised that Zoombrowser doesn’t store this information in the picture but instead creates another file, which cannot be read except by the same version of Zoombrowser. Which makes it all but useless for my purpose.
But, redemption seemed to come from Google Picasa. Picasa is fantastic fun as it has face recognition software which means it tags the pictures with the name … and after a little research I found it has the option to store the tags in the picture. GREAT! … no! After trying it out, Yes! it tags the pictures, but NO!!!!! it seems all but impossible to get it to tag the pictures.
But worse! If you can persuade it to store the tag in the picture … and I did manage it once by editing the picture … but I’ve now lost the knack. It stores it in an incompatible was as follows:
In the pictures is a region, this region is defined by a rectangle, and it may have the following properties, …. of which one may be a name.
This according to google is the way they will tag the photos because “it is the standard which everyone will be adopting” BULLSHIT!!! Why? Unless you have automatic face recognition software, which can automatically works out the rectangle no one else is going to go through the exercise of detailing the precise region occupied by each individual. Almost everyone else is going to just have a list of names in the picture. So, to use the google “standard”, you have to create a fake “region” as a region is the only way to store a person’s name DAFT TWATS!!!  ANY SANE person would do it the other way around. They would record the names of each person of which SOME, MAY (if you are lucky and perhaps added later) may contain a region locating their face. So, I am absolutely sure no one else is going to follow the insane ideas of google. So, even if I could get picasa to update the file, in a few years time when everyone else has adopted a more sensible approach, the files records used by picasa will be redundant and unreadable by most software.
Which made some new software from Canon called “imagebrowser” seem really good, because this one works with what are called IPTC fields in images such as jpg, ti. This stores information in the picture, and that must mean other software can access?  (Note, it does not work with png as I found out to my cost and had to convert everything to tif).
And, so I sat down to write down the basic details in the comment field in imagebrowser … even though imagebrowser is some of the worst software I have seen for browsing images (most reviews give it five 1stars out of 5) … but that wasn’t the worst of it. When I got some software called EXIFtool, just to check how the information was being stored, I found that imagebrowser only stores some information in the IPTC or XMP fields. And unfortunately, the one key field which I thought might be common (comment) doesn’t get stored. (head in hands moment)
And let me not forget to mention before I forget, my original interest arose because I have some software on a website that automatically displays a title from the IPTC information … with the only small problem being I’ve yet to find any software to create the title!
So what do I really want?
Which brings me to the purpose of this post. Google are notorious for not listening to customers, so I’m not bothering to contact them. Canon are notorious for intentionally (at least that is what it seems to me) preventing their cameras working with third party lenses … so the idea of Canon listening to pleas to get their software working with anyone else seems daft. So, I’m left with a wish list and no one I think will listen …. but perhaps being the web it might just be found??

  1. First, let’s start with the basics: I want to connect my camera and download images to a folder on my laptop called 2013 with subfolders called 2012-1-7 (for today). This is so that when I view them in explorer, when displayed alphabetically they are in date order.
  2. Next, as I run out of space, I want to store some photos on a shared network drive (and it allows others in the family to see them)
  3. Next I want to add notes to each folder. Perhaps I even want to tag folders, but I also need to be able to find folders and to do this I’ve had to start using “Agent Ransack” as windows search is appalling (at least since XP). At the moment folders just get a longer name e.g. 2012-12-13 Visit to park
  4. Now for the important part, I want some software to quickly and easily go through my photos reviewing them, categorising them and deciding which ones to delete (or more usually, which ones to keep). The only way I’ve managed to do this is to use the star rating giving photos tagged for deletion a one star. This however means I can’t use the one star rating … and e.g. if I’ve taken a lot of very good pictures, I may actually end up deleting dozens of five-star pictures and if I really need a picture as it is the only one, I may end up keeping really awful ones.
  5. Then I want to create a slide show. Strangely, I don’t always want to display them in the order they were taken!! Sometimes I may even want to take pictures from vastly different folders.
  6. Now …. months later, I want to find pictures. At present, the only way I can do this is by searching for the folder name. E.g. “2012-10-25 XXX’s Birthday”. But if it’s a place I visit regularly, I may have dozens of folders … and many have been moved to a network drive to save space on the laptop. But zoombroswer doesn’t work with network drives. Imagebrowser is just awful, picasa seems to have a mind of its own and it’s more like a face-recognition game than useful sofware. NONE OF THEM RECOGNISE INFORMATION CREATED IN THE OTHER APPLICATIONS. And, I’ve not dared to look at Micro$oft — which is always incompatible with everyone as a way of forcing people to go down the Micro$oft root.
  7. So, I want a way to quickly and easily tag whole loads of photos. I want to select all the photos in a pariticular place … add a tag. Select all the photos taken for a particular purpose ADD ANOTHER TAG (imagebrowser only allows one tag). I really would like face-recognition to make adding people tags easy (but I want to turn it off when the photo is the village gala!!! Because

So These are the records I want:

  • Title (aka caption) … this is short text that would go underneath the image
  • Comment (aka notes) … this is longer text or more obscure text.
  • Location name (text)
  • Location field (lat/long, grid reference, nearest named place)
  • Location tag (a selection from a list)
  • Event name (text)
  • Event tag (a selection from a list)
  • Date (for older scanned images this has to be added and is subtly different from creation date)
  • Person1 Name (+ if available where they are located &/or comment like “top left”)
  • Person2, Person3, Person4 etc.
  • Tag1
  • Tag2
  • Tag3, etc. (i.e. multiple tags)

Note: Actually, the tags might be better organised as “Group1.tag1; group1.tag2; group2.tag1 etc. So, that similar tags are collected together under one grouping rather than being disorganised.
Finding pictures.
The simplest thing is to see all photos which have a particular tag. Or perhaps to find all photos of a particular star rating, with a particular tag in a particular location within a particular date range. More advanced searches would look for specific words in titles and comments.
BUT THE NAMES AND DESCRIPTION ARE MOST IMPORTANT!!!
Why on earth can’t I list the names in a picture and give a brief title to every picture and have every bit of software understand it? Why can’t I look for pictures with certain individuals? Why can’t I search for pictures with certain keywords? Why does google insist on going down a deadend road and call it “the future?” Why haven’t I even bothered to check out Micro$oft because it is never compatible?
We really owe it to future generations!
Let me finish by saying I spent Christmas going through my father’s old 3.5inch floppies. The experience was horrific. Even if I could work out the meaning of the file names, I usually could not read them. Even if I could open them up, often it would be garbage. I ended up getting very angry … with someone who was dead … and who actually did a very good job catalogging them … except in the last decade the catalog has disappeared and no one knows where or even if, there is the “MY DOCUMENTS” kind of disk full of personal things we may want to keep (or perhaps when disks were reused, the only sensible storage was the final printout?)
It took almost a week to go through these 1000 disks only to discover that almost all of it was rubbish and if there had been useful stuff, it was either unreadable or perhaps worse … stored on media like magnetic tapes which we no longer had the means to read. He only died a decade ago, but it is already a nightmare trying to recover the material.
We have a similar problem with old videos, with old slides, with old photos which are now stored in boxes in the loft. I can now see months being taken up trying to recover videos of my own children as babies.
Our generation is creating a nightmare for our children. We are going to have boxes and boxes and disk drive after drive or incompatible material where no one can see the important material from the utter dross. Unfortunately, the easier it becomes to store information, the more it needs to be organised to be of any utility to anyone else.
At least, when you have a small box of precious photos, everyone knows that THESE ARE THE PHOTOS TO KEEP. Now, those precious photos are literally hidden in a haystack of other material.

Unless our generation pulls its socks up and finds a way to ensure that future generations can actually reliably find, read and understand what we produce … we may as well throw it all away! Because the reality is that we are creating a massive massive headache and an enormous heartache for our loved ones.

 

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Note to my future self

Dear Mike,

you’re in a much better position to know how the last year went … but ignorance is bliss and I’m not cringing at everything I got wrong. But right now things are looking really really good.

The kyoto protocol is looking as dead as bachelor Dodo. Yes, everyone can still hear it squawking and they say it is still alive, but the reality is that this particular species became extinct at Copenhagen. Nothing has changed since – they are no closer to an extension to Kyoto than they were the day the Climategate emails were released.

Scientifically, we are really in the ascendant. I feel like those individuals at the end of WWI who suddenly find 1000s of the enemy walking up to them and asking to be made their prisoner. It’s not so much that I personally fought a heroic battle, it’s just that reality caught up with the other side.

And the BBC, Guardian and the other zealots. They just want to keep quiet now. They are just keeping quiet hoping that no one notices what really amount to criminal misconduct.

Which leaves the politicians. How could they have got themselves into such a mess? They are stuck with a policy which which makes them look like twats. … or like fish flip-flopping on the beech as the tide recedes. It must be very similar with whale strandings. It’s very easy watching to know that the creatures ought to be making a headline rush to deep water, but for some suicidal reason they just keep trying to move into shallow water where they are going to get cut off and left on the beech to be hung up for dog-meat. And nothing seems to convince them to go the other way. Worse, the more one tries to get them to turn, the more they seem to want to go the other way.

So, here are a few of my questions for the year.

  • Is Alex Salmond still first minister? I can’t ask sceptics, as none seem to take the question seriously. But as you know, from where I stand it does look like he is being led into a trap.
  • Was there a police investigation? Most of the other scares just faded out. But they didn’t have the huge costs, the economic destruction … and bruised egos of the politicians. I can’t see the politicians meekly taking the blame for this.
  • What is the current scientific thinking about that “missing warming” in the 20th century they blamed on “feedbacks”? Indeed, I’m really keen to know whether there was any substantial feedbacks and were they positive or negative? I’m tempted to pick either “positive or negative”, because zero would suggest there is none. So, instead, I’m going to guess around 0.3°C feedback, but not give the sign.
  • Solar activity. I’d say 95% confidence there is a link. The big question is whether that link could lead to significant global effects. I’d guess eventually this could become a serious issue, but next year is far too soon.
  • Did we ever learn who released the climategate emails?
  • Questions not worth answering as we know the answer (I hope): Did Michael Mann drop court case? Is John Napier still in post? Did the UK science establishment find a way to say black is white and that they always supported the science that the climate changes naturally.
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We've won

Just spent most of the day looking over legal papers.
I’m feeling very confident.

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Legal Action Fighting Fund

Solicitors cost money!

… about as obvious as saying the hockey stick is broken, but given the complexity of this case, even getting one to look at the evidence and advise us is going to cost. SCEF has some money in the tin, but we need serious money.

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