Category Archives: Green Agenda

Settled science

  By Giolla | 2012/12/11 - 00:21 | ,
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A few things relating to climate change have wandered across my radar of late so thought about time I should pull some of them together. Starting with another still from the video linked to in my last post. This still shows what affected popular opinion and what affected the “science”: The thing that leaps out at me from this is how little affects the science, well how could it the science is settled. Heavy snow falls despite the predicted death of snow, no impact on the science, the models are true so reality must be at fault for the science … Continue reading →

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The endarkenment

  By Giolla | 2012/12/07 - 00:13 | , , , , , , ,
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With the dumbing down of education and politics and the rise of the new priests of the green god, the god of offense and the god of “health” – who have all demanded that the scientific method, facts and truth be perverted and sacrificed upon their altars the endarkenment is surely upon us. What is the endarkenment I imagine I hear you cry, why I shall tell you, it’s the undoing of the progress we’ve made since the enlightenment, the slow dimming and putting out of the lights of scientific rigor, debate and truth. What value truth if it offends, … Continue reading →

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The stupidity it burns

  By Giolla | 2012/05/23 - 22:34 | , , , ,
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Having spent the day in a management training course, which invovled going to the office and thus trains and thus news papers I got exposed to above normal levels of stupid. So I thought I’d do the only “decent” thing and share the pain, so here is the Wednesday stupidity round up. ( I won’t mention Gordon Brown saying “told you so” and that te world needed to bail out the Euro). Starting with the Metro and following up from yesterday it seems that the Government has announced reforms to the drive for renewable energy (wind farm subsidies for rich … Continue reading →

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Reality lag

  By Giolla | 2012/05/22 - 22:16 | , , , ,
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I do hope you’ll indulge me in a lightly referenced post, but having just watched the BBC news I have a slight need to rant. Plus if you read many of the blogs I link to you’ll already be aware of many of the things I’ll mention. The BBC tonight had a “news” article about the problems of keeping the lights on in the UK, due to massive lack of investment in our power infrastructure, so far so good. Then the insanity started, apparently we can subsidise wind power which so far contributes nothing and needs massive conventional back up … Continue reading →

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Peak oil may be delayed again

  By Giolla | 2012/03/30 - 19:07 | ,
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It seems these days fuel and energy stories are never far from the headlines. This week that nice Mr Cameron panicked people into causing fuel shortages by warning them that if there was a strike that affected oil delivery it might be well to be prepared. Last week in turns out that to the nearest whole number the contribution made by Wind power is zero. Then going back a bit further we had numerous scare stories about Oil fracking in the UK. Oh and of course the the building of new UK nuclear plants has been cancelled, so it’d seem … Continue reading →

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All about the fuel

  By Giolla | 2012/03/05 - 21:40 | , , ,
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I imagine this is old news and I am in fact way behind the curve as usual, but it’s amazing what you can discover when browsing Homebrew sites*. On the day that wind power being a bit crap starts making waves** I discovered that since 2007 it’s been legal to run your own still to produce up to 2,500 litres of spirits for use in BioFuels. Now as someone that’s quite keen on having a moderate amount of independence and avoiding paying tax on anything I don’t have to pay tax on this seemed a bit too good to be … Continue reading →

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Of polar bears

  By Giolla | 2011/12/28 - 19:30 | ,
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(Oops forgot to hit post at the time – better late than never right?) On BBC’s frozen planet (the one of infamous misleading polar bear shots) after flying over the Arctic with two helicopters David Attenborough commented that the polars bears that the scientists he was with had been tranquillizing every year seemed to be doing not so well. In the context of the show this was linked to change in the polars bears environment, but I can’t help wondering what studies have been done on the ling term effects of tranquillizing polar bears. But nope surely can’t be that, … Continue reading →

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Recycling press releases

  By Giolla | 2011/11/22 - 22:49 | , , ,
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The ever diligent Katabsis has a rather wonderful article up dissecting how the investigative main stream media recycles press releases from the environment agency – terribly green of them. As a taster….. The data shows several clear patterns: – The so called “quality press” are the worst offenders for churning Environment Agency press releases – whilst there were many entries from the tabloids and local papers, their cutting and pasting was less egregarious than the “quality press”. Now stop wasting your time here and go read it :) 0   

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The stupidity it burns….

  By Giolla | 2011/11/01 - 00:38 | , , ,
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Reading LegIrons round up of Madness reminded me of a little press release from the London assembly I read a while back. Transport for London’s plans to reward people who make their journey on foot or by bike under a new incentive scheme I thought at first that the headline had to be misleading as with all the savings we need to be making paying people to walk or cycle rather than just say improving cycle facilities and the like would be silly. But no the press release goes on to say: “rewarding people with offers and discounts should help … Continue reading →

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A simple question

  By Giolla | 2011/08/27 - 11:21 | , , , , ,
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Thinking about my last post during my morning ablutions, a simple question occurred to me (and before lunch simple questions really are all I can manage). I know it’s been asked before but I think it’s worth asking again: If tobacco and alcohol are so dangerous why aren’t the anti smoking/drinking campaigns asking for them to be banned? Seriously think about it, none of the pressure groups that claim that smoke and drink are destroying lives, wrecking society and killing thousands of people a year at extreme cost to the NHS are actually asking for them to be banned. If … Continue reading →

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