Author Archives: Giolla

Sheep in global warming shocker

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Came across this rather amusing snippet in the Metro’s MiniCosm column, and felt it deserved slightly wider coverage, thought a quick search does show it’s being picked up quite well once you know to search for it (“sheep tree rings”) The minicosm article says: “For more than 100 years, tree rings have been used to record climate. But nibbling from sheep could have had more of an impact on their development than historic changes in the weather. After spending nine summers in pens with sheep, cross sections of 206 birch trees were measured. Tree ring widths were more affected by … Continue reading →

For the removal of doubt

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For a while now many people have been talking about the inexorable drive by our political elites to form a united states of Europe. We have of course often been rebuffed as being a bit tin-hat and of course that’s not what’s happening. Well a bit of video over at Archbishop Cranmers rather lets the cat out of the bag. As Captain Ranty has observed on many occasion if the EU controls the finances, then everything else effectively follows. Mind he does today also offer the hope that forcing fiscal unity will render the implosion of the EU project inevitable … Continue reading →

So it’s a default

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I caught the news about the possibility of the Greeks defaulting on their debt last night, but wanted to check I was understanding things properly at the time. Not that my understanding was helped any by checking what the BBC were saying as last night they were following the line that it wasn’t a default really, though thanks to their wonderful habit of updating articles without mentioning the fact you’d not know that this morning. Now of course the headline isn’t “Greece defaults” but: “Greece aid package boosts stock markets” And any mention that some people might consider that forcing … Continue reading →