The Russians are taking the piss out of the European Union by ransoming all and sundry on the price of natural gas. Our own gas resources are dwindling and will run out in the foreseeable future (5 yrs?). The Government today anounced that it has given permission for the construction of three new gas-fired power stations in the UK.
Now tell me, what sort of a fucking idiot would tie their national energy future to Russian Gas having seen how they treat their dependents? Who would do that? Your Government, that's who.
Friday, 6 February 2009
Snow Travel Metropolitan Style.
Not long ago I did an unpleasant piece on London Underground. Today they earned it in spades.
7.45 arrive at Station after perilous journey through snow.
Good Service metropolitan Line advertised on board.
Catch train (Fast Aldgate) Yippee. Phone wife, don't worry trains OK. Going to work.
2nd Stop (Harrow) This train is terminating here please change trains.
Get aboard 2nd Metropolitan Line Train. 1 stop later. This train is going out of service please change here. (Wembley Park). There will be no more Metropolitan Trains due to a signal failure at Baker Street. Please take a Jubillee line train.
Jubillee Train Comes. Full. (No... really full).
Next Train. Jubillee to Stratford. Yippeee- will get to work afterall.
Next station: This train has developed a fault and will termiante at Neasden.
Next two Jubillee trains :Full. Yes- as before.
Metropolitan Line trains passing under full steam- they dont stop here- service has clearly resumed!
Jubillee Line Train to Stratford. Yippee.
This train will terminate at Green Park.
Four trains, four terminations, none Snow related as far as I know.
Prospects of getting to work - slim.
Journey time: Eventually 2.25.
Explanations and apologies: None.
Cost : £11.00
Nature of Service: Shit.
7.45 arrive at Station after perilous journey through snow.
Good Service metropolitan Line advertised on board.
Catch train (Fast Aldgate) Yippee. Phone wife, don't worry trains OK. Going to work.
2nd Stop (Harrow) This train is terminating here please change trains.
Get aboard 2nd Metropolitan Line Train. 1 stop later. This train is going out of service please change here. (Wembley Park). There will be no more Metropolitan Trains due to a signal failure at Baker Street. Please take a Jubillee line train.
Jubillee Train Comes. Full. (No... really full).
Next Train. Jubillee to Stratford. Yippeee- will get to work afterall.
Next station: This train has developed a fault and will termiante at Neasden.
Next two Jubillee trains :Full. Yes- as before.
Metropolitan Line trains passing under full steam- they dont stop here- service has clearly resumed!
Jubillee Line Train to Stratford. Yippee.
This train will terminate at Green Park.
Four trains, four terminations, none Snow related as far as I know.
Prospects of getting to work - slim.
Journey time: Eventually 2.25.
Explanations and apologies: None.
Cost : £11.00
Nature of Service: Shit.
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Global Warming Climate Change Snow
It is reassuring to know that those committed to fighting global warming can hapilly identify that colder winters and crazy snow events in the UK are a sign of, and are consistent with Global Warming either through the fact that it now happens so much more rarely than it used to (argument no 1) and consequently we are less prepared than we used to be, or conversely that more and more extreme weather events are likely as we proceed down the road to climate change (argument no 2). Both of these arguments were deployed yesterday.
Those with more than one third of a brain will realise that they are contradictory and exclusive to one another. If the climate change advocates are correct and extreme weather events are to be more common then the global warming (this happens far less frequently now because things are warming up) devotees must be wrong and vice-versa. Neither however would suggest that extremely cold weather events may be proof that global warming or climate change was imaginary and that the trend that prevailed from 1980 to 2005 (temperatures have cooled since 2005) has reversed. This would be to admit that we do not have a thorough understanding of weather and climate on planet earth and that our vanity in suggesting that we could change it was simply that. Vanity.
Those with more than one third of a brain will realise that they are contradictory and exclusive to one another. If the climate change advocates are correct and extreme weather events are to be more common then the global warming (this happens far less frequently now because things are warming up) devotees must be wrong and vice-versa. Neither however would suggest that extremely cold weather events may be proof that global warming or climate change was imaginary and that the trend that prevailed from 1980 to 2005 (temperatures have cooled since 2005) has reversed. This would be to admit that we do not have a thorough understanding of weather and climate on planet earth and that our vanity in suggesting that we could change it was simply that. Vanity.
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