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The Monckton Method

Lord Monckton's UKIP party would like to ban Al Gore's movie: 'An Inconvenient Truth'.

So much for freedom of speech.


The UKIP party's Lord Monckton is so convinced that reports of global climate change are a hoax that he would jail any scientist whose findings he disagrees with.

So much for rational debate.




“If you want to know the length of my tie you can call up all the tie
manufacturers and ask them the average length of the ties they sell and
produce a model based on that. Or you could just measure it.”
Lord Monckton
So much for the scientific method.
Mother Earth Cycles To Work


Anthropogenic global warming.

AGW

Human-caused warming.

Call it what you will: is it real?

In short: can humans modify Earth's climate?

There are two major views on this question:

1 - human emissions of CO2 cause global warming.

2 - global warming is part of a natural cycle.


I suggest that neither view is sufficiently correct because the underlying suppositions and simplifications are false.

The Earth's dynamic systems are many.  They are complex in and of themselves.  They do not act in isolation, but interact amongst themselves.

Accordingly, one might ask:
The Place Where Forever Ends


The idea of living forever has held great fascination for many great minds,
but just like the pursuit of a perpetual motion machine it is an impossible dream,
and for the same reasons.


Image source: Wikemedia, public domain.


Here are some basic logical requirements of living forever. 


In order to live forever one must first be alive.
Climate Crook : Scam! Scam! Scam!


Followers of my blog will no doubt guess that this article is about Godfrey Bloom -
he of the famous quote:
"There appears to be a woeful lack of candour and commonsense in modern day politicians."

I have already written something of his own Woeful Lack Of Candour.

This is a follow-up.
Will You Give Sheepswool Sheep?




I'm no Dr. Seuss, or even Zseuss.  But encouraged by Becky's enjoyment of my Grasshopper Green, here's another few words.  I hope that, perhaps, my words may be of help to educators and to students of English as a foreign language.



Will you give sheepswool sheep?
My bones grow old,
So make me a blanket
To keep out the cold.

I wake at night cold,
 Getting old, as I am,
But I'd sleep like a baby
 If I were a lamb.

Grasshopper Green



Grasshopper green,
Grasshopper green,
Hippity hoppity munching machine -
Are you enjoying your tasty leaf snack?
Thanks for the visit -

 Be sure to come back.




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