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.