Category: Environment

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FUCKWIT

Farage accuses the BBC of bias by not airing climate deniers bollox! Over 95% of the worlds scientists are wrong he says. Pesky facts are irrelevant, Flat Earthers should be allowed on prime time news bulletins, Elvis lives, the Loch Ness Monster is real. 2/3rds of the USA is suffering from unseasonably cold weather with heavy snow likely, Florida has issued a warning about iguanas falling fron trees and possibly injuring people due to cold temperatures. Burn that coal and oil baby. Super-Typhoon Fung-wong hits the Philippines with heavy rain, wind and a tidal surge – Dig for more coal baby. So who is Farage appealing too? Those who find the fuel costs too high. Why does he not campaign for a rent freeze – that would really help the poor and especially the young.

Dinosaurs died out due to climate change it is thought, Farage and Badenoch will go the same way, and also possibly Starmer. Mamdani has shown that sensible policies from the left can win votes, remember that Corbyn got more votes than Starmer; despite being slated at every opportunity by the RWPress, and being up against an undeniably charismatic, albeit fraudster, BJJohnson. The young who chanted his name at Glastonbury may have been swept along by the crowd, but JC offered them hope.

I am ashamed of my generation. I have lived my whole life with no major armed disputes in my vicinity (IRA bombings in London excepted), free NHS and dental, a grant for University, fixed rent before Thatcher, women’s lib (seems to have stuttered to a halt), Gay Pride, music breaking every boundary, fashion likewise, a freedom that as a young teen I was able to go swimming in a pool whenever, play tennis for virtually nothing on council ownedgrass courts.. And what have we done with this largesse? Screwed the next generation. Hopefully my children and grandchildren will benefit from my good fortune. But I see the sad fuckers buying the Mail and Telegraph and tutting about the young today. Whilst they take cruises and drive flash cars to their mortgage free homes and luxury that they could not have imagined when they were young.

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COP 30

Do not let the fascists and deniers win! Starmer is retreating as Reform do well in the polls – but it does not have to be like this. Musk has launched a competitor to Wikipedia and the right wing knuckle draggers and flag shaggers have referred to Wiki as Wokepedia thus identifying there greatest weakness. FACTS. Wiki is fact checked and whilst tgere have been mistakes it is very good and accurate. The right wing hate this attention to facts, much preferring to brag about the lies they circulate on social media.

I recognise that there will often be disputes about facts, and that even substantiated ones may sometimes be disproven. However when even the POTUS sprouts garbage we have a problem. Paracetamol does not have any supporting evidence for causig autism – fact, but if Trump says so! But I can make up my own mind about that – but climate change affects every single one of us. The theory is indisputable; the impacts verified; but still the empty heads claim it is a left wing conspiracy! Fuck me, how stupid can these people be, and then gullible to extreme levels.

270 million were made homeless in the last decade by climate change, and 117 million by war. Is there a bigger exlistentual threat to our planet. My apples had fewer insect intrusions than ever before – I guess this should be welcomed, but I use no insecticides and the bird feeder was used less often. I just realised that I had jumped from 250 million homeless to maggot free apples – however they are linked inextricably.

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BBC

So the trashing of national institutions continues. BJ Boris has a pop at the BBC – I suppose he has to justify the wage paid by the Mail. The board of the BBC is a geriatric nightmare withthe youngest being 52. As for left wing bias – they are having a fucking joke. QT has become a political forum for Reform, the Gary Lineker episode revealed the bias to the right. Reporting on Gaza has been weighted towards Israel most of the time. However the right wing seek to portray anything less than MAGA influenced as bias. This is an attempt to sway those on the Board of the BBC and the government to the right. Of course news reporting is always going to show some bias, but the BBC has a reputation for impartiality – or had!

And at last we will get the Budget – tax rises will occur and be criticised to the nth degree. But at least we will not have to put up with former ‘experts’ pontificating about the disasterous impact of any tax increase. Let us hope that the burden will fall on those who can afford it! And also that Reeves makes a point of extolling tax as a way of creating a fair and just society for all. I fear it will be a fudge! Many Labour MP’s are disgusted at the move of Labour to the right. Only Ed Milliband seems to be holding true to the agenda set out in the last manifesto. The Greens are upto 16% in the polls with Polanski raising their profile. Mamdani has shown that leftist policies can be popular – if they are publicised via social media. For too long the rich have used their influence over the printed press and TV to maintain the staus quo. Hopefully we are seeing this hegmony crumbling. The young are realising that the old have been manipulating the economics for too long.

On this – poverty is an issue due to high rents and mortgages – not inaction or laziness by workers. So a reduction in rents is ‘feasible’, a mortgage rate reduction less so. Mamdani has stated that he will impose rent restrictions in New York. Will this cause property to become cheaper as renters sell up? Possibly. That would leave many with negative equity – but they would have a house and mortgage rates should drop with more properties on the market? I am obviously no economist. Reports in the rw New York Times said that a million New Yorkers plan to leave! Where will they go to? The saddoes who said they were leaving London have not unfortunately.

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CLIMATE CHANGE

Trump interprets words to his own interpretation. He claimed that Bill Gates had said that climate change was a hoax – he did not. He merely said that whilst itwas a major problem the emphasis should be business innovation (where he has huge investments!). With huge areas of the planet facing ecological breakdown there would seem to be a need for concerted action at all levels. Areas threatened with breakdown include the Amazon rainforest, destabilisation of Antarctican and Greenland ice caps and changes to the oceans. On an immediate level we have had significant floods in Pakistan and China and Hurricane Melissa and tropical storm Fengshen in Taiwan.

However there are positives (which the right wing parties seem to want to undermine for some strange reason?). Global investment in battery storage and renewables are risng. The cost of solar has fallen by 90% in 15 years, wind power is also fallen by 50% (offshoe) and 95% ( onshore). whilst battery costs are down by 90%. Where these stats come from as reported in the Observer is stated, but does not seem to be being passed onto the consumer. However it is positive but … oil companies are still expanding their production.

I am reminded of the old adage ‘give a man a fish and it will feed him for a day – teach him to fish and you feed him for life”. Reform and the Tories may cut energy bills today, but they will be lining the pockets of shareholders in the oil companies for decades, whilst contributing to 7million deaths a year from the pollution caused. (WHO figures). Let alone the ecosystem collapses stated above.

The cost of action against climate change is estimated at 15 GDP, the cost of inaction is 5-20% GDP. A no brainer (Trump, Farage, Badenoch, etc.!).

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CAR

Well thankfully I am not in Jamaica at present so news about car is better than a lot of alternative scenarios. The car has a leak somewhere they cannot find so will cost at least £600 and take 5 days. So looking on the brightside – an excuse for a Waitrose Internet Shop! It is also time for making xmas cake. Poolis made and on its last rise for a square loaf – but like a ciabata.

papers were quite funny today – looking to their readership; Express voiced concern about budget and OAP’s; Sun went for headline “Save our Betting Shops”; Telegraph had a moan about wind power. Star rejigged ‘lettuce’ quote. Mail has another anti-migrant headline whilst the Times leads on Labour not meeting its pledge on new houses (every field near a village here is being converted to houses!). I am not sure they are building factories or offices, or doctors surgeries and schools, youth clubs, sports faculties, or any other social facility. It is all just about money and profit. Oh, and fuck the environment – Floods will occur, and no one will accept responsibility for the shit decisions made by developers and politicians – but the tax payer will be expected to bail out those made homeless.

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AUTUMN

Temperatures have definitely dropped to early autumn levels. And we have had a useful drop of rain. First trees are begining to brown whilst my apple tree is shedding some apples before they ripen. I think the variety is Braeburn – but not sure.

First major earthquake for a while in Afghanistan. The USA has not had a major rumble for a while – whilst not wishing death and destruction on anyone innocent – a quake there would keep Trump occupied for a while – especially if in a MAGA state! Just sayin’.

Farage and Tice object to a christian view! The Archbishop of York has said that the Reform policies are ignoring the facts of the issue. Oh and the economics of it. Fucking morons! And yet they are supported widely. Is the population of these isles so thick? Would they be so uncaring if returned migrants are executed on airport runways? Probably is the answer!

Best opening words from a book? I have finally stopped grining about this one ” Its too hot for sex. I should have just said that before he pulled his shorts down and got his knob out”. This is not from a porn book but a romcom book by Kristen Bailey “Hot to go”. Yes I read rom-coms and wish I had been reading before my marriage went pear shaped! Never look back and say what if!

Angela Rayner is again a hate topic for Murdoch – is there an unholy alliance between Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, and Rupert Murdoch? They seem to alternate between their shite publications seamlessly! Latest that I can see is that she has sold her property up north, and has bought a flat in Hove. Her grace and favour property is irrelevant? How dare a member of the common people actually get to the heights of our society!

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VACCINATIONS

WHO issues warning that take up of MMR is 83.7% and polio, whooping cough, tetnus and diptheria was at 81.4% – herd immunity is 95%. Why? Regional differences are not easy to explain with Liverpool and London being below 70% whilst the North-east is above 90%. Ethnicity does come into it with Afro-Caribbean uptake being low. Conspiracy theories are also takinga toll – even the defeat of Covid is not acknowledged by many. The lack of trust in government (and thus the NHS) is concerning. How long before the Mai, Telegraph, Sun, i or Eepress have a horror/sob story about someone reacting badly to the vaccine. They will ignore the 83.% who benefit to spread fear amongst all parents. The latest addition to the NHS range is a vaccine against chicken pox.

Of course it is totally obscene and criminal the Robert F Kennedy Jnr is able to pursue his conspiracy theories and force the resignation of respected scientists in his pursuit of vaccine free policies. The USA has also cut funding mRNA programmes by $500 million – this how America has become a corrupt regeime controlled by an egoistic charlatan.

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BUGS

Although only August I have already noticed gardeners ‘tidying’ their patches. STOP – let it go! Where are the insects going to spend the winter if every scrap is tidied. Bugs like nooks and crannies, hollow stems and the seeds from blossoms only vaguely remembered. My garden receives mainly negative comments but it does provide potential hiding places through the winter.

However the garden is just an oasis in a sea of clipped lawns and insecticides – even when people have flower pots these will be emptied and sanitised. Oh well – I can only do my bit!

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WATER

Climate change is not some obscure phenononon that has been sent to punish the poor. The UK has a variable amount of rainfall from over 2000mm in the west and 500mm in the east. Geology further muddies the picture with much of the south east having porous chalk that can store water. However the population has risen and no new reservoirs built for 30 years. So there is a problem if rainfall levels become more erratic. In general terms rainfall has not changed in the UK for 200 years. So the problem is not nature or climate change – just the water companies gross incompetence. Capitalism decrees that failing companies go bankrupt. Labour must be brave and allow Thames Water and some others to go bust. 50% rises in the cost to consumers must not be allowed.

Reeves is spooked by the market after both Truss and then Trump over did tax cuts and financial measures. However the water companies need to adapt. Encouraging less use is imperative, but not at the expenses of personal hygiene. Toilet flushes are generally graduated. Household use is fairly constant, but garden use with water butts could be increased significantly. Introduction of beavers also has a moderating effect on water runoff. Farms should receive grants for own use reservoirs, as should users like golf courses. Basically we need to wise up! The technology exists – use it.

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SUNDAY MUSING

Is musing a word? Whatever!

I feel I must start with football – there is so much shit going down in the world that I need to return to te beautiful game. Liverpool and Wolves supporters showed the great humanity that the people on these islands generally have. One Liverpool person is to be prosecuted for racist abuse though. I hope his neighbours and family are ashamed of hime! TBH it is the impact of community that will make a difference, rather than laws. It was good to see that Surrey Police have sent out female joggers and have issued advice and warnings to those morons who bellieve it is acceptable to ‘cat call’ and shout remarks at the women.

Sunderland defied the pundits and in front of a crowd of 46233 won 3-0. They will do well to stay up, but their fans have a week of believing before Burnley away next weekend. I also love the FA Cup which is moving on – my pick, Runcorn Linnets are still going strong with 3 wins, and both Kates and John’s 2nd picks came good.

What to think about Putin and Trump meeting – my brain has gone blank with indifference/boredom/cynicism!

Weather watch – I still think we need a formal delivery of weather items by the PM infront of a pretensious podium flanked with Union Jacks. This week we could have him telling us about thousands dying in floods in Pakistans extreme monsoon, high temperatures at night in Israel and Jordan, Hurricane Erin hitting the Leeward Islands and basically who gives a fuck about the rest of the world. Sorry a bout of cynicism hit me from behind!

And Jenprick still annoys me – representing a failed wing of a once strong party he now calls for strong sentences on Palestine Action supporters. The twat is unbelieviably stupid and attention seeking. Is he really suggesting that we wshould imprison pensioners for saying free Gaza? No wonder many tories with dubious morals are going over to the Reform C***s.