Comments from Scotland on politics, technology & all related matters (ie everything)/"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."Henry Louis Mencken....WARNING - THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS HAVE DECIDED THAT THIS BLOG IS LIKELY TO BE MISTAKEN FOR AN OFFICIAL PARTY SITE (no really, unanimous decision) I PROMISE IT ISN'T SO ENTER FREELY & OF YOUR OWN WILL
East Anglia University, home of the CRU, is going to hold an enquiry into this affair. The BBC's Roger Harrabin writes on on it. He obliquely discusses the problems in giving it credibility while still under control. I will address the same subject...
An interesting interview with Space Elevator technology expert Brad Edwards on Next Big Future. I have highlighted:
"Question: Current nanotubes are not sufficiently strong to be used in a space elevator. How much progress do you anticipate in...
A year ago I reviewed a lecture by Colin McInnes at the royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow about our possible, if we don't go Luddite, future.The Herald published this on Saturday which is based on the first part of it. Presumably the 2nd half,...
I mentioned earlier that the Australian opposition party had split with many of the most prominent shadow cabinet members resigning over the leader's insistence on supporting global warming. Well now they have a new leader who is sensible on the...
The 3rd of the 4 letters on the CRU emails I mentioned yesterday as not having been published is in today's Scotsman along with another also critical of the CRU (it calls for prison). The paper itself has a story on warming - that "the" explanation for...
