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February 02, 2007
A grand day out
Having spent last weekend on the Arctic Sunrise as a volunteer for the Dutch climate tour I was asked if I wanted to take part in a direct action this week against coal in the Netherlands. I jumped at the chance to strap myself to a crane, 40 meters up in the air and block 32,000 tones of coal from being unloaded off a ship.
On Tuesday we expected the coal to arrive on a big cargo ship but there was a very bad fire on a bottom trawler close to the north sea channel and they closed the channel so we couldn't do anything till the next morning. Spending an entire day waiting around wasn't any fun but radiant sunshine the following morning made up for it. About 30 of us were involved in the action and we all had different tasks. There were 3 cranes to block and we had 3 teams of crane blockers and a team who would hang a large banner from the main crane. I was in a team of 4 crane blockers.
October 28, 2006
September 12, 2006
Bermuda survived Florence but my umbrella did not
Well it was quite an exciting couple of days with hurricane force winds hitting the island for most of the day on Monday. We had tropical storm conditions on Sunday and I ventured out with my Aussie friend Adele to take some pictures of the incoming weather. I was shocked to find that the BBC actually posted one of our pictures!
Interesting article on the BBC too - about how humans are causing stronger storms despite the fact that hurricanes like Florence are fairly pathetic compared to Katrina.
"And even if we take it as read that there is an increase in the baseline of sea surface temperature, there are complexities in the way that cyclone formation reacts to that," he told the BBC News website."The hurricane now approaching Bermuda [Florence] struggled and struggled to get to hurricane intensity; so there will be year-to-year differences, and even storm-to-storm differences."
September 08, 2006
Getting ready for hurricane Florence
My tiny island of Bermuda in the Atlantic is now under threat from a direct hit by hurricane Florence, which should be a Category 2 hurricane by the time it gets here. I am frantically trying to do all my laundry and get things ready before panic sets in over the weekend where everyone will empty supermarket shelves of non-perishable food items and buy up all the tarpaulin on the island.
July 06, 2006
Less space more wind please!
 My RSS news feeds today |
I've always thought space exploration was the biggest waste of money. I mean sure, it would be *interesting* to find out more about black holes and life elsewhere but give me a break! Think of all the improvements here on Earth we could have achieved with the amount of money we've spent on farting around in space.
I realise that there are some benefits to humanity from the whole space thing like Velcro and dry ice cream that you can buy from the NASA gift shop (my friend brought me back some once but I thought it was pretty grim) but seriously if you lived in the Maldives (or anywhere else at risk of flooding due to rise in sea level) which would you pick when given the choice between Velcro and a dry home above sea level?
June 05, 2006
Where is David Attenborough's very convincing graph on climate change?
 David Attenborough showed a very convicing graph on the telly that looked a bit like this |
There was one section I remember very well and that was when Sir David was walking along this graph with some bloke from the Met Office (yes walking - it was a very big graph!) and they showed how recent climate change was correlated with human activity rather than natural events. I've been looking for this very same graph online but haven't found it. I re-drew the graph as I remember it but ideally I would love to know where this is shown online so that next time anyone has doubts about human induced climate change I can tell them to put this in their pipe and smoke it!
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May 31, 2006
Yes it is! No it's not! WTF??
 Is the sun to blame or not? |
My anti-global warming boss brought this article in the Telegraph to my attention: The truth about global warming - it's the Sun that's to blame and then I found this article reporting the same scientific research: Greenhouse Gases, Not Solar Activity, Cause of Global Warming.
It's news from a couple of years ago but having only just come across it I felt the urge to blog this HUGE contradiction within the media regarding climate change. I wonder how many times this happens?
May 10, 2006
Hurricane season is expected to start early this year
 My local dive shop was washed completely into the sea by a hurricane in 2003 |
I heard on the radio this morning that the oceanic currents going accross the Atlantic have already heated up to over 80 degrees Fahrenheit. This means that we can expect hurricanes before the usual start of the season on June 1st. How many more news bulletins like this do we have to hear before countries like the USA actually start doing something about global warming. Apparently George "Yee Hah, I'm Prezident!" Bush seems to think that humans will invent some kind of technology to deal with the catastrophic effects that a warmer planet is sure to bring. However, unless they can raise all of their coastal cities by several meters then I don't really see how they can resist climate change.
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