View from the Potting Shed

Interesting video about climate change.
Yes, it’s nearly ten minutes long, but it’s worth watching … hey! what’s the worse that could happen?
Basically, he looks at the options if current theories about global climate change are correct or incorrect, and maps them against the options of whether we either do something about it or do nothing.
The […]

Here’s a website that I go back to every now and then: Extreme Instability.
It’s not an indication of the state of my inner emotional life, it’s a website of really cool photographs of natural phenomena, such as lightning storms, aurora, fog, night skies, tornadoes, etc. Some are available as wallpapers too.
What an incredibly beautiful […]

The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. (Map courtesy of Wikipedia)
I have a theory about climate change — have you noticed that people don’t call it “global warming” anymore? My theory is simply that climate change was invented by British scientists. Let me explain.
Now, […]

On Friday evening I popped down to sunny South Queensferry (next to the Forth Road Bridge, just outside Edinburgh) and met up with old friends Alan Vance and Ricky Carvel; friends from my first time at St Andrews (1989-1993).
Alan
Alan is a physicist who works for the Met Office in Exeter (at the other end of […]

I knew there was a reason that I liked Nokia and Lenovo so much: they’re greener than almost every other big-name electronics firms out there. But they still have a way to go.
I picked up this story back in April on the PC Pro website: Lenovo out in front in green race. It’s sat in […]

Photo by Mimiliz from sxc.hu
Conversation just now on Windows Live Messenger:
James: It’s miserable here! Rain, rain, rain!
Gareth: It’s not miserable because of the rain … it’s because you’re in England!
He did know I was kidding … didn’t he?

On Friday the blogosphere welcomed a new blog to its fold: Climate Change Scotland.
Started by the Rev Malcolm Rooney (a Church of Scotland minister of The Glens and Kirriemuir Old parish) and Eric Summers (Headteacher of Webster’s High School, Kirriemuir) the blog aims to promote awareness of, concern about, and action on climate change.
Churches and […]