Climate change and population growth

One of the most interesting and relatively unexplored possibilities that a changing climate will alter, is the relationship between climate change and population decline. Population is not declining; it is expanding so rapidly that most people are too embarrassed to talk about it.

Water levels are falling in the River Mekong

Rivers which are dammed bring economic benefits for the countries or states that have built the dams, but usually bring environmental and economic problems to the countries or states that are downstream to the dams. Dams extract or deprive places of water, which is essential to all life.

Flowers bloom earlier in a changing climate

Flowers do not tell lies. Thermometers can be inaccurate, and they can be misread.  Meteorologists may be selective about the material they present to us for climate change; universities may wish to increase their funding for climate change research and in doing so may inadvertently exaggerate. Some accuse climate change scientists of bad faith, dissembling, [...]

A General Election – time to vote

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown, has gone through the formalities needed to call a General Election. These formalities require getting the permission of the Queen, who will never say “no” and having done that small and fairly time consuming ceremony, Mr Brown can announce to his employers that they have a [...]

Arctic and Antarctic ice anomalies and climate change

The ice at the Arctic has unexpectedly increased over winter. I write “unexpectedly” because the trend in the past decades has been a decrease in the ice covering the ocean, but this year the ice has increased, The Northern Hemisphere has experienced an unusually cold winter and some meteorologists blame a strong cold Arctic oscillation [...]

Dominate and survive

It is natural that different life forms should attempt to dominate all others. They must dominate and master, in order to survive, but not eradicate what they dominate. If you eat all the food, including the seed corn, you will starve to death.

Christos Anesti – but only if you wish

As a child I was brought up as a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, and was taken to Church every Orthodox Easter.  I could not understand a word of the service, which was in Greek. At the end of the service the priests rushed to the door and served their congregation, as we left, [...]

Barriers blocking the evolution of science

Poincaire wrote that “physical science progresses by evolution, rather than by revolution. Its march is continuous.” In order for any science to progress scientists must be free to criticise and argue against the scientific works of others. Climate change science will make greater and faster advances if climate change deniers are encouraged to deny all [...]

I wish you a peaceful Good Friday

Today is Good Friday for all the major Christian Churches. We are at the very start of Spring. I am spending this week in Wales where in the course of a single day I have experienced bright sunshine, strong winds, hail and a snowstorm in several cycles, as though nature was showing us all the beauties of [...]

Dangerous Wales

Well, it looks as though they are surrounding Wales. Offa’s’ Dyke has the country covered in the East, and the sea encloses the west. In the South at Port Talbot there will be a foolishly conceived “biomass” burning power station which will import wood from Canada, have to store it in vast quantities safely and [...]