My greetings for the equinox

Although in Britain the weather is miserable today I can see trees with large buds and some with blossom from my window. The earth seems ready to wake up and renew itself. Chaucer wrote about it and I learned these words when I was young and they have stayed in my head ever since.

I [...]

Enjoying a sunny February

February had, by its 27th day set a new record for sunshine hours in London. Back in 1970 London enjoyed a record breaking 94 hours 22 minutes. Now it has had a total of 115 hours, the highest since, in that time hallowed phrase, records began.
Down in the Isle of Wight they got 179 [...]

Geomagnetic reversal theory of global warming - an alternative view

Traditionally global warming theory goes like this. We are releasing huge quantities of carbon dioxide that was locked underground in oil, gas and coal, by burning it to create energy. The additional carbon dioxide is more than the normal mechanisms of nature can process, so it stays in the atmosphere and acts as insulation stopping [...]

Insulate your home but keep the thermostat setting the same.

We haven’t had any snow in London this winter but when we do have snow you can see which home is insulated and which is wasting energy. If a roof retains more snow then that home is well insulated because there is little escape of heat from the rooms into the roof. If a roof [...]

Is the Climate changing, and if so how?

Spring is earlier this year than ever before. Spring flowers, like daffodils, bloomed in January and in London we have hardly had a frosty morning all year. Daffodils used to bloom around St David’s day – the first day of March. It may be that in 2009 the daffodils will not bloom until late March, and [...]

Northern Rock or microgeneration?

The debate about the way that the government dealt with the Northern Rock crisis still rumbles on. Some have said that Mr Darling had no choice because he had to ensure that people retained confidence in the banking system. I cannot imagine that he took this decision without having cleared it with the Prime Minster, [...]

New report from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change comprises climate scientists and they have recently reported. Its reports are the distillation of the research of thousands of scientists and sixth hundred of them from 113 countries (including the United States) go through its report line by line to ensure that they publish scientific consensus, and not blind [...]

The Diseased Planet

I have been thinking about change; how the seasons change and how there are now changes in the seasons themselves, caused by climate change. The real problem about climate change is that it happens slowly, by degrees. We will not wake up one fine morning to find a massive change in our planet’s climate has happened overnight. [...]

Where is Autumn?

It has been a bright and very sunny day in the southern part of England and Wales and I know because I travelled from Glamorgan to London. It is the second of November but the temperature has been about 16°C, which is 61°F, and there are still many insects like wasps and bumble bees around. [...]