Looks up - by Richard... Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Looks up - by Richard... Tuesday, August 17, 2010

... gazes around and sees this. Dives sharply for cover.

You don't have to be an expert to know this is funny money – and it's going to go belly up. In fact – as always – the only people who don't know are the experts.

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Day 38 - Battle of Britain - by Richard...

Mason, in his Battle over Britain, writes of this day that the scale and frequency of the German assaults - including the increasing use of the nerve-racking Stuka - engender "a new grimness in the character of the British".

The growing toll of enemy aircraft which fell over the English countryside, the increasing number of German airman bailing out amongst a population keyed up to meet an imminent invasion, the disruption of long-established amenities by enemy raids - all these pressures upon the English "now quite suddenly give birth to a startling and perhaps frightening atmosphere of hatred for the German people as a whole," he declares.

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Death by indifference - by Richard... Monday, August 16, 2010

Via GWPF a sombre tale that must chill the blood of any committed warmist.

The publicly funded NDR German television news show Panorama has had a look at the state of climate science and politics today in Germany. It finds that the topic has gone way beyond its shelf-life. It is used up and no longer draws a bit of interest from the public.

The German public has grown tired of the constant barrage of climate alarmism, and is now über-bored by it. Editors have since taken climate news off the front pages. The public doesn't want to hear it anymore.

And that's the way scares usually end – with a whimper rather than a bang. The public gets bored with it and moves on, leaving the scare promoters or "pushers" to soldier on by themselves. It moves from being a participatory to a spectator sport, and then it dies.

The fascinating thing is that the scientists and the politicians are the last to pick up on the change. But then, the final part of the scare cycle is the "regulatory" phase where the politicians move in to make laws to deal with the imagined threat.

This is the most dangerous phase – the one that does the most damage. We have hundreds of laws on the books dealing with the imagined threats from the 1980-90s, when by now millions of people should have died from Mad Cow Disease (pictured).

As for "son of Copenhagen", the optimism of achieving a climate treaty is gone. Says Karsten Sach, leader of the German Negotiating Delegation: "Everyone knows we've reached a dead-end."

To give it a British perspective though, how fascinating it is that our own politicians are so far down the track, followers rather than leaders. The Mad Cows (of both sexes) are now in government. And to prove it, they're still trying to sell climate change.

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Unravelling? - by Richard...

The Hockey Stick is toast, says WUWT. And a satellite failure means that temperature data are doubtful.

Will it make any difference? Methinks the High Priests are not going to give up that easily, while the politicians have too much money at stake. But it does seem to be unravelling rather fast.

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Day 37 - Battle of Britain - by Richard...

This was the day the RAF lost 48 aircraft, with many damaged, and claimed an outstanding victory. But then, everything is relative. The Germans lost 71 aircraft, and they also had a number of damaged aircraft to deal with. In fact, it was a victory and the RAF had no need to exaggerate. It did, of course, claiming 182 "kills". The Germans also exaggerated, tagging up 101 aircraft, including five Curtiss Hawks, a type which the RAF did not even operate.

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