In the first of a new series of blog posts, I recall my early days and the circumstances that gave me a passion for radio — beginning with the pirate stations of the 1960s … On Monday the 14th of August 1967, at just after three o’clock in the afternoon, I sat alone in my [...]
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Sudden Climate Shifts Predicted
Could the Earth undergo sudden, rather than gradual, climate change? A recent report in a prestigious science journal assesses the likelihood and concludes: yes, it could. In my last post, I discussed my increasing conviction that we’re heading for a sudden, catastrophic climatic event. By “sudden”, I mean just that: not a gradual change over [...]
Superstorm Authors Vindicated
When The Coming Global Superstorm was first published in 2000, co-authors Art Bell and Whitley Strieber were ridiculed by climatologists and sceptics alike for talking arrant nonsense — which makes New Scientist magazine’s cautious reappraisal of their theory all the more significant This book was the inspiration behind the 2004 blockbuster movie The Day After [...]
Cornwall: Part 1
CORNWALL: PART 1 To LAND’S END, taking in THE MINACK THEATRE and MOUSEHOLE My dear reader — please note that this post includes some quite hefty animated GIFs which might take a little extra time to download. Your patience is appreciated. Most graphics and photos can be clicked to see larger versions, my photo collections [...]
Climate Change: Competing Theories
Richard Cassidy commented on my UK Floods: The Crisis Deepens post yesterday, saying he saw a feature on BBC news yesterday which suggested that the Gulfstream had [temporarily??] shifted south of the UK. Thanks for your comment Richard. I found a BBC News Online report that talks about the shifting of the Jet Stream high [...]
The UK Floods
This was never intended to be a “techy” blog, though my last few posts do seem to have taken me in that direction, which shows how easy it is for me to get side-tracked by the wunnerful world of Web 2.0. Well, other much more important things have been happening in the world outside my [...]
Defeat Global Warming? Just Think About It
Whitley Strieber’s Unknown Country web site published a provocative story today. Titled The Intention Experiment WORKED, it reported how a recent experiment with a geranium plant seems to indicate that intentional projected thoughts can have an effect over distance. The Intention Experiment was devised by Lynne McTaggert and Dr. Gary Schwartz from the University of [...]
