Climate Change

It’s been another week of rain, wind, snow and floods. The British weather has always been a national obsession but it was usually on the level of conversational grumbling about the rain in summer. Now that we are having more frequent extreme weather events we have really got something to grumble about.

I’m no expert on climate change but it doesn’t take a genius to recognise the fact that the weather is changing in a dramatic way. I don’t know if climate change is caused by mankind or if this is just part of the planets natural cycle but I think the evidence suggests human activities are playing a roll in accelerating global warming. When I was a kid and people first started talking about climate change and global warming they said it could result in warmer but wetter summers, an increase in extreme weather events and prolonged colder winters. All these things are now occurring on a frequent basis. Is it a blip in the long-range trends or a permanent shift in weather patterns? Time will tell.

Recent studies claim the Jet Stream may have altered as a result of increased temperatures in the arctic. This could also have a dramatic long-term impact in relation to the traditional British and North American weather patterns. The BBC has reported on this today:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26023166

We have to face facts, manmade or not, climate change is now starting to impact our lives in a big way. We need to find ways of dealing with flooding and our Dutch friends can help with this. We need to be better prepared for more frequent heavy snow for longer periods of winter. We also need to work out how to cope with seasonal changes and how they impact farming and energy resources.

These are big challenges and we can’t kid ourselves that reducing our emissions will solve everything. It will help in the long run and is of vital importance but these extreme weather events will become the norm and we have to invest in the technology and the infrastructure so we don’t have the terrible scenes we have witnessed over the last few weeks on an annual basis.

Griffin and the Holocaust

BNP leader Nick Griffin has once again denied being a Holocaust denier.

This is the man who he once referred to the Holocaust as "the Holohoax" when he was an editor of The Rune. He criticised infamous Holocaust denier David Irving for admitting that up to four million Jews might have died in the Holocaust; he wrote "True Revisionists will not be fooled by this new twist to the sorry tale of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century." In 1997, he told an undercover journalist that he had personally updated Richard Verrall's disgusting booklet Did Six Million Really Die?

Don’t be fooled by Griffin. He has own agenda when criticises the NF, the EDL or any other far-right group. He doesn’t do this because he disagrees with them. He does it as he wants to be the face of British right-wing politics with his party leading the way. Griffin is a fascist, a holocaust denier and a homophobe.

Griffin's party is in deep financial trouble and has dropped so far in the polls they are on the verge of becoming irrelevant. The sooner the better in my opinion. We don't need scum like Griffin in our nation's politics.