10 June 2004

Warm spell to last ... about 15,000 years

One of those stories where the headline may be misleading. It appears that the ice age scenario is being thrown out. But note that this is only about regular sequences of glaciation over the last half milion years or so, that we now have, terms of those years, an unprecedented amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases floating around. So the concern that the gulf stream may be put into reverse is not addressed, in actual fact. It just seems less likely that this is waht caused ice ages previously -though I may be wrong in the way I've interpreted this.

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"Spend and tax" not "tax and spend"

 I got a response from my MP which got me kind of mad. You'll see why as I reproduce it here. Apologies for the strange changes in types...