6th November 2022

As Guy Fawkes didn’t blow up parliament last night, our PM will today attend the COP27 climate meeting,  devised to find yet more stringent ways to stop man’s ‘evil’ CO2 emissions. Global warming is certainly happening but many scientists are still not convinced of its cause. And now there’s even an intelligent robot looking impassively at the problem. Scientists John Abbott and Jennifer Marohasy created a neural network to investigate temperature fluctuations since before records began. The robot’s findings? Natural phenomena such as planetary shift and solar activity, causing changes in oceanic water flows, are the most likely reason for current global warming. At least five ice ages have occurred throughout Earth’s history, the earliest 2 billion years ago, long before man appeared. I don’t believe there’s anything we can do, except organise global efforts to move people away from danger areas near coasts, rivers, volcanoes, the tropics etc, and build insulated houses on stilts. The world often gets things spectacularly wrong, e.g. convincing us all to hide away from a flu-like virus! The financial fall out will be with us for decades. Sweden didn’t shut down and doesn’t appear to have suffered a greater death toll than the rest of us. Sometimes, we need to take a step back and use common sense. Pity Mr Fawkes didn’t.