I though me doing my washing at 30°C had shamed them into closing them all down.

Through most of the last few million years for which we have decent records, the earth's climate has frequently fluctuated around 2-3° every few decades (which is more than it's doing now).

Occasionally, it has fluctuated wildly, with temperatures moving more than 10° within a…

At the end of the day, he was just a bit too stupid. bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-s…

The Younger Dryas was a period of exceptional temperature fluctuations.

There are hundreds of published detailed studies and planetary records are pretty reliable for this period. At the beginning of the YD temperatures rose very rapidly. In fact, recent studies suggest that…

How do you deal with people who can't read?

The article actually says 'across most of the globe'.

In this video, doesn't the sanctimonious Vine appear quite clearly to be cycling on the wrong side of the road?

Which basically explains everything else that happened after.

I'm quite sure that if Vine had been on the left, as he should have been, the taxi would have passed…

Good news. Leap seconds play havoc with the world's computers...

As those who are actually in business will tell you, as opposed to economic theorists, VAT is a shit tax for small and large businesses and a brake on economic growth.

Theoretically sound - taxing value added rather than just sales - it is in practice a complete pain in the…

High quality sources? Yep, how about historical factual planetary records, as opposed to the climate doomsters' entirely non-factual astrological models.
nap.nationalacademies.org/read/10136/cha…

The Guardian is down by 2/3 since 2020

What first attracted you to the party 23 points ahead in the polls?

In a row about WFH, The Times reports that ONS staff have said they will only come to the office when they feel like it , not on days designated by the management.
My response? We’ll only pay you when we feel like it. Sack ‘em. Economists are simply astrologers in disguise.

This is Professor Susan Michie.

You might remember her as she was notoriously called out for being a member of the British Communist Party who sat on a govt scientific advisory board back in 2020/21.

Recently, she co-authored an article in the British Medical Journal outlining…

European social democracies amassed huge welfare systems last 30 years because they relied on someone else for security (USA), someone else for manufacturing (China), and someone else for cheap commodities (Russia).
What do you think will happen to this model without all of it?

Jim Dale is not a 'qualified meteorologist'.

He's not even called Jim.