Remember the science is settled? Remember there is consensus? Remember drowning pets and exploding children? Remember being told not to eat meat or the Inconvenient Truth and Al Gore's Nobel prize? Ooops: "“The Earth’s mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity"..."These results are truly sensational. If confirmed by other studies, this could have far-reaching impacts on efforts to achieve the political targets for climate." The new research comes on top of other recent reevaluations. What chance this will put a brake on wind turbine madness and energy bill rises? (Hat-tip the Captain).
domingo, 27 de enero de 2013
Oslo observations...
Remember the science is settled? Remember there is consensus? Remember drowning pets and exploding children? Remember being told not to eat meat or the Inconvenient Truth and Al Gore's Nobel prize? Ooops: "“The Earth’s mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity"..."These results are truly sensational. If confirmed by other studies, this could have far-reaching impacts on efforts to achieve the political targets for climate." The new research comes on top of other recent reevaluations. What chance this will put a brake on wind turbine madness and energy bill rises? (Hat-tip the Captain).
Oslo observations...
Remember the science is settled? Remember there is consensus? Remember drowning pets and exploding children? Remember being told not to eat meat or the Inconvenient Truth and Al Gore's Nobel prize? Ooops: "“The Earth’s mean temperature rose sharply during the 1990s. This may have caused us to overestimate climate sensitivity"..."These results are truly sensational. If confirmed by other studies, this could have far-reaching impacts on efforts to achieve the political targets for climate." The new research comes on top of other recent reevaluations. What chance this will put a brake on wind turbine madness and energy bill rises? (Hat-tip the Captain).
Olamic oblectation...
| Eternal delight: forty years ago today we witnessed something wonderful. There were many before and after but this is regarded as among - if not the - best: that fellow Edwards; the Home Unions select side vs. New Zealand, or as we know it: the Barbarians vs. the All Blacks, January 27th, 1973, Cardiff Arms Park. In fact the whole match was fantastic; what you see in the video is in the first few minutes! Phil Bennett's agility, Edwards coming at pace from deep. All amateurs, all in heavy cotton kit (much heavier when wet, like the ball, like the boots!) no squad of trainers: look what happens after that try, a pat on the back if you're lucky. Rugby as it was, the greatest game ever invented. Some really good comments here. |
Olamic oblectation...
| Eternal delight: forty years ago today we witnessed something wonderful. There were many before and after but this is regarded as among - if not the - best: that fellow Edwards; the Home Unions select side vs. New Zealand, or as we know it: the Barbarians vs. the All Blacks, January 27th, 1973, Cardiff Arms Park. In fact the whole match was fantastic; what you see in the video is in the first few minutes! Phil Bennett's agility, Edwards coming at pace from deep. All amateurs, all in heavy cotton kit (much heavier when wet, like the ball, like the boots!) no squad of trainers: look what happens after that try, a pat on the back if you're lucky. Rugby as it was, the greatest game ever invented. Some really good comments here. |
sábado, 26 de enero de 2013
Odeon options...
Having got back into the swing of life back in England I decided to push the boat out: now I have two direct debits: my cinema card arrived and I popped into town to the local moving-picture theatre. Three choices attracted my attention:
(i) Lincoln: an American historical drama already received with widespread critical acclaim and a dead cert for Oscars (although some historical facts are missing) The film covers the last four months of Lincoln's life and his efforts exactly 148 years ago to get the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed. No doubt a political and historical Spielberg masterpiece highlighting how close the Amendment came to failure and only a white lie (did I say white?) assuring the passage: had an end to hostilities in the Civil War peace been seen as a possibility without the outlawing of slavery and involuntary servitude (and it was a very real possibility) the Amendment would have failed.
(ii) Les Miserables: another contender for Oscars; sumptuous moving musical and film version of the extraordinarily successful stage show of the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo. The book, like the stage show, began with largely negative reviews only to overcome the bad vibes and become immensely popular (the stage show being a global phenomenon). This film seem set on the same path -except the reviews are very positive! Set in France after Napoleon has fallen (for the second time) up until the June Rebellion of 1832. Rather than bore you with the history, the Daily Beast sets the scene. (iii) The Last Stand: Arnie doing what he does best; this time as a small Mexican-border town Sheriff .'You fucked up my day off.' An entertainingly unpretentious, old-school cops-and-drug-barons action movie (hat-tip for those words to Peter Bradshaw at the Guardian): Weekend escapism and worth it just for Genesis Rodriguez's pout.
Guess which one I went to see...no contest, right?
Odeon options...
Having got back into the swing of life back in England I decided to push the boat out: now I have two direct debits: my cinema card arrived and I popped into town to the local moving-picture theatre. Three choices attracted my attention:
(i) Lincoln: an American historical drama already received with widespread critical acclaim and a dead cert for Oscars (although some historical facts are missing) The film covers the last four months of Lincoln's life and his efforts exactly 148 years ago to get the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed. No doubt a political and historical Spielberg masterpiece highlighting how close the Amendment came to failure and only a white lie (did I say white?) assuring the passage: had an end to hostilities in the Civil War peace been seen as a possibility without the outlawing of slavery and involuntary servitude (and it was a very real possibility) the Amendment would have failed.
(ii) Les Miserables: another contender for Oscars; sumptuous moving musical and film version of the extraordinarily successful stage show of the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo. The book, like the stage show, began with largely negative reviews only to overcome the bad vibes and become immensely popular (the stage show being a global phenomenon). This film seem set on the same path -except the reviews are very positive! Set in France after Napoleon has fallen (for the second time) up until the June Rebellion of 1832. Rather than bore you with the history, the Daily Beast sets the scene. (iii) The Last Stand: Arnie doing what he does best; this time as a small Mexican-border town Sheriff .'You fucked up my day off.' An entertainingly unpretentious, old-school cops-and-drug-barons action movie (hat-tip for those words to Peter Bradshaw at the Guardian): Weekend escapism and worth it just for Genesis Rodriguez's pout.
Guess which one I went to see...no contest, right?
jueves, 24 de enero de 2013
Ólafur's outing...
He's trying to get in my good books now! Will there be a bun-fight at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland where Iceland's longest-serving president president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is going to speak...and where Gordon Brown will also be a guest speaker? The bun-fight could ensure because, as the Reykjavik Grapevine reports, Ólafur told Sky News yesterday:
"The Gordon Brown government decided, to its eternal shame, to put the Icelandic government on a list of terrorist states and terrorist phenomena. We were there together with Al Qaeda and the Taliban on that list."
He added that Crash Gordon would be remembered in Iceland "long after he has been completely forgotten in Britain", hmmm, I doubt that; as Guido says, "Not sure Gordon will ever be 'completely forgotten'"!
Ólafur's outing...
"The Gordon Brown government decided, to its eternal shame, to put the Icelandic government on a list of terrorist states and terrorist phenomena. We were there together with Al Qaeda and the Taliban on that list."He added that Crash Gordon would be remembered in Iceland "long after he has been completely forgotten in Britain", hmmm, I doubt that; as Guido says, "Not sure Gordon will ever be 'completely forgotten'"!
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