Do Not Forget Your X'mas Pressie

I was instructed by the hospital after the last visit; to go for another bloody examination. This is something to do with my digestive system. Well last hospital stay was very intersting but the boffins at the hospital could not find what wa wrong with me, except that I had a very bad infection of some sort. So this visit is to check some investigate more.

I had to swallow a camera in a capsule and the boffins watch the video. I was given a general as I can't stay without moving because of my back problems. So I missed the pop corn and cola session the docs and nurses had. 

The same evening I had Dan and Kim visit ...boy o boy didn't we have a lovely time... Got properly blasted.

So next morning I was still in space...sat on me sofa with a coffee. Leaned back and heard this growling sound coming from my tummy area. I moved forword and the growling sound...bit different came back. So I diligently moved back and forth mmmm same again. Thought of phoning 101 but I phoned my GP for a phone back. I had a call back.....I was told that after a dump that camera has been gone out. 

 Then I moved and noticed that a christmas pressie  a fake fart thingey in a small bag which was pressing on my back. Sorted.

Bit of advice I reckon

This happened in the same train trips as in this.

Me and my friend Duche were walking in Exeter as there were lots of people milling around.We went to investigate and walked down this road where people were going towards. Then Duche says "Pulle! pulle". I knew that means, the slang term for the police. So there this policeman was walking towards us on the other side of the road. Without says anything he motioned me to cross the road. He went straight to the guy and said in his best French acsent " Where is the skul road?". The man said there is no school road but there is a school lane. Viola says Duche and we proceeded.

The moral of the story is: if you are carrying illegal substances, which we did, best to go to the police-person rather than wait for them to come to you. Well atleast it worked at that time init?

Three men in a pub

Back in the eighties we used to travel trains in an area. Me and Duche from bristol and a few lads from Notts. We used buy a season ticket to travel all over an area like West country. Bristol, Penzance and Exeter. Cost about 20 quid. Duche is a friendly French national who scappered from france when he turned 16, so that not to do national service. Dom is a dour English football hooligan from Nottingham. Me a 'Paki'.
Three of us went to a pub in Truro and went to the bar to order drinks. We were a weird looking bunch. Dom dressed in dirty tee shirt and a tattered jeans, Duche in a long black coat with a black top hat, and me in a tattered army jacket with a sleaves torn off leather jacket, which looked like a waist coat.
The land lord took a step back words and said. "Whoa lads sorry I cannot serve you."
I said, "Can we have some water please, you have to serve us, as it is the law." I remember on the TV some one say that it is law; that if you ask for water from any house or establishment in the UK, you have to be given water..
There was a bar fly who turned to the landlord and said, "He is right. You have to serve water to the three gentlemen"
Yes he served us water and told us to drink it outside.  We dumped the water and ran away with the bloody glasses.

Unism

Three steps to attain enlightenment without religions.

Do you think that your parents knew you before you are born. I don't think you do. So you are the entity (you may call it god if you like) who created your self. You are the father, son and the spirit; or you are the mother, daughter and the spirit. You are the trnity. As Jesus claimed. To yourself you are one, but to a second person you are the god who created you, then yourself and after your death, that person remember you as a memory. So you have to take responsibility for your own birth as you selecte your mother's cell and your father's cell and made them to be one cell, which divided into multiple cells to become yourself. then to your own life and last your own death. Even someone else kills you, you are the person who created the situation for your own death. Responsibility is the word.

No matter what religion you follow you learnt it from a Holy Book. When you read the book or priest teaches you about the religion, you understand it in your own logic. So it is not what the proper original religion which you understand. It is your own version of the religion. So the religous path you take is your own inference of the original.

 I can as I sit and write this say, "Everything I have done in the past is the right thing at the right time to be right here". So if I done something wrong I will not be here. So where is my sin? But thinking this way do not offer you the way to hurt other living beings and say "Where is my sin". No no no. Do not manupilate or plan to harm others.

Aircraft emissions into the atmosphere

I am too old to think about the predicted climate change in the future. And I do not have any children to worry about thier future either. I just found out that IPCC (International Panel for Climate Change) published their report about CC. So do you think I care about this report and the future in store for us. Nah.... But any way here are some

At the moment the pollution by aircrafts are 2% of the total. An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.


 The emissions from aircraft can happen during various stages of the flight. some will be emitted at high altitudes and they can be more potant in climate change. There are no international borders in this issue and everone on earth should be aware of this.

If you take a flight from UK to South Africa, the CO2 emmission for each passenger is equivalent to the CO2 emmission from a house for a year in UK. If you fly 1 person from Bristol (UK) to Malaga (Spain), the amount of CO2 is 0.27 Tonnes, that is equivalent to driving 900 miles.

A way to lesson the emmissions is to take a single flight instead of multi. More emmissions are made during take off and landing.

Each year one billion plane journeys are made. Any moment in time there are million people suspended in the air in planes.  Unbelievable init?

The climate change has made the air turbulance  has increased by 15% since 1997. That is called the  perpendicular wind sheer. In the futuire either pilots will have to take a deviation from the direct route or the passengers will have to suffer the beautiful bobbing up and down in the seat. Hope you have a strong tummy mummy. Or pray the airlines will do something really good or stupid. And last stats I can give you is; next year we are going to do 5 trillion miles (8 trillion km) of air travel. OK you happy people, come fly with me to get the best views up there for the time being.

IMPACTS OF AIR TRAVEL ON THE ATMOSPHERE

In 1999 the world’s top climate scientists, the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange(IPCC), published a detailed study of the impact of aircraft pollution on our atmosphere - Aviation and the Global Atmosphere The report’s findings support the following:

 (see website  ).

and if are really good at this lark have butchers at this:

IPCC (International Panel for Climate Change)

hooohum and this



Comments welcome

Why Is It Only USA Can Interfere With Other Country's Affairs

Today's news I heard the USA accusing Iran interfering with Syria, Yemen and Hezbolla.

But according to recent article in Jerusalam Post:

The US said it would leave Syria in December 2018, reversing what had seemed like policy commitment to Syria. US President Donald Trump felt it was time to wrap things up, but he was convinced to keep a small force in Syria. Nevertheless, the major investment by the US State Department and other parts of the government was reduced. The US plans for “stabilization” seemed on hold. Now in the summer of 2019 things may be changing again.

 Please check my earlier post here

And there is a Wikipedia page here 

Some interesting comment:

......In mid-January 2018, the Trump administration indicated its intention to maintain an open-ended military presence in Syria to counter Iran's influence and oust Syrian president Bashar al-AssadIn early September 2018, the U.S. began implementing a new strategy that sought to indefinitely extend the military effort, launching a major diplomatic push to achieve American objectives in Syria. However, on 19 December, President Trump unilaterally ordered the withdrawal of the 2,000–2,500 American ground troops in Syria, which was initially set take place in a 90-day period and to be completed in 2019. The announcement shifted the scope of American interests in the conflict from what was an increasingly open-ended presence to a sudden draw-down. The fear of a power vacuum from a premature U.S. pullout from Syria drew consternation from both American officials and allies, particularly in regards to the potential of imperiling the Kurds in the face of Turkish opportunism, potentially giving Russia and Iran geopolitical wins, and the unintended consequence of allowing breathing room for extremist and terrorist groups operating in Syria to regroup and reorganize.....

I will continue later with other comments.

Universe and its expansion

Oldest Star in the Milky Way      

Astronomers have found one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way and possibly one of the oldest in the universe, a body made up almost entirely of elements generated in the Big Bang birth of the cosmos.

The tiny, 13.5-billion-year-old star is part of the Milky Way’s “thin disk,” the realm where the sun resides. Given the age of the newly discovered star, the solar system’s neighbourhood may be up to three billion years older than previously thought.

This is the problem I have. Read a bit of this which says it is only about 1,950 ly (600 pc) fron Earth. How come this star is in the Milky Way. Why is it still around, if we think there was a Big Bang around 14 billion years ago?  It should have gone beyond it's 'eat by date' has gone?  And why don't it have a red-shift, indicating it is flying away from us?

Gravity

What is gravity has f****** lots of human's brain out. So simple explanation huh? Wikipedia says this:

Gravity (from Latin gravitas, meaning 'weight'^[1]), or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light^[2]—are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another. On Earth, gravity gives weight to physical objects, and the Moon's gravity causes the ocean tides. The gravitational attraction of the original gaseous matter present in the Universe caused it to begin coalescing, forming stars – and for the stars to group together into galaxies – so gravity is responsible for many of the large-scale structures in the Universe. Gravity has an infinite range, although its effects become increasingly weaker on farther objects.

Not so smple is it?
And then I came across the Einstein's General Relativity theory. In that :

The prediction of the deflection of light was first confirmed by Arthur Stanley Eddington from his observations during the Solar eclipse of 29 May 1919.^[23][24] Eddington measured starlight deflections twice those predicted by Newtonian corpuscular theory, in accordance with the predictions of general relativity. However, his interpretation of the results was later disputed.^[25] More recent tests using radio interferometric measurements of quasars passing behind the Sun have more accurately and consistently confirmed the deflection of light to the degree predicted by general relativity.^[26] See also gravitational lens.

So if we know the dimention of the Sun, the distance to the quasar, and the speed of light, can't we get a solution for gravity in terms of seconds and meters? And we know that the gravity of the Sun is 28 times that of Earth. I am not a maths boffin so I am afraid I cannot do any investigation into this.  In the bucket list li (loving it)

 

2011-02-10 US, Syria Propaganda War Over Syrian Nuclear Investigation and Diplomatic Relations

Cables released by WikiLeaks on Syria show a State Department eager to repair relations with Syria, which were in extreme ruin when the Bush Administration left power. They show the US government was eager to double their efforts at targeting Syria’s interest in developing nuclear capabilities. The cable 09DAMASCUS142 (does not work prrrff) from February 19, 2009, shows US officials wanted to find a way to break through Syrian media, which is tightly controlled by the government, and get its own propaganda into the country so Syrians could hear what the US considered to be the truth on US-Syria relations.
Officials were concerned that “savvy journalists” had become “adept at self-censorship.” And, thus, the truth about Syria’s nuclear activities was not being reported:

This is from the web page: Cables many to follow on Syria.

My 2019 New Year's Start

Let me explain first where I am going:


https://www.google.com/maps/place/Callington+PL17+8PT/@50.5421154,-4.3166212,3a,75y,356.11h,96.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sY1GqtMdDVF3vO28063Nr-A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x486c88e159424c87:0x392b3d267079a753!8m2!3d50.5386417!4d-4.3154186

Well that is the front of the whole house. Real map is;

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Callington+PL17+8PT/@50.5386417,-4.3176073,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x486c88e159424c87:0x392b3d267079a753!8m2!3d50.5386417!4d-4.3154186

04:01:2019

Did not have to wait for Luc, at all very surprised. Came around on time. Normally couple of hours I have to wait for him. I was already packed but I had the rubbish to put out, he did that for me, while I did the washing up. On we started our trip to Cornwall. Its situated near the border with Devon, but lets not argue. Its something to do with the river Tamar. Hee hee (Lots of arguments about the border of Cornwall. Never mention Cornish Pasties). Driving was smooth and nice, for a change in Luc's normal driving. Not many vehicles on the M5.

Luc had to go to deliver a package from his brother-in-law Bob to a repair shop in Wooten-Under-Edge So off the beaten track to Wooten. Nothing to write about the town, if you have been there. If not ask your History teacher for any facts.

Back on the M5. Straight away Luc says "Got to get petrol". O dear. So we came out of the next junction at Cribs-Causeway. Petrol done paid off at the pump. Blimey that was fast except Luc nearly fell sleep while holding the nozzle into the tank. Slow dribbley pump.

By and by we came off the M5 and moved into the country roads. God forbid, what a state these roads. Smell of muck drifted very friendly across us and we carried on nonplussed. Then the smell got worse and we found out that the muck spreader is doing a fine job on the ex-road. May be next summer they will have to get the combine-harvester to finish the job. Luc was feeling thirsty. My back was killing me slowly. So we hit the pub. Its a new pub and there were some people sitting down on one side of the pub. We convened on the other side as bar flies. A tequila went down cool and started to work on my back pain. Luc gulped his larger before I came back from the wee room. Wee room had old fashioned country way, with a basket of fresh hand towels to wipe your washed face and hands and another basket for the soiled towels. Exit pub feeling good.

Ventured into Helen, Lucs sister and amd her hubby Bob's farm. Not a soul around outside. We entered the kitchen. Hey where is everyone. So I sat on a chair in the kitchen, Luc went into the sitting room. I heard him mumbling something to someone. Luc's dog errr bitch, Pip came out and recognized me and wanted me to fuss around her. Bless oo long time no see heh?

 Its not good. The story was that bob is asleep on the sofa and Helen and Sam Luc's cousin (father different from Bob) has gone to shops. The time of arrival back home unkown. Luc made some tea. Waited 10 mnts or so. Bob did not come out. So we decided to go to Luc's. Threw the undrunk tea in the sink and out we went. In a way I was very happy going in there. It was lived in with things piled up and the kitchen was thankfully 100 times dirtier than mine. Ha ha init.

I felt like a piece of that dark brown stuff you step on and cannot get rid of unless you find somewhere to scrape it off. I don't know why. But may be I expected more, like some one to say hi.



At last we arrived at this beautiful circa 1270 AD, old converted stables. And that is his flat. I mean bigger than a flat. It got 3 large bedrooms and a good size sitting room. Small toilet with a shower. And a nice long kitchen with a breakfast unit. Ah girt lush matey. The walls are thicker than my shoulders. I love looking at these old dears before their ultimate demise. It was owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, Prince Of Wales ilk. A good thinking man, the landlord, has bought this in 1994 and converted them into 2 flats and the middle bit as his own domain. Good man eh? So I am so proud of my man Luc, to get this place for the sole intention to have a place for his 3 young girls, to holiday. I christened my visit by opening my other good friend, a bottle of Vodka and had it.

                                         This is where we go into the flat

Luc organised a wicked curry and Luc gulped it, me ate it, washed down with wine and larger. My my I got so pissed I blipped and went to bed. Well I remembered later I was disgustingly bad at mouthing off at Luc for something or another. F'ing cold it was in the night. Did not sleep much. The back pain went up by more than double due to I think the way I was sitting in the car. Must remember this on the way back huh?

05:01:2000

And a colder morning. But the flat was becomingly worm. Found Luc already in the kitchen. Made me a cup of coffee ( not my normal cafetiere one but that sufficed). Normal sleepy head morning chit chat followed for a while until he decided to make breakfast. I am not a breakfast person but when in Rome etc I digressed. I don't have breakfast unless it comes in a pre-packed box inviting to be nuked by the micro. Hey hey how dare you call me a bloody lazy. It is just me in my little old flat. Cooking for one is not laziness but practicality. Ok you can have your own petty thoughts. I hope one day they come out with a solution, made for one man who likes breakfast. O yes there are but, when I tried; it was one hell of a piece of what you call it... ahh words fail me. But what Luc made me was bloody good . Egg, Bacon etc etc. But though big I made it after about half an hour or so. Blimey go back to bed. Hey no way.



Yikes a bit of History of the area.

The recorded history and the topography of Callington strongly suggest a planned medieval borough was created here by the 13th century. ‘Calwiton’ was a Domesday manor within South Hill parish (the name meaning ‘bare hill farm’), which obtained a chapel in the early 12th century on the site of the present church. This small dependent churchtown was situated at the junction of a number of important routes between navigable rivers (Lynher, Tamar) and close to the early-exploited mining area on Kit Hill as well as a prosperous agricultural (and wool-producing) hinterland. Perhaps not surprisingly, by 1267 a market charter was granted by Henry III. The small market town has typical elements of a planned settlement – a chapel dependent on a distant mother-church, a triangular shaped market place laid out on flat ground, opening out in front of the church with burgage plots on either side with back lanes and evidence of roads being re-routed to pass through the market place (Liskeard Road – Church Street). In 1436 an application was made for the right of burial and in 1438 the present church and the lantern cross in the churchyard were erected. In 1583 the town received borough status. Boundary stones define the boundaries of the borough.

If you want to have a butchers into this and have a few hours of your time this is the link:

The recorded history and the topography of Callington

 Ok we will come to Kit Hill a bit later on.

A wicked map of the earliest ordinance msps of the area

Ahh here came the punishment. We went outside to look around. Me lookie ,Luc showie. Straight away Luc said, " Cor blimey you stepped on dog poo". Just what I needed. At least there was good brushy grass with dew on top. Wiped it almost clean I hoped. No time to dilley-dally around. There in front of us an unconverted 1270's barn. Well bit repaired here and there. You can see the repairs, check the pics.

                                                                   

The Old Barn 

  Another Old Barn



  an old stable has been converted into 3 living space.  The stable lot (living space)is quite long to have the 2 flats and the ends and the landlord's lair in the middle. One time the whole thing was used as a cider making building. You can see the slide they constructed for the apple to be delivered. See pic.

 The Slide where the apples were loaded into the cider house

The rest is mundane grass fields with clump of cedar tree which the tenants can use as firewood down below.

I purposely did not take any pics inside (do not know why hmmm buggers)

But here are some pics from outside

The Bedroom Side Of The Flat  

                                           The Sitting Room Side Of The Flat 
 

Damn forgot to mention the fireplace in the sitting room. The flat got radiators but they come at certain times of the evening and morning. Came back indoors rather to escape the freezer outside. Then I called my good friend John C (lovingly reffered  to as Scottish John). He said he will come to Luc's at 12:30 PM. Wow time so precise, I loves it. Never knew Jocks to be on time.

I take my sentence above back. John arrived at the right time and after preliminary hugs and hi's we started talking at the same time. Luc left us and proceeded to the sitting room to get the fire going. Good lad as even inside it was getting a bit rubbing palms like. Hey hey good in front of the fire. good old chat for the next 2 hours with lots of mugs of tea. And lots of logs in the fire. We enjoyed yapping about the yester years rubbish. I love talking rubbish. Thats the best ever entertainment you can have, a bit of one-up-manship. I found  that Luc bumped on to John at Helen's farm. John was delivering some furniture to the farm and Luc being there goes, "Oi I knows you".  BTW Luc and John met each other at my place long time ago. We all love coincidences init? So we all decided to go for a spin in John's car. We went to a place called Kit Hill (mentioned above), around Callington. It was freezing and there was plenty ground mist swirling around. But you can see 15 miles or more in a clear day, as far away as Plymouth. But it was not unfortunately be able to see even with binoculars. So after paying our respects to the big tower with lots of mobile and TV aerials, we got back into the luxury warmth of the car. Back to Luc's and John said buy for now. Lovely time. Nice to see an old friend. Yep from 1990.



And now we both bit tired and all; but Luc decided to cook some tea. But me I am still full with the breakfast. But not I can stop the very stubborn man. So baked spuds was made. Man it was full works with butter and cheese etc. I could only eat half the spud. And O Boy I was dented by the experience. I wish I can eat more, but there is a limit to all good things. So I went to bed for a little sleep. We can call it a nap in the evening. Woke up about 9 and started writing this journal until Luc came about to watch the MOD (for the uninitiated that means Match of the Day). Watched it and I being still full up had to leave the food in the micro. Buggers . Me did not feel good about it. I hope it is not an insult. Crossed fingers. Went to bed for the night.

06:01:2019

Luc was planning to go to see his mother to take her to the Quaker's do. I was planning to go with him. But woken up at 8.30 AM was not my idea of holiday init? So I decided not to go with him. So I a lunatic who did not know about the heating of the flat stayed in. Well lets put it this way Luc explained but I was not really listening as this is his pad and I am a visitor. I enjoyed the solitude of the place and watched some of the drivel from the tv. Ah his tv is a tablet and very very small. But beggers choice init? So by about 11 AM the temperature of the flat started to wonder down. I was troubled. So another layer and the jacket went on but my head was not very worm. So the towel went on top and I read the Witch magazine and settled down. Some program though boring kept me entertained. Prrrr I wish I went with Luc. But my back said no init? Well I said to myself,"You have been in worse situations than this, man, grin and stop winging". That thought got me through until Luc arrived. No no, I started texting him, asking him,"What is ur ETA ' ur place ". And the door opened. Viola! Ze man appeared.


Aha the fire in the sitting room. I wished I asked Luc about how to start it etc etc. Now he explained all to me. That was I believe I will do it next time I visit some one else's domain, and stay there for a few days. LOL. He did the fire and my core temperature started to rise. Hmm memories faded in from the dim past, when I was living homelessand sleeping in a sleeping bag in the open air, in 1987 to 1990. And in 2003 to 2005 living in a storage garage. That is another story. Enjoyed the afternoon and evening watching details of FA cup matches in the little box. Yeah my man Luc is bloody irritatingly happy that Man City won 7/0. Gosh we watched afternoon scores a few times. The match between Newport Town and Leicester City was good. I took Leicester side and grrr I and  they lost. More irritation as he kept on asking me what the score was 2-1 to NT. Grrr.


Wicked. He cooked a Sunday roast. bloody good thing I did not have breakfast init? Jeez that was yummy and filling. It had all the trimming. Tell you what he is not a bad cook. No no no,a good cook. Practiced over the years cooking for his kids I think. I for one has lost the touch. After years of heating up frozen packs of already prepared food, I can manage a stir fry with noodles. I did offer him to do it. He refused to accept it. Thank God. Hee hee. Couple of hours of an evening nap got up to watch the inevitable MOD. Yes all the matches of the day. Got bored after the Man City highlights and went to bed, as I did not want to watch him glorifying Man City's match. Though I would have loved to stay there for another few days, but the decision was made to get back next day. Luc's time in the flat is going to be finished by Thursday. I wanted to get a taxi back but Luc said he will drop me home. I decided to give him what ever the taxi cost. Ungentlemanly to utter the figures, and he was happy. Aha another quilt the job was done. Toast. very good sleep.


07:01:2019

Good morning Callington. Warmer morning today and coffee went down well and good. Luc getting ready to go to his sister's and I did not feel good. So I stayed back. Learnt everything how to start the fire and got the fire place loaded with logs.  Had a bit of bother to get the fire going. There were two wettish large logs which were piled in the fire. So lots of fire lighters went in but the fire said hmm not. Persistence paid off. manage the bugger to roar on like it has no tomorrow. So lied around the fire for the next couple of hours. It was good fire. But do not pile it to the top with wet logs. Keep it small to start with until you get a good fire roaring. Then pile on the wet buggers if you must. But otherwise put them in front or on top of the fire place to dry. Hey hey now I am an expert in doing a fire. But I will forget the whole lot next time.

Good all practice maketh (Bloody Americans do not know olde English, like maketh and olde) logs fire well. Right! packed my goodies in the two bags. By the way I wore the same cloths I went there with except my t shirt, knickers and socks. Mummy's orders. Tried the shower. For a man of wisdom who likes his baths; that was a 2 minute affair. Well water was just hot to start with but got cold. What did I expect after 11 AM. All ready final ciggie smoked. But Luc did not happen until 10 past 3 PM. but then he says " The clock in the sitting room is not the right time". Now he tells me after spending all this time 10 minutes ahead.  Aha eggs from the farm. Jolly good huh? Had a long chat about rubbish, which I am getting better at. Ribbing Luc with banter.   

Much later sitting at home and finishing this off.

Blimey my memory has gone on holiday. Hope memory is stuck on the runaway and the plane cannot take off. Now the memory is back. Lost parts came back to me.

Corrumba burn all logs in the fire, and we set off about 4 PM. Nothing special happened on the way as we did not stop at all. Comfy ride around 90 MPH. Well M5 has its own 'stop and go' at Bridgwater. But made good time to Bristol to get a Burgher King treat which is Luc's favourite (f'king American shite dictionary says wrong spelling. Bugger them). One thing out of all this is Luc is a good pal and he will go in my Hall of Fame for eternity. Don't tell him tho. F off thats it.

Best things which happened in 2018

In February the KFC(UK) run out of chicken! Hee hee

In December the Abortion law was repealed in Ireland and passed. Yep the ladies in Ireland can have an abortion legally now. Hurray after 35 years!

In September Gay Sex was legalized in India. Atlast.

In December Australian scientists have developed a universal cancer test that can detect traces of the disease in a patient’s bloodstream. Caution!  Does not show where in the body.

England's hottest summer on records.

England got through to Semi-finals in the World Cup.

Russia sent two assassins to UK. Ooops that was not a best thing! Damn who writes this stuff. Blame Russel Howard.

Ozone layer is finally recovering from the ealier Aerosol attacks by us humans. If I knew it that time I would not have used a can of Whats-it to repel a bloody rat out of my bedsit. You hold lighter underneath the nozzle and squirt it. Damn good flame thrower.

Britain's carbon footprint is lowest since 19th century. Shhhh....Do not tell the MP.

The world is producing more renewable energy than ever before. Yeah...keep it up. Write to your government to get more.

The number of democracies are at an all time high.

Less people are living at extreme poverty than ever before.

We are living longer.

Global hunger is falling.

More people are getting an education in schools.

Child labour(for US spelling please understand this is English) is declining.

Hey hum it was not a bad year at all.
I wish you all a similar or better 2019

International Panel for Climate Change Report 2018

I read this report with much trepidation , but as I am too old and childless I stopped my stress about it. Here is some of the summery the report mentioned:

FAQ1.1:Why are we talking about 1.5°C?

Summary: Climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet.In recognition of this, the  overwhelming majority of countries around the world adopted the Paris Agreement in December 2015,the central  aim of which includes pursuing efforts to  limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

In doing so, these countries, through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) also invited the IPCC to provide a Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emissions pathways

FAQ 1.2: How close are we to 1.5°C?

Summary:

Human–induced warming has already reached about 1°C above pre-industrial levels at the time of writing of this Special Report. By the decade 2006–2015, human activity had warmed the world by 0.87°C (±0.12°C) compared to        pre-industrial times (1850–1900). If the current warming ratecontinues, the world would   reach human–induced global warming of 1.5°C around 2040.

FAQ 2.1:What kind of pathways limit warming to 1.5°C and are we on track?

Summary: There is no definitive way to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C above   pre-industriallevels. This Special Report identifies two main conceptual pathways to illustrate different interpretations. One stabilises global temperature at, or just below, 1.5°C. Another sees global temperature temporarily exceed 1.5°C before coming back down. Countries’ pledges to reduce their emissions are currently not in line with limiting global warming to 1.5°C

FAQ 2.2:What do energy supply and demand have to do with limiting warming to 1.5°C?

Summary: Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels would   require major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in all sectors. But different sectors are not independent of each other and making changes in one can have implications for another. For example, if we as a society use a lot of energy, then this could mean we have less flexibility in the choice of mitigationoptions available to limit warming to 1.5°C. If we use less energy, the choice of possible actions is greater. For example we could be less reliant on technologies that remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere

FAQ3.1: What are the impacts of 1.5°C and 2°C of warming?

   Summary The impacts of climate change are being felt in every inhabited   continent and in the oceans. But they are not spread uniformly across the globe, and different parts of the world experience impacts differently. An average warming of 1.5°C across the whole globe raises the risk of

heatwaves and heavy rainfall events, amongst many other potential impacts. Limiting warming to1.5°C rather than 2°C can help reduce these risks. But the impacts the world experiences will depend on the specific greenhouse gas emission ‘pathway’ taken. The consequences of temporarily overshooting

1.5°C and returning later in the century, for example, could be larger than if

temperature stabilizes below 1.5°C. The size and duration of an overshoot will also affect future impacts.

FAQ 4.1:What Transitions Could  Enable Limiting Global Warming to 1.5°C?

Summary: In order to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, the world would need to transform in a number of complex and connected ways. While transitions towards lower greenhouse gas emissions are underway in some cities, regions, countries, businesses and communities, there are few that are currently consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C. Meeting this challenge would require a rapid escalation in the current scale and pace of change, particularly in the coming decades. There are many factors that affect the feasibility of different adaptation and mitigation options that could help limit warming to 1.5°C and withadapting to the consequences.

FAQ 4.2:What are Carbon Dioxide Removal and Negative Emissions?

Summary: Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) refers to the process of removing 

CO2 from the atmosphere. Since this is the opposite of emissions, practices or technologies that remove CO2 are often described as achieving ‘negative emissions’. The process is sometimes referred to more broadly as greenhouse gas removal if it involves removing gases other than CO2. There are two main types ofC DR: either enhancing existing natural processes that remove carbon from the atmosphere (e.g., byincreasing its uptake by trees, soil, or other ‘carbon sinks’) or using chemical processes to, for example, capture CO2 directly from the ambient air and store it elsewhere (e.g., underground). All CDR methods are at different stages of development and some are more conceptual than others, as they have not been tested at scale

FAQ 4.3:Why is Adaptation Important in a 1.5°C-Warmer World?

Summary: Adaptation is the process of adjusting to current or expected changes in climate and its effects. Even though climate change is a global problem, its impacts are experienced differently across the world. This means that responses are often specific to the local context, and so people in different regions are adapting in different ways. A rise in global temperature from the current 1°C above pre-industrial levels to 1.5°C, and beyond, increases the need for adaptation. Therefore, stabilizing global temperatures at 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels would require a smaller adaptation effort than at 2°C. Despite many successful examples around the world, progress in adaptation is, in many regions,in its infancy and unevenly distributed globally.

FAQ5.1: What Are the Connections between Sustainable Development and Limiting Global Warming to 1.5°C above Pre-Industrial Levels

 Summary:Sustainable development seeks to meet the needs of people living today without compromising the needs of future generations, while balancing social, economic and environmental considerations. The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include targets for eradicating poverty; ensuring health, energy and food security; reducing inequality; protecting ecosystems; pursuing sustainable cities and economies; and a goal for climate action (SDG13). Climate change affects the ability to achieve sustainable development goals, and limiting warming to 1.5°C will help meet some sustainable development targets. Pursuing sustainable development will influence

emissions, impacts and vulnerabilities. Responses to climate change in the form of adaptation and mitigation will also interact with sustainable development with npositive effects, known as synergies, or negative effects, known as trade-offs. Responses to climate change can be planned to maximize synergies and limit trade-offs with sustainable development.

FAQ 5.2:What are the Pathways to Achieving Poverty Reduction and Reducing

    Inequalities While Reaching the 1.5°C World?

  Summary:There are ways to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre

-industrial levels. Of the pathways that exist, some simultaneously achieve sustainable development. They entail a mix of measures that lower emissions and reduce the impacts of climate change, while contributing to poverty eradication and reducing inequalities. Which pathways are possible and desirable will differ between and within regions and nations. This is due to the fact that development progress to date has been uneven and climate

-related risks are unevenly distributed. Flexible governance would be needed

to ensure that such pathways are inclusive, fair and equitable to avoid poor and disadvantaged populations becoming worse off. Climate-resilient development pathways (CRDPs) offer possibilities to achieve both equitable and low-carbon futures

Copyright thanks to: http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_faq.pdf 

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Unism blessing

Blessed are the vermin who scourge  on the will of the few

Dark Energy

Go and read the article in Wikipedia For those who are lazy here is a summery.

The observable universe is understood as a sphere around the Earth extending 93 billion light years (8.8 *10²⁶ meters) But the problem is we cannot see beyond this due to red shift and we see the cosmic microwave background (CMB). (This is a scientific fudge factor introduced to explain the un-explainable things.)  Is the observed universe from earth the same as the real universe. Scientists do not know. So they devised a plan to get rid of all these unknowns. they made a model of the universe with our limited knowledge and tested it. Viola we have a flat expanding universe.

This is like a fairy tale.......

Wiki says:

Many things about the nature of dark energy remain matters of speculation.^[12] The evidence for dark energy is indirect but comes from three independent sources:

• Distance measurements and their relation to redshift, which suggest the universe has expanded more in the last half of its life.^[13]
• The theoretical need for a type of additional energy that is not matter or dark matter to form the observationally flat universe (absence of any detectable global curvature).
• It can be inferred from measures of large scale wave-patterns of mass density in the universe.

Well this problem came to the scientific world when they calculated the amount of matter in the observed universe. oops only 4%. Where is the rest OMG about 96%. So all the boffins are looking for it and came up with a very good idea.  74% Dark Energy and 32% Dark Matter.

In this I found that how devious the boffins are:

It sounds rather strange that we have no firm idea about what makes up 74% of the universe. It's as though we had explored all the land on the planet Earth and never in all our travels encountered an ocean. But now that we've caught sight of the waves, we want to know what this huge, strange, powerful entity really is. 

The strangeness of dark energy is thrilling.

It shows scientists that there is a gap in our knowledge that needs to be filled, beckoning the way toward an unexplored realm of physics. We have before us the evidence that the cosmos may be configured vastly differently than we imagine. Dark energy both signals that we still have a great deal to learn, and shows us that we stand poised for another great leap in our understanding of the universe.

Horizon:The Mystery of Dark Energy

I have been not very well, and so I did not write this blog. Now i feel a bit better. here is what i watched in TV.

The Mystery of Dark Matter

If you like to see about Dark Energy go here. For Dark matter go here

Palestine

 Watching this program on 13/10/2015, on BBC Newsnight program; I realised the following logic:

1...... there was PLO...... jewish meaning
2.....They made Israel nervous....
3.......Israel made Hamas to divide Palestine......
               Learnt from Machiavelli  I think "Divide n r..."
4..........Both PLO and Hamas lost faith, inside the minds  of the up-growing kids, who were born to solitude under Israel.
5......................Reasonable to believe that ISIS and Zionists have joined forces or....big or m8s .....Zionists are creating another force in Palestine to divide the population again.

All the Western media points to the opposite direction. Will the bankers become us?







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Do you believe in DNA

Lydia Fairchild is an American woman who exhibits chimerism, with two different sets of DNA present in her body. She was pregnant with her third child when she and the father of her children, Jamie Townsend, separated. When Fairchild applied for child support in 2002, she was requested to provide DNA evidence that Townsend was the father of her children. While the results showed Townsend was certainly the father of the children, the DNA tests indicated that she was not their mother.

heck this and this

Now do you?

Check this little wonder

Digenetic trematodes are parasitic flatworms with complex life cycles, typically involving two or more hosts.

This guy first (damn chicken and egg situation here) gets into a water snail and lay the eggs. The larvae eat the snail inside out. Then they escape into the pond. Gets a bit funny. So these larvae search tadpoles and get into their rear ends. They wait untill the tadpole gets begger and into a frog. The parasite then make the frog's body make an extra leg at the rear end. So the frog is hmmm disabled and cannot escape the predatory birds. So the frog gets eaten by a bird. This is what the prasite has been waiting for. Sex.

In the bird's tummy the perasite have sex and goes out of the bird as poo. Hey hey we start at the hmmmmm startd. In the pond bird's poo eaten by the snail. Gosh. That must have been a lot of reseach for the parasite init?

Check this

Blood Falls

there is a reddish brown falls which extentds a few kilometers were found in Antarctica. An Australian geologist Griffith Taylor, who first explored the valley that bears his name. He thought it was because of red algae. That supposition was held for 100 or so years.

In comes geomicrobiologist Jill Mikucki at the University of Tennessee, who was interested in this phenomena since her graduate days. Ultimately she got funded and took a crew to Antarctica to investigate. She found a massive salt water lake under the ice. ,The brine is 3 times more concentrated with salt than normal. There is no oxygen. Her crew found there; a rare subglacial ecosystem of autotrophic bacteria developed that metabolizes sulfate and ferric ions, in the lake. So the problem solved huh?

Check this for more info:

 Do you think this explanation is outdated?  

God

God? What do you know about your God, you believe in? Who told you about God? Did you read about God?

In any case you perceive, by reading, hearing etc through an outside sourse. So you analyse and believe by your own logical thoughts. Now; how can you say that particular god you believe in, is the same as what you read or heard of?  

 This is my dilemma. How are your thoughts ?



















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