Likewise Nick, at times with some people I felt like I had grown horns and become Beelzebub, where I questioned the consensus and the brain
dead washed who are still banging their global warming drum.
I knew it had to be wrong as you cannot predict future events when the is an unknown catastrophe theory element to it. As an example the Japanese earthquake moved the earths axis by 25mm, the effect of this might be small, but it also might be enough to tip something on the edge like a slowdown in an ocean current. Likewise what effect has the Icelandic volcano have?
These are the minor things. What effect do sun spots and output fluctuations have on the kw/m
2 of heat hitting the earth. How do these vary? Now I have done some research and read various papers on the Internet on the sun's output and there is an awful lot that is just not known. How do changes in the Earths atmospheric layers and magnetic field affect the kw/m
2, there are the obvious ones like cloud (in itself a variable), but again there is much that is just not known. The Earths rotation around the sun is elliptical and our distance varies along with the earths axial position, all of these are subject to slight but unpredictable variation. So as soon as you have unknowns on something you are trying to model, the immediate question is what assumptions are you making? Have the
fraud squad IPCC ever made these public, not as far as I'm aware. Their whole approach has been where the experts, you won't understand so just accept it a gospel.

As soon as somebody tells me this is a fact, you won't understand it, just accept it, that is a red rag to a bull to me, so I do as much research as possible, so I do have a reasonable appreciation. I think it stems from my misspent childhood where as soon as I was given any toy, the first thing I would do was take it all to pieces and work out how it worked and then put it back together again.
The renewable green energy situation is an interesting one as windmill produce massive grid instability as the percentage of the electricity they produce increases as Germany have found to their cost, hence the emergency building of 12 coal fired power stations. The production of solar-panels is so energy intensive, that it takes 10 years of their 20 year life to save that

and bio-fuels depending on the technology only produce between 1.1 and 2 time the energy they consume in their production, you are better off as keeping them as crops, rather than risking global food shortages.

So in there own ways they are all pretty useless. France are the only European country that have got there electricity generation mix right. Ukraine is also not bad with 50% nuclear, 20% hydro and and 30% fossil fuels.
Maglev Trains have interested me for sometime and I have been following their development as they are the transport of the future along with Thorium power stations to supply the electricity. By running in tunnels with an atmosphere of the equivalent of about 100,000ft, supersonic trains may well become the norm. Just imagine spending a day travelling from Edinburgh to Paris and then getting on a supersonic train and then just two hours later being in Beijing.

Just think of the trade possibilities with high sub-sonic Maglev freight trains, order a part in China in the morning, have it delivered in the afternoon in Berlin or Paris. How will this affect industry in mainland Europe with just in time delivery over large distances and local assembly? Global production centres with their economies of scale and fast delivery at a fraction of the cost of air freight. It won't matter to the UK as we will still be using quaint Victorian technology. We used to have visionaries looking and pushing things like this. The only person and thing I can see at the Richard Branson with his space tourism and good luck to him on this.
This is why I'm quite vocal on HS2 being an old technology white elephant.
If Isambard Kindom Brunel was alive in this era instead of being the iconic engineer of the Victorian era, he would probably a humans right lawyer working in Cherrie Blairs chambers.

it is about time this country changed its name as Great Britain is a falsehood. Still I guess the EU will be doing that in a few years with what ever provincial name they decide to use for this EU province.
