Like the famous island in the TV Show LOST we are being told by BBC, Independent, Guardian et al, that the tiny island of New Moore Island in South Talpatti (sometimes spelt Talpatty) has been lost to the ravages of Global Warming.

Yes, this plucky little disputed territory decided to succumb to the rising flood waters resulting from melting ice caps and rising sea levels.

What a tragedy it is for inhabitants of the island to loose their home under such circumstances.

Or at least it would be if the whole story wasn’t a total bit of unsubstantiated propaganda.

Not to mention the worst bit of journalism ever. It’s so unscientifically researched and biased that even Richard Black managed to steer clear from it; which is saying something.

I’m afraid the whole article was a propaganda hit piece, here are the FACTS.

The “island” of New Moore Island, South Talpatti didn’t come into existence until it was washed into being following the devastating cyclone that hit Bangladesh in November 1970.
From the Bangladeshi Daily Star, October 1, 2003
The ownership of the island has been in dispute between Bangladesh and India since it emerged in the estuary of the border river, Hariabhanga, after the devastating cyclone that swept through Bangladesh in November, 1970. The island is located about 4km, south of the Hariabhanga river that divides Bangladesh and India on the west. The approximate geographical location is reported to be at Latitude 21 degrees 36.0 North and Longitude 89 degrees 09.10 East. It is believed to be of U-shaped formation with the eastern arm elongated towards the north and had an approximate area at low tide of about 2 square miles in 1978 which may have further grown since then.
So just to highlight a few things, firstly, this article from 2003 shows that the island had been going through the process of accumulated silting. In that the alluvial deposits that formed it in 1970 had been built upon.
Weather in the region and upstream has been suffering from excessive rain in the last few months. It obviously comes out in the Delta, eroding the already shallow island.
An island that at low tide was only a few inches above sea level.
Now the washed off silt combined with the current high temperatures in the area have sank the island from view (by a matter of a few inches a low tide).
This is then converted into the idea that some akin to the Isle of White has been washed below the waves.
The fact is that the reason the island was uninhabited is BECAUSE it was a sand bank and because it was prone to being washed over.
But this story does serve one good purpose. It shows us with clarity the depths of falsehood the uninformed will go in order to promote the concept that the seas are rising and “Waterworld” is upon us.

Tags: South Talpatti, South Talpatty, Missing Island, New Moore Island, Lost Island, bengal, Disputed, Island

Or how the fox is in charge of the hen house

The peer leading the University of East Anglian investigation into Climategate failed to declare he serves as a director of one of the most powerful environmental networks in the world.

Once again, The Register manages to get the facts straight on an issue that remains a “done deal” in the rest of the mainstream media.

I include the article here.

------ From The Register ------

Exclusive The peer leading the second Climategate enquiry at the University of East Anglia serves as a director of one of the most powerful environmental networks in the world, according to Companies House documents - and has failed to declare it.

Lord Oxburgh, a geologist by training and the former scientific advisor to the Ministry of Defence, was appointed to lead the enquiry into the scientific aspects of the Climategate scandal on Monday. But Oxburgh is also a director of GLOBE, the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment.

GLOBE may be too obscure to merit its own Wikipedia entry, but that belies its wealth and influence. It funds meetings for parliamentarians worldwide with an interest in climate change, and prior to the Copenhagen Summit GLOBE issued guidelines (pdf) for legislators. Little expense is spared: in one year alone, one peer - Lord Michael Jay of Ewelme - enjoyed seven club class flights and hotel accommodation, at GLOBE's expense. There's no greater love a Parliamentarian can give to the global warming cause. And in return, Globe lists Oxburgh as one of 23 key legislators.

In the House of Lords Register of Lords' Interests, Oxburgh lists under remunerated directorships his chairmanship of Falck Renewables, and chairmanship of Blue NG, a renewable power company. (Oxburgh holds no shares in Falck Renewables, and serves as a non-exec chairman.) He also declares that he is an advisor to Climate Change Capital, to the Low Carbon Initiative, Evo-Electric, Fujitsu, and an environmental advisor to Deutsche Bank. For a year he was non-exec chairman of Shell.

GLOBE is conspicuous by its absence, however. Oxburgh joined GLOBE in 2008. The University of East Anglia appointed Oxburgh after consulting the Royal Society.

"We are grateful to the Royal Society for helping us to identify such a strong panel and to the members for dedicating their time to this important matter," said the University in a press statement. It may not be the smartest advice the UEA has ever received - the Royal Society's partisanship is well known.

(A parallel enquiry, headed by Sir Muir Russell, is already underway.)

One insider, who declined to be named, described Oxburgh's appointment as "like putting Dracula in charge of the Blood Bank".

GLOBE has not returned our request for comment. Nor has the University. The network hasn't had much luck with its UK appointments, as key figures have become caught up in the MP expenses scandal.

GLOBE's worldwide secretary Elliott Morley and its British branch secretary David Chaytor were two of three MPs to face criminal charges last week. Brent MP Barry Gardiner, co-chairman of the GLOBE Dialogue on Land Use Change & Ecosystems claimed for a second home eight miles from Westminster, and worked the system for £200,000.

In 2007 Oxburgh won a Lifetime Achievement Award from Platts. The judges said they were also impressed by “his very high ethical standards".

Tags: climate, climategate, Oxburgh, UEA, cru, Globe

I see the BBC is at it again. The heading reads “It’s still real and it’s still a problem”.

In which Lord Chris Smith is given and open slot to tell us what he thinks about the recent rather negative publicity towards the science of “Man made global warming” (to give it, its original title). He’s doing this from a position of higher authority with his PhD thesis on Coleridge and Wordsworth no doubt.

Oh, and it doesn’t quite get around to mentioning that he’s head of the “Environment Agency” which is currently trying to drum up extra cash from Government to protect waterways for people who are too stupid to purchase a house on a flood plane of a major river.

He goes on to say that, “The myth fostered by some parts of the media in recent months - that somehow the scientific evidence for climate change is deeply flawed - needs to be laid to rest, and soon”.

In other words, shut and pay your taxes slaves and stop asking tricky questions. Like, why evidence that is 100% needs to be massaged. Why previous periods of warming and cooling were marginalised from CRU (and IPCC) graphs in orders to present the “trended” model with some bite.

I could of course mention the number of actual scientific bodies who don’t agree with the AGW theory; all totally scholarly in their efforts. But that would of course fall into the trap being laid out. That we scientists on the other side of the debate have to prove and alternative theory rather than just highlight issues with the existing proposed one.

Tags: climate, global warming

A lot has been in the news regarding the “Cap and Trade” system being proposed in the US. The scheme allows companies to trade the taxation of pollution with other companies (that are greener) in a global “exchange”. This whole mechanism being pushed forward by proponents of man made global warming, such as Al Gore.

Now there is considerable opposition to “Cap and Trade” as an environmental mechanism as it removes limits of big business to pollute allowing them to simply buy themselves out of tax, passing higher costs onto the consumer. While this might sound great for a car company that would price itself out of the market, the worlds greatest polluters are in fact power companies. Electricity generation produces a third of CO2 emissions in the UK alone (look it up). So when they increase costs and consumers have no alternative supplier... where does that lead?

So the only people Cap and Trade will benefit will be those who run the operation, which takes a cut of all transactions. This company would stand to make billions of dollars.

The company that will run the exchange is called “Climate Exchange Plc” - who will operate the European and US climate exchanges.

So... take a wild guess who owns them?

Chairman Richard Sandow

Top ten share

Investo Asset mgr
The Insiders (18.94% - Of

Tags: Al Gore, cap and trade, global warming

I think Ebay is missing something essential to the entry system - a spell checker.

I was bored looking for something to do and ended up looking at boats.

Check out this superb example as to why it’s always a good idea to get somebody else to do the typing if you’re not that good at it.

Corrections in blue.

OK HERE GOES: HERE FOR AUCTION IS A 60ft MOTER (motor) TORPEDO BOAT.X3 THORNEYCROFTS (Thornycroft) 6 CYLINDER DIESEL ENGINS (engines).2 OF WITCH (which) ARE RUNNING THE OTHER NEEDS NEW STARTER TO RUN UP.NEW WHEEL HOUSE FITTED LAST SUMMER.NEW ROOF AND REAR ACCOMADATION (accommodation) JUST FITTED BUT UNFINNISHED (unfinished) DUE TO UNFORFORSEAN (unforeseen)SERCUMSTANCES (circumstances) >ALL MERTERIALS (materials) TO FINNISH (finish) PROJECT ARE ON BOARD .THIS WOULD MAKE A WONDERFUL LIVEABOARD (Er? Lifeboat, live-aboard?) THE FORWARD ACCOMADATION (accommodation) IS ALL IN ORIGINAL CONDITION>CONSISTING OF TWIN BERTH WITH SHOWER >TOILET>SINK>STORAGE SPACE..THEN A LARDGE (large) GALLEY CONSISTING OF SINK N DRAINER>COOKER >BENCHED DINEING (dining) AREA>LOTS OF STORAGE>THEN UP 4 STEPS INTO ORIGINAL WHEEL HOUSE>THIS HAS RADAR>SHIP TO SHORE RADIO>ORIGINAL SHIPS WHEEL>ALL CONTROLLS (controls) CLOCKS AND DIALS IN WORKING ORDER AS WAS TAKEN OUT TO SEA SEVERAL TIMES LAST YEAR>PROVING TO BE LOTS OF FUN BUT UNFORTUNATLLY (unfortunately) HAS TO BE SOLD AS IT NEEDS T.LC (surely either tlc or t.l.c. but not half way) >AND I JUST DONT HAVE THE TIME TO FINNISH (finish) (HER>CURRENTLY AFLOAT ON A BEAUTIFUL MOORING IN ESSEX ALONG SIDE OTHER HISTORIC VESSELS.SHE DOES HAVE LIVEABLE ROOM ON BOARD .SO SOMEWHERE TO STAY WHILST WORKING ON HER>THIS IS A WONDERFUL CHANCE TO OWN A REAL PEACE (piece) OF CLASSIC HISTORY.YES IT NEEDS WORK /? (well, does it?) BUT ITS ALL THERE.ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CALL ON 07837200251>THIS IS ADVERTIZED (advertised) ELSE WHER (elsewhere) SO COULD BE REMOVED.A DEPOSITE (deposit) OF £300 REQUIRED ENDING AUCTION VIA PAY PAL (technically should be PayPal) .TO VIEW PLEASE CALL ON ABOVE NUMBER.NO SWAPS OR PX AS NOT ALOUD???:{ (allowed) MANY THANKS FOR LOOKING>PLEASE DO NOT TEXT ME AS IM (I’m) STUPID (no shit) AND CANT (can’t) TEXT BACK;;RESERVE PRICE IS £3.000 (What £3? Or £3,000)

Yeah, I’ve got a question to text him. Which illiterate labrador did he get to type the description OWT FUR IM?

Tags: ebay, torpedo boat, eburks

Since their introduction (and subsequent compulsory use) since February this year Body Scanners at airports have proved to be highly controversial.

There are two main objections.

Firstly, they don’t work. This German TV presentation using the same equipment provided to Manchester Airport show how flawed the system is.



Incidentally, I was;

• NOT asked to empty my pockets
• NOT asked to remove my jacket, and was
• NOT scanned from the side.
• All Lance’s comments ARE FALSE in this respect.

Secondly, it’s an infringement of both privacy and civil liberties.

I can only assume that all these measures are being put in place in order to put people of air travel. Because given the first point, it can’t be security.

My own personal experience of the device and it’s operating staff took place on February 5th of this year.

When my family and I had passed the normal security check, we were directed (as EVERYBODY WAS) to be body scanned.

The process itself was both pathetic and insulting.

Failed to spot “bomb”

The device failed to spot the fact I was carrying a plastic container in my top pocket. Because as I leaned forward, the shirt left my body and became opaque to the scanner. You’ll realise it only spots stuff that is in contrast to things around it.

The container had two one pounds coins in it. I’d placed them there deliberately to see what would happen. The answer was nothing. Which was both amusing and alarming, because it could have contained ANYTHING!

Final insult

What really does stick in my mind as objectionable is the way we were made to feel during the process. As though we were actually guilty and required to prove ourselves safe to fly. This impression was further enhanced by a rather stupid UK Borders Agency officer.

When my six year old asked her “Why did they have to do that?” to the one female UK Borders Agency offic (aged early 40’s, medium height and build, dark short hair... somewhat man like) her reply had my spinning around.

“Because Mummy and Daddy have been naughty,” She said dryly.

Now remember, my daughter is six and is now worried. I just span on the spot to face my accuser and said in a calm voice
“Did you just say ‘because Mummy and Daddy have been naughty’?” I asked her, “Did you?”

“No.” she replied and started to step behind the other officers.

“Yes you did. I heard you.” I replied (again, perfectly calm and polite).


To be honest, at this point I’d have been happy with “Sorry, it was just a joke” and I’d have pointed out her age.

Instead I got a male UK BA officer stepping in between the non-conflict and saying “You can go now,” and pointing towards the exit.


So this is the sort of treatment we are to expect in the future? Guilty until proved otherwise, and you’re lucky to be allowed to travel in the first place.

I have to say that the UK BA officers prior to this had been both polite and helpful. But you’re only as good as your last performance, and I was left both angry and disgusted by that.

Tags: body scanner, ineffective, airport, air travel, scanner, terrorists, security, naked