The Axion

Granny and Granddad Moron.

I am dismayed at the lack of progress at the Copenhagen climate change summit and at the chaotic demonstrations as well as the actions of the police in crowd control.  (more on policing in the 21st century in a later blog). It is showing up all that is bad about our understanding of the climate change threat and how much the world is divided. Unless we can all (and I mean the whole 7 billion of us) come to a common understanding on climate change and agreement on mutual support, there is littl...

TV Documentaries worth watching tonight

TV is often disappointing, full of soaps, game shows and repeats but tonight we have a treat.  Two documentaries deal with problems that every one of us will face and be impacted by.  The first is by the excellent Horizon team and hosted be the venerable Sir David Attenborough  - How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?  on Wednesday 9th december 2009 on BBC 2 at 9 pm. I have mentioned before about the potential crisis that over population will bring to our planet but there are ways to...

Copenhagen Climate Summit Begins

With the Copenhagen Climate Summit under way I will be following proceedings and commenting here. But already I feel that its is a waste of time.   The climate change deniers continue to put self interest or a misguided belief in some kind of conspiracy ahead of the future of human kind and without a global consensus it seems unlikely that any real and significant reduction in CO2 emissions will be made. For a moment imagine what daily life will be like in 2109 if the worst case scenarios ...