Remember all the climate change reports and peak oil stuff from January and February? Well, that all got cleared out of the press to make way for the war in Iraq and our FEAR of terrorism, which is kept simmering by a constant stream of red alerts and round-ups of muslims.

It has taken Britain a good kick in the Bocastle to look beyond their newspapers which scream about fanatics, war, terror etc. etc. to look up at the skies and around at the wacky weather and realise...



... that something is going on, when bizzare things like Britain being battered by waves hurling giant rocks start to happen and other reports start saying that the problem is not confined to Britain...

... Extreme weather threatens to trigger aid crisis

Sophie Arie in Rome and Jason Burke, Sunday August 15, 2004, The Observer

The world's biggest international aid agency has warned that tens of millions of the world's poorest people are threatened by an unprecedented wave of freak and extreme weather, and that aid workers may be unable to cope with the global humanitarian crisis that might result.
Clouds of locusts, cyclones, massive floods and devastating droughts are wreaking havoc in many of the world's poorest countries, and agencies don't have the resources to cope, said John Powell, deputy executive director of the World Food Programme.

priorities strait: I say ban weapons (and all motor racing), put armies to work feeding the world's poor and cleaning up the mess they've made, and invest the money in renewable energy and we might just be ok. meanwhile we should all be enjoying ourselves a lot just in case ... simple really...