I did wonder why I had a small torrent of new visitors to Pillow towers lately. Now I know the reason why… It was that Old Seadog Barry, he’s only gone and found me…. (see previous post) – Although maybe that will give me some impetus to continue the blog?
It has been months… and now fame the world over… kind of.
A screen grab from Facebook
Use the search facility to circumnavigate to Barry’s Facebook page or if you’re too lazy, clicky here.
Quidnunc – 1: (n.) a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip; a gossip or busybody.
My daughter recently got me interested in a YouTuber who does Geo-based activities. In one of his pursuits (he calls himself Geo-Wizard) he decides to travel across Wales, from his home on the English / Welsh border.
All well and good you might say, but he does this trying to go in a completely straight line, cutting through farms and across rivers. A bit silly, but it did get me off on a tangent to watch other interesting Vloggers.
One such really entertaining as well as informative Vlog I came across on YouTube is Barry Perrin’s channel called ‘Adventures of an old Seadog‘, who sails single-handedly across the globe in his sail boat, ‘White Shadow’, or as Barry affectionately calls her, ‘Shaddy’.
Barry Perrins
I’ve found it really entertaining even for a lay person who knows dick all about sailing. It makes for some really compulsive watching and I think Barry is a natural orator. English, down to earth and jolly good stuff. It makes for some binge-worthy TV and I’ve managed to watch his entire videos over several days, as I was hooked.
Now I’m watching RAN Sailing, friends of Barry’s from Sweden. I’ve started to watch their vlog series and it’s equally as enjoyable, they also have a WordPress blog here.
Saw this today on my Facebook feed… But clicking back I lost the page it was originally posted on, and thus couldn’t share it… This is perhaps why Twitter works better for not missing things..
Anyway…
I quite liked this video so I thought I would share to my Facebook wall and also to WordPress.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the recent UK floods were a direct result of climate change. Some people think this is not the case, but we all know weather is a dynamic system. To deny it out right like many of our right wing MPs and their newspaper journalists like to do is however quite puerile.
I quite like this response by the Met office which perhaps doesn’t exactly stick two fingers up at the government, well perhaps only one finger đ
An article by David Rose appeared yesterday in the Mail on Sunday entitled: âNo, global warming did NOT cause the storms, says one of the Met Officeâs most senior expertsâ
In it he says that Mat Collins, Professor in Climate Systems at Exeter University, âappears to contradictâ the report released by the Met Office last weekend and that he âdeclined to comment on his difference in opinionâ with one of the reportâs authors, Dame Julia Slingo.
This is not the case and there is no disagreement.
The report by the Met Office states that âAs yet, there is no definitive answer on the possible contribution of climate change to the recent storminess, rainfall amounts and the consequent flooding. This is in part due to the highly variable nature of UK weather and climate.â  This agrees with the latest IPCC Report that states: âSubstantial uncertainty and thus low confidence remains inâŠ
âWe do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvertâ. - J Robert Oppenheimer.
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