Whether a climate change denier or indeed a "believer"
What's the point in arguing? It's cleaner to be greener.
Does it matter whether the weather is changing or not?
Once the oil wells run dry renewables are all we've got.
NB. Read this interesing blog post: "How to argue with climate change sceptics"
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
A rebuke to the false French GM "study" on rats
GM maize did not kill the rats that
The French trial lately gave them to graze.
This experiment is expressly redundant
As no-one has expired while GM has been abundant.
This argument is a non-starter, you should rather
Invest your research into making crops scavenge water.
Alas, in a world of climatic disasters it's
Paramount we use a variety of agricultural tactics.
Soon our soils will be sailing in salinity,
Our crops will be wilting and yields diminishing.
But conventional breeding is nowhere near achieving
Salt tolerance in the crops we rely on for eating.
Yet adding one protein, albeit a transgene,
Can dramatically improve a plant's tolerance to saline.
Furthermore these same proteins ensure
That a severe lack of water crops may endure.
Therefore I implore the organic brigade
To embrace GM, forego their furore and terminate this tirade.
The French trial lately gave them to graze.
This experiment is expressly redundant
As no-one has expired while GM has been abundant.
This argument is a non-starter, you should rather
Invest your research into making crops scavenge water.
Alas, in a world of climatic disasters it's
Paramount we use a variety of agricultural tactics.
Soon our soils will be sailing in salinity,
Our crops will be wilting and yields diminishing.
But conventional breeding is nowhere near achieving
Salt tolerance in the crops we rely on for eating.
Yet adding one protein, albeit a transgene,
Can dramatically improve a plant's tolerance to saline.
Furthermore these same proteins ensure
That a severe lack of water crops may endure.
Therefore I implore the organic brigade
To embrace GM, forego their furore and terminate this tirade.
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of speech is becoming confused with freedom to preach racist diatribe.
In the New York subway, a bigoted poster says, that Palestinians are savages but Israelis are civilized.
Support the civilized man in the war against savages, the advert decrees.
But who acts more savagely than the "civilized man" spreading destructive conflict and uncivil unease?
Freedom of speech extends so far as to express an opinion, perhaps against religion,
But this freedom should never extend to blatant and abhorrent bigotry, agression, opression and affliction.
In the New York subway, a bigoted poster says, that Palestinians are savages but Israelis are civilized.
Support the civilized man in the war against savages, the advert decrees.
But who acts more savagely than the "civilized man" spreading destructive conflict and uncivil unease?
Freedom of speech extends so far as to express an opinion, perhaps against religion,
But this freedom should never extend to blatant and abhorrent bigotry, agression, opression and affliction.
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
No appreciation for good precipitation
Some people have no appreciation for good precipiation.
Though who's to blame them for feeling frustration
After a month's worth of rain falls in only one day?
Yet this great nation would be nothing of the sort
If it weren't for the miserable climate our ancestors saught.
The moist air brought industrialisation and our economy soared.
Our incessant rain makes Britain mostly water replete,
Which is lucky as many areas are increasingly depleted.
The fertile crescent will soon turn to desert in the Middle East.
Thus don't be frustrated that our weather's rarely clever,
I'd rather have plenty of rain than barely any barley.
And the sunny days feel so much better to those of us with crappy weather.
Though who's to blame them for feeling frustration
After a month's worth of rain falls in only one day?
Yet this great nation would be nothing of the sort
If it weren't for the miserable climate our ancestors saught.
The moist air brought industrialisation and our economy soared.
Our incessant rain makes Britain mostly water replete,
Which is lucky as many areas are increasingly depleted.
The fertile crescent will soon turn to desert in the Middle East.
Thus don't be frustrated that our weather's rarely clever,
I'd rather have plenty of rain than barely any barley.
And the sunny days feel so much better to those of us with crappy weather.
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Wanton destruction - the human way
Human destruction of nature knows no bounds.
Badgers in England are soon set to face shotgun rounds.
Hopefully, though, to their sets they'll go
And shelter in holes deep underground.
Bovine TB is a vicious disease
Causing farmers and cattle deadly unease.
But slaughtering wildlife in their thousands
Will curtail this killer only to the tiniest of degrees.
Humans inextricably rely on biodiversity,
Without which we'd never have food as plenty.
For bees in praries to rainforest trees
Are vitally necessary for the survival of our species.
It's the ultimate disgrace that in order to make pace,
Nature and wildlife we race to displace.
With unerring certainty we slash and burn,
Which we'll learn to regret, too late, when the wind starts to turn.
Badgers in England are soon set to face shotgun rounds.
Hopefully, though, to their sets they'll go
And shelter in holes deep underground.
Bovine TB is a vicious disease
Causing farmers and cattle deadly unease.
But slaughtering wildlife in their thousands
Will curtail this killer only to the tiniest of degrees.
Humans inextricably rely on biodiversity,
Without which we'd never have food as plenty.
For bees in praries to rainforest trees
Are vitally necessary for the survival of our species.
It's the ultimate disgrace that in order to make pace,
Nature and wildlife we race to displace.
With unerring certainty we slash and burn,
Which we'll learn to regret, too late, when the wind starts to turn.
Monday, 17 September 2012
Relinquish religion
Religion is an affliction of fiction, friction and contradiction.
All preach tolerance and peace but the hypocrisy is that none of them practise these.
Instead why not believe in the human species?
Love one another and live at ease.
All preach tolerance and peace but the hypocrisy is that none of them practise these.
Instead why not believe in the human species?
Love one another and live at ease.
Friday, 14 September 2012
Preposterous protests
One Danish magazine posted a picture of the prophet Muhammad and the Middle East erupted into enraged burning of effigies.
More recently a raging horde in Libya destroyed an embassy and murdered the US Ambassador, in answer to a shoddy film made by one imbecile with a chip on his shoulder.
Do any of these people realise that one person's ideals do not represent the majority of feelings of people in the Western world?
For those who think Islam has been slighted might best stay at home for fear that there might be a deeper crisis - Islam does not look wisest when one film that blights it causes fires and riots.
Free speech should be held in the highest esteem but means conflicting opinions are frequently seen.
Imagine the scene if, every time the church was made to seem less than clean in the Newspapers and magazines, people started burning down stores and factories.
These protests are preposterous, seriously, go and read some proper newspapers where opinion and contradiction is part of progress.
Stop burning effigies and embassies every time one daft article causes unrest and unease, please.
More recently a raging horde in Libya destroyed an embassy and murdered the US Ambassador, in answer to a shoddy film made by one imbecile with a chip on his shoulder.
Do any of these people realise that one person's ideals do not represent the majority of feelings of people in the Western world?
For those who think Islam has been slighted might best stay at home for fear that there might be a deeper crisis - Islam does not look wisest when one film that blights it causes fires and riots.
Free speech should be held in the highest esteem but means conflicting opinions are frequently seen.
Imagine the scene if, every time the church was made to seem less than clean in the Newspapers and magazines, people started burning down stores and factories.
These protests are preposterous, seriously, go and read some proper newspapers where opinion and contradiction is part of progress.
Stop burning effigies and embassies every time one daft article causes unrest and unease, please.
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Curtailing creationism
An alliance of science in the face of unenlightened defiance
of the facts of life will surely at some point in time prevail.
After 500 years, Copernicus’ idea that around the sun the
Earth does run should be patently clear.
But this idea is yet to be endeared to a fifth of
God-fearing Americans who 2000 year old scriptures revere.
Worse still, creationists foolishly instil lies to their
children at church and school in regions where ignorance unfortunately rules.
It’s unbelievably arrogant to think that man was put on this
planet and the plants and animals were made for us to abuse.
The fossil record unequivocally shows, in bones and DNA from
mammoths that froze, that evolution is the only explanation to how we arose.
It’s completely insane that there’s even a debate to whether
inane creationism is taught alongside science.
So let’s stop pussyfooting around, intelligent design is
completely unsound. It’s time to curtail
this ridiculous fairytale and finally let science in the end prevail.
Sunday, 9 September 2012
Hindsightful history
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Yet history is littered from Queen to King
With examples of how
Those supposedly in the know
Manage to Royally screw everything.
Take for example Vietnam,
That was invaded as far back as 1289
By no other than the great Kublai Khan,
Leader of the great Mongolian Army.
These mighty warriors could not succeed,
The Vietnamese repelled them with ease.
Attacking their foes with horses and bows
The Mongolian army simply froze.
Guerilla warfare had them completely thrown.
So why on Earth in 1965
Did the Americans try to win hearts and minds?
The Vietminh in the Northern jungles
Adopted the same combat and the USA crumbled.
You’d have thought that this would teach them a lesson
But no, to Afghanistan the mission was taken.
They fought the Taliban,
Harbouring Osama Bin Laden,
Who insidiously blended into the normal population.
Over a decade later and the losses ever greater.
For what? Not even a
gravestone to savour.
The body of Osama thrown into the ocean,
Was it really worth the lives ripped apart and torn open?
But still the Americans continue to wage
A war on terror that unshakenly rages.
Yet the innocent lives lost in the Middle East
By far outweigh the 9/11 deceased.
But there is hope for the future
As the rebels in Libya
Were able to organically displace their ruler.
Though Assad in Syria continues to murder
The west should refrain from embroiling deeper.
One foot in the wrong direction
Might stimulate further extremist aggression.
Iraq is a perfect case in point,
Invasion has simply caused greater disjoint.
So let’s not send any more troops... what’s the point?
It must be best to ingest insects
Insects can be pests,
but instead it must be best
to put our minds at rest.
As at my behest,
not with the least bit of jest,
may I suggest
that on the largest possible scale
insects we ingest.
Insects are flavoursome,
nutritious and wholesome.
And on the the whole,
some of us say,
that we might see them
as less than gruesome.
Or maybe a luxury item become,
which is the case in Vietnam,
Thailand and then some.
Insects are truly
environmentally friendly,
and moreso, surely,
than cattle too plenty.
Ruminants are costly,
wasting far more energy
than insects converting
their energy efficiently.
7 kilos of wheat
For one of meat
which insects beat
with a seventh to feast.
Thus we may greet
entomophagy with glee
so the hungry might meet
Their need to eat
but instead it must be best
to put our minds at rest.
As at my behest,
not with the least bit of jest,
may I suggest
that on the largest possible scale
insects we ingest.
Insects are flavoursome,
nutritious and wholesome.
And on the the whole,
some of us say,
that we might see them
as less than gruesome.
Or maybe a luxury item become,
which is the case in Vietnam,
Thailand and then some.
Insects are truly
environmentally friendly,
and moreso, surely,
than cattle too plenty.
Ruminants are costly,
wasting far more energy
than insects converting
their energy efficiently.
7 kilos of wheat
For one of meat
which insects beat
with a seventh to feast.
Thus we may greet
entomophagy with glee
so the hungry might meet
Their need to eat
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