Palin warming to the idea of God's global plan!

Sarah Palin is a bit like the curate's egg. Good in parts. She comes across as gutsy, folksy and someone with determination. But somehow the transcripts of her spoken voice leave something to be desired.

I get the impression she's latched onto the "It's all Nature's effects" viewpoint, because it suits her political stance over oil exploration in Alaska. However, she leaves room for suggesting it's partly man-made. I go along with that. It does seem more than likely that it is a mixture of natural change coming together with man-made effects of pollution and industrial wastage.

Where she doesn't do herself any favours, is when she suggests that nothing should be done except to accept that things and people should adapt to these changes without the necessary self-controls. I think she'd rather drill for oil than reduce emissions.

That leads on to suggest that McCain and Palin are not singing from the same hymn-sheet. More here.

Methinks the moo-cow makes too much methane!

Whatever next? A cow in Argentina is carrying around a plastic tank strapped to her back to collect her gas so that scientists can study the effects of global warming. She's joined by others in this research programme, just in case they provide alternative results, no doubt. I would have thought the scientists already knew that methane isn't that great when mixed into the atmosphere. How about a load of Argentinian scientists strapping such contraptions to themselves and monitoring what they deliver to the world on an average day?

Apparently (according to the BBC) researchers say the slow digestive system of cows makes them a producer of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that gets far less attention than carbon dioxide as a potential cause of global warming. Is this news? Not to me or anyone else, I think.

My hunch is that its all the wheeze of people who should know better.

See the cow here