Tag: climate-change

• Post for August

  Europe burning

  Here I am at the keyboard at last, over half-way through August with no idea of what to write about, a good time to take a break from dwelling on the sullen pot-shots so many of the Eastern countries are taking at each other. It’s cloudy here in far-from-everywhere Tasmania, so no use peering up into the night sky for thousands of tiny twinkling bits of demolished satellites taking their death-plunge into the heavier atmosphere below.

  Suddenly, without asking, a map of Europe that looked like bottles of brown and black ink had been spilt over large parts of it appeared on screen, a fire danger map! Since most of the news I had heard about this disaster seemed to mainly be centered in and around France, I was greatly surprised to see that these aptly named Extreme and Very Extreme condition areas dominate a large Part of central-eastern Europe, stretching from Germany and the Alpine region through Poland and into the Balkans, with additional pockets over Spain, Ireland, northern France and southern Sweden. Extreme conditions surround these areas, also covering parts of Spain. I was also surprised to see big, dark patches on Southern parts of Great Britain, and wondered why I hadn’t seen anything about these in the media. Then it occurred to me that the British press is possibly more focused on the continuing saga emanating from Buckingham Palace.

  Looking back and learning

  Except for the wildfires, things are fairly quiet, so I’ve been going back over SOB trying to find ways to improve, after all, it hasn’t been a raging success in getting the message out to big numbers of people, and we won’t have much influence on our rather scary future unless this improves a lot, so I’ve tried to put myself into your position as a first time reader to try and work out how to improve. So what’s the verdict? Well, I can’t find too much wrong with the content, but no surprise there, It’s not fiction, it’s not mine, and I’ve checked the sources for reliability. In the few places where I’ve indulged in a bit of speculation, it’s based, as far as I can tell, on that increasingly rare commodity, common sense. Where I have probably scored an F for fail, however, is what comes across to me as a rather high-handed way I ask readers to pass the message on, “don’t send it to them, send it to them,” and so on. It’s a wonder you didn’t tell me to get lost (maybe you did!) This might have come about because I was writing, initially, at least, with young readers in mind, who, I thought, rightly or wrongly, needed a bit of guidance. So what’s to be done? I’m open to suggestions, and I’m not going to give up, but I am going to leave it to you, to do it your way. Start your own blog – but just do it, soon.

  That’s it for this month, I’m going to busy for a while, so unless something spectacular happens, remember me in September.

  sillyoldblogger.blog

  2026.08.19

• 1st. report for the New Year:

  sillyoldblogger.blog is about 3 weeks old now and starting to see a bit of action, not as much as I’d like but it’s early days and I’m a bit impatient, I suppose. There has, however, been something of a surprise development. Three respondents have made the same comment. I won’t name them, but the first was a family member, who I showed a preliminary version of the blog to, and her immediate verbal comment was something like….

  The answer to the problem is already there, use the bombs to blow up the people, and both problems are solved”

  The next was from a good friend with much more experience than me in publishing, and other things …….

  “Given your comments about climate change and a sustainable population, a nuclear war could be the solution.”

  Last but not least is a friend from way back, early in our working careers ……

  “It follows that a nuclear war and the use of these weapons will in fact reduce the world’s overburdened population and thus improve climate rate of change.”

  Black humour aside, I’ve had some positive comments some from the same people, and they are much appreciated. I hope they have, or soon will be, turned into action, you know what to do, so let’s get on with it. By the way, I have emphasised sending the link to friends, so we won’t risk annoying anyone, but there’s one section of the population who you can send it to, politicians, as far up their food chain as you can manage, without fear of too much criticism, even a politician would find it hard to criticise an attempt to make the world a better place and reduce the risk of a nuclear disaster. Some of them might even be curious enough to try sillyoldblogger.blog to see what it’s all about – no harm trying. That’s all for now, all being well, I’ll have some news for you next week.

  S.O.B.

  2026.01.21