Bob Hobden wrote:
"Let It Be" wrote

shazzbat wrote:
Quite a lot of the land round here (Dorset) is under water,
including my allotment. Also including the car park of a garden
centre I passed today, which nonetheless had a sign proclaiming
"Seed potatoes now in".
It might make more sense right now to plant rice.

Steve

You'll have to wait for the long-trumpeted human-induced global
warming [1] to take affect first to heat the paddies (fields that
is, not the Irish) - and then you'll have no bloody water to plant
the rice in 'cos it's too flamin' hot and dry!

You just can't win!

[1] If you believe in such rot that is - and notwithstanding the
fact that nature changes her weather patterns more times than
females nag!
Oh I now believe in Global Warming, there is too much evidence that
it is happening. Just look at how the weather has changed in the way
it was predicted.

Just to show who really is the mistress, mother nature's been doing that for
millions of years with the odd ice-age, flood, drought, fire etc being
recycled every few thousand years - even letting Krakato blow its top in
1883 and changing the weather patterns in this country for a couple of years
showing her power by causing a famine here with all the dust fall-out
blocking out the sun.

Worse storms, more rain, more wind, rise in sea
levels, it's exactly as predicted. Global warming does not mean it
will get warmer everywhere and considering what keeps this northern
island warm winters here could become a great deal colder.

"As predicted" - it's not really difficult to see a change in natural
weather patterns and then the scientists "predict" the end of the world so
that governments and multi-national firms can attempt to scare the living
daylights out of the population and start taxing them to subsidise oversized
windmills etc in the 'false hope' that the world will be saved.

Remember that weather patterns change and at some time in the future, when
all the earth's resources are used up, all animal life on this planet will
become extinct - a simple fact. And that's assuming that someone doesn't
start an atomic war or let loose chemical or germ warfare - let alone mother
nature deciding to teach us mere mortals a lesson and wipe us out with her
own mighty army of little germs that we humans are not resistant to because
of overuse of various medicines and antidotes.

And that's without the poisons we are ingesting through adding various
chemicals to our foods and plants so that they apparently 'last longer',
'taste better' or simply just to change their colour because they will 'look
better'.

A long response from a sceptic - but I never did follow the herd!