Rain

It is currently raining in London which is a good thing as we have had practically none over the last few weeks. The climate warmists are sure that the drought we've experienced is evidence of their view that the world is getting warmer and that we must reduce our carbon footprint. Being a healthy sceptic I say that it is just part of a cycle rather like for example cycles in cricket when this or that nation goes through a winning spell and then a losing one. No only have we had a little drought but also a chilly wind from whichever direction it has blown. The wind has not been enough to produce any meaningful electricity though other than the kind that the receipt of subsidies causes as they slip into your pocket. The blot of wind farms on the landscape is now attracting some resistance and rightly so. It is taking a long time though for people to realise that subsidy is causing those interested in receiving it to rubbish or even to try to block alternative fuel alternatives. The Adam Smith Institute reports on the findings of the Legatum Institute that those wedded to subsidy see the arrival of an energy source that is cost efficient and clean as a threat. We should badger our politicians to insist that only cost efficient and clean energy alternatives are used and that alternative energy sources which require subsidies be banned. Perhaps the departure from the scene of the awful Mr Huhne will enable a sane energy policy to be introduced. Perhaps we should thank our lucky stars that his troubles over penalty points have come to light in the nick of time. Perhaps also the Strauss-Kahn affair is a lucky break - who needs a socialist economist in charge of the IMF after all the damage done to the economies of the West by economists of that persuasion. Curious that the BBC regard Strauss-Kahn as a brilliant economist.