“I never got any choco squares” … please please give us some global warming! | ScottishSceptic

All we need is just a couple of degrees warmer. 16C means the kids sit around inside watching TV. 18C means the doors are flung open and they go outside. 12C as we’ve had at times means we huddle around the fire or put the laptop on our knees pretending we are surfing the web looking for pronography whereas all we really crave is a bit of warmth from the PSU.

And to cap it all there are idiots in Holyrood (holywood?) who think we Scots want to fork out another £150 on our bills (on top of the £50? already) to stop it getting warm enough we don’t need to run the central heating all year around (we can’t afford it but next door does!)

Ski season 'shaping up to be best in decades' | Australia

"This season is shaping up to be one of the best in decades with the snow depth at Perisher officially reaching 158.9cm today," a Perisher spokesperson said. "Not since 1990 have we seen such a snow depth at this time of the year."

Archibald: Solar Based Climate Forecast to 2050 | Watts Up With That?

For the next thirty years odd, temperatures will be at mid-19th Century levels.

Why We Shouldn’t be Building Large Infrastructure Projects - Tim Worstall - It's All Trivial Or Obvious Except - Forbes

Laptops and mobile phones mean that at least a modicum of work can be done while travelling. So the value of time saved by fewer hours travelling should fall. In fact, we can almost certainly go further. Sitting with a laptop, a phone and a decent internet connection in a comfy seat on a train is, these days, almost as productive as being in a nice office in a comfy chair with a computer, phone and decent internet connection.

In which case the value of the reduced transport time for these very important people collapses down to almost nothing. Something which rather explodes the cost benefit analysis of having the fast trains at all for the benefits rely so heavily on the high value of the time of these very important people not doing anything.

In short, forget making the trains faster and just install decent in carriage Wi-Fi. We get the same benefits at vastly reduced cost: and what can be bad about that?