In this week’s episode of London Calling, James and I talk about James’s epic hunting adventure last weekend; my struggles to adjust to my new role as housewife now that Caroline has left for a two-week tennis holiday in Barbados; the list of TV shows, movies and books that the U.K. Governmen’s anti-extremism unit think could turn you into a far right terrorist – Yes Minister, Zulu, the complete works of Shakespeare, etc.; the rewriting of Roald Dahl’s children’s books by Puffin; the weaponisation of ‘disinformation’ by the Global Disinformation Index to try to demonetise right-of-centre news publishing sites; the protest against 15-minute cities in Oxford; and, in Culture Corner, James’s trip to Bath to see a Genesis cover band, the vertiginous decline of Marvel Studios and the joys of Clarkson’s Farm.
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Toby, you might mention to James that it seems likely that the primary role of the CIA in Turkish Earthquakes may have been in dreaming up and disseminating the crackpot ideas taken up by the Romanian lady MP and James himself as a false flag attempt to damage her, and his, credibility.
He might brush up on his knowledge of how earthquakes occur, with little doubt through tectonic plate movement, although even HMG and the UN has yet to declare that they “own The Settled Science” on seismology.
Without going on at great length, I should point out that his note about Tesla’s experimentation on resonant vibrations in buildings and structures, which he falsely blamed on “an earthquake” is pretty much the precise reverse of his nonsensical suggestion that a series of earthquakes on a known major fault line was triggered by a magic resonant vibration under the control of the CIA. (Whilst I would not dispute that the CIA might well do such a thing if it was feasible!)
He might also note that significant collapses of bridges had been caused by resonance of marching soldiers at least 50 years before Tesla, the cause of the collapse recognised (even if not entirely understood), and is the reason why soldiers are apparently told to ‘break step’ when crossing bridges today.
Gosh!
I made an awful mistake!
I do hope the super genius Leader of the Limp Dims, “Sir Potato” Ed Davey can forgive me!?!
Of course, Davey has a far better understanding of seismology than even the British Geological Survey. So he wisely imposed a limit of 0.1 Richter on Earthquakes caused by Fracking. That’s about the tremor you might experience if dropping an old telephone directory about a foot. Maybe. You’d need a well calibrated seismograph to measure it.
The Richter scale is logarithmic, so a tremor of 0.1, compared to the normal Richter measure of concern for mining, piling, quarrying, demolition work of 4.0, is 7,900 TIMES less energy. To match the most powerful recent quake in Turkey / Syria, you would need more than 50 million times as much energy as Davey’s limit. No wonder he boasted, whilst continuing to trouser £18,000 per year from a Solar Energy company for a few hours work, that he’d “effectively banned Fracking”.
Still, what’s 50 million of anything if it saves the good people of Lancashire the terrors of collapsing buildings? And leads us to yet more useless, eye wateringly expensive, unreliable energy?