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Yep I'm a typical brit, always going on about the weather!

Link: /Brain Kiss and Film Cycling

Film Cycling: Get old exercise cycle put in front of TV sit on and pedal during a film or series episode. Aim to increase calories burned and help reduce weight.

Well it's working so far combined with a bit of walking, cycling and jogging I'm starting to battle the bulge! About 2kg down in four weeks!

Give it a go it could even put real meaning into the Lost DVD series!

I'm going to write a 'Quick' brain training game and release it this week so I had best use the Keep It Simple Stupid aproach and get on with it.

Project: 'Brain Trainning v0.1'

Started: 14:22 24th Feb 2010
Finishes: 23:59 28th Feb 2010

Development Language: BlitzMax

Link: /ClimateChangeUK01

Have you noticed how cold it is in the UK recently, well I have a theory (Note: I am not a metrologist/weatherman or climate change scientists) but I do have a fascintion with the potential impact of man made climate change!

Now one of the theories I came across when I started getting interested in this was the fact that the UK and Northern Europe's 'great' weather (When you consider that London and Moscow are about the same latitude!) was mainly due to a circulating ocean current that warmed up along the equator and moves over the the Caribbean before circling up the east coast of America, then east over to England/Europe and back down and round again.

Nasa's view of European weather

Now this cycle depends upon the warm water hitting cold water from the arctic to cool it down and send it back round, so it can warm up and come back round again.

Excellent global warming should mean more warm water and better weather for the UK, afraid not the flip side is that the warmer weather would melt more ice making the northern atlantic colder and pushing the conveyor belt of warm water further south.

Now I did find a scientific paper and even some nice NASA satelite images of water temprature/flow when I was googling this a few years ago, I'll see if I can find them again and add links.

But I would say that the current weather pattern especially when you see a temprature picture of the north atlantic would indicate that this is the case combined with the recent news that the seas around the north pole are now navigable in the summer.

Now we are in winter so the heat balance is in the hands of cold northern seas right now but hopefully in the summer the balance should go the other way!

I'm not sure what happens when we start to run out of ice and the northern atlatic warms up there is scientific debate that the cycle has been switched off in the distant past but we do 'Live in interesting times'.

It does look like this change to our weather patterns has caught the MET office off a bit as their computer models don't seem to be doing as good a job of forcasting as usual, but I've seen jurrasic park and understand that Chaos can't be predicted!

Think of climate change as more energy added to a chaotic system in this case the weather and you start to realise that 'global warming' may not mean that you can start planting banana trees!

If you find any good scietific articles about weather pattern changes as opposed to the 'we've had cold weather before' which seems to be the standard media and even MET office response please let me know with a comment!

Well I'm off to defrost with a nice hot cup of coffee!

Link: /oilcrunchbranson

or Should I rename Save the Silly Earthlings!

Just found this online (from Feb 7 2010), maybe I missed it on the news or maybe it was sidelined but if you search for Peak Oil on the major news networks you will probably find the news article...

This is great news as, I know it sounds dire but unless you face up to changes especially ones that are so fundemental to our way of life, then you could be in for a very nasty shock!

You only need to look at the oil price prior to the credit cruch to realise that the credit cruch was probably the first 'tremor' or a pre-shock to the potential impact of post peak oil prices on our economy.

Link: /TransitionTV

Well you might be waiting for my Save The Silly Earthlings game "Coming soon" but wouldn't you like to know how to defeat Climate Change and POst Peak Oil for real...