What's going to happen?

I predict that Harold Camping will be wrong for the third time when the world does not end on the 21st October 2011. I also predict that the !rsehole behind http://www.the-end.com/ will be wrong and all purchasers of his books will be disappointed. Why does this matter? Well it does to those misguided folk who've given up jobs, homes etc in line with these purely invented dates. Most intelligent educated people don't believe the Christian Bible, the Jewish Torah nor the Koran or any other ~ 2000 year old book translated through hundreds of years and tens of languages are literally true. Many now don't believe in an omnipresent all-powerful being running the whole universe. Instead we are to all intents and purposes alone on planet Earth, quite possibly the only intelligent life within many hundreds of nearby solar systems. We face some apocalypses of our own making, and some catastrophes from the sky or our own home planet. Regardless of whether you believe in t...

The other parties are not always sweetness and light. But will the Cameron government be the last and final time the wool is pulled over the eyes of the public? They only get elected by convincing you, me and the dustman that they have all our interests at heart. Yet 200+ years of history proves that they address mainly the problems of those who have "too much" already. We need new thinkers for the next few generations. We may face man-made climate change, or catastrophes from another source. Keeping millionaires in walled gardens and private jets will address precisely none of this.

Finished Climate Wars by Gwynne Dyer on holiday. Nothing particularly new except for the detailed quotes from various people whose status means they should be taken very seriously. And the scenarios... It's not exactly news, but the human race needs to de-carbonise the economy. Not next week, next year or next decade, but today. Probably already too late to prevent CO2 equivalent exceeding 450ppm, so we are going to need radical measures to avoid enormous casualties in the next 10, 20, 40 years.