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Jack Frost pays a visit

Jack Frost paid us a visit this morning and gave us all a big hello here. Put me in the mood to go right back into bed and to stay there till summer.

But as the day progressed my friend the sun made a most welcomed appearence and kept us company for most of the day.

I hope this winter is not a long one and that spring brings a nice cool refreshing change from the long hard months we have endured weather wise lately.

Man blamed for Global warming

Hopefully, the majority of us already knew this, but Friday's report on global warming from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) puts mankind firmly in the frame for the increasing rate of global warming.

According to the report, mankind's industrial activity since the mid twentieth century has almost certainly been the main catalyst in global warming. In fact, the report states this industrial activity as being 'very likely' the main contributor - more definite than the last report in 2001 where it was 'likely' to be the cause. This means the scientists involved now believe that there is now a greater than 90% chance that human industrial activity has been the main driver of global warming and climate change. Ok, most of us had this sussed but the importance of this report is that placing the blame unequivocably with humans, and backing it up with scientific fact, means governments MUST sit up, take notice and DO Something.

Representatives from 113 governments – including the United States – signed off on the summary's conclusions, so it now seems that world leaders cannot claim they don't know enough to make decisive moves against climate change as the report covers clearly the consequences to be seen now and in the future. The IPCC report should surely be the biggest and most important item on any government agenda - that remains to be seen.

Its findings concern the future of the entire planet for generations to come and it would be callous and beyond careless of us to disregard this impact simply because we may not be alive to personally experience the more devastating effects of our legacy - let's hope policymakers globally feel the same and make moves NOW to tackle this issue.

Of course, the magintitude of the problem raises almost mind-boggling challenges but goverments MUST rise to these, and we, as keepers of the planet should find out as much as possible about what we can do, we need to think outside of our own locality and consider the worldwide implicatoins of rising sea-levels, tropical cyclones and much more devastating changes ahead.

Bird flu hits britain

Bird flu reared its ugly ahead again this week, with an outbreak at Bernard Matthews plc Suffolk farm. It's the biggest outbreak ever in Europe, with an estimated 159,000 birds culled as a result.

I remember around this time last year, there were various rumblings about bird flu, and the possible pandemic it could cause. As leaflets were distributed and news items galore warned of the possibility of mutation into the human strain, I must admit feeling mildly panicky. I was pregnant at the time and may have over-reacted in my maternal state by constantly needing to discuss it with my partner, detailing all the possible doomsday scenarios. Eventually, the subject seemed to die down, there were no more news items about it and I recall commenting last summer that 'bird flu died a death'.

Now its back and I'm reading about the same issues, although now on a much larger scale. I'm comforting myself by agreeing with government calls for calm, thinking it's logical to assume we've nothing to fear when it hasn't even mutated into the human strain and even if it does it's extremely difficult to contract -

"At the moment in the United Kingdom, the general public still have more chance of winning the lottery than getting bird flu," said Jim Robertson, a virologist at Britain's national institute for biological standards and control.

Good ol' Jimbo - that makes me feel much much better..... Until I come across another field of thought where 'Scientists' believe it is only a matter of time before the present strain H5N1 mixes with human flu, mutates and then spreads from person to person! Although the estimated death toll from this varies greatly, from 50 million to 100's of millions worldwide, all of a sudden my chances of winning the lottery seem to have soared!

Indianapolis Colts win Super Bowl XLI

The Indianapolis Colts beat the Chicago Bears 29-17 to win Super Bowl XLI. Both teams slugged it out in the pouring rain, to see who would be victorious. Not much interest here as I am a soccer addict and anyway the 49ers are my team in the nfl. San Francisco will always have a place in my heart. As for ever getting to see a super bowl live, I don't know. Maybe the next time the San Francisco 49ers reach the super bowl. We love you Joe Montana and Jerry Rice.