Honestly, I'm like one of those eaves-dropping computers that listens to telephone conversations or scans e-mails and is programmed by MI5 to pick up if any key words are used. Thus, pressed for time as I have been recently, I have paid little attention to the 'chicken-lickens' running around telling us the sky is about to fall down because in amongst their panic-stricken squawks I picked up two key phrases: "Met Office" and "computer models" and instantly I knew it was all bollocks. When, oh when, will our political masters realise that the Met Office is not fit for purpose and privatise the whole thing? And when will so-called scientists learn the old adage that when it comes to computers, 'crap in, crap out rules, OK'? Still, it's an ill wind and all that sort of thing because if ministers are shown to have fallen for a load of old cods then it might help hasten the demise of this crap government. Also, with a bit of luck, ministers in the next government might take anything from the Met Office pertaining to global warming with a shovel full of salt!
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I'm not sure this is a "true story" but given your little post I'm just gonna add it. Here in the US (maybe UK too) there's a 'child's story' called "Chicken Little." Probably akin to the European story about the Dutch boy that runs around sticking his finger in dykes. Anyway the "Chicken Little" storyline goes that a farmer's chicken keeps running around screaming, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"
One day (fairly recently I suppose) a kindergarden teacher tells the story to a group of her five year-old class kids and asks for reactions to 'Chicken Little's Warning' and "What does this mean?"
Stuff about Global Warming was a popular answer but the one I liked best was that of a precocious little pig-tailed girl when she was asked how she thought the farmer reacted. Her reply?
"Holy Shit! A talking chicken!"
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 22 April 2010 at 05:29
Nice one, 'JK'.
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 22 April 2010 at 07:51
JK
I thought in Arkansaw Chicken Little said the "Perdew truck is coming."
Posted by: hank | Friday, 23 April 2010 at 04:23
Naw Hank, it's "Grapette truck a'comin'."
Posted by: JK | Friday, 23 April 2010 at 22:32