tomo, despite everything, Varoufakis is in favour of the EU, though of course he would seek to change it for the better. But even he understands full well what is going on over Brexit, having seen it all before when the EU stamped on Greek democracy. And at least he respects the will of the people, unlike our remainer establishment.

Varoufakis isn't everyone's cup of tea, but he's a highly intelligent man, who writes English like a native (having spent much of his time in English-speaking countries) and his books are highly readable. I've read several of them, and recommend them to one and all.

Trump meets the Crown Prince here
Trump has a word with MBS who assures him that he s clean ans the proverbial baby's bottom. Natch Don believes him - why wouldn't he. He's a very GOOD man.

TinyCO2, for no good reason I was thinking about King Richard III again this afternoon.
He was of course disturbed from his rest recently in a Leicestershire car park, not far up the M1 from God's own County.

I was thinking of what he had that I didn't. I have plentiful food and drink, of a variety, safety, quality and quantity he could not imagine. I can easily travel to places he could only dream of, and many more that he could not dream of. I live in warm comfort with copious amounts of hot water. I have a world of entertainment, information and education at my fingertips (apart from the BBC bit, of course). My life and health care expectancy far exceed his own, even correcting for possible painful death in battle.

On the other hand, what has he got? He gets to order a lot of servants around and probably have sex with almost anyone of his choosing before he is murdered or contracts a nasty disease as a result. And he gets a play or two named after him.

And he was King. Everyone else is not so lucky, or already dead. It's a poor trade. I think I win.

Yet the green-shirts and global-warmers want to return us to those 'halcyon' days.
Dimwits.

American Geophysical Union

U34A Consequences of an Unusually Long and Deep Solar Minimum
Jul 28, 2015

Co2
I could not be arsed talking about it.

Anyone else see this utube video : Consequences of an Unusually Long and Deep Solar Minimum I
It was the autumn of 2009 but the American geophysical union did not publish it on their utube site until 2015.
I personally think it is explosive
The first 2 scientists seem to be pretty confident of a Dalton minimum type event approaching and a Maunder minimum is not discounted.

We get off 104 days off in weekends alone and don't have to go to church to pay for it. Not to mention bank holidays and holiday entitlement for most. Many get paid sick leave. Maternity leave. Retirement. Our normal meals are like mighty feasts compared to even a well to do farmer's celebrations. We'd be dreadfully bored with a medieval celebration. I'm sure they had fun but our biggest problem now is insatiable desires. A delicacy would be small cube of ginger bread. Fish was the preserve of the wealthy. Meat was rarely fresh and in very small quantities. Staples were bread and dilute beer. Nah, give me the dudgery of 21st century Britain.

Jaysus co2
Your Wikipedia skills astound me
I was thinking of Chaucer's England .
My dates are off but my gut is correct.
Disruptive economic centralisation really kicked off with the Tudors.
Vagabonds like me could not add to economic efficiency .

Sorry paint the desert black rather then white .
Part of my brain is still in global warming mode .
Must must mus mu m switch to global cooling programme.