Supertroll,

You sentimental old thing, don't you know nostalgia is a thing of the past.

Supertroll, You sentimental old thing ! don't you know that nostalgia is a thing of the past.

Here is a graphic brief recap of climate predictions well wide of the mark.

http://www.thegwpf.com/content/uploads/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-13-at-07.53.26.png

Ross. Even with shops commercializing Halloween providing dressing up costumes and plastic pumpkins (for loot), housing decorations (spider webs, tombstones and the like) and all the other paraphernalia, I repeat, for small children (those who still believe in Father Christmas) it is both magical and scary. My kids were devastated one year when we came to the UK and found out that Halloween was not celebrated. In Western Canada it could be very cold, so additional treats were getting warm in front of a fire and hot chocolate while sorting through their haul.
My faint recollections as a boy were of getting pennies from passers by for a guy before November 5th. I haven't seen a guy for many decades. Has the practice died out? Corbyn, May and some others would make good subjects.

Uibhist a Tuath
I applaud these traditions in the original form I just hate the way they have been used and abused. We have a tradition called Wassail where the cider orchards are blessed in some areas this tradition has suffered the same fate. Fortunately the organisers locally do not publicise the event in the hope to keep it small and traditional.

"EM
Why should a professional geologist require a theory of glaciation?
Oct 13, 2018 at 8:20 AM | Supertroll"

Climate Science ignores all facts that don't fit with their CO2 Temperature Control Knob Theory

Ross Lea, from the Daily Mail:

"Professor Lindzen said Australia's political class had gone completely bonkers in their response to climate change alarmism and hadn't taken the time to actually read and understand the science.

'I can't imagine what suicidal instincts reside in Australia's political class.'

'In asking me to comment on the Australian response, you are asking the wrong person. You need to speak to someone specializing in abnormal psychology.' "

Unfortunately, Climate Scientists have listening to Lewandowsky, and now they are addicted.

Halloween is (was?) a traditional celebration for children in Scotland, certainly still was when I was a boy in the 1950s and early 1960s. It involved hildren dressing up in homemade costumes and visiting neighbours guising. This involved performing a party piece for the household a song, a poem, a dance or something else. The reward would be dooking for apples and other small treats. Readers of The Sunday Post will know this from The Brooks and Oor Wullie.
I assume the practice went to America with my ancestors amongst others, morphed into Trick Or Treat and was further bastardised when it recrossed the Atlantic. I find it very irritating that a harmless celebration has been turned into something which cause distress and is commercialised to nth degree by the media and supermarkets. A lot of the problem is due to the lack of knowledge the residents of one region of the UK know about the habits and customs of others and if they do find them vaguely amusing.

Fortunately Irn Bru and Tunnocks Caramel wafers are now freely available wherever I happen to be when the urge to return to childhood treats strikes.

Entropic man,
Have you read Prof. Lindzen's GWPF lecture ? If you have not I hope you will in the spirit of an open mind and objectivity. Let us have your comments.

https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2018/10/Lindzen-2018-GWPF-Lecture.pdf

Ross
"Halloween is just a commercial con and an excuse for children and young adults to misbehave". To a degree yes, but for young children it can be magical. Ours looked forward to it with great anticipation. Speilberg, in the film ET, captured the magic it can have.