Righting the wrongs

Well I hate to sound like a stuck record, but yet again I am shocked to read another disgraceful editorial written in another engineering periodical. Yes, it was once again claiming that global warming is fictitious and invented by scientists to gather more funding for their research. This article contained not one single piece of evidence to back any of the authors tired and unresearched rhetoric. This is an article filled with lots of assertions and frequent use of 'single quotes' with comments such as the 'make guilty' lobby. If I wasn't so annoyed by the nerve of this guy I probably would have found the whole thing rather humorous. Naturally, he wasn't content with denying global warming, he also couldn't resist the chance to have a dig at renewable energy. All I can say is that it is lucky that people like him don't have much of an influence in the world or else we would probably still all be in the stone age for fear of trying something new, or improving our lot. So for any engineers who may still read engineering T&D magazine, I encourage you to show your disgust by asking for your organization to boycott this magazine.

Okay, on with more enjoyable and less serious matters. My parents have just left Melbourne after spending an enjoyable week with Asia and I. Last weekend we took them on three day trips over a long weekend. Firstly, down the Great Ocean Road to Apollo Bay, then to the Dandenong ranges for a bush walk and then for some wine tasting and a great meal in the Yarra Valley. The Great Ocean Road lived up to its reputation as being one of the premier ocean drives in the world, with some pretty spectacular scenery. Although, I must say that as a New Zealander who is pretty spoilt for scenery it was perhaps not as spectacular as I was expecting. Perhaps the biggest thrill of the whole journey was spotting a group of Koalas in gum trees on the side of the road. I have never seen them in the wild before so that was a bit of a treat.

Superb news in Melbourne today, it has been raining good and proper since yesterday evening. So far we have had 23 mm, which is pretty impressive for a 24 hour period considering what we have had lately. It's to early to say the drought has broken, but hopefully it's a sign of things to come.

Okay, well we have more visitors this weekend, Hamish and Liana, friends of ours from Wellington, so I better stop being anti-social. Ciao.