Snow….

When I was a little boy we still did a Christmas Pagent in school. With Wisemen, assorted Shepards, an, I fear Freddy the train was relegated as an oxen lowing. It was Christmas, it was cold and Bethlehem was, so far as I remember, snowy.

Years later I read The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Sure, Laurence was beaten by Turks and ignored by the British military establishment; but mainly he was unhappily cold. (He quite liked heat. And, of course, the screen writers put the line, “The trick is not to mind that it hurts”)

So it is not at all shocking, as the world returns to a normal climate, that it snowed in the Middle East today. Again.

My warmist buddies will, no doubt, argue that this is just more proof of climate change. I suspect we will hear a lot of that as the Earth cools and, I hope, reverts to the mean I so enjoyed as a child.

Written by jay on January 31st, 2008 with 3 comments.
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For the want of a nail

Canada’s Barrick Gold Corp. is so concerned about the worldwide shortage of the giant tires it needs for its massive mining trucks and loaders that it is lending a Japanese tire maker $35-million (U.S.) to help it finance a plant expansion. globe and mail

While people think deep, and pretty gloomy thoughts about the global economy, the people who are actually making stuff or mining are dealing with the scarcity which abundance create. Lots of 3 million dollar mining trucks + no tires = no mining trucks. Barrick is looking long term and that is very smart indeed.

Written by jay on January 31st, 2008 with no comments.
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