tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post194731876189984153..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: Lovely, darling, caring Emma Thompson has read a poem asking Shell to stop murdering polar bearsScott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-1329205608413842512015-10-02T13:05:54.384+01:002015-10-02T13:05:54.384+01:00Fascinating! In ten years time, Greenpeace will no...Fascinating! In ten years time, Greenpeace will no doubt be furiously complaining that greedy oil companies are depleting the world's isoprene resources, the Pope will be demanding that we spend trillions on isoprene production just in case we run out of the stuff, and Our Emma will be reciting poetic paeans to Gaia's holy, healing substance. Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-90591284344114799692015-09-30T17:35:02.338+01:002015-09-30T17:35:02.338+01:00Bad news for Emma, I'm afraid. MASSIVE GLOBAL ...Bad news for Emma, I'm afraid. <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/30/massive_global_cooling_factor_discovered_ahead_of_paris_climate_talks/" rel="nofollow"><i>MASSIVE GLOBAL COOLING process discovered as Paris climate deal looms</i></a>.<br /><br />It seems that there's something called isoprene (not a shampoo) and that it can be produced abiotically. Which no-one knew before.<br /><br />But, no biology required, the oceans are producing 3½ megatons of isoprene p.a. In addition to the biologically produced 1.9 megatons that we all knew about.<br /><br />Not knowing it was there, the 3½ megatons aforesaid didn't figure in any climate models. Add them in, and the cooling effect is material.<br /><br />Well, quite big, actually.<br /><br />In fact, they may account for the constant, unchanging, obstinately fixed temperatures we've been living in during the past 15 years of sweltering global warming.<br /><br />By Christmas Emma may well be fronting an appeal for central heating for polar bears.David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-64250031921445104782015-09-06T18:08:39.501+01:002015-09-06T18:08:39.501+01:00An outbreak of listeria in Liberia?
Blast! I susp...An outbreak of listeria in Liberia?<br /><br />Blast! I suspect posterity has lost something really rather special.Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-13667702638198601712015-09-06T10:31:12.565+01:002015-09-06T10:31:12.565+01:00I don't think there was much more of the Philp...I don't think there was much more of the Philpott poem. He may have thought he had said it all in the first line, which was written on his school satchel. Sandy Morrison and I speculated at the time that the next line might have been 'Mass hysteria in Nigeria'.ex-KCSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-57400921023272497822015-09-04T16:06:33.759+01:002015-09-04T16:06:33.759+01:00Brave chap, Philpott - I remember him once refusin...Brave chap, Philpott - I remember him once refusing to be cowed by some Gallic oaf brandishing a flick-knife at a bunch of 13-year old English schoolboys in Dinard. While the rest of us backed off nervously from this thug and his gang, Philphott held his ground and refused to budge. Disconcerted by this display of bulldog spirit, the leering French bully and his minions eventually slunk off, looking like the damned cowards they undoubtedly were. Philpott evidently displayed the same level of courage when it came to composing poetry. Can you remember the rest of it?<br /><br />As for dear, dear Emma - how can you spend three years studying English at the best university in the world (at that time, at least) with an ear made entirely of tin? Or is it meant to be the sort of hilariously naff doggerel we've come to associate with William Topaz MacGonagall? As she's bound to be a friend of darling, clever Benjamin Zephyr Zodiac, I suggest she asks him for a few tips (of the poetry-writing sort, I mean).<br /><br /> Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-38174240177693674082015-09-02T23:27:43.905+01:002015-09-02T23:27:43.905+01:00Oh dear. No really. Oh dear. I am not sure even Bl...Oh dear. No really. Oh dear. I am not sure even Blog Laureate Mr Zephyr Zodiac could top that. And doesn't she have a degree in English from Cambridge? Where is F.R. Leavis when you need him? I remember a chap at school called Philpott who penned a protest poem at 16, the first lines of which were "Bam Bam Bam in Vietnam". At least that scanned and rhymed.<br /><br />I have been prepared to overlook the fact that she called her daughter Gaia and her general "look at me I'm a bit of a right on lefty"-ness because her screenplay for Sense and Sensibility once made Jane Austen more accessible to my children. But this is the poetic equivalent of the Donald Trump haircut and I wish I hadn't seen either. I challenge you to read it at your next Pass on a Poem. Now that would be worth seeing.ex-KCSnoreply@blogger.com