Global Warming

Global warming is a fact. But are humans really the cause of this ? I don't believe so.

The Earth's climate changes naturally in cycles. Humanity cannot produce as much CO2 as is produced by a single vocano eruption. Our power sources are dwarfed by the fusion reactor 92 million miloes away - the Sun.

So are we causing damage to the environment ? Yes, we have - for example the former East Germany. But we are working to heal that damage and our care for the environment is imptoving year on year - new sewage works, better recovery of pollutants from chemical stacks, etc.

So I believe that overall humanity is another animal on the planet, but one that is at least trying to neutralize its effects on the environment.

I heard this on the Web, and I wish the UK and America would take a similar stand. Let's get rid of all the radical islamic fundamntalists. If they want to live by Shari'a, then they can go to an Islamic state such as Iran.

Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on
Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted
radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.

A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to
Australia and her Queen at a special meeting with Prime Minister
John Howard, he and his Ministers made it clear that extremists
would face a crackdown.
Treasurer Peter Costello, seen as heir apparent to Howard, hinted
that some radical clerics could be asked to leave the country if
they did not accept that Australia was a secular state, and its laws
were made by parliament. "If those are not your values, if you want
a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia
is not for you", he said on national television.

"I'd be saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws
governing people in Australia: one the Australian law and another
the Islamic law, that is false. If you can't agree with
parliamentary law, independent courts, democracy, and would prefer
Sharia law and have the opportunity to go to another country, which
practices it, perhaps, then, that's a better option", Costello said.

A net-friend just posted to a list in reply to another poster saying that this is not a world war. This is my reply.

This _is_ a World War. The terrorists are trying to attack wherever they can (the UK just shut down another terrorist operation and a school where kids were indoctrinated into the terrorist mindset) but one benefit of the UK/US presence in Afghanistan/Iraq is that the terrs are concentrating on our soldiers _who can shoot back_.

Watch the world news. Terrorists are not restricted to the war arenas. Egypt was recently the target of terrorists. (Or at least the tourist areas were.)

I haven't posted in a while - I lost my login due to a system crash, as well as being a lazy b****r - why do you think I called this blog "Cleaner's Corner" anyway ? That's where I lift the carpet and sweep all the dust under ...

Well, this is frustrating. My laptop's DVD drive broke completely and after working 7 dats a week for a month (at Adam House, one of the venues used for the Fringe - http://www.cvenues.com/) I took it to a computer shop to be fixed. They looked at it - and told me they couldn't get parts for it. (A Packard Bell EasyNote) and that there were two screws in the laser, which is probably why it broke.

Email sent to PC World to see if they can get it fixed.