In which the pond brings glorious news of Moorice ...

Wednesday would usually be Miranda the Devine day, and realising that she's sorely missed on her holyday break, the good twittering folk at Palace Films sent her a 'hurry back soon' message a few days ago, as part of their astute business plan, incidentally setting off a Mark Wahlberg flame war.

Ah, the Devine, much missed ...

And now for some even better news.

The pond has long urged Moorice to return to his first love, climate science, which made him one of the most respected international figures in the field, apart perhaps from the Donald and faux Lord Monckton, and his assorted acolytes of the Dame Slap and Paul Sheehan kind (now there's a long forgotten expert climate scientist) ...

Moorice was too busy noting assorted pending catastrophes about to be inflicted on the world, but at last he has heeded the pond's call, and the reptiles frantically cleared some space so that they could remind the world that they were home to top-class climate science reporting ...

Now this is such a vital message that the pond wouldn't dream of interrupting Moorice's flow or arguing with his impeccable science ...

It goes without saying that Ridders' announcement was one of the most astonishing insights into climate science that the world has yet seen.

Though originally published in The Times, it was featured in the lizard Oz, yet bizarrely, cruelly, it was hidden behind a paywall.

Imagine if Galileo had been put behind a paywall, or worse still, silenced by the Catholic church.

It's in that grand spirit of relentless bold scientific inquiry that Ridders has posted The Mysterious Cycles of Ice Ages on his blog ... and in an expanded version!

Not just short diluted Murdochian science, but full-throated, expanded Ridders' science ...

Take that, reptiles, as if the world should be held hostage by your baleful paywall, when the spirit of scientific research is afoot like a hound on the chilly moors...

Global warming? Tell that to the hound shivering in the brisk night air ...

Now before proceeding, the pond should remind everyone that the other Ridders, from the deep north, featured along with Lloydie, and Jim Steele, on Media Watch a while ago...

And with that,  it's back to Moorice, assorted Ridders and the science ...

Indeed, indeed, the pond has long suspected a deep state BOM conspiracy, acting in league with the League of Nations to introduce a world government, and how lucky we are to have Moorice act as a parrot to the exceptional Ridders, who sagely concluded his piece thusly ...

All of human civilisation happened in an interglacial period, with a relatively stable climate, plentiful rainfall and high enough levels of carbon dioxide to allow the vigorous growth of plants. Agriculture was probably impossible before then, and without its hugely expanded energy supply, none of the subsequent flowering of human culture would have happened. That interglacial will end. Today the northern summer sunshine is again slightly weaker than the southern. In a few tens of thousands of years, our descendants will probably be struggling with volatile weather, dust storms and air that cannot support many crops. But that is a very long way off, and by then technology should be more advanced, unless we prevent it developing. The key will be energy. With plentiful and cheap energy our successors could thrive even in a future ice age, growing crops, watering deserts, maintaining rainforests and even melting ice caps.

By golly, reliable energy, made impossible by the intelligentsia lurking with the baristas in Surry Hills. 

Please, remind the pond to get in a two bar radiator this winter ... one bar won't be enough, not if the pond wants to join in the melting of ice caps ... because, let's face it, currently the ice caps aren't melting fast enough ... take an Arctic gander here ...

But while this is all very well, and the pond is tremendously reassured, would it be too bold to urge both Moorice and Ridders to explore in more depth the thesis of one of the world's great climate scientists, a thesis which keeps on attracting difficult, disapproving tweets ... yet has an elegant simplicity to it ...

Never mind, the pond is sure that in due course Ridders and Moorice will explain exactly what the Donald meant and why he is right, and in the meantime the pond can honour this bold and brave climate scientist with a cartoon by Rowe, with more Rowe to be found here ...