On Oct 19, 6:45*pm, wrote:


How does that explain the Subday Mirror and Sunday Telegaph artices
and Nigel Calders book?

The post war cooling was very obvious right through the sixties only
ten years earlier Einstein was writing a glowing preface to Charles
Hapgoods apparent destruction of the theory of plate tectonics. I
think people forget how things rapidly change, Cooling wasn't a theory
it actually was a concern that had veen picked up by a less distorted
media than today. Again people want to revise history to suit their
view of the world.

Who is revising history? I have cited a scholarly article from the
Bulletin of the AMS which clearly shows the greater ('warming')
consensus amongst those publishing papers on the subject of climate
change.

Post-war cooling was indeed obvious, and perhaps that is why the
Mirror and Telegraph picked up on the relatively few instances of
predictions of cooling over a far longer period. But who knows? How do
you explain the Express these days publishing the 'long-range
forecasts' that they do? The press will do do as it pleases, and
perhaps that is where one needs to look for revisionism.

As for Dickens: Would you think it correct if a period drama had white
tribesmen amongst the Ibo people of west africa ? Of course not. TYhe
BBC are revising the accuracy of historic events to atone for the sins
of the slave trade. *As I said in another post a young Blacl actress
iis to star in a new production of little dorrit.


I think it has been pointed out before, but Oliver Twist and Little
Dorrit are not 'historical events'. And your analogy is doubly false:
Sophie Okenedo is English; white people depicting the Ibo would not be
Ibo. But was it ever a problem for all those white guys down the years
to portray Othello?

Did you know, by the way, that the majority population in Limehouse
(where Oliver Twist was set) was black at that time? And again: where
is the cut-off for skin tone where one is allowed to appear in a
dramatisation of Dickens? The BBC's Oliver Twist was an interpretation
of a novel, and therefore exhibited dramatic license at worst. The dog
was the wrong breed, I think - was that a problem?