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Tuesday 14th 44F, dark grey, raining hard and blowing a gale! How long it will rain is the usual tug of war between competing weather services. Very late walk after the rain stopped. Everything still very wet.
Australia's wildfires have released as much CO2 as is "normal" Australian CO2 production for a whole year. NASA confirms that their satellites are tracking the smoke across South America and expect it to travel right around the globe. Scientists say these wildfires will become "normal" in a warming climate. Meanwhile, the warming of the oceans is still accelerating.
Denmark has an all electric, car ferry for an island passenger service. The future is here! Batteries are included.
Elon "TeslaBoy" Musk announces that full, self-driving cars are now, very close.
Tesla's value is now greater than GM and Ford combined. Not bad from a standing start against two vast, but ageing dinosaurs with no new tricks. Dinosaurs, whose management repeatedly predicted Tesla failure and bankruptcy. It's the age old story: Those who can't, criticize. It's all they have to offer. The "stock in trade" for every politicoozer on the planet.
Meanwhile [The 1% 's] <cough> news <cough> papers report that one particular granny was terrified by a Tesla being remotely "called to heel" by its owner. OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!
Meanwhile cont'd: 3287 real people die EVERY SINGLE DAY on the roads. None of these martyrs to human drivers seems to have made the <cough> news <cough> paper headlines. I wonder why? Not celeb enough to warrant a mention?
Denmark's councils [Dan. kommunes] have a system where the richest contribute to the poorest. One of the very poorest is now having to pay the very richest because Philippine Au-pairs are going home. Which is calculated to mean a reduction in inhabitants for the wealthiest areas of Denmark. Triggering an automatic need for extra funding. Only in Denmark?
I enjoyed a ride to another village shop along very quiet, rural lanes. Still a strong wind and grey skies. Distant farms were briefly gilded by bright holes in the overcast. Not one field, of the dozens I passed, had escaped the dreaded minor flooding. There were many places in the lanes where puddles reached half way across. Hindered only by the camber from reaching further afield. A good chance to wash all the mud from the wheels. Only 8 miles, but it was good to get out on the trike again.
A huge storm over Scotland will cause southwesterly gusts to 20m/s or 45mph [or even more] here in mid Denmark in the early hours of tomorrow morning.
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