COP26 - bring the deniers to Herne Farm

Image: © Basher Eyre Taken: 31 Oct 2021

As history often teaches us, everybody always knew what to do AFTER the calamity had occurred. So while the great and the good gather in Glasgow to discuss climate change, here is a photo from my home town of Petersfield. It used to happen about once a decade - Petersfield's chalky soil means rain runs away easily. But the sheer amount and frequency of these flash floods cannot be coincidence. In other news this month: October 3 – journalists publish a set of 11.9 million documents leaked from 14 financial services companies known as the Pandora Papers, revealing offshore financial activities that involve multiple current and former world leaders; October 6th – The WHO endorses the first malaria vaccine; 13th Star Trek’s Captain Kirk (actor William Shatner) finally gets to go into space at the age of 90 aboard Blue Origin, the space vehicle funded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos; 21st the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is killed on a film set by a prop gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin; 23rd Colombia's most wanted drug lord, Dario Antonio Úsuga is captured; and 30th Boris Johnson says he is “puzzled” by the latest French dispute over fishing rights

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