A Start

 

Well, I've made a start on the reorganization of the black hole that is The Studio. It don't seem much progress for an entire afternoon's work, but it's a logistical nightmare along the lines of the Tower of Hanoi: shuffle this to there, and that over here; hopefully, eventually, ending up with some sense of order to it all. Back to it tomorrow. I have a plan...

After downing tools, however, we watched the excellent "The Trick", originally shown on BBC a couple of years ago, dramatizing the case of the 'Climategate' scandal, involving The University of East Anglia in 2009, that aimed to scupper the good works of their Climate Research Unit, and threatened to validate the alt-right populist climate-change-denial movement's arrant bollocks; probably, although not yet proven, unfortunately, orchestrated by governments and big oil & coal interests across the globe.

The research was entirely vindicated in the several enquiries that followed, but the damage caused will be felt for years to come, as more and more people latch on to the lies and dissembling of the vested and their apologists, and the fantasists who would rather fly in the face of what is now agreed to be incontrovertible facts, rather than face up to the reality staring them in the face.