Bøker av David P Gregg

This is a detective story about a supposed crime against the Earth. If the Earth and its ecosystems are at risk due to climate change who is the criminal ? We are told that the evil ways of the Capitalist West are to blame and particularly the use of fossil fuels. The 'vicious poison' CO2 is to blame 'according to scientists' and the green lobby. But is it true? What other forces can and do influence climate? This book explores climate on times scales of decades to millions of years and we name the other guilty parties involved. The fact is the atmospheric and oceanic systems of the planet are complex, non-linear and time varying. Many natural cycles are in play on time scales of decades, centuries and millennia. We will examine these in detail and show that their temperature variations are larger in magnitude than the recent tiny up-trend attributed to manmade greenhouse gases like CO2. We will use spectral 'fingerprinting' to examine all the suspects involved in global warming including variations in the radiation and particle output of the Sun and its magnetic field. We will show that the 'fingerprints of the Sun are all over temperature and other climate variables. The IPCC climate models which have generated the 'Climate Crisis' hysteria are also examined in detail and their remarkable weaknesses exposed.They cannot even explain the past climate adequately. They do not model convincingly the already apparent responses of the biosphere to increased CO2 (plant food) levels. Over 55% of CO2 emissions have already been taken out of the atmosphere by lifeforms. Finally we try to place the current changes in the context of the last 12,000 years and the next. Very probably, looking at historic global and regional temperature trends, we are already on the down slide into the next Ice Age. In the coming centuries the Earth will cool and the CO2 Crisis will show up in the record, if at all, as a small, insignificant blip. Meanwhile the green lobby is determined to wreck Western and Developing economies for faulted ideological reasons.

The author as a teenage school boy and young man, lived through exciting times in the 1960s and 1970s as the technology and techniques of rock and ice climbing evolved rapidly and as more and more dedicated 'amateurs' took up the sport across Europe and America. Reading these stories and adventures you may conclude that 'dedicated' should be replaced by 'fanatical'. And all this was achieved on a 'shoe string' among the Brits, in between busy working lives and later family life. The reader will soon recognise the existence of a vagabond, buccaneering approach to climbing life at this time ...except in the matter of the technical processes of climbing... in that area the true faithful worshiped the 'sacred rituals' of technique as though their lives depended on it... as often they did.

What is the source of human inspiration ? Many cultures have pondered this. There is no doubt that across the centuries writers, poets, painters, natural scientists, and of course holy men and prophets, have experienced what we might call the intervention of 'muses'. The author, with some experience of fiction writing, science and ancient history, has concluded that sometimes external agencies do intervene...at special places, along the Dragon Paths, and at certain times. These short 'fiction' stories are about what happens in his neck of the woods, on the Wirral peninsula in Cheshire: a place with a very long history, back to the Mesolithic, in fact, but rich in myths of other periods to. Though much is lost much abides. In these stories we will see that a surprisingly consistent case can be made for the transmission of some particular kinds of knowledge, which some might call Geomancy, through the centuries. Wirral's position on the west coast of Britain has meant that many people passed through its local ports, Meols, Liverpool, Chester & Parkgate in recent millennia, on the way to Ireland and places much further afield. The Old Powers who revel in stimulating human imagination and sometimes in taunting the 'sensitive' have had plenty of travelers and locals to choose from: Taliesin, The Gawain Poet, 'William Shakespeare', Dean Swift, John Wesley, Fredric Handel, JMW Turner, Herman Melville, George Stubbs of Liverpool, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Olaf Stapledon, young Adolf Hitler and many more, including possibly, lesser talents like the author himself. We cannot name other, living authors for obvious reasons but they know who they are ! So, enjoy these stories and take them as amusing fiction if you wish. On the other hand if you see strange patterns here, like the author, read the last story, 'Echoes from the Mist', and follow up the references and leads which the author provides. All the historical, biographical and mathematical material is true. As to interpretation, that is up to you. Tread carefully, 'come not between the Dragon and his wrath', and good luck.