Predictably unpredictable, find the blame fairy.

Predictably unpredictable, find the blame fairy

Another week gone. Another week of U.S. President Trump lashing out in all kinds of unpredictable directions. Or is it? Trump has taken a bit of a bashing lately and it’s not going away. Russia is still a front and centre factor or witch hunt, depending on one’s opinions. Allegedly, he’s patched things up with the EU but now a tape is out on mainstream media reminding everyone of his formal indiscretions, shall we say. Nothing illegal except if any deal breached election law.

For me and I suspect a good many other people we now expect Trump to be unpredictable to change or attempt to change the focus to another point. It’s predictable and simplistic. It’s worked, sometimes, but the big-ticket items won’t go away. Ironic that Trump is now citing Russian election interference for the mid-terms this time for the Democrats. Getting a blame fairy ready? Maybe.

I’ve said this before but Trump and by association the whole mighty trading nation behind him is being linked to tearing up agreements, and not being trusted to keep new ones. That is no way to run a country or business. One’s word should be one’s bond. Decades of trust and friendships are at risk. I saw yesterday that part of the regulatory process for the Canadian government buying the Trans Mountain Pipeline may end up on Trump’s desk for approval. I wonder how that will play out.

It’s hot and getting hotter. In Japan, over 41C in the UK, maybe up to 38C and more very soon. The latter could break 350 years of records. Hot in Canada too. People are and have been dying from the heat. Notwithstanding the wildfires in Greece. We have wildfires in Sweden above the Arctic Circle for heaven’s sake. Scientists are saying that this trend may be the new normal. Never mind the taxes, carbon trading and still all the rhetoric about what’s causing it, people are dying, crops are failing it’s likely to get worse. Can we reverse what’s happening?

My opinion, how about no. I also fear how storm season and winters are going to play out. It’s not just about warming. The Gulf Stream currents are slowing in the Atlantic and parts of our planet could undergo swift, drastic climate change, colder as well as hotter. It may already be under way.

I still believe it was too late back in the late 1990s. The best, I think, we can do now is work and live smart with what’s happening. Viable renewables, sure, viable, cleaner fossil fuels, sure anything, everything. People are going to need a lot more power for AC, which puts more heat back into the atmosphere. Maybe other ways of cooling? Smarts are not going to save all of us or even some of us, but we may be able to adapt to the new world climate. At the end of the day is there going to be a massive conference to find a blame fairy? I wonder.