Love Sunshine

Tough on clouds and the causes of clouds

Whilst we must do everything we can to actively encourage sunshine this summer, the struggle is not an easy or an equal one. Clouds so often have the upper hand, and worse - are actively encouraged in some quarters. We must discourage the kind of thinking that risks leading us into yet another solar downturn, and extra vigilant in the current climate to guard against sentiments that pose a threat to our solar liberty.

Although we disagree with the The Cloud Appreciation Society on fundamentals, we respect their right to exist and to pursue their own agenda. The official body no doubt has pure (albeit misguided) intentions. But any movement will have its extremists; and we must not provide a platform for radical nebulists who are doing their utmost to undermine the nation's natural antipathy to grey sky thinking, thus allowing outside aggressors (frontal depressions) to lay siege to our skies. It is surely no accident that the year after the Cloudspotters published their manifesto was one of the wettest, cloudiest summers on record.

But not Cloudspotters alone. Those who have gardens and think more of their lawns than the nation's solar liberties, or those who complain it’s too hot after three days of sun, or claim we ‘wouldn't appreciated it if it was like this all the time’, should be forced to keep their views to themselves, instead of encouraging the kind of weather that needs no encouragement in these isles. Remember - Careless talk costs summers.

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