The Independent:

At least 450 people were feared dead and thousands more injured or missing after a powerful earthquake struck southern Peru. The quake caused the region’s familiar adobe houses to crumble, and caused two churches full of worshippers to collapse in the cities of Ica and Pisco, more than 100 miles south of the capital, Lima.

Rescue workers and local journalists reported scenes of widespread devastation, as homeless survivors walked around in a daze, searching for friends and relatives and constructing makeshift sleeping quarters on the cracked streets and pavements of their levelled neighbourhoods…

…Foreign aid agencies, both governmental and non-governmental, were rushing to make assessments of the needs in the affected region so they could make a co-ordinated response…

This is apparently an horrific situation, so the quick response is heartening.  But we have to be realistic also, and consider how any assistance should be transported there.  Particularly, let’s hope relief flights from the U.S. and the E.U. get the required nods of approval from the 18 year old “climate change” scientists encamped near Heathrow.  (”‘Cause, like, ‘the super rich’ are threatening the planet, dude.”)

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While we’re on the subject of aircraft, a short while ago we were treated to a display of the Red Arrows over Bournemouth.  From our house, I got some great photos of them . . .

. . . recklessly contributing to “climate change”.

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UPDATE, Agence France-Presse:

Demonstrators from the ongoing climate change protest at London Heathrow Airport glued themselves to Britain’s Department of Transport on Friday.

Seven protesters glued their hands to the ministry’s revolving doors while two others climbed atop the doorway with a banner against airport expansion.

Police and paramedics arrived and the protesters were unglued. No arrests were made.

“You will see we are all quite young,” said Miko Minio, 26, who had been at the Heathrow protest camp since Saturday.

“We are the people who will have to deal with the consequences of climate change.”…

And those of us who are older can point out that as we were also once your age, we know full well what you think you know that the “over 30s” don’t. We can also tell you that we have learned, looking back on what we once were also, that you have not yet attained wisdom. Someday, if you are willing to, you may learn what that is.