My last blog post is more than half a year old! How come? Well, many reasons. One of them is that I spent the last three to four months blogging about climate change in European Journalism Centre's project TH!NK ABOUT IT . Which I won :-)

With the exception of the attack on Togo's bus - which seems to be related to another blog of mine, Ecowar - it has been very nice and relaxing following a bit of football again. Except of course many leagues are on winter hiatus. But perhaps in the future this will change?

What football has in common with climatology

In simplified prognoses of the future Danish climate it's often described as "a bit like the current climate in France". Current weather clearly shows this is an over-simplification.

First of all, just like football, weather and results will continue to fluctuate. We'll get snow and Chelsea will lose every now and then. Secondly, like the world of football, climatology is still complex. It isn't easy to predict the weather tomorrow or the precise result of next week's games.

Climate change is a bit like a significant change in the rules of the game, though. In the long run it will change predictions of weather. Just like if UEFA decided to make the goals twice as big or the away teams play down hill. Which in return would produce some weird and unforseen results. Like the disruption of the thermohaline circulation could be involved in the current snow?

League statuses

I don't even follow the English Premier League - but since I'm using a Perl script to catch up on what I missed during COP15 I might as well try and catch up on that one as well.

Chelsea (unbeaten at home), Manchester United and Arsenal. Somewhat below that level are Tottenham, Manchester City, Aston Villa, Liverpool and Birmingham. Birmingham!? Wow. The only team that already seems to be in real serious relegation trouble is Portsmouth.

In the Spanish Primera Division I'm not at all surprised to see Barcelona unbeaten at #1 followed by Real Madrid (unbeaten at home). A distance behind them is Valencia. At rock bottom is Xerez with only 7 points, no wins away and 12 of their 17 games without scoring.

In the Italian Serie A it appears Internationale Milano is smashing everyone again! Unbeaten at home and eight points ahead of AC Milan at second spot. There is a bit of a drop down to the rest of the league where Juventus, Napoli, Roma and Fiorentina is only slightly ahead. The relegation game seems to be between Bologna, Catania, Atalanta and Siena.

The German, French, Danish and perhaps more leagues I'll catch up on later. Because they are still not playing.

But please update me... what else did I miss?