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>"If she is the Architect of the Paris Agreement, can she explain why it is so ruinous?"

You know this ruin is a deliberately designed feature, not a bug. She is quite loony, sociopathic.

Apparently she had some, so here they are.

https://order-order.com/2020/02/17/emily-thornberrys-best-bits/

BoJo really ought to thank her for her outstanding contribution towards his success.

"COP26: Climate summit policing bill estimated at £250m"

Another waste of money. As Extinction Rebellion have cost so much Police time, and caused so much inconvenience to Taxpayers, the entire shambles should be cancelled. The Conclusions have already been reached, so why bother failing to agree them with the US, Russia and China?

"I really think it's time the book was thrown at these self-entitled pests. How dare they?!!!
Feb 17, 2020 at 7:59 PM Mark Hodgson"

They dare to provoke the Police and have their moment in Court. to generate publicity and public sympathy. They should be rewarded with Custodial Sentences

I can't help thinking that spending lots of money doesn't always produce improved results.

Feb 17, 2020 at 7:35 PM Mark Hodgson

If RAIN is your critical factor, try monitoring Rainfall Radar for your home address with the Animation On, so you can see where the rain was 3 hours ago and where it has moved to in the last 5 minutes. I know hills/mountains do make and alter actual weather, but it is a NOWCast with live data, not yesterday's data and yesterday's forecast for today.

"... because women become more valuable as workers than breeders"
Feb 17, 2020 at 6:52 PM TinyCO2

Child care in developed countries is also expensive

Front page news:

"Cambridge's Trinity College lawn dug up by Extinction Rebellion"

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-51534446

"Climate activists have dug up a lawn outside a Cambridge University college over its role in a major development in the Suffolk countryside.

Extinction Rebellion members said the action at Trinity College was taken against the "destruction of nature".

Activists then took dug-up mud to a local Barclays Bank branch.

Innocence Farm in Trimley St Mary has been part of plans, involving Trinity, for a lorry park. The college said it supported work to fight climate change.

A Cambridgeshire Police spokeswoman said the force was liaising with the college and that "a crime has been recorded for criminal damage".

A spokeswoman for Barclays Bank confirmed activists carrying wheelbarrows full of mud had spread it across the banking hall of its St Andrew's Street branch.

She added the branch had been kept open and staff ensured customers were safe.

Activists, who also chained themselves to an apple tree on the college's front lawn, said they "were careful to ensure that the digging took place a safe distance from the tree so as not to cause any damage to it".

The local group also claimed on Twitter the college invested more money in oil and gas companies than any other Oxbridge college."

I really think it's time the book was thrown at these self-entitled pests. How dare they?!!!

"Jeff Bezos: World's richest man pledges $10bn to fight climate change"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51539321

That should do it. XR can stand down now. Even so, it doesn't seem to matter what you do, some people are never happy:

"Mr Bezos has an estimated net worth of more than $130bn, so the pledge represents almost 8% of his fortune.

Some of Amazon's employees have been urging him to do more to fight climate change. Mr Bezos is financing the Blue Origin space programme, criticised for its carbon footprint.

He has also been criticised for not signing the Giving Pledge, under which the super-rich promise to give away half of their wealth during their lifetimes."

"COP26: Climate summit policing bill estimated at £250m"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51535106

Personally, I think my taxes can be better spent. NB that's just the policing bill. No doubt the whole shindig will cost an awful lot more than that.

"UK must prepare for more intense storms, climate scientists say
Government urged to create more natural drainage systems to cope with impact of crisis"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/17/uk-must-prepare-for-more-intense-storms-climate-scientists-say

"Britain must brace for more storms like Dennis and Ciara because rainfall will be more intense in a climate-disrupted future, scientists have warned."

"Delivery disaster: the hidden environmental cost of your online shopping
We love ordering goods and food at a click – but this creates mountains of packaging waste and millions of transport miles"

https://www.theguardian.com/news/shortcuts/2020/feb/17/hidden-costs-of-online-delivery-environment

"There’s still something magical about the idea of browsing a world of goods online, choosing what you want and having it delivered to your door, sometimes within hours. You may give a fleeting thought to the environmental impact when you are drowning in excess packaging (nearly a third of solid waste in the US comes from e-commerce packaging) but it’s easy to ignore the rest of it. Such as the fact that Amazon, in figures released last year, emits nearly as much carbon dioxide as a small country. We are buying more online than ever – and younger age groups are less likely to shop locally than people over 55, according to a new survey."

Good to see them catching up. Some of us have been pointing this out for years. The irony is that it tends to be the climate-hysterical youth who are keenest on shopping on-line.

"A citizens’ assembly on climate is pointless if the government won’t listen"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/17/citizens-assembly-climate-pointless

Actually, a citizens' assembly on climate is profoundly undemocratic, the attendees being largely self-selecting, and the agenda having been controlled in advance. That's the real scandal behind this monumental waste of money.

More (much more) of the same sort of thing can be found from this writer here:

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stephen-buranyi

Roger Longstaff, thanks for the info, which clarifies my hazy recollection of the last supercomputer.

AK, we've had the discussion before, and I'm happy to accept that the Met Office might be quite good at forecasting the weather in your neck of the woods. However, they're hopeless where I live, and where I spend much of my spare time - among mountains. I've lost count of the number of times I've decided not to go for a big walk in the hills because of an unpromising Met Office forecast, only for the day to turn out to be glorious. Conversely, I have many times set out for a big hill day, full of optimism brought on by a positive forecast, only for the day to be very wet and/or windy, and not a lot of fun at all. If a £1Bn supercomputer can fix this, I'll be very happy, but the last big spend has wrought no improvement that I've noticed.

I used to rely heavily on MWIS instead (Mountain Weather Information Service):

https://www.mwis.org.uk/

I used to find it extremely reliable. Latterly, however, IMO its accuracy seems to have reduced. HOwever, strangely around the time alternative funding sources were obtained:

"How is MWIS funded?
Since 2007, sportscotland - the national agency for sport in Scotland - has funded MWIS to produce the 5 Scottish forecasts."

I noticed the reliability of the forecasts seemed - to me at least - to deteriorate. The website is certainly a lot more professional now!

I can't help thinking that spending lots of money doesn't always produce improved results.