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"Met police accused of 'degrading' treatment of disabled XR activists
Force’s disability advisers lodge complaint about treatment of Extinction Rebellion protesters"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/29/met-treatment-of-disabled-xr-activists-branded-degrading-and-humiliating
"Rising sea levels pose threat to homes of 300m people – study
Figure based on new analysis of coastlines is more than three times previous estimate"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/rising-sea-levels-pose-threat-to-homes-of-300m-people-study
"'Everybody has something to lose': the exciting, depressing life of a climate writer
The Guardian’s global environment editor, Jonathan Watts, explains how he aims to make the climate emergency resonate with readers on an emotional level"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/28/everybody-has-something-to-lose-the-exciting-depressing-life-of-a-climate-writer
Mark Hodgson
@BBCNews
How to be disabled and eco-friendly https://bbc.in/2NpJWpU
stewgreen
Last week BBC local news was about a grand £1.5bn scheme to build a grand 6 mile long barrier in front of Hull across the Humber sandbanks.
One thing was The Look North reporter was all smiley as if he was drunk on the scheme.
Or maybe the PR team had primed him
One good question was that narrowing the Humber would put flood pressure onto the South bank and its ports
Where is the cost benefit analysis ?
£1.5bn to protect say 15,000 properties from flooding
that is £100K per property.
So maybe it would be cheaper to build a canal around the east of the city to take pressure off the River Hull
stewgreen
That Courier quotes Johnny then '97% NASA' to rebut him
Then skeptic Michael Wood
I bet the tolerant green mob will try to get the Courier shut down.
stewgreen
From Bishes Tweet
"The same people who argue renewables
are the answer to climate change also argue we've made no progress"
Tim Worstall
https://capx.co/have-we-already-found-the-solution-to-climate-change/
stewgreen
"Musician from Sydenham devastated after leaving £250,000 violin on train — Only in London"
Doh what insurance company lets you travel on public transport with a £250K item ?
The violin should be in a sealed box with its own mobile phone tracker
a tracker which is blue toothed to the musicians phone so he immediately knows if it moves out of his range.
stewgreen
An interesting article featuring Jonny Ball.
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/uk-world/1006622/tv-star-johnny-ball-says-plants-in-the-ocean-theory-disproves-man-made-climate-change/?utm_source=twitter
Ross Lea
Mark
I'm guessing that Leigh Day don't lift a finger unless there's a client .... with a cheque book... (OK a bit 20th Century...)
Some "follow the money" required
tomo
Rushing into Green Measures has consequences.
This time it was the Grenfell deaths
it was the aluminium fuel in the cladding that was the difference.
stewgreen
tomo, I'd like to follow the money. Unfortunately, however, Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole seems to be remarkably coy about who is behind it, who funds it etc. Website here, with nothing that I can see about "who we are", "who funds us" etc:
https://keepcumbriancoalinthehole.wordpress.com/