http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/the-paris-climate-accords-are-starting-to-look-like-fantasy.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s3&utm_campaign=sharebutton-b

March 25, 20188:30 pmThe Paris Climate Accords Are Looking More and More Like Fantasy
By David Wallace-Wells

"Remember Paris? It was not even two years ago that the celebrated climate accords were signed — defining two degrees of global warming as a must-meet target and rallying all the world’s nations to meet it — and the returns are already dispiritingly grim.

This week, the International Energy Agency announced that carbon emissions grew 1.7 percent in 2017, after an ambiguous couple of years optimists hoped represented a leveling off, or peak; instead, we’re climbing again. Even before the new spike, not a single major industrial nation was on track to fulfill the commitments it made in the Paris treaty. To keep the planet under two degrees of warming — a level that was, not all that long ago, defined as the threshold of climate catastrophe — all signatory nations have to match or better those commitments."

I always thought Paris was a bit overrated.

"A historical issue in west Africa has been the substitution of powdered milk for human infant formulations - some confusing advertising and user ignorance hasn't helped."
Apr 14, 2018 at 6:50 PM | tomo

I don't think milk formed much of the diet outside of Europe, until dried milk became mass produced. Was this another legacy of WW2?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powdered_milk
History and manufacture

"Modified dry whole milk, fortified with vitamin D. This is the original container from 1947, provided by the Ministry of Food in London, England"

"While Marco Polo wrote of Mongolian Tatar troops in the time of Kublai Khan who carried sun-dried skimmed milk as "a kind of paste",[2] the first modern production process for dried milk was invented by the Russian doctor Osip Krichevsky in 1802.[3] The first commercial production of dried milk was organized by the Russian chemist M. Dirchoff in 1832. In 1855, T.S. Grimwade took a patent on a dried milk procedure,[4] though a William Newton had patented a vacuum drying process as early as 1837."

Export market

"National household dried machine skimmed milk. This was U.S.-produced dry milk for food export in June 1944.

European production of milk powder is estimated around 800,000 tons of which the main volume is exported in bulk packing or consumer packs.

Brands on the market include "Nido", from the company Nestlé, "Incolac" from the company Belgomilk, and "Dutch Lady" from Friesland Campina."

Adulteration

"In the 2008 Chinese milk scandal, melamine adulterant was found in Sanlu infant formula, added to fool tests into reporting higher protein content. Thousands became ill, and some children died, after consuming the product."

"In August 2013, China temporarily suspended all milk powder imports from New Zealand, after a scare where botulism-causing bacteria was falsely detected in several batches of New Zealand-produced whey protein concentrate. As a result of the product recall, the New Zealand dollar slipped significantly, based on expected losses in sales from this single commodity."

3:32 PM EDT Saturday 14 April 2018
Freezing rain warning in effect for:

Halton Hills - Milton
Mississauga - Brampton

Ice storm likely on Sunday with expected power outages.

Ice pellets, mixed at times with snow, continues. It is forecast to persist into this evening with several centimetres of ice pellets expected.

The precipitation will taper off to patchy freezing drizzle this evening. However, freezing rain is expected to move back in overnight, and may persist well into Sunday before changing over to rain. Significant rain may fall late Sunday and Sunday night creating localized flooding.

Ice build up of 10 to possibly 20 mm is likely by late Sunday.

Ice accumulations of this magnitude combined with gusty northeast winds of 70 to 80 km/h may result in considerable power outages due to fallen tree limbs and power lines.

Dangerous winter driving conditions are expected on untreated roads Saturday and Sunday, worsened by fallen tree limbs.

If you must travel, keep others informed of your schedule and destination and carry an emergency kit and mobile phone. For information on emergency plans and kits go to http://www.getprepared.gc.ca/

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ONstorm@canada.ca or tweet reports using #ONStorm.

Averages and extremes Apr14

Average high 11.1°C

Average low 0.7°C

Highest temperature (1938-2013) 23.9°C1938

https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/on-4_metric_e.html

If a Chinese child keeps drinking milk after weaning ends, do they maintain their Lactose tolerance?
Apr 14, 2018 at 7:36 PM | Pcar

MacDonalds in Japan, and Burger King in China both sell burgers with cheese in them. Along with their milkshakes, I have no idea whether they contain lactose.

https://en.compathy.net/magazine/2017/03/22/japan-mcdonalds/

https://bkchina.cn/mobile/promenu.html?type=1

Mark Hodgson, International Shipping Rules and Regulations are simply avoided, by Registering a Ship in a Country that does not sign up to the Rules and Regulations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience

"The modern practice of ships being registered in a foreign country began in the 1920s in the United States when shipowners, frustrated by increased regulations and rising labor costs, began to register their ships in Panama. The use of open registries steadily increased, and in 1968, Liberia grew to surpass the United Kingdom as the world's largest ship register. As of 2009, more than half of the world’s merchant ships were registered with open registries, and almost 40% of the entire world fleet, in terms of deadweight tonnage, were registered in Panama, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands. In 2006, up to 20% of high-seas fishing vessels were registered in states they were not connected to.[5] According to IHS Markit, in March 2017, Panama had 8,052 ships on its registry, Singapore had 3,574 ships, Liberia had 3,277 ships, the Marshall Islands had 3,244 ships and Hong Kong had 2,594 ships."

How are Panama, Liberia and the Marshall Islands supposed to earn foreign exchange, and claim Climate compensation money?