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tomo, I finished the quote at the Leigh Day reference - I guessed it would trigger a response!
Mind you, I do agree with you.
Mark Hodgson
Leigh Day Solicitors huh?
Dale Vince in there anywhere ? - we haven't heard from him in a while.
tomo
"What hypocrisy, I think guiltily, as I jet off to academic conferences far and wide"
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/oct/29/hypocrisy--guilt-jet-off-to-academic-conferences-plane-travel
[Well, yes, and your article full of mea culpas does nothing to alter the fact that you are, indeed, a hypocrite].
"Healthy diet means a healthy planet, study shows
Healthier food choices almost always benefit environment as well, according to analysis"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/28/healthy-diet-means-a-healthy-planet-study-shows
"Damian Carrington on 10 years as the Guardian's environment editor
One of our leading environment journalists reflects on how awareness of the climate crisis has shifted in the last decade and offers advice for those who want to do more"
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2019/oct/26/damian-carrington-on-10-years-as-the-guardians-environment-editor
"California wildfires: how bad are they and is the climate crisis linked?
Firefighters across the state are racing to control flames exacerbated by extreme winds. Is this normal?"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/28/california-wildfires-explained-climate-change
Mark Hodgson
"Pressure on Ibiza's sustainability: Is the party over?"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-50157333/pressure-on-ibiza-s-sustainability-is-the-party-over
"Superstar DJs and world-famous clubs normally make the headlines about Ibiza.
But every season puts more pressure on the island's sustainability.
How much longer can Ibiza cope this way?
Amber Haque travels to San Antonio's West End, and finds out about diversity in House music and the destruction threatening Ibiza's natural beauty."
"£165m mine plan to be reconsidered"
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/17998755.165m-mine-plan-reconsidered/
"CUMBRIAN councillors look set to “ratify” their original decision to grant permission for a £165m mine following a legal challenge.
West Cumbria Mining wants to extract coking coal off the coast of St Bees, with a processing plant on the former Marchon site at Kells and was given the go-ahead in March.
However, the authority’s planning panel has been asked to look again at the controversial plans “as a matter of prudence”, with a fresh ruling expected when they meet on Thursday.
The move comes after solicitors, acting on behalf of environmental campaigners ‘Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole (KCCH), sent a legal letter to the county council earlier this year.
Leigh Day Solicitors have argued that changes in circumstances means the committee should reconsider its ruling. The legal team has also alleged “flaws” in the report upon which councillors based their original decision, claims denied by the country....."
Mark Hodgson
tinyCO2
>"Society as a whole tends to deride smart kids. Nerds, geeks, etc"
Self-evident. Most people feel threatened by intelligence. It is not necessarily a survival trait, although as an outrider on the bell curve distribution of traits it is needed to jump-push cultures along.
Old saying here: intelligence only gets you into trouble when you use it.
I remain contending that a majority of women *prefer* feelz to factz. They regard STEM as mostly irrelevant. It is this attitude that has permitted the spread of "climate science" without MSM pushback and hard examination. Saving the planet (ie. nurturing) is way more appealing than examining dirty laundry details.
ianl
Welsh electricity
It seems that supply in South Wales is usually heavily dominated by Pembroke CCGT power station. If you believe National Grid's regional model, then somehow North Wales ends up with all the coal burn at Drax.
https://carbonintensity.org.uk
I've tried asking them about it but no response so far.
It doesn't add up...
A further thought about Electricity North West. They will be charged for the electricity they take from the transmission network into their distribution network. If as they imply they are going to reduce distribution voltages by 8 parts in 120 then ohmic distribution losses will rise by (120/112)^2 -1 or 14.8%, which their customers will pay for. Worse still, it's just heat dissipation into the environment, and so contributes to global warming.
Who should we complain to? The Guardian for promoting such nonsense, or OFGEM for not slapping them down?
It doesn't add up...
AK, thanks for the nudge back to understanding, re that Welsh oil field story.
Stewgreen, Paul Homewood is already onto the debunk of the Attenborough albatross story. Particularly pleasing is his use of a Guardian report to contradict Attenborough:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/albatross-dying-out-because-of-climate-change-latest-attenborough-fake-news/
Mark Hodgson
Times Review of Attenborough
"The message was that melting ice, rising sea levels and unusual weather events such as the gale that blew that albatross chick off the nest, its pink legs pummelling the air in its death throes, are part of the slow global car crash we are watching. However, we can correct our mistakes, the cited resurgence of the whale population being an example.
cameraman Rolf wept at the end, because the future of sites such as St Andrews Bay, South Georgia, now teeming with life, are under threat.
As Attenborough, in a new red parka, said,
“This might be the most critical moment for life on Earth since the continents formed.”
Programmes such as this act as the distress flare.
stewgreen
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.