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Headline news on the BBC website:
"Climate change: 'Invest $1.8 trillion to adapt'"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49635546
"The analysis was carried out by the Global Commission on Adaptation - a group of 34 leaders in politics, business and science."
Well, given their remit, they weren't going to say anything else, were they? Having said that, adaptation makes a lot more sense than Canute-like attempts at mitigation (especially when the big emitters refuse to play ball) so far as I can see.
Mark Hodgson
Clipe. Would seem very little has changed in Canada since I lived in Saskatchewan and Alberta in the 1970s. I still vividly recall one day when there was a severe ice storm in Ontario. CBC radio newscasts, broadcasting to the entire nation, could speak of nothing else, behaving as if the storm affected the entire country (it was far distant from us). The message was clear - we in the West (and probably the Maritimes) just didn't count.
AK
clipe
Why I No Longer Watch "Last Night Of The Proms" (and Boat Race, Today...)
Classical music commentator Norman Lebrecht said the BBC was allowing ‘alien agendas’ to ‘dominate’ the Proms:
‘First save the planet*, then comedy feminists and finally a Last Night soloist who has been using the occasion to advertise her bisexuality. Last Night is a national celebration of music first and last. The BBC needs to get a grip.’ He warned that the BBC risked putting off its traditional audience by shoehorning in ‘totally irrelevant’ topics.But these topics are not ‘irrelevant’ to the BBC, which prioritise them above everything else – certainly above their duty to ‘entertain’, although they do stick to their mandate to ‘inform and educate’ the viewing public in their own preoccupations, seemingly as an antidote to the ‘Right-wing press’. They would be far happier with atonal music interspersed with dreary lectures about climate change and ‘diversity’. If the Proms’ traditional audience switches off, so much the better – they will be able to ditch the whole thing, along with Songs of Praise, on the grounds that no one wants to watch it any more. This would relieve the broadcaster of Sir Henry Wood’s embarrassing legacy of patriotic music enjoyed by the masses.
This would be entirely in tune with the BBC’s pro-EU stance. Since Brexit, the Last Night audience has been awash with EU flags, and in 2017 conductor Daniel Barenboim interrupted a Proms concert to make an impassioned plea for European unity, highlighting what he said was a ‘very dangerous’ wave of nationalism. Clearly the BBC believes that patriotic music may encourage dangerous nationalism. They say that no performance is over until the fat lady sings, and when this particular ‘plus size’ songbird starts virtue signalling it may well portend that the Proms are gone for good.
Also why I no longer pay the BBC Tax
* https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/listen-with-greta-children-scared-stiff-by-bbc-climate-horror-story/
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@tomo
Another waived through appointment by the spineless, money-grabbing review committee. Gov't, Politicians, Public Sector & BBC/C4 have abandoned any pretence obeying law*, impartiality, democracy & standards.
* Today again: Make a new law to allow whatever wanted by MPs to overturn public's vote
Pcar
Olly Robbins "joins" Goldman Sachs
- or is a that a quid pro / reward?
tomo
Rep Crenshaw Destroys Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DfI28PTImo
Crenshaw refers to:
https://www.netpower.com/technology/
Snake oil or technology breakthrough?
Pcar
@ianl Sep 9, 2019 at 11:41 PM
You see pandemonium caused by recalcitrant Remoaner MPs - >54% of public support No Deal and 88% don't trust politicians (ComRes)
Did you see this?
UK MPs made ‘significant step in anti-democratic direction’ - Sky News Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTYfkeQF-0
Brendan O'Neill has to "go to" Australia to have his opinions aired
Well done Sky News Australia for a more truthful report than BBC,C4,ITV,SkyUK etc broadcast
Pcar
As I now see it (from Aus):
1) The UK Parliament is prorogued till mid-October, so Boris cannot be impeached until then
2) There is no General Election date set or now able to be set in practice
3) The bill requiring Boris to beg Brussels for a deal, any deal, is now law
4) The October 31st "deadline" is still law, deal or no deal. (Points 3 and 4 mightily conflict)
5) The UK Constitution, being unwritten, is almost infinitely malleable by ambition
I've seen Talking Heads threaten fire and brimstone if no Brexit occurs (which seems to me the most likely, always has). Well, that's what police riot controls and army units are for. Macron has his police shooting old ladies in the street with rubber bullets - nothing has happened to him or the police, just the old ladies.
The various Aus Mining Acts simply copied the existing UK statutes holus bolus and then added 4 million localised codicils. The last codicil says that in the event of conflicting regulations (and there are many), the Mine Manager (statutory position) must obey all the regs, opposing or not. It seems to me the UK is now snookered, similar to this analogy.
ianl
"Operators ask government for national strategy to encourage more people to use buses"
Sep 9, 2019 at 7:48 PM | Mark Hodgson
Simple. Fit one pair of pedals per seat. Those who pedal hard enough, don't pay to use the bus.
golf charlie
"University of Cambridge: Removing meat 'cut carbon emissions'"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-49637723