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Post by mrcoke on Mar 7, 2023 16:59:27 GMT
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Post by Northy on Mar 7, 2023 17:23:38 GMT
Just get a brandy and a stick and bite down hard ?
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Post by cvillestokie on Mar 7, 2023 17:45:14 GMT
Just get a brandy and a stick and bite down hard ? I mean, they have identified other safe options. Methods development happens all the time in the medical field.
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Mar 19, 2023 12:56:00 GMT
A 10-minute video on an island that disappeared (some good little snippets of info about the future and what can be done):
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Post by Northy on Mar 20, 2023 13:35:08 GMT
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Post by Northy on Mar 20, 2023 13:46:36 GMT
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Post by mrcoke on Mar 25, 2023 22:42:23 GMT
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Post by mrcoke on Apr 4, 2023 19:16:03 GMT
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Post by Northy on Apr 4, 2023 22:31:48 GMT
Good news, some guys I know work there.
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Post by elystokie on Apr 5, 2023 7:58:20 GMT
Who elected our last two Prime Ministers? I don't remember getting a vote.
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Post by mrcoke on Apr 5, 2023 8:45:04 GMT
Who elected our last two Prime Ministers? I don't remember getting a vote. You did if you live in Darlington. We don't have a Presidential system of government in the UK. Maybe you think we should. The French have one and in 2022, in the first round over 72% of the vote was for someone other than Macron. He now rules and overrides the French parliament; something a British PM can't do. Your representative and those of other constituencies govern the country. Not the PM, not the King, not the HoL, and thank God not the EU any longer (unless you live in NI).
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Post by elystokie on Apr 5, 2023 9:16:13 GMT
Who elected our last two Prime Ministers? I don't remember getting a vote. You did if you live in Darlington. We don't have a Presidential system of government in the UK. Maybe you think we should. The French have one and in 2022, in the first round over 72% of the vote was for someone other than Macron. He now rules and overrides the French parliament; something a British PM can't do. Your representative and those of other constituencies govern the country. Not the PM, not the King, not the HoL, and thank God not the EU any longer (unless you live in NI). And yet the PM who nobody voted for and the disastrous home secretary he appointed continue to make decisions that affect us all. I genuinely can't see how it's that different except ours are probably more corrupt. We definitely need a different system to one that allows an incompetent bunch of charlatans and their mates to drive public services into the ground for over a decade.
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Post by mrcoke on Apr 5, 2023 10:14:17 GMT
You did if you live in Darlington. We don't have a Presidential system of government in the UK. Maybe you think we should. The French have one and in 2022, in the first round over 72% of the vote was for someone other than Macron. He now rules and overrides the French parliament; something a British PM can't do. Your representative and those of other constituencies govern the country. Not the PM, not the King, not the HoL, and thank God not the EU any longer (unless you live in NI). And yet the PM who nobody voted for and the disastrous home secretary he appointed continue to make decisions that affect us all. I genuinely can't see how it's that different except ours are probably more corrupt. We definitely need a different system to one that allows an incompetent bunch of charlatans and their mates to drive public services into the ground for over a decade. What system do you propose? The US system? What about the German system?: The people choose their representatives by proportional voting. The only thing that is decided is which party gets the most votes/representatives and the leader of that party is Chancellor. Then the party leaders go behind closed doors for weeks and do deals in secret as to who gets what job and what policies are adopted by the ruling coalition. So the public get a government and policy mix that no one voted for. The politicians decide who the head of state is and appoint someone no one outside Germany has heard of. Personally I would prefer a head of state by an accident of birth, that is groomed for the job, and could be got rid of by the government if necessary, but above all is above politics and represents the whole of the population. We've had a couple of GE in the last 10 years for the public to choose who they want to represent them. The voters of North Staffs chose Tory MPs next time I expect they will choose Labour ones. Either way we will still be phasing out the CAP and improving the environment. As for redistributing wealth which is best done by improving public services, firstly you need wealth to redistribute, well that's OK, but then you need the political freedom to do it. I refer you to my last link in my last long post on the Brexit thread.
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Post by elystokie on Apr 5, 2023 11:17:59 GMT
And yet the PM who nobody voted for and the disastrous home secretary he appointed continue to make decisions that affect us all. I genuinely can't see how it's that different except ours are probably more corrupt. We definitely need a different system to one that allows an incompetent bunch of charlatans and their mates to drive public services into the ground for over a decade. What system do you propose? The US system? What about the German system?: The people choose their representatives by proportional voting. The only thing that is decided is which party gets the most votes/representatives and the leader of that party is Chancellor. Then the party leaders go behind closed doors for weeks and do deals in secret as to who gets what job and what policies are adopted by the ruling coalition. So the public get a government and policy mix that no one voted for. The politicians decide who the head of state is and appoint someone no one outside Germany has heard of. Personally I would prefer a head of state by an accident of birth, that is groomed for the job, and could be got rid of by the government if necessary, but above all is above politics and represents the whole of the population. We've had a couple of GE in the last 10 years for the public to choose who they want to represent them. The voters of North Staffs chose Tory MPs next time I expect they will choose Labour ones. Either way we will still be phasing out the CAP and improving the environment. As for redistributing wealth which is best done by improving public services, firstly you need wealth to redistribute, well that's OK, but then you need the political freedom to do it. I refer you to my last link in my last long post on the Brexit thread. I have neither the inclination or the patience to wade through the Brexit thread, my absence on it is no accident. What I see is Tory MPs siphoning off funds to themselves and their mates that could be used for public services but instead is used for keeping horses warm and buying yachts. I also see zero tangible benefits from Brexit so far, in fact pretty much everything seems worse, with the added inconvenience that my freedom of travel and where I can spend my retirement are both severely curtailed, it's wank. The German model sounds preferable to me to what we currently have. It would at least go some way to stopping psychopaths like our current home secretary and her predecessor in their tracks. How are you getting on finding those cannabis deaths?
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Apr 5, 2023 11:54:28 GMT
And yet the PM who nobody voted for and the disastrous home secretary he appointed continue to make decisions that affect us all. I genuinely can't see how it's that different except ours are probably more corrupt. We definitely need a different system to one that allows an incompetent bunch of charlatans and their mates to drive public services into the ground for over a decade. What system do you propose? The US system? What about the German system?: The people choose their representatives by proportional voting. The only thing that is decided is which party gets the most votes/representatives and the leader of that party is Chancellor. Then the party leaders go behind closed doors for weeks and do deals in secret as to who gets what job and what policies are adopted by the ruling coalition. So the public get a government and policy mix that no one voted for. The politicians decide who the head of state is and appoint someone no one outside Germany has heard of. Personally I would prefer a head of state by an accident of birth, that is groomed for the job, and could be got rid of by the government if necessary, but above all is above politics and represents the whole of the population. We've had a couple of GE in the last 10 years for the public to choose who they want to represent them. The voters of North Staffs chose Tory MPs next time I expect they will choose Labour ones. Either way we will still be phasing out the CAP and improving the environment. As for redistributing wealth which is best done by improving public services, firstly you need wealth to redistribute, well that's OK, but then you need the political freedom to do it. I refer you to my last link in my last long post on the Brexit thread. Living proof that some dinosaurs definitely escaped the mass extinction event...
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Post by mrcoke on Apr 7, 2023 11:33:37 GMT
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Post by Northy on Apr 25, 2023 9:01:11 GMT
Lake Garda in Italy is only 38% full, last years drought, a dry winter and low snow falls on the mountains in winter.
The river Po, Italy's longest river dried up in parts last year, this year looks to be worse than last year, expect food prices to rise again.
I wonder what this will do for their tourist trade in the area?
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Post by mrcoke on Apr 25, 2023 11:13:12 GMT
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Post by mrcoke on Apr 26, 2023 8:50:53 GMT
Seafields, a London headquartered aquaculture business that aims to remove billions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year by growing and harvesting floating seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean has opened its first-ever private, seven figure investment round. Seafields is inviting investors to contribute to its mission to remove over 1Gt (one billion metric tonnes) of CO2 from the atmosphere each year by 2032. www.azocleantech.com/news.aspx?newsID=33231
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Post by Northy on Apr 26, 2023 11:08:48 GMT
Seafields, a London headquartered aquaculture business that aims to remove billions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year by growing and harvesting floating seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean has opened its first-ever private, seven figure investment round. Seafields is inviting investors to contribute to its mission to remove over 1Gt (one billion metric tonnes) of CO2 from the atmosphere each year by 2032. www.azocleantech.com/news.aspx?newsID=33231Sounds a good idea
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Post by Northy on Apr 26, 2023 11:19:02 GMT
Southern Spain hitting 40'C in April, a new record high ? Kenya in drought again, about 5.5 million affected, the 6th season in a row the rains have failed or less than normal. 'It's just weather' in it hun
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Apr 26, 2023 12:27:52 GMT
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Post by mtrstudent on Apr 27, 2023 4:34:06 GMT
We've got some satellite instruments that say Earth hasn't just heated over the last decade, but the heating rate has sped up. We've lucked out with a few years of Pacific "La Nina" conditions that have hidden some of that warming in the ocean but it's starting to look like the Pacific is flipping into an "El Nino" again. If that happens then Earth's temperatures will shoot up for a year or so. Hooray.
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Post by cvillestokie on May 6, 2023 20:59:20 GMT
Has anyone ever considered “slow fashion”? My wife and I have recently looked to transition to more sustainable brands and there are really two arguments for it: 1) the human cost. Fast fashion (typical department stores) heavily exploit foreign workers with both poor pay and their health. There are rising incidences of cancers in these countries as a result of dyes etc. 2) the fashion industry is the second biggest polluting industry in the World. Cotton is rarely made organically, leather dyes are heavily polluting, clothing dyes destroy ecosystems etc. I think so much gets put on oil, but rampant consumerism is also a huge obstacle to overcome. www.forbes.com/sites/christophermarquis/2021/05/14/what-does-slow-fashion-actually-mean/?sh=6a6de84673b4There are also good arguments about being tricked into buying crap you don’t need because it is now very cheap.
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Post by Northy on May 7, 2023 20:12:01 GMT
Has anyone ever considered “slow fashion”? My wife and I have recently looked to transition to more sustainable brands and there are really two arguments for it: 1) the human cost. Fast fashion (typical department stores) heavily exploit foreign workers with both poor pay and their health. There are rising incidences of cancers in these countries as a result of dyes etc. 2) the fashion industry is the second biggest polluting industry in the World. Cotton is rarely made organically, leather dyes are heavily polluting, clothing dyes destroy ecosystems etc. I think so much gets put on oil, but rampant consumerism is also a huge obstacle to overcome. www.forbes.com/sites/christophermarquis/2021/05/14/what-does-slow-fashion-actually-mean/?sh=6a6de84673b4There are also good arguments about being tricked into buying crap you don’t need because it is now very cheap. We've been doing it for a few years, bought a new coat recently, first in years, from Finisterre finisterre.com/The Mrs is really into it, hardly buys new clothes these days and when she does its from places like them, she uses charity shops now and then, some nice stuff in Horsham yesterday, posh cast offs. 👍
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Post by AlliG on May 7, 2023 20:18:59 GMT
Has anyone ever considered “slow fashion”? My wife and I have recently looked to transition to more sustainable brands and there are really two arguments for it: 1) the human cost. Fast fashion (typical department stores) heavily exploit foreign workers with both poor pay and their health. There are rising incidences of cancers in these countries as a result of dyes etc. 2) the fashion industry is the second biggest polluting industry in the World. Cotton is rarely made organically, leather dyes are heavily polluting, clothing dyes destroy ecosystems etc. I think so much gets put on oil, but rampant consumerism is also a huge obstacle to overcome. www.forbes.com/sites/christophermarquis/2021/05/14/what-does-slow-fashion-actually-mean/?sh=6a6de84673b4There are also good arguments about being tricked into buying crap you don’t need because it is now very cheap. Growing up most if not all of my clothes came from Longton Market or were knitted by my Mum. (When the elbows or cuffs wore out, she would unravel the jumper and use the wool to knit a sleeveless one). At least being the oldest child, I didn't get too many hand-me-downs. I doubt I have ever owned a "fashionable" item in my life. (Not strictly true. In 1988 my girlfriend brought me a shirt and a pair of trousers from Next so she wouldn't be quite so embarrassed if any of her friends saw her out with me! ) All my shirts, jackets, trousers and jeans are at least 15 years old and I reckon I can get at least another 10 years of wear out of them. (My winter coat is from C&A which I believe went bankrupt 20 years ago and I have one t-shirt that is 48 years old!) Does that make me a consumer of "glacial fashion"? The additional "benefit" of this approach to clothes is that I am still the same size as I was when I was 21.
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Post by riverman on May 9, 2023 20:48:20 GMT
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on May 10, 2023 6:51:59 GMT
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Post by Davef on May 11, 2023 12:06:20 GMT
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Post by mtrstudent on May 11, 2023 14:32:01 GMT
Thanks for sharing, I love seeing all the different ways we get climate data and what people used to think. I wonder if the lad in the video has changed his mind over the last couple of decades now it's really obvious that we're causing global warming.
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