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Bishop Hill New Years Honours 2012
Dec 31, 2011 Climate: other The New Year's honours list for 2012 has been published (H/T Martin Brumby). Congratulations are due to Bob Watson, the former head of the IPCC and the man who brought us the hole in the ozone layer. He is now Sir Bob.
Also honoured is Professor Professor Stuart Haszeldine of the University of Edinburgh, honoured with an OBE. Prof Haszeldine's claim to fame is that he brought us carbon capture and storage technology. Or perhaps not.
Reader Comments (57)
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE BISHOP AND ALL THE USUAL SUSPECTS WHO KEEP ME ENTERTAINED ON MANY A DARK AND WINDY NIGHT THROUGHOUT THE WINTER.
Am guessing you Brits are already started on the first hangover of the year. Enjoy, I'm 7 hours behind you! Happy New Year!
Mark
"There's no public / communal benefit to it all."
Dec 31, 2011 at 6:12 PM |Hengist McStone
Pleasure? Excitement? People putting their very life on the line? Does everything we do have to produce something you find worthwhile? Climbing a mountain seems strange to some but people do it and as for nothing coming out of motor sports!
Oh well, Happy New Year anyway and may you chill out a little and lighten up! We are still here if a little damp and cold!
Ahhh yes... Road Haulage, Motorsport. Booh, hiss... it's behind you! Oh no it isn't! Oh yes it is...
Pantomine greenie style.
Hengist, any idea how that computer you are using came about? Or even any idea how "someone like yourself" could have the leisure time to write these things, rather than starting work at 14?
If there is one thing that annoys me with Greens, and that is they piss all over modern society yet use the fruits of that society to do so. Parasite is a word that comes mind.
Whenever I make the offer of a Green Paradise, to organise a nice wilderness (say southern Siberia-not too cold) for the ultimate green experiment (free of road haulage, F1, computers, drugs even), to lead the way and show us how it is done, they never seem that keen.
Boldog új évet...or Happy New Year ;-)
"Yes motorsport employs an awful lot of people, and pays some tax no doubt but the product is what exaxctly ? Cars going round in circles ? A backdrop for the ad industry ?
There's no public / communal benefit to it all."
Disk brakes, fuel injection and electronically mapped ignition.
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Nial.
And it also brings a lot of money _into_ the UK.
Mike Jackson
You are quite correct to feel mystified and you should understand that the Irish do not speak English, but Hiberno-english -- which is not a dialect of English but a separate language.
If you ever walked the boreens (little back roads) of Ireland, you will know that Ireland consists of one hill after another with a bog separating them. The expression refers to "rising" up the roads by cutting the tops off of the hills into the valleys and thus making the road level and easy to walk.
Naturally, all these expressions date from before the Celtic Tiger in which everybody stopped walking from place to place and instead drove in cars so the wind, rain and levelness of the road mattered. Sadly, those days are returning.