Unthreaded
The staff photo of the local Hilton resort shows a 90% female workforce.
the boss is male and foreign.
stewgreen
Local paper, Drax and @CBI_CC (CBI climate change)
don't understand it's OUTPUT that counts, not CAPACITY
as they trumpet
"the total capacity available from #renewables has overtaken fossil fuels for the first time"
"the report also looks at why power prices are at a ten-year high"
Doh, unicorns do not pay the costs of green energy's network inefficiencies & subsidies
Instead they are added onto the "power prices"
That section of the paper is full of renewable ads.
stewgreen
@Golf are you not collecting a monthly RHI cheque for saving the world ?
"The more you burn, the more you earn"
stewgreen
is climate "solvable"? A curious concept.
Nov 22, 2018 at 2:34 PM | Radical Rodent
Climate Science is solvable. The less you spend on it, the better it gets.
golf charlie
tomo (Nov 22, 2018 at 9:29 AM): is climate "solvable"? A curious concept.
Radical Rodent
I guess I read historians like Durrant ( who I disagree with on many levels)
But his overview of modern England is very balanced .
But I am sure I am right about his general overview .
England became a shit hole for the mean person.
I am talking of drinking to block out life rather then be merry ( the gin craze )
A total orcish hellish life experience in the 19th century.
I could go on....
Anyway
YouTube · Thomas Sheridan
Dastardly Brexit Betrayal - What Next?
You may think most of his views are off the wall but I think he hits home on this one.
The Dork of Cork
I would have thought that concluding life was harder and/or more brutal in the past was a no-brainer. However, a discussion could be had as to whether migrants to the cities in the 19th century had harder lives than their rural ancestors. The only benefit that our ancestors might be credited with is an ignorance of how bad conditions were elsewhere, but given just how bad they were at home, this "benefit" was not much of one.
Supertroll
No Dork, you keep missing my basic point that life was effing hard anywhere backwards of the 1950s. Forget taxation or anything nice and fluffy like that - just the danger of disease, famine, war or just terminal boredom. In non Dorky words, what was better during the time of your liking?
TinyCO2
Co2
You pick a mistake of preciseness on my part and you attack it with peevish delight .
I was thinking of the late 1300s / early 1400s
You cannot engage with the substance of my argument - that is the immediate instinct of punitive taxation and total control of the population began proper under the Tudor system which involved gross centralisation of activities.
There was obviously attempts at this before but the scientific control of the population really began with that lot.
Or to put it differently previously the heavy hand was used and under the Tudors the hidden hand became the preferential means to amass more and more power at the center.
The Dork of Cork
Yorkshire Post publishes a letter from some random nutter
'Policing anti-fracking protests is costing South Yorkshire police too much,
..there is an easy way to remedy that ..BAN FRACKING'
... It's signed Natalie Bennett the Green Party
(last election she tried to win a South Yorkshire seat)