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Stewgreen:
So it's not €50 notes passed out the window in the drivers' passports?
It doesn't add up...
@Tomo the reason why white vans are allowed to leave the docks unhindered is so that undercover police can follow them to Mr Big's
Once they have gathered all the info on Mr Big, they are ready to prosecute
and they they get the command to instead prioritise HurtyFeelings Policing and smash someone's door down cos they hurt someones feelings on Facebook.
John Apter the new head of the Police Federation has said ‘No, we want to police real crime’
\\ Common sense policing has “gone out of the window” with officers forced to spend their time intervening in trivial social media disputes rather than attending burglaries and other serious crimes, //
stewgreen
Tomo:
You reminded me of the experience of stopping at the M20 services somewhere between Maidstone and Ashford a couple of years ago. There were large numbers of vans that seemed to have their own section of the car park that was largely hidden from general view. The smaller ones seemed to be taking on loads delivered by the larger ones. It didn't take a rocket scientist to work out what they were up to.
It doesn't add up...
IDAU....
Snap!
golf charlie
TinyCO2
Some years, the extent of ice just depends on which way the wind blows, and some years, the amount of multi year ice just depends on which way the wind blew the previous year.
Over the limited time that records exist, some decades have more ice than others.
It is difficult to detect patterns that are radically different to the 1840s that led to the ill fated Franklin Expedition, and the search for it in the 1850s.
Climate Science has always warned that Arctic Sea ice will confirm what is happening to the Planet. The answer seems to be natural cycles of warming and cooling. Again and again.
Cutting Climate Science funding by 97% to reflect their Consensus seems fair and reasonable.
golf charlie
EM:
Eyeballing this version of the chart if minimum sea ice extent
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover_30y.uk.php
It is easy to note that in the last dozen years, the first half dozen points were all below the linear trend, while the last half dozen were all above it. Such a statistical anomaly suggests that the linear model is incorrect, and that a cyclical model might be more appropriate. If you look at the linear trend over this period, it is essentially flat. The ever decreasing circles hypothesis looks pretty much gored to me.
It doesn't add up...
The key part of what happened in 2007 was not the sudden drop in ice volume but the lack of tipping point it created. Subsequent years have demonstrated that only a modest cooling could restore the ice.
TinyCO2
"Stochastic .... having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analysed statistically but may not be predicted precisely."
Sep 23, 2018 at 10:28 PM | Entropic man
So why hype stupid predictions about Sea Ice Death Spirals? Climate Scientists are the ones involved in scaremongering, without scientific and historical justification.
Do polar bears understand the definition of stochastic, or do Climate Science's preferred experts on polar bears not understand polar bears?
golf charlie
Sep 23, 2018 at 10:51 PM | Entropic man
NSIDC Data is as unreliable and untrustworthy as its Director Mark Serreze, as supported by Peter Wadham and John Vidal at The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/14/arctic-sea-ice-cover-set-to-be-second-lowest-ever-recorded-data-suggests
Serreze states that others rely on NSIDC for data. I don't, you shouldn't.
All of these "Ship of Fools" incidents, with Climate Scientists and "Ice Experts" getting stuck in sea ice (relying on NSIDC Data?) reminds me of stories about the Franklin Expedition. People died based on misguided faith.
golf charlie
idau/stewgreen
While it's not an easy job customs officers in my experience are rather too quick to take the piss.
Back in the 00s there were a bunch of Kent based customs folk who were nabbed operating the distribution of confiscated booze+baccy from a rented warehouse using confiscated vans - no motorway services required. There was a Daily Mail article detailing it but DM seem to have disappeared pre 2010 stuff.
As for the chunnel vans - every time I've been through in the last few years I've seen UK pensioners being shaken down for legitimately purchased rolling tobacco while a procession of dodgy bangers with LT,LV,EST,BG and RO plates are waved through unmolested.