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Pcar
@stewgreen
May be true for some not all food: Tesco today 1kg Carrots 47p, last week 45p - ~5% increase
Jack's related? Another may be.
Any EU tariff increases to protect farmers from 2018 weather consequences? Maybe.
Pcar
Since last week's Countryfile story on the coming climate change Carrotastrophe
I pulled up the official defra data on wholesale carrot prices
of the 27 weeks counted so far in 2018 vs 2015 graph
The first week started 20% higher than 2015 ..and it continued through to last week also 20% higher
..there was just a couple of quick blips up at the end of the dry spell.
Then I find the BBC story Food prices 'to rise 5%' because of extreme weather
It quoted a thinktank the Centre for Economics and Business Research CEBR
This, along with a "wet, cold and challenging" winter, particularly the cold spell caused by the Beast from the East, has put stress on farming costs and yields, CEBR said.Strange cos in 2015 carrots also went up 80% in the same period"Wholesale prices of other vegetables have already soared by up to80% since the start of the year."
......
As a result, it said:
Wholesale vegetable prices had jumped between March and July, with ... carrots by 80%,
*(only after 6 edit versions did it quote carrots as the 80% thing
Come to think of it , it's like the way after Spring new potatoes come in at a premium price whereas previously at the end of winter they've been flogging you cheap old potatoes they've been storing all winter
Doh of course July carrots are 80% pricier than March carrots, cos they are not cheap old carrots they've been storing.
stewgreen
Golf Charlie
This is the September average Arctic sea ice extents since 1979.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2017/10/monthly_ice_09_NH_v2.1.png
This is the sort of graph you get when you plot a time series for a stochastic variable with an underlying long term downward trend.
Now please explain why a 2018 minimum of 4.6 million square kilometres, which sits right on the long term trend, is "Terrible news about the Arctic Sea Ice for Global Warming Alarmists."
Entropic man
Golf charlie
stochastic
stəˈkastɪk
adjectiveTECHNICAL
having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analysed statistically but may not be predicted precisely.
Entropic man
Terrible news about the Arctic Sea Ice for Global Warming Alarmists. The Death Spiral contnues to be dead. Should be another bumper crop of polar bears in the spring.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/09/23/arctic-sea-ice-melt-has-turn-the-corner-for-2018/
golf charlie
Martyn
I can only comment on what I've seen at the tunnel on the French side when returning from France on coaches or in private vehicles. The UK uniformed officials seem to very obviously focus on day tripping shoppers in particular tobacco. The dilapidated vans with several furtive looking folk in the front from places east don't seem to attract much attention at all.
Granted the sheer volume of trucks is daunting - but we don't seem to be being regaled openly with actual numbers and such from the folk entrusted with keeping an eye on the traffic - surely - that should be a prominent feature of their reporting - they might be doing it ... but I haven't seen it. They'll likely resist reporting as it'll be held up as a gift for smugglers looking to play the numbers.....
tomo
Sep 23, 2018 at 7:31 PM | Martyn
The problems are rarely on the English side of the English Channel. It is a classic French bargaining chip, keeping UK trucks tucked up by their sleeve.
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.