Unthreaded
stewgreen
the main BBC website is run by a commercial BBC entity? - I never thought to check it out - why then isn't it carrying advertising as it does to IP addresses outside the United Kingdom? I know from experience that they adjust content depending on the client IP address and cookies....
tomo
Sunk Cost Fallacy is what Lew accuses sceptics of
(but is contradicted by our Robert the Bruce, try and try again, stick at it , persistence culture
... there should be some formula saying when to cut)
But what about that strange BBC website
"This website is produced by BBC Global News Ltd, a commercial company owned by the BBC (and just the BBC). No money from the licence fee was used to create this website. The money we make from it is re-invested to help fund the BBC’s international journalism."
So BBC-Capital appears to be some online magazine operation run by BBC Global News Ltd
\\ BBC.com launches its latest Feature section - Capital - dedicated to bringing audiences a personal perspective on global business matters //
stewgreen
Perhaps this is an explanation for the longevity of renewable energy and other climate related misconceptions
Why would a gambler keep playing, even after losing a lot of money? Economists call it the sunk cost fallacy, a phenomenon which drives us to make bad decisions.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180914-the-trick-to-learning-when-to-cut-your-losses
Uibhist a Tuath
Jesus BBC/Guardianland constant preaching at teens seems to generate a backlash as at Leeds Festival a mass of plastic rubbish is just left
Facebook video
stewgreen
FoE guy "burning plastic whether in a fuel or in an incinerator is INCREDIBLY polluting"
That's tosh cos high temperature incinerators have proper filters (most of Europe uses them) It's only in BBC/Guardianland that recycling is the ONLY secondary way, the BBC never mentions anything except recycling.
It's kind of weird that every edition contains this plastic to fuel item, as if it's an advert that someone paid for .
Environmental lawyer Paul Davies of Latham and Watkins says there is already a site in Belgium about to come online.
stewgreen
"Also many large mammals live in the sea".
Yes, and we nearly drove many of them to extinction. We must have seriously depleted the gene pool of many cetaceans.
Supertroll
stewgreen
I took a look at Johnston Press' Sleaford Standard report of the "lithium fire" - they don't care for reader comments in that part of The Fens it seems
Having had considerable experience in preparing for Lithium fires in the workplace I'm always curious when one purportedly happens.... having had to deal with idiot elf and safertree folk wrt Lithium batteries and the mechanisms that lead to a metal fire.
The report offers no evidence and the attribution appears to be an unsubstantiated guess - I'm surprised they didn't also double down and finger an evil vaping apparatus as well...
The "recycling" companies and the councils are looking for ways to further restrict what can be disposed of via rubbish collection and I think we can expect a carnival of expensive restrictions in addition to what's already in place.
Wiltshire council have recently modified their recyling centres to have 4 metre high skips to make things more awkward - I've seen pensioners struggling with that already and it seems only a matter of time before one has a nasty tumble.
tomo
7:30pm South West
how millions of potentially toxic plastic pellets have contaminated the South West's seas and rivers.
Mike Dilger traces the 300-mile recycling journey of a single-use coffee cup.
In fact every area carries to plastic fuel item, and one other green item ..like "return of the milk float"
stewgreen
Wednesday's Times free
EU policy to burn more wood will ‘fuel climate change’
The use of wood to fuel power plants could cause EU energy emissions to rise by 10 per cent or more by 2050, cancelling out declines achieved with solar or wind power, the study said.
The policy would confound years of efforts to save trees by recycling paper.
stewgreen
Project Fear may have hit its apex in the past week, morphing into Project Hysteria, after it was announced that a ‘no deal’ Brexit would leave the UK at risk from falling space debris
What next? Brexit will cause water shortages?