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Household battery thought to be cause of major fire at Mid UK Recycling plant near Ancaster
- A lithium battery put in a household recycling bin is thought to have caused a major fire at a waste processing plant near Ancaster this morning.
Around 50 firefighters have been at the scene of a major blaze at a recycling plant near Ancaster
Good job electric car batteries are 100% stable.
Other local news : I see that there are 5 peregrine chicks living 100 ft up at the Vivergo ethanol plant which is due to close .... (on at 7:30pm)
stewgreen
@STI believe he did say what I said
..Also many large mammals live in the sea.
stewgreen
SG. You over exaggerate. Rees did not say we have completely overwhelmed evolution. He may have said that humans are now the dominant force influencing evolution. Whereas I have not heard this claim debated before, I can entertain the possibility that he is correct. Outside polar regions and relatively small protected areas, almost all the world's large mammals (excepting elephants) have their reproduction controlled by humans. Clearing of natural vegetation for crops has led to extinction rates not seen since the end of the Mesozoic (and you can't influence evolution more than causing extinction).
There is one way in which Rees is totally wrong. Humans have inadvertently increased evolutionary rates in microbes when we have tried to control them chemically.
"influencing a lot of nature a bit". Read my last post again. We do a hell of a lot more than influencing "A BIT" as well you must know from all your travels.
Supertroll
"And now for something completely different" Conradictory advice in the same article, yes good old statins.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6176151/No-evidence-having-high-levels-bad-cholesterol-causes-heart-disease.html
Ross Lea
@ST I think there is a difference between mankind influencing a lot of nature a bit
..and mankind completely overpowering evolution.
stewgreen
@ST Times : Iranian Haackers stole Oxbridge research.
The papers are now available on Farsi websites for about 2 pounds
includes nuclear development
stewgreen
SG. You question Martyn Rees claim that mankind's affect on the environment being the dominant force" But recent estimates are that more than 50% of the Earth's land surface is modified by humans, back in the 1990s Roger Hooke calculated the rates of geomorphologic change and determinantsed that only rivers transport more sediment/rock material than humans. Sediment transport by all the world's coastal processes, winds or glaciers pale into near insignificance compared to human effects. Moreover human activities commonly increase other geomorphological rates. Humans, directly or indirectly are considered the dominant agent of change on the Earth and these rates of change are ever increasing.
I can't find the reference but an ever increasing percentage of the Earth's biota goes to supply human needs, commonly crowding out other organisms and already causing one of the great extinction events.
Supertroll
Golf Charlie
Using timbers of the naturally right shape makes sense I was under the impression that steam bending of wood had been in use for some considerable time
Uibhist a Tuath
3pm News
Due to Brexit
#1 Jelly will no longer set, #2 All milk will go sour
#3 JLR will go onto a 3 day week due to uncertainty about diesels and Brexit
The boss has said that government policy on diesels was responsible for the closure last week of a Jaguar plant with 1,000 jobs
How come I never heard that ?
Sept 11
\\ Ralf Speth told a conference in Birmingham, central England, that JLR had lost a thousand jobs as a result of diesel policy “and those numbers will be counted in the tens of thousands if we do not get the right Brexit deal”. //
airqualitynews.com Sept 12th
\\ Dr Ralf Speth issued an impassioned defence of diesel cars: “The diesel vehicles we produce to EU 6 standards are some of the cleanest cars ever made”.
Regardless of #airpollution he likes them, he really, really, really likes them.//
stewgreen
That same 7:30pm BBC1 Yorks prog has
\\ Johnny I'Anson* look at efforts to produce energy from food waste.//
* ha the weather lady Keeley is the main presenter, I'anson is her husband
In the East You have
- an exclusive report on the latest idea for disposing of the plastic mountain.
Researchers have found a way to make new 'greener' fuel from plastic mined from landfill.
There are 5,000 'Goldilocks' sites across the UK that could be mined.
It could be a potential money-spinner but some environmentalists say plastic should be left buried.
- if you are confused about what plastic to recycle help is at hand as a Peterborough street gets a recycle makeover.
- out on the river with a Kettering man who takes other people's rubbish home.