Unthreaded
@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
I doubt if the Archers are contemplating growing oaks for profit - too slow growing. Nor, from what I overheard yesterday, are they proposing to grow woodlands. I believe the aim is to grow fast-growing and widely-spaced trees within their fields. I would promise to listen more carefully to next week's omnibus edition for further details, but unfortunately will not be here and must forgo that particular pleasure. Perhaps Tiny could interrogate her brother-in-law for us?
Supertroll
Sep 17, 2018 at 11:24 AM | Uibhist a Tuath
There is an oak tree just outside the garden that has grown "straight". I would estimate it would yield 35-40 ft timbers.
Bending large structural timber was not an option for traditional shipwrights. They did need the oaks that grew on their own, or at the edge of woodland with spreading branches, to get the natural curves for the ribs and keel connections.
golf charlie
Booker did a piece about Countryfile's biased fracking item last week.
has done a breakdown
\\ Naturally, I had to watch it myself to see if it was anywhere near as bad as Christopher Booker says.
I thought he might be exaggerating.
To my surprise, not only wasn't he exaggerating but the piece was actually much worse that he'd led me to believe //
stewgreen
"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