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Apr 30, 2018 at 8:50 AM | golf Charlie

"[Lady Worthington] ...was the brains behind the Friends of the Earth 'Big Ask' campaign, and helped the UK government launch its first public awareness campaign"

Bryony and brains don't really go together, do they.

Apr 30, 2018 at 12:36 PM | Unregistered CommenterDaveS

UK Channel 5 TV news closing item yesterday evening (29042018) item suggested the Great Barrier Reef is totally "*(&^*(ed by climate change.
Anyone else catch this bit of fake news?

Apr 30, 2018 at 11:05 AM | Unregistered Commentercolin smith

Here is a novel idea for legislators in the UK and EU:

"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has proposed to end the longstanding EPA practice of using secretive, often questionable, even deceptive science to support agency policy and regulatory initiatives. His proposed rules will ensure that any science underlying agency actions is transparent and publicly available for independent experts to examine and validate – or point out its flaws.

It also responds to growing concerns that extensive scientific research in environmental,medical and other arenas cannot be replicated by other scientists, or is compromised by cherry-picked data, poor research design, sloppy analysis or biased researchers. The situation has led to calls for increased sharing of data and methodologies, more independent peer review and other actions to weed out problems. There is no excuse for hiding data when studies are funded by taxpayers or used to justify regulations."

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/29/analysis-ending-the-secret-science-at-epa-is-long-overdue/

We need more openess by the Green Blob, detailing how they have wasted so much money, so that serial abusers can be excluded.

Apr 30, 2018 at 10:02 AM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

"Michał Kurtyka, Poland’s deputy energy minister, said that before committing to a higher ambition, the bloc needs to be sure it can follow through."

“We have to think, when evaluating our target … about the EU’s ability to deliver,” Kurtyka told POLITICO. “The EU’s legitimacy could be at stake.”
Apr 30, 2018 at 8:25 AM | Mark Hodgson

Poland is packed full of natural resources. Too many of their best designers and engineers have already departed, driven out by World Wars, and the USSR. The EU seems determined to finish Poland, whilst Germany bypasses the rules instigated by Germany

Apr 30, 2018 at 9:21 AM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

Apr 29, 2018 at 10:51 PM | stewgreen

Watch this interesting experiment

Apr 30, 2018 at 8:59 AM | Unregistered CommenterUibhist a Tuath

Apr 29, 2018 at 11:33 PM | Pcar

There's always RadioSpares now RS-Components, always the first port of call for a whatsit to complete a project for me 30 years ago.

I've just had half an hour of nostalgia browsing their on line catalogue, bringing back memories of going through their paper catalogue to create a Purchase Req below the amount needing upper management signature but also covering all requirements. Happy days!

What every green needs

Thank you

Apr 30, 2018 at 8:52 AM | Unregistered CommenterUibhist a Tuath

When the UK (which has - madly, in my opinion) done more than any other EU country in this direction, leaves the EU, they don't stand a cat in hell's chance of complying with their INDC targets. And if the few INDCs which actually commit to reductions, don't come to pass in reality, then the Paris Agreement really will prove to have been a complete waste of time and money.

Apr 30, 2018 at 8:25 AM | Mark Hodgson

Climate Change Act 2008 again. Supported by Labour, Liberal and Conservative Parties.
Bryony Worthington

"Lady Worthington is a Labour peer and an architect of the UK's Climate Change Act. She wrote the first report in the UK calling for the introduction of 'carbon budgets', was the brains behind the Friends of the Earth 'Big Ask' campaign, and helped the UK government launch its first public awareness campaign"
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/bryony-worthington

For an alternative opinion to toxic Green mantra:

https://www.thegwpf.com/britains-climate-change-act-the-pottiest-and-costliest-mistake-of-our-times/

Apr 30, 2018 at 8:50 AM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

"Central Europe faces a climate policy whipping
It’s crunch time for EU politicians, who over the next weeks will try to hammer out the bloc’s green goals for the next decade."

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-climate-change-central-europe-faces-policy-whipping/

"SOFIA — Europe’s coal countries are going to get burned again.

Four years ago Central Europeans were dragged kicking and screaming to make promises to boost renewable energy and energy efficiency, and now they stand to lose again as the EU moves to make those standards even tougher.

The battle lines are familiar. The European Parliament, egged on by greener Northern European countries, wants to significantly boost 2030 targets for the amount of energy that has to come from renewables and how much countries should do to boost energy efficiency.

But poorer and often coal-dependent countries, many from Central Europe, feel they’re already endangering their economies by agreeing to the existing targets, and aren’t keen to go any further.

The stakes are huge as the Commission, Parliament and member countries haggle this year over the Commission’s Clean Energy Package."

etc etc, with quite a lot of climate alarmism in the article.

Then:

"But there is also a significant change in what the final percentage number will mean: Unlike the 2020 green target, the 2030 renewable energy goal will only be binding at the EU level, and will not include binding national targets. That means that the EU needs to ensure it will collectively meet its ambitions.

Michał Kurtyka, Poland’s deputy energy minister, said that before committing to a higher ambition, the bloc needs to be sure it can follow through.

“We have to think, when evaluating our target … about the EU’s ability to deliver,” Kurtyka told POLITICO. “The EU’s legitimacy could be at stake.”

The division among countries will become increasingly visible in the next few weeks, as Council and the European Parliament try to wrap up three key files of the Clean Energy Package."

The target "will be binding at the EU level". That's the same as the EU submitting a collective INDC under the Paris Agreement. When the UK (which has - madly, in my opinion) done more than any other EU country in this direction, leaves the EU, they don't stand a cat in hell's chance of complying with their INDC targets. And if the few INDCs which actually commit to reductions, don't come to pass in reality, then the Paris Agreement really will prove to have been a complete waste of time and money.

Apr 30, 2018 at 8:25 AM | Unregistered CommenterMark Hodgson

Soubry is really Labour also

I think Labour have a blackmail book to control the Tories
..hence why these Tories don't do any proper Tory type governing

Apr 30, 2018 at 12:36 AM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

@Pcar sounds good

OK Treehouse people
There is confusion cos the first show was 2011 that's the one they built the big treehouse for
and now there is a new differen show is airing now ..

I didn't have time to read your article fully
The quote I read before was from a villager about the 2011 prog
"Oh the treehouse we built for the prog was a fake one, when we build them we don't build them so high, cos you don't want to lugging water so far everyday"

OK there might be some tense stuff ..and he doesn't say they were living in them at that time, just that then or before they had a system of building them.

Even in that article there seems to be a photo of them with a normal height treehouse in the background.
Might be that they have built it for a laugh, near the out of jungle place they live now

Sometimes tribal people do stuff like live in a bungalow, but go to another place for hunting or crop season
..so to me it is still possible these out of jungle people do go to treehouses sometimes)

In Borneo I avoided visiting longhouses cos it is a bit of a tourist circus
..and you should never visit remote tribes /leave them be.
I've walked past a modern longhouse, which was a bit like a motel with a wide communal balcony at the front door.
(And I've been in empty longhouses they use for festivals)

Apr 30, 2018 at 12:29 AM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

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