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Justin Trudeau's trip to India was a disaster
Andrew Scheer unmasks Justin Trudeau "You Have Embarrassed All Canadians"
Trudeau is a Clinton/Blair/Cameron/Obama clone. One would have thought after seeing those charlatans, electorates would be more sensible. Alas, the gullible never learn.
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Pcar
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The sand dwellers on tidally exposed flats I can go with (my neat screenwash bottle froze solid on the M4 last Thursday morning - I'd hazard a guess that might be -10°C or lower) - much less so the lobsters + crabs (although The Lobster Doctor says they don't react well to sudden thermal shock) - so it might well be thermal shock / cold that caused the event - seawater freezing at roughly -2°C .
A cursory scan of the photographs seems to show quite a diverse assortment of creatures piled up - Thermal shock might be an answer - but without knowledge of local conditions speculation is pretty futile .... if it was all shallow and cooled quickly... - that was a lot of sealife on the beach... cold survival is a matter of acclimation for many animals - maybe they got caught out - my windscreen washer bottle certainly was over the space of 15 mins or so.
That said - the casualty diversity is what struck me - cod is generally a lower water fish - I'd be curious to see what species of fish / crustacea and snaily/wormy things succumbed. Doesn't look like anybody's too bothered beyond shoveling it all into trucks to be dumped before it starts to honk badly.
In all though I would expect some routine sample taking and a selection of cadavers dispatched to various labs for investigation - that is after all what we pay out taxes for.
tomo
@ST We just had a cold wind event
but I think days in other years have been much colder ..eg enough to freeze parts of the sea for a day or so
stewgreen
Tomo. I once did some work on tidal flats in East Anglia. Periodically there are layers of cockle shells all of the same size. Within the shell are carbonate layers that are laid down on successive tides. They indicate all the shells died between the same winter tides and were eroded and swept together. All the animals died during the same low tides when low temperatures froze the sands down several decimetres and killed the cockles.
This seems to me a reasonable explanation for the recent die off of nearshore fish, lobsters and other shallow offshore organisms, although rough water might be the cause. I see no necessity for human involvement.
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Sunday : Berlin : Acid attack on green energy corp executive
maybe in a feud about RWE running a big open cast lignite mine
Two men poured acid over the CFO of utility #Innogy the Green energy part of RWE, Bernhard Günther.
The executive got severely injured and briefly was at risk of dying, but his condition has since improved.
The men are at large, police are investigating.
* Günther was attacked while jogging several years ago and beaten up.
At that time he was still CFO of the parent company RWE
stewgreen
The local council should take independent samples and send them off to independent labs.
Mar 5, 2018 at 6:41 PM | tomo & stewgreen not wishing to be pedantic but.......
BOD, COD & pH can be tested, quick and cheap, on the spot. The "local council" Environmental Health Team will refer river issues to others, (Env Agency? Nat Rivers Authority?) and Marine Pollution is not their problem if the problem started at sea, but the consequences on the beach etc may be. Health & Safety probably prevents Environmental Health Officers from getting in a boat ........!
Thankfully, regular and constant instances of marine and river pollution from inadequately treated sewage effluent and farmyard slurries are over, but heavy rain, and freezing conditions can upset the balance. But as a cause, oxygen deficiency should have registered, if the tested samples were taken from the same water that the fish had actually died in. Testing water that a dead fish was found in, is not quite the same thing.
golf charlie
In that piece a teacher is in front of the class of kids
"TM's plan to get rid of plastic, do you think 20 years is too long ?"
"Yes" kids chant back
"so we are going to write a letter to Mrs May"
stewgreen
7:30pm BBC1 London
Sean Fletcher meets the former City worker on a mission to help London rid itself of plastic waste.
* The black guy on a catamaran bicycle who collects up litter dropped in the canal
..this looks like a stunt to me.
I would be easier with a long pole net from the bank (or drone)
..and most litter would flow to certain spots anyway
stewgreen
Andrew Neil slams Labour on anti white transgender activist