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6:30pm watching Michael Portillo in LA
People go on about London air, but of course LA didn't used to have sky scrapers, cos they'd be in the smog.
.. It has some now, but from the 69th floor you can't see the distance well.
Portillo steps out of the metrol which is in the middle of 12 lanes of freeway .. Surely Sadiq would say there'd be too much NOx and PM
stewgreen
stewgreen
Ah that's different from the new ruse that is being used against Amey in it's Sheffield tree pruning exercise
"Butterfly Conservation specifically opposes the felling and excessive pruning of the Chelsea Road Elm.
"The White-letter Hairstreak is one of the UK’s most threatened butterflies, having undergone a 96% decline in numbers between 1976 and 2014, so the loss of any colony is of concern." (Dutch Elm Disease)
"BC welcomes the decision to clone the elm in order to plant more disease-resistant trees around the city"
..but they think it will take 20 years for them to be ready.
"Chelsea Road Elm, supports a White-letter Hairstreak population
.. Although Sheffield City Council has now agreed not to fell the tree, the plan to undertake canopy reduction is now at the centre of more controversy"
I side with Amey, most of the normal treesa are already overgrown and dangerous.
it'seems like a greater crested newt is used as an excuse to stop development.
stewgreen
An interesting dilemma for conservationists, save the Carpet Moth or starve human beings.
Feb 14, 2018 at 2:12 PM | Uibhist a Tuath
Some members of the Green Blob may want to set up a protected sanctuary for carpet moths in the rug on Trumps head.
golf charlie
An interesting dilemma for conservationists, save the Carpet Moth or starve human beings. My money is on them saving the Carpet Moth and demanding the replanting of Barberry hedges to reinstate the rural environment to a pre-industrial revolution state.
Deadly PLAGUE which TERRIFIED Romans and killed millions could RETURN to UK
There should be a fair number of unemployed Climate Scientists who could retrain to research into wheat which is immune to Berberis Vulgaris or a selective fungicide, although the green lobby wouldn't be happy with genetic modification for the former or the latter in principle.
Uibhist a Tuath
Andrew Bolt writes about Peter Ridd (unpaywalled version)
\\ JCU found him guilty of “serious misconduct” and of lacking “collegiality” — meaning “groupthink”.//
stewgreen
BBC journo @DaveHarrisonBBC tweeted
\\ Most of the wind turbine blades for the world’s biggest offshore wind farm will be made in #Hull.
@SiemensGamesa has won an exclusive contract for Ørsted’s Hornsea Project Two scheme, which is due to be operational in 2022.///
Great news for the city.
.... em nope not in my opinion.. for a start that means a load of CO2 pushed out in the construction phase, in the hope it's saved back in the coming decades
stewgreen
Radio Humberside leads with Green news again
"A local firm has landed a contract for the world's largest windfarm"
A lot of "hey wows" and "will power 1.3m homes"
stewgreen
"That breathless announcement that the BBC is phasing out single use plastics by 2020. was on the Oneshow about 7:15pm" Stewgreen
That means that the presenters of the One Show are safe - as plastic as they are, the BBC keeps re-using them.
TinyCO2
Look North weatherman Paul Hudson has just been out to see the seals off Whitby to do a plastics item
The boatman claimed plastic bags was a problem, but it was magically fixed with the plastic bag tax.
and all we need to do is bad the rest of plastics.
All that sounds too good to be true as if its the usual report prepared by activist org.
"Here's puffin trapped in abandoned fishing net, and another bird stuck on the chord of an promotional balloon"
I'm not sure if those photos weren't taken 2 minutes before the birds freed themselves.