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Stew, the PoW is a pillock when he says " reefs are vanishing rapidly". They're not, as you know. It's only the academics who argue that they are not who are disappearing ; eg: Peter Ridd
Harry Passfield
Stew, I've always been amazed at the way oil rigs blend into the scenery in LA. Take a look at these hidden rigs
Harry Passfield
Portillo show now
He's in urban LA where oil nodding donkeys crop up all over
... in the shopping centre car park etc
..Operator said it does 15 barrels/day
..well at $60/barrel, that's almost $1,000/day = about $360K/year
..Where's the panic about the water table ? like for UK fracking
stewgreen
ITV local news plugging tonight's show
"An average family throws out a tonne of plastic each year "
FFS that's 1,000Kg ..almost 3Kg/day
Sorry a family does not put 3Kg in their bin everyday.
There will be the occasional acrylic jumper & shoes
but even if you include all the plastic in a car ...it won't add up to a tonne.
stewgreen
R4 : better ships sulphur scrubbers
Will worldwide bring 140K fewer deaths, and 7.5m asthma cases amongst coastal communities.
stewgreen
Times Letters : 8 Lords inc Lawson + Stringer sign letter condemning that Hugo Rifkind article.
Where he said sceptics have to think same on GW as plastics.
Letter says it you guys that only focus on GW who have caused people to overlook rest of environment.
stewgreen
stewgreen
perhaps his courtiers might seek out the person who persuaded the heir to the throne to desist from personally piloting small passenger jets - to have a word?
not holding my breath
tomo
Charles prounces
'Only docos like Blue Planet are able to get people to act on environmental threats
... reefs are vanishing rapidly"
stewgreen
Local paper : on Orsted's Hornsea one onshore substation and cable route they found 30,000 pieces or archaeology inc 2 Iron Age settlements, 3 RimanoBritish, 2 medieval moated + 2 burials, one medieval , one Roman masses objects coins etc.
stewgreen
@tomo, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:16 PM
Exhibit 1: Mayor of London Sadiq Khan grows angry, resorts to childish taunts as London Assembly members David Kurten, Andrew Dismore and Andrew Boff...