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Ross. Acknowledged, but even my old rheumy eyes [cataract operation due in one month] can tell the difference between an old wrinkly Minister for Health from my youth, and a modern young Canadian nymphette posing(?) as a Minister of Special Pleading.
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There is a well documented phenomena, when the police, doctors etc look young we are getting old !
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Hadn't that guy heard of commercially available salt-licks for cattle, sheep, deer and pigs? Deliberate lie in my opinion. on that question I've always thought the fixation on salt in diet is over blown for the vast majority of people, the body is very good at balancing its chemistry most of the time.
I don't disagree about the stupidity of European time zones or the desire to integrate to a single zone. Just not sure that a free for all situation is best, although in these days of setting off in one local time and arriving at another local time is common place so going back to Bristol/Stornoway/Norwich Time should be easy.
Here in Rural France it's a like the 1970s, Sundays most big shops are shut, some open Sunday mornings, all DIY places are shut. Mondays are very quiet too. Local supermarkets have only just started opening at lunchtime (our Intermarche started last year) Virtually all small shops and offices have a 2 hour lunch. I quite like the way it is, but I'm retired and can go to the shops when I want rather than when I have to. Local supermarkets have just started one line click and collect shopping, home delivery isn't practical, no Deliveroo here yet!! I was surprised to see Deliveroo in Perth when visiting (StJohnstone v Aberdeen family bragging rights involved) last week. Having experienced both UK and France I'm uncertain that letting people choose holidays isn't actually let employers dictate holidays and for those with school age children and the current hard line approach to in term absence could cause problems for many families.
SandyS
@clipe But on the "good news" front ... I'm surprised you didn't mention (as you did at WUWT) that dedicated IPCC-nik and BC Green Party MLA Andrew <climate change is a barrage of intergalactic ballistic missiles> Weaver's $50,000 judgement against the National Post has been overturned.
According to the NP:
A British Columbia judge wrongly decided three National Post writers defamed a prominent climate scientist, and a new trial is required to fix the errors, according to the British Columbia Court of Appeal.
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The decision overturns the 2015 finding of defamation, for which the Post was ordered to publish a retraction and pay Weaver $50,000. No retrial has been scheduled.“Fair comment for columnists and opinion writers is a pillar of journalism and we feared the original judgment could have had a chilling effect,” said Anne Marie Owens, the Post’s editor-in-chief. “We are delighted with this ruling, and will continue to fight for important press freedoms.”
“We are very pleased with the victory and happy that the errors in the trial judgment will be corrected,” said Dan Burnett, a lawyer who represents the Post.
Haven't read the unanimous three-judge Court of Appeal's judgement, but the ever-green Globe & Mail reports Weaver's "response" in which he appears** to blame then newbie Judge Emily:
While campaigning Friday in the B.C. election, Weaver said it was the trial judge’s decision to take a combined approach to the articles.“We did not ask the judge to look at the four together, we asked her to look at each of these cases as individual cases, she decided to put them together,” he told reporters in Victoria.
**I use the word advisedly! As I had noted in the course of my "assessment" of Judge Emily Burke's pastiche, the (now former) faux Nobellist Weaver is profoundly challenged in the 'say what you mean and mean what you say' department.
Hilary Ostrov
Clipe, is it me, or are ministers getting progressively younger? This one looks just out of high school. Perhaps the cosmetics industry (what an oxymoron) have truly found the elixir of youth, but only the Establishment knows. "Global warming affects women more" - what a hostage to fortune. Imagine countless stand-up comedians dusting off all their old menopausal jokes.
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As Canada’s Environment Minister pushes forward plans to dramatically cut carbon emissions, she is lashing out at “gender climate deniers” who fail to acknowledge that in a warming world, women fare worse.
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Who needs help screwing in a light bulb?
Debunking “Climate Barbie’s” green energy claims (Canada)
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@AK, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:22 AM
Currently broadcasting on Radio 4, Graham MacGregor , an anti-salt guru. Turned me off in the first few minutes with a statement (later repeated) that no mammal eats salt. Having camped near salt licks in Northern Saskatchewan, I know this to be totally wrong. I saw more wildlife there than anywhere else.
Apr 25, 2017 at 12:18 PM
Most of what Graham MacGregor had to say seemed reasonable with some of it backed by double-blind testing results. However, I couldn't unconditionally accept it because of the initial falsehood I previously mentioned. Crass stupidity on his part, all for a completely unnecessary (and easily demonstrably inaccurate) sound-bite.
"Turned me off in the first few minutes with a [untrue] statement"
Same with me. If the false statement of fact occurs later in programme, all before and after is doubted.
Salt-licks - there is a human one in Carlisle Castle dungeon.
Salt consumption: Bears - Polar eat seals, Brown eat salmon.
Which mammals need to consume salt? No idea. Humans sweat saline, some mammals don't sweat.
Pcar
@SandyS, Apr 25, 2017 at 8:14 AM
Are you suggesting we move back to "Bristol Time" without calling it that?
As the Greenwich Meridian passes through a large part of France (i'm closer to it here than I was in Derby or Perthshire) and Spain it would make more sense for them to switch to GMT/BST; national sensibilities and pride get in the way of that. Being further West compounds the problem, Stornoway time will be different from Edinburgh time.
Bristol Time/GMT - call it whatever you want.
CET is a mess. Bits of Spain further west than Portugal/RoI
USA has 4 time zones across east/west ~double width of EU's single time zone.
@Glebekinvara, Apr 25, 2017 at 8:36 AM
We tried CET in Ireland when we joined the EEC. After 2 years we went back to GMT - even then sunrise in Galway is 40 minutes after it happens in Greenwich. Spain being on CET is a bit of lunacy. The 10ºW longitude passes through A Coruna so their sunrise is 40 minutes after Greenwich and 1hr 40 mins after Berlin time.
Embarrassed I didn't know that. Thanks for info.
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...While the ‘official’ reason for Daylight Delusional Time is increased productivity and decreased fuel/electricity consumption, I remember when we were told it was done for the children, so they weren’t waiting for the school bus in the dark. It doesn’t matter they were waiting in the dark all winter. Come spring, let there be light. God forbid we actually change when school opens to keep them out of the dark.Before that we were told it was for the farmer, because Bessie the cow, lacking an opposable thumb, couldn’t change the time on their hoof watch, thereby forcing the farmer to personally visit each cow twice a year to adjust their watches and bond with Bessie while doing so. After all, a happy cow is a better cow for the milk and leather industry...
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Good luck with the operation when it comes, I have other problems with my eyes which will eventually so the doctors tell me need an operation. I'm sure it will improve things no end.
The wisdom of age has long been discarded as nonsense, the energy, experience and knowledge of youth has taken its place. I don't think things have improved as a result. My youngest (30 this year) was talking about his "young" trainee (a late teens young man) who thinks he knows everything and tells my son how it should be done. I said it's a sign you're getting old when you realise teenagers don't know everything!