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Tue R4 Costing the Earth
"An area the size of India now burns every year and climate change is rapidly increasing the flammability of our forests. (Evidence?)
Tom Heap visits Fort McMurray to find out how a city could be so easily engulfed by fire and to meet the local scientists and firefighters working out fresh strategies to make sure it doesn't happen again."
stewgreen
Mc It'll be the next thing pushed by the BBC cos now they understand that humans are non binary about sex instead we lie on a scale of how alive/dead we like our sexual partners
stewgreen
Feb 4, 2017 at 1:30 AM Pcar
BBC "Jimmy crossed the line with necrophilia... we're good now"
Ha ha, necrophilia is least bad compared to abuse of living people.
When you set the bar so low relative judgements are meaningless.
Is either still happening?
And if you think it is, what shall we do about it?
M Courtney
Great quote from Scott Adams's blog:
Yesterday I asked my most liberal, Trump-hating friend if he ever figured out why Republicans have most of the Governorships, a majority in Congress, the White House, and soon the Supreme Court. He said, “There are no easy answers.”Hint: Democracy at work. Think BREXIT. There will always be people pissed off. Some of us had to suffer the Blair-Campbell axis for 13 years. That went well.....Well? It gave us wars and Huhne. That's a lot to live up to. /s
Harry Passfield
Hi Technology Japan knows the value of Reliable energy.
http://joannenova.com.au/2017/02/japan-building-45-hele-coal-plants-australia-1-maybe/
golf charlie
Interesting post about alternative facts, alternative evidence, and how to interpret it all in a non scientific and somewhat alternative manner. David Karoly co-authored with Gergis on her failed attempts to fix Mann's Hockey Stick.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/03/university-culture-and-climate-change/
For those with doubts about the damage done to science, and respected Universities, by climate scientists .....
golf charlie
*de-fuzing* the very active Democrats in the tech business
tomo
@stewgreen
re:Rigging Google
they started out with the motto "Do No Evil" - I have to say I'm beginning to wonder where the semantic line is. I have been seeing stuff dropped into "suggested viewing" particularly in my YouTube accounts which is frankly unacceptably political stuff related to negative views of Trump and immigration emanating from the activism of the US left in an attempt to de-legitimise the administration. I have some "single use" devices (with assorted cookie / ad blockers) that are on different ISPs - this arrangement seems to indicate some diversity in content tailoring.
As far as I can see (which ain't very far) Brin + Page have been fairly circumspect about political affiliations - that definitely cannot be said of Mr. Schmidt - a Clinton confidante. I wonder how much bias just "organically happens" and how much is orchestrated?
That said one of the benefits of EU search rules is that overt tinkering leaves a signpost....occasionally :-) Google are smarter than that and I'd say have deployed algorithms to mess with perception - an extremely difficult thing to evidence from the user's perspective.
I have to say that I think Trump has missed a trick on immigration and diffusing the very active Democrats in the tech business. If he said to the importers of talent that they were responsible for the folk they import (as many as they like...) - along the lines of say the sponsor mechanisms that abound in the Middle East they'd be both compromised and snookered :-) Person bonds are quite common in US law as I understand it - it'd force the tech company crew to do the Feds vetting work for them....
tomo
Pg 58 Energy expert Little Emily
"low subsidy price awarded ... £6.95 per kilowatt"
"average £34 per Kilowatt"
Em I guess it's actually Megawatts
Per hour...MWh
stewgreen
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4192182/World-leaders-duped-manipulated-global-warming-data.html
Big story on NOAA's pause busting data and paper.