Unthreaded
In today's Times, page 39, front page of the Business Section:
Hinkley firm in conflict row over links to French
"A management consultancy owned by a company working for EDF was one of a group of firms paid more than £20 million to advise Whitehall on the terms of its deal with the French energy company over Hinkley Point, The Times has learnt."
It has been said that the affiliation is publicly known, but the chairman of the business, energy and industrial strategy committee will be investigating further. More details in the article.
Robert Christopher
SandyS, the BBC can't remember the storm of 15/16 October 1987, or the drought of 1976 when it comes to weather extremes.
I do seem to remember both events getting some coverage on the BBC at the time, perhaps they lost it all.
The Great Storm of 1703 may have sunk a 1,000 ships, but there was a bit of a blow in 1707 when Sir Cloudesley Shovell stuffed 4 of the Royal Navy's finest into the Scilly Isles with a loss of 1,500 lives, including his own. It did prompt the search for a method of measuring Longitude, leading to the Harrison Chronometer.
The BBC is selectively censoring history.
golf charlie
Someone at the BBC hasn't been to the unprecedented weather event briefing.
In late November 1703, when southern Britain saw the worst natural disaster in its history, a massive cyclone now known as the Great Storm, more than 1,000 seamen died on the Goodwin Sands.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161118-the-place-where-1000-ships-were-sunk
It's an interesting article.
SandyS
Ross Lea, I expect Climate Scientists will be along shortly to adjust the blue you are seeing, to the red they want you to see. This is how "Normal" Climate Science works.
golf charlie
I have not looked at the sea surface temperature anomally chart recently
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_daily.php?plot=ssa&inv=0&t=cur
I was very surprised to see so much blue; especially the intense blue in the norther Pacific where the blob of warm water was. As the sea controls the temperature of the atmosphere to a large extent, I can forsee significant global cooling ahead signalling a strong La Nina ?
Ross Lea
Times suggests that Front National supporters deliberately voted for Fillon cos he as seen as soft so he's a weaker candidate for Marie to compete against.
Tuesday : North Yorks Fracking appeal due in court.
Sad IQ Khan has called on VW to pay £2.5m chancer to Londistan for "killer air"
stewgreen
There is a new BBC radio prog Crowd Science
The first episode was the usual Greenie rubbish
So I didn't expect anything from this episode about Home Power Storage
But the killer line was at the end : The "listener's question" the whole prog was based on
The listener was the father of the scientist who was answering the querstion.
..Like admitting that makes everything OK.
I got shouted at for pointing out that Naked Scientists once put a BBC plant in the audience to ask a climate question.
But it seems they are so blase these days that they can even add up to their stunt this time.
In the prog They were all acting as if we were all about to soon have home battery stations.
I still maintain that if you were off grid with solar, you'd still be better off with a petrol generator for the no sun times rather than relying on a super expensive 2 day battery system.
stewgreen
He hasn't deigned to grace us with his presence of late but this made me nod in agreement
tomo
Re : Nov 20, 2016 at 7:45 PM
Did anyone not think that video was brilliant ?
Where Jeff Holiday carefully takes down MSM with attention to “John Oliver and Journalistic Integrity”
pointing out that last year John Oliver *pleaded* for Republicans to nominate Trump cos that would mean a free pass for Hillary.
And now uses his platform on HBO to ask the public to trust CNN when in fact Time Warner who are a top-ten Hillary donor , actually own CNN and HBO.
And that we used to trust MSM more than the backstreet guy cos they had integrity and were better, so it’s no use asking us to JUST TRUST them, now they’ve lost their integrity.
stewgreen
I think I'm suffering from a new disease that only afflicts BH regulars - Dorkmorbidity. This is the depression that occurs when you revisit a BH blog in the anticipation of reading something of interest only to discover it's more bilge spewed by the self appointed economic wizard, the Dork of Cork. This is a relatively new disease that flared up after the failure of the "Recent Comments" sidebar, which used to give advanced warning of a Dork infection.