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ACK and SandyS, according to one study by experts, UEA COULD be under the sea by 2050, so I am not sure whether academic credibility is only putting itself at risk.
SandyS, the Highland gamekeepers I met regarded some areas of land as sanctuaries. They were where deer would find some form of shelter in the winter, and were not easily accessible to remove a gralloched carcase anyway. They were "no-shoot" zones, and a simple and practical form of conservation that had probably gone on for 100+ years.
Deer on the Downs tend to be mainly roe and occasionally fallow. I have not seen a muntjac for years. I would not want to hit any whilst driving a car. A lot of foxes are killed on the roads here. Frequently they are drawn to the supply of other roadkill already on the road .....
golf charlie
4:45 Inside Science is talking about Antarctic blue lake phenomenom ..appearing disappearing etc.
We examine observations from space of fleeting blue lakes in East Antarctica. They come and go with the seasons, forming during the warmer months of the south pole summer. As Amber Leeson of Lancaster University explains, many of the lakes then drain away, an effect already been found in Greenland but never, until now, in this part of the Antarctic. And their effect is cause for concern.GarethM asked the guest so is this a sign of Climate Change ?
She -replied "well we've only been there 13 years so its too early to say
.. but it is predicted that we will havbemore summer hot spells in future in the area, so that will have an effect"
Isn't that an example of reporting bias...cos if she had sure signs she'd be crowing
..but when she has almost no signs..she refuses to say "not really", but is saying "probably in future"
She just added
"the lakes now are too small and too sparse to have a mass effect"
stewgreen
SandyS full grown Red stags almost a match for Wapiti, with elk bucks usually around 350 lbs. Meeting either at night on a road would be scary.
Do reds jump fences?
Aren't there warning signs on roads where drivers are likely to encounter deer in Scotland? Roads around my town are liberally festooned with warnings about our mini deer, and I've never seen them on the road, except as roadkill.
Don't knock our roads and wildlife. We have a dinosaur park!
ACK
ACK
Not sure if the owners of the land on the roads Lapogus mentions would regard fencing as cost effective, the A82 Glasgow - Fort William - Inverness covers some pretty remote country. Particularly the stretch from Crianlarich to Fort William via Tyndrum. The A87 runs from the A82 at Invergarry to Kyle Of Lochalsh again through some pretty inhospitable countryside. Even the A9 once you pass Pitlochry goes through some wild countryside.
All are heavily used by tourists who may not be aware of the dangers presented by wildlife which has little or no road sense.
When I was a ponyman at the deerstalking (Red Deer stags) the weight range of a gralloched stag was about 170-300 lbs (80-140kg) with a mode of around 190lbs (85kg). Quite a bit of weight was left at the point of kill, which kept the local raven population happy, but meant the weight before weighing was probably in excess of 200lbs for most stags. It should be noted that as this was primarily a cull the biggest and best were left. A set of antlers through a windscreen is not something to relish.
One final point A roads in the far north of Scotland aren't the same as those in East Anglia, A836
SandyS
SandyS. Does the word "oxymoron" come to mind when you read that the climate study came out of the "Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science"? golfCharlie will spill whatever he's drinking.
Wonderful logic demonstated - the 15ppm rise in atmospheric CO2 between 1830 and 1900 (wonder how they measured that?) attributed entirely to industrialisation. Fancy that.
ACK
BTW no heatwave here today (300Km north of London) ..it ended at 6pm yesterday
Today has been foggy, with visibility of 1Km at midday.....glad I put my coat on cos I just went outside for a sandwich in the light rain
stewgreen
I see the "hottest" place in the UK yesterday was again at Gravesend (ie the Broadness PLA radar station) where the Stevenson screen is situated inside a high metal rail fence beside a steel lattice tower and close to the stations air conditioning outlets.
Roger Tolson
Stewgreen. I have known Iain Lake since he was an undergraduate at UEA, and as far as I know he has been there his whole academic life. He is an epidemiologist and was taught by two of the best, both now retired. I don't think most of his work has involved climate change. My suspicion is that this was part of a SMARTER study which wanted some climate nonsense input. It's a example of how contaminating climate science can be to other disciplines.
Lane predicts the UK will be affected by 2050, so panic stations then.
Ragweed is bad news and causes at least 50% of allergic reactions in North America. I suffered from it most of the time I lived there. I doubt if the spread away from eastern and central Europe has anything to do with rising temperatures, it's a very invasive species and will spread anyway.
Has anyone here suffered from allergies particularly this summer? Both my wife and I have experienced sore and running eyes this year, much more than previous years.
ACK
Looks like it's been confirmed that things started warming up at the end of the Little Ice Age.
Climate warming 'started about 180 years ago' near the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
SandyS
golfCharlie don't care, by 2050 I'll be CO2 and/or methane adding my bit