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I've posted a comment on Paris at
http://cliscep.com/2015/11/14/paris-friday-13th/
geoffchambers
lapogus
The MO/BBC aren't playing the story for the inhabitants of the Highlands & Islands for the most part they're aiming directly at the inhabitants south of the Cheviots. Not many of the them are going to fact check for an area most of them have never visited, it may as well be reporting on typhoons in the Philippines for the majority of UK citizens.
I noticed on the weather today, BBC I think, that the story has changed from wind to rain. Tacitly agreeing that the wind wasn't that bad.
SandyS
A Gaeltacht (Highlands & Islands) perspective on the Met Office's first named storm:
http://dailygael.com/storm-abigail-upgraded-to-normal-hebridean-weather/.
With just a few trees blown over and the usual ferries cancelled, it did seem just like an average early winter windstorm to me. But the Met Office issue a weather warning now if less than half an inch of snow is expected. In winter. In the Highlands. Where it can snow on any day between October and April if the wind is from the north-west to north-east.
lapogus
sorry the correct links are
https://fullfact.org/factcheck/economy/closing_renewables_obligation_19000_jobs_onshore_wind-49611
and https://fullfact.org/factcheck/economy/jobs_supported_oil_gas_industry-48752
the 403 proxyserver workaround corrupted them
stewgreen2
oops, that should be
@Philip Bratby FULL FACT has a new story ....
(damm 403)
stewgreen2
@Philip Bratby has a new story about forecasting onshore wind job losses I notice they act differently for oil jobs
They fact check Lord Grantchester, 22 July 2015 “These changes to the financial support for onshore wind threaten the future of 19,000 jobs supported by that sector.”
Basically FF just accept that figure , saying : \\The 19,000 figure comes from 2013 (BIS report). .. 11,000 people directly employed .., and 8,000 people employed in ‘supply chain’ //
Yet they have another report fact checking another quote by the SAME lord, on the SAME day
Lord Grantchester, 22 July 2015
\\“…it is important to recognise that the North Sea SUPPORTS hundreds of thousands of jobs—more than 400,000”.//
Yet try to play it down using a straw man tactic
FF say : Yes "375,000 is the most recent estimate of jobs supported by the industry, calculated by Oil & Gas UK"(Over 400,000 in 2014)
but then say
"These figures don’t just refer to the total number of people directly employed by the industry... about40,000 people are directly employed in the industry"but who said anything about "employs" ? That is just a strawman cos both Lord Grantchester and Lord Bourne in July 22nd quotes used at the top of article use the word "SUPPORTS"
and add \\So claiming that the industry “employs” 375,000 people is incorrect.//
I put it that Full Fact although trying to be known as independent reliable fact checkers, are still Guardian reader types who can't resist injecting bias.
stewgreen2
A quick afterthought about Simon Singh and other CAGW True Believers hijacking the official skeptic movement.
They used to use the term Critical Thinking as an equivalent to Skepticsm
Yet today they BAN and idea of being CRITICAL of CAGW Theory.
Critical thinking should be applied to CAGW Theory, as well as everything else.
stewgreen
M Courtney
French TV are talking about "des dizaines de morts au Bataclan" which implies more than 20 and less than 100. No mention at the moment of numbers elsewhere
Earlier they were talking about 40 dead and 60 wounded.
Correction --- iTÉLÉ is now talking of "une centaine de morts" .at the Bataclan
Dung
Stop being naive. In case you hadn't noticed the UK does not have open borders. The UK is not a member of the Schengen Agreement and to suggest that this atrocity has anything to do with Schengen is daft. There are enough homegrown thugs to do this sort of damage and more.
And leaving the EU will make the situation more difficult, not easier. Think about it.
Mike Jackson
Paris has a large Muslim population and no border controls hello Mr Cameron?
Dung
From a review of the latest James Bond film: SPECTRE "is pretty much like the U.N., but with fewer vaccination programs."