Unthreaded
Please, someone tell me I wasn't dreaming when I heard, on BBC's WatO today that they had a scientist who had discovered 'porous liquid'. This, the BBC averred, would allow carbon capture to be made so cheap and easy that climate change would be controlled.
In interview, the scientist (from Reading??) claimed that the facility, if it was do-able, would not be available for around ten years. Of course, this did not stop the BBC claiming they had a yet another method of preventing AGW.
Makes BBC News more like: BBC News Of the Future. (And that relies on your belief that, in 1960, we would have flying cars in the year 2000).
Harry Passfield
Alex, good point.
Thing is, as an Aussie, I can tell you another thing about this "study" which is utterly misleading. Port Jackson sharks are not predators. When I was a wee lass, they were called "gummy sharks." They are more like catfish - they have whiskers and scavenge around on the bottom of shallow waters for scraps of dead critters, worms, molluscs, that kind of thing. They are to Jaws as Bambi is to Godzilla.
johanna
Johanna, after seven months they are probably experts on sharks kept in tanks for half a year.
However, it's an excellent way to pay for having pet sharks.
AlexB
For a laugh, here is the latest SharkNado piece of climate "research."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-12/sharks-struggle-to-hunt-in-climate-change-study/6936724
"Sharks will be smaller in size and poorer hunters by the end of the century due to warming oceans, marine ecologists say.
A report by the University of Adelaide's Environment Institute showed warmer waters and ocean acidification would slowly destroy the ability of sharks to hunt.
Researchers studied Port Jackson sharks in climate change conditions in large tanks with natural habitat and prey over seven months.
They found the sharks took a much longer time to find their food or, in some cases, did not bother trying.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep, after seven months of watching sharks in tanks, they know everything.
FFS. And paid for by taxpayers like me (fume, fume.)
johanna
The Independent pumps out more toxic trashy "journalism"
Tom Bawden vying to lead in the stupid "Energy Correspondent" stakes
I'd ignore this bilge if it wasn't repeated at me in person by assorted greenie / eco twerps who hand out leaflets and fill the pages of the local papers with derivative garbage.
tomo
Uk names
Well, Barney was the boy in Stig of the Dump
And Tegan was a Dr Who assistant, albeit an Aussie.
ottokring
"uk names"
Will US 'Kate' have to become UK weekend boy 'Barney'?
Tricky operation, potential international incident
Green Sand
Why is that interesting? Because the BBC didn't mention global warming or climate change once in the whole article. Victoria Gill should watch out, or she might get called upstairs for some remedial training.
michael hart
"uk names"
Perfectly plausible if taken from the Birth Announcements in the Grauniad.. :-)
jamesp
Harry Passfield
I think the "scientist" was from Ulster and he said it would be at least ten years before anything practical came from his research.