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stewgreen
includes : SUNDAY : HOW CAN WE PREDICT THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANET?
DR TAMSIN EDWARDS 11.15-12.15
this Fri/Sat/Sun Winchester Science Festival inc Tamsin I list more events here
stewgreen
tomo:P They are tying themselves in ever more complex knots. Cognitive dissonance must be a hard burden to carry. around. Despite the settled science, things are "more sensitive to changes than previously thought". Now how many times have we heard that? Mind you the lead author is only a PhD student at UCL, so she hasn't much history in the field.
Phillip Bratby
Arctic icecap increases ..... but it's shrinking really
The BBC's Matt McGrath brings us this startling insight / revelation :
when temperatures are cooler it leads to an increase in sea ice
The tone of the piece makes it look like Matt is angling for a transfer to CBeebies - pffff.....
tomo
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@Philip Bratby: Thanks for that link to R4. It was good to get a more rounded picture of Lawson (the Atheist! Who knew? And not a raving one, at that.). I particularly liked the bit about MT (Thatcher) not reading newspapers so Bernard Ingham gave her a press briefing, which he always led with the news as reported by the Sun. But as he had already briefed the Sun on what the state of play was he was really only telling her what his opinion was, in a round-a-bout way. Now that's what I call politics.
Later on, when NL got on to Climate Change and was faced by the questioner about the 'consensus', NL was not very good at showing that the consensus was not what science was about - not that the study supporting consensus was valid science. However, he came across well and the questioner was not a raving greenie, which helped.
Harry Passfield
I've just listened to the Radio 4 interview of Nigel Lawson. It was definitely one of the best programmes I have heard on the BBC for a long time and definitely worth the 45 minutes. I'm amazed that the BBC allowed it to be broadcast.
Phillip Bratby
@Skiphill error - That same page contains a link to this story : "DWP gears up to sell skeptical customers on its proposed rate hikes". mSeems this year the
I forgo tto say - yesterday I listened to the Freakonomics podcast : "How Efficient Is Energy Efficiency?"
stewgreen
@Skiphill that article ends \\"If we get this wrong, we're going to look like fools in California," he said.//
- That same page contains a link to this story : "How Efficient Is Energy Efficiency?"
- California was also an early pioneer of energy efficient homes law, which reduced energy consumption by 80% from previous levels !! This is often stated as fact eg NYT 2014
- Except Arik Levinson came along and checked it .. In reality there was a ZERO reduction ..homes use 100% of the energy that they used in the past .
- The quoted 80% stat comes from a prediction a researcher made BEFORE the laws. He still stands by it ..but he does run an efficiency housing business.
Prof Arik Levinson who did a stint advising President Obama.Wrote The paper “How Much Energy Do Building Energy Codes Really Save? Evidence From California”
- He said the Rebound Effect seems huge, that people spend energy saving on more energy.
BTW how come when Beeb mentions UK productivity is not good compared to other countries they never mention that our eco-pioneering might have something to do with it ?
stewgreen
Phillip Bratby
I didn't check the provenance... PhD ? catapulted to national prominence at a tender age then....
Next week maybe we'll lucky enough to have Matt interviewing selected junior school children about extreme weather and how the new school solar panels have saved the planet and how it's naughty not to recycle.