Unthreaded
My news comes from the Guardian and the Telegraph - I like to seek a broad view.
If the Telegraph is going to start mimicking the Guardian then there's really no need for me to go there anymore.
Oh dear, another example of solar panels emitting CO2 and other noxious chemicals - Apples are so green!
Apple’s Solar Panels Catch Fire As It Touts Green Data Centers
Today's idiocy brought to you from Hay Festival courtesy of the Daily Telegraph's "Science" Editor who apparently has joined the ranks of those journalists who believe that an essential pre-requisite for their jobs is leaving their brains in the cloakroom.
Why does no-one ever challenge these people? Ellis is almost certainly repeating what he has been told since he is a town planner not a climatologist and he assumes that other people are competent in their professions as he is in his. What do we have journalists for if not to put these people on the spot?
geoffchambers
Clear your cookies and your DT "allowance" resets itself to zero!
BoFA: The Gulf Stream is not slowing down then due to 'climate change'? What a relief, panic over.
Statement on BBC News this morning by alleged marine scientist, the sea surface temp around Scotland is increasing by 0.5C per decade. Where the hell did they get that from, no more trips to Spain for summer hols then.
geoffchambers on May 27, 2015 at 11:11 PM
Here is the link.
It rolls on, and on, and on:
Fossil industry faces a perfect political and technological storm
The IMF says we can no longer afford the economic wastage of fossil fuels, turning the green energy debate upside down as world leaders plan a binding climate deal in Paris
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11633745/Fossil-industry-faces-a-perfect-political-and-technological-storm.html
Does anyone at the BBC know what a Megawatt is? Could they even change a lightbulb..?
One Sarah Wheeler was on 'Today' early this morning (27th), rabbiting on about the hazards of sending expeditions to the Arctic where, apparently, estimates of the ice coverage/thickness are constantly "being revised downwards". Estimates of its non-existence have been made for nearly every year this century but, of course, no-one at the Beeb thought (or knew) to challenge her assertion.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11635180/Wanted-by-the-BBC-a-new-weather-presenter-who-must-be-disabled.html
Now surely the obvious candidate is the profoundly deaf Anthony Watts, who has undoubted expertise in the role. Yet I suspect the BBC would never entertain the idea for some reason....