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Very interesting report on global priorities here
http://data.myworld2015.org/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/07/17/despite-the-urgency-of-paris-a-u-n-sponsored-global-poll-rates-climate-change-dead-last/
Globally, climate action comes bottom of the list of priorities.
Even more interestingly, if you look at Low HDI (ie poor) countries, climate is last by a long way, with top priorities being education, health, jobs, honest government, food and reliable energy.
For high HDI (rich) countries, where we already have these things - well, mostly - climate action creeps up the list a bit.
Slightly different from what climate activists tell us, eh?
Paul Matthews
"We've already seen the very clear safety benefits that average speed cameras have had by helping to enforce speed limits on the A9"
Although no reference or clue as to what those benefits were. Slowing everyone down, presumably.
jamesp
Lets try that again,
NW
A new low for BBC Scotland. This report on the speed cameras at the central Scotland motorway roadworks has a completely spurious piece on the end from their favourite rentaquotes WWF Scotland.
<A HREF="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-33551742" TARGET="_blank">BBC Scotland</A>
Unsurprisingly, it appears that the car haters are in favour of speed cameras.
I wonder if they even bother to get a new quote, or whether it is just BBC policy to cut and paste a greenie rant about CAGW on the end of any report which involves roads?
NW
I seem to be back on stewgreen's personal blog. 4/10 on this page.
It's one of the reasons I haven't been here much lately. Stew does good work, but his writing style is very hard to follow, including the irritating dashes prior to what he is pleased to call paragraphs, but which are just thought bubbles in random order.
Please Stew, give us a break, and try to write in succinct, clear English.
johanna
Sir David Attenborough is on R4Today plugging The Big Butterfly Count : "ALL are declining"
.... Stew checks last years findings
"most of the target butterflies and day-flying moths decreased from the high point reached last year."
- so 2014 was a decline cos 2013 was a high count
"majority of species decreased at the UK level, a few did well. " ..so that's not ALL Sir DA
and 2013 ?
- "After a series of poor years culminating in the appalling weather of 2012 reduced their populations to a record low." "summer 2013 provided perfect conditions. Butterfly numbers boomed in the hot, sunny weather"
So "nearly four times as many as in the previous year."
"This massive increase in abundance was reflected across most of the target species"
Other later surveys also contradict Sir DA's doom
Endangered butterfly species records 10-year high BBC April 2015
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Celebs signed a letter calling for PM to value BBC ..'why did you sign ?'
Sir DA "I was asked to by the BBC..and I agree"
BTW I got a reply re
\\ Can @MartinHGames substantiate his claim
TV series "Years of Living Dangerously" "incredibly popular" ? #WildClaims damage Credibility//
He replied : "theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/earth-lost-50-wildlife-in-40-years-wwf … gives info and ref."
- NO, cos that is the earth-lost-50% of -wildlife-in-40-years-wwf claim .. so he didn't address my actual point.
(he only tweets 2-3 times a week so could have taken more care answering)
BTW a commenter had an interesting point about the WWF claimed decline : The WWF only counted WILD animals, so doesn't count large increases in domestic animals which explains a fraction of seemed number decline.
..So as your African village got bigger and you took camels/goats that were wild they are now domesticated and not counted.
stewgreen
McGrath at the BBC pushes the polar bear meme again...
Polar bears fail to adapt to lack of food in warmer Arctic
"We think this data also points towards their eventual decline."The costs of the study were steep, requiring around 200 people, and the hiring of an icebreaker and helicopters. The researchers believe that the endeavour is unlikely ever to be repeated,
"The cost was extremely high for such a study but our results are indisputable so I doubt anyone will feel the need to repeat this," said Prof Merav Ben-David, from the University of Wyoming, another author.
The paper has been published in the journal Science.
Indisputable research? Go on, you know you want to.
It doesn't add up...
@HP the job cuts are all at a specialist plant in Rotherham.
The main integrated steelworks in Scunthorpe is unaffected, but Labour unions whinging like hell. Well they didn't fight mad energy policies before . . Scunthorpe Telegraph
stewgreen
Climate Change - A Risk Assessment
University of Cambridge CSaP
The report presents a climate change risk assessment that aims to be holistic, and to be useful to anyone who is interested in understanding the overall scale of the problem. It considers:
blah, blah....
tomo
I've no doubt the greenies are delighted by the A9 speed cameras, a nice bit of deception there. We were led to believe they would be going on the single carriageway sections with flat junctions which are dangerous due to their inadequacy and should have been upgraded to dual carriageway with grade separated junctions years ago. As usual, they lied.
The cameras start at Dunblane. Dunblane - Perth is dual carriageway with mainly grade separated junctions. (And why has the Gleneagles flat junction not been closed following the upgrading of the nearby grade separated one?)
Their ludicrous proposition is that road upgrades are not necessary because there is a railway between a few places on the route.