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5.35am Joe Broadway from Bristol based : @VelopostSW is on Radio5 on about "carbon free" post , using their bicycles & electric vehicles
.. EV are of course not carbon free as they are charged off coal power stations
..It was called Docmail Local Post but they changed name.
They were in Last Sunday's Times
stewgreen
From Greenie Watch this article suggests that sea level rises in Australia have been negligible in the last 150 years.
Since nearly two-thirds of the world’s total oceanic area is in the southern hemisphere, Australia is best placed to monitor southern hemisphere trends and probably best represents the true Mean Sea Level globally. Also, the Australian coast adjoins the Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans, making its data indicative of sea levels in three oceans, not just one.
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This survey was particularly relevant for global application since Australia is tectonically stable and much less affected by Post Glacial Rebound (the tendency of land to rise once the burden of billions of tons of ice goes) than Europe, Asia or North America.
Article here
http://morningmail.org/isle-of-the-dead/
SandyS
jamesp -
What unintended forms arise,
When states commence to subsidise.
HaroldW
stewgreen, M Courtney
The Civil Servants Code deserves to be enforced - but the serially delinquent Civil Service Commission - the folk supposedly tasked with "enforcing the code" simply won't do it - and are making it near impossible to hold civil servants to account. The Ombudsman (PHSO) cannot / will not afaict deal with individual misconduct.
It is an iniquitous situation fomented by obstruction perpetrated by venal nabobs erm... in the "Civil Service"....
btw - there is no legal basis for the CSC's claim that only civil servants can make complaints under the code .... it's obstruction - pure and simple - and it's rotten as .....
tomo
Our local (Isle of Wight) planning dept has seen fit to allow some farmers to build a digester plant nearby, to generate methane. This was originally intended (we were told) for unsaleable crop waste, but they quickly realised that they could feed it with the crop itself and make even more money.
Now, the owners boast that the plant will generate “as much money as all the arable crops grown on the Island” (!)
I wonder how long before they stop growing food to sell altogether..?
jamesp
stewgreen, That's been on the cards since Dr David Kelly died.
Scientists have too much public respect to be allowed to speak on politics - if they are employed by politicians.
They aren't the politicians, after all.
M Courtney
have we seen this Nature Article saying UK scientists are set to be muzzled by the govt published April 1 ? ..surely it's the usual scaremongering ?
On 16 March, the Civil Service Code was amended to state that all UK civil servants require “ministerial authorisation for any contact with the media”. There is some confusion over who exactly this applies to, but it could affect thousands of scientists, including those who work directly for government departments and those in arms-length agencies such as the Met Office.Doesn't seem to affect our friends RB .. In fact isn't it the other way for climate ..Don't ministers have to get permission from Bob Fraud before they can speak on it ?
via ABC Radio "Robyn Williams: I thought there would be an uproar and things would be changed.
Philip Campbell: That's right. So there has been an uproar" ..really was there ?
BTW Robyn Williams gave Mann a soft interview in March he titled it "Attacks on hockey stick graph tracked to those whose interests are threatened"
look how Williams spoke "Robyn Williams: Yes, the last time I looked at the income of the Koch brothers, I think in one year their income went up £32 billion, that's $64 billion, which is staggering. " yes instead of showing ANY evidence that Koch recently gave any money ..he just insinuates the biggest possible number he can think of ..The shamelessness of a cult member.
stewgreen
Mike Jackson
It was a typo, but I quite liked the context so I left it in.
SandyS
Harry
"6,000 or 4.5 billion years"
Now, that's what I call uncertainty! And here we are fighting about 2 degrees...
jamesp
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3090281/Cold-snap-20-times-lethal-heatwave.html
Why a cold snap is 20 times more lethal than a heatwave - and there are more deaths caused by moderate hot or cold than extreme temperatures
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Around 7.71 per cent of all deaths were caused by non-optimal temperatures, with substantial differences between countries, ranging from around three per cent in Thailand, Brazil, and Sweden to about 11 per cent in China, Italy, and Japan.
Cold was responsible for the majority of these deaths (7.29 per cent), while just 0.42 per cent of deaths were attributable to heat.
The study also found that extreme temperatures were responsible for less than one per cent of all deaths, while mildly sub-optimal temperatures accounted for around seven per cent of all deaths _with most (6.66 per cent) related to moderate cold.
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