Unthreaded
..."encyclopedic" <rolls eyes>
Dave_G
Guardian reporting that fossil fuel companies received $5.6Tn (yes, TRILLION) in subsidies as reported by the IMF. These are the figures they have 'created' to show how much the fossil fuel companies HAVEN'T paid to clean up the environment after their 'destruction' of it. No mention of the BENEFITS those fossil fuels produced nor any explanation on how they have redefined the word 'subsidy' from its encyplodic definition either .....
Dave_G
thinkingscientist
I haven't watched it yet, but I'm not sure I need to. It's pretty obvious that we're much too slow-footed for the bugs, but it is strange that the drug companies don't seem to think it's worth trying. Putting antibiotics into animal feed isn't very bright, either...
jamesp
Didn't Leggett and Monbiot have a £100 bet that solar energy would achieve 'grid parity' (ie not require a subsidy) by 2013?
Clearly it didn't, but I have not read anywhere that Monbiot got his money...
jamesp
"The university’s failure to commit to divestment from all fossil fuel companies means 70 alumni, including green energy entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett and journalist George Monbiot, will be handing back their Oxford University degrees on Saturday."
And if I was Oxford University I would accept them.
michael hart
watching panorama, talking about antibiotic resistance. Amazing ability of bacteria to adapt. Surely demonstration of power of adaption vs mitigation?
thinkingscientist
Harry Passfield, mmmm strawberries. The most reliably good ones I've had in the past have been from morrisons labelled Elsanta by grower Baybutts. I'm hoping it will be a bumper year.
I'm trying a little global warming experiment of my own this year and have runner beans in the ground already. Sadly they still look cold shocked and I may have to plant a new batch if they don't start climbing soon.
TinyCO2
Phillip Bratby
Is there anything online with that information? When I say that STOR is a serious proposal and has serious draw backs I'm met with incredulity (as I said earlier).
SandyS
"The university’s failure to commit to divestment from all fossil fuel companies means 70 alumni, including green energy entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett and journalist George Monbiot, will be handing back their Oxford University degrees on Saturday.
Sunniva Taylor, an Oxford alumnus said: “With the decision today the university has taken step forward, but not a big enough one. I, with others, have decided to hand back my degree, in protest.”
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/oxford-university-rules-out-investing-in-coal-and-tar-sands
No longer will Monbot be able to call himself a journalist with a scientist degree...
The Englishman
@jamesp "I concede I've lost the £100 bet, but it's a folly to put faith in costly reactors to cut emissions" said the deluded solar mafia boss Jeremy Leggett Monday 24 June 2013
but one of his own supporters twisted the facts to say he won
..5th March 2013 original bet..Leggett accepted, A Guardian FB page kept a copy of the agreement
- Monbiot claimed victory in 2013
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- A huge Antarctic Ice sheet is weakening now & COULD be gone in 5 years time says Radio 5 news.
...ah yeh, StewGreen COULD be voted most handsome man in the universe in 5 time.