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@SandyS Whatever it was, it's your fault
and you must make a sacrifice to put it right.
stewgreen
stewgreen
Re gardening and weather, I was only thinking today that less than a year ago I had a 3 hour detour on my way home due to flooding caused by a long period of heavy rain. This week when I did some gardening the soil was very dry due to a prolonged period of low rainfall. I put it down to weather, others may have more complex explanations.
SandyS
Who watched the Green dreamers Party Election Broadcast ?
Full emotional blackmail, black and white film, Sad piano music
"Oh this world is sad , the Conservatives are horrible people (they don't help refugees, cut renewables !)
, Trump is a denier, this country is rich, surely we can magically fix everything"
It made me cry... cos of the disrespect for maths, science, fairness and grownup debate.
BTW it was inaccessible to the visually impaired
"The Tories have a Monetary Policy.
Labour and the Greens have a Money Tree Policy."
stewgreen
@Pcar Madeira nature on BBC4 til 21:00
stewgreen
Harry Passfield. When will people distinguish between the BBC making its own reports and the BBC rewriting reports from other sources? In the instance you sight it was not Shukman who found the woman who had studied a tree; instead it was the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) who did the study and Shukman was merely paraphrasing it. Typical cut and paste job.
Supertroll
Shukman, BBC news - "violent rain"
Makes it up to justify his prejudices.
ssat
Shukman (BBC News) has found a woman who has been monitoring ONE oak tree for 50 years. Based on this, he has determined that AGW has moved the seasons forward by two weeks and that AGW will screw up our UK gardens. I guess he must have been jealous of Mann's Yamal tree.
I wonder if he is old enough to survive the next 20 years - and realise how cold it's going to be. Shukman in his dotage will still blame it on 'carbon'.
Harry Passfield
Stewgreen. Well you learn something new every day, even in areas where you are supposed to be expert (remember I specialized in evaporite deposits). I refreshed my memory of Atacama humidies here:
https://www.worldweatheronline.com/atacama-weather-averages/atacama/cl.aspx
I was unaware of your Australian example, but note its a calculated RH, not a measured one.
The reason for my adamancy is that I was interested in the formation of certain evaporites that will dissolve in water they extract from the atmosphere. These minerals were deposited during the Cretaceous in the proto-Atlantic rift valley. They therefore required extraordinarily low atmospheric humidites to create the necessary super hypersaline brines and never could have been exposed to the atmosphere. They have never formed in any present-day deserts. All parts of the present-day Earth are too humid for them to form.
Supertroll
Fracking protesters are ultimately protesting against possible damage to local humans and local economy.
But their harassment style protesting does damage the lives of locals and the economy.
Is there an underground aquifer which is unusable due to fracking.?
\\Lancashire police “stretched to the limit” but Government says no extra money for anti #fracking protests //
100 officers/day taken off other jobs
£100K/week cost
Round number alarm.
"Mr Grunshaw said this means Lancashire Constabulary will have to pay at least £2.6m to police the protests "
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stewgreen
@Robert Christopher, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:58 AM
Thanks, very amusing.
On Corbyn's more Bank Holidays. If I were forced to agree on another BH:
I nominate Battle of Britain day: 15 September. Weather usually still pleasant and a gap since last BH and next (Christmas). A bonus is it would annoy the Germans and we’d mention the war.