http://www.lep.co.uk/news/local/scrapped-the-controversial-2bn-recycling-scheme-1-7741123

two big recycling centres built for £250 million and costing £2bn over 20 years in Lancashire are to be mothballed because a) they didn't work properly, b) the market for recycling has died and c) landfill charges have dropped. The Green Blob wasting money at it's best. They've mothballed them in case everything changes again and they need them.

“There is this mismatch between what the climate models are producing and what the observations are showing,” says lead author John Fyfe, a climate modeller at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis in Victoria, British Columbia. “We can’t ignore it.”

The Royal Society is having a panel discussion on 24 March: "Clearing the Air: how to tackle air quality and climate change". The blurb suggests that there may be a trade-off between measures to improve air quality and those that combat climate change. (Who knew? Could there even be trade-offs between combatting climate change and other vital goals?).

I have better things to do on the evening of Maundy Thursday, but if you're interested (or want to go), more details at https://royalsociety.org/events/2016/03/clearing-the-air/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4369

jamesp, with all these new causes of thousands of deaths per year, being discovered all the time, it is amazing that anyone is left alive.

Yet poor areas of the world without relable power, clean water and medical help have the lowest average life expectancy. Weird isn't it, that this is what the Green Blob want for everyone.

On the advice of BH contributors I listened in to the recent Infinite Monkey Cage. It's all very earnest despite the attempts at humour; the groupthink making the show very tight and united. In the company of friends, which they all were, people can reveal a great deal about the workings of their minds.

Here is Dr. Gabrielle Walker: "I’m think I’m gonna jump in here because er you know it can be we don’t have enough water so we’re gonna change but the businesses that I’m working with are actually they’re they're actually being more leaders I think than many of the other er sectors and certainly more than politicians so for example Apple, I just met the um, the Apple has just hired as their Director of Environment Lisa Jackson who used to be the head of the Environmental Protection Agency and she is the one who got carbon dioxide called a pollutant in America. She’s now head of er er environmental stuff at Apple. So a hundred percent of Apple’s operations in the US are now fully renewable energy sourced, right, a hundred percent. Eighty percent of their worldwide operations er er come from renewable energy and the way that they have done it, and they’y’re trying to get the last thirteen percent the way that they’ve done it is where there wasn’t any renewable energy they’ve partnered with a solar energy company and they’ve built it."

The unintended comedy of 80 + 13 = 100 is not the point; we're all subject to such slip-ups. What interests me is that, surrounded by like-minded people in an emotionally-charged discussion, factual errors can go unchallenged. The BBC and the warmistas are driven by sentiment. Scepticism is, in their eyes, heretical.

jamesp
Candles and pollution is interesting. When I was a child/youth both my parents smoked and one of the methods used to clear the smoke was to light a candle. It was unscented and seemed to clear the smoke fug.