Climate change - how arsed are you?

[Bruce Spanner]

Fucking hell!

 

Its so bad Sharma just apologised to all for it being so bad and ‘profound disappointment’ and nearly started crying, genuinely.

 

Its what happens when you allow stupid people positions of power where they pretend to be smart.

 

Fucksake.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Decent thread summarising the little that's been achieved at COP26.

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

13 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

The guy from the EU is really laying in to them

 

Yeah... not sure the EU are speaking from the moral high ground here. 

 

Cunts, everywhere you look.

 

[Bruce Spanner]

Just now, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Yeah... not sure the EU are speaking from the moral high ground here. 

 

Cunts, everywhere you look.

 

 

Yeah, nobody comes out looking good overall, least of all India and China.

 

Not quite a waste of time, but a huge let down when we needed collective engagment and responsibility.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

7 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Yeah, nobody comes out looking good overall, least of all India and China.

 

Not quite a waste of time, but a huge let down when we needed collective engagment and responsibility.

If these pledges and commitments had been agreed 20 years ago, I might feel a bit more positive.

[Anubis]

You have to look in despair at the mindset that decides to troll, even when it’s their children/grandchildren who will bake.

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Rebuttals to 25 climate myths.

https://thelogicofscience.com/2016/10/18/debunking-25-arguments-against-climate-change-in-5-sentences-or-less-each/

 

[halewood pete]

[Bobby Hundreds]

I just hope to live long enough to see Ramsey Street legitimately turn into a mad max cross over show to reflect the everyday life of Australians.

[Moctezuma]

31 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

I just hope to live long enough to see Ramsey Street legitimately turn into a mad max cross over show to reflect the everyday life of Australians.

That continent outwith Tasmania will be virtually uninhabitable in the future. Murdoch and their coal lobby have condemned their entire young and future population. They are the most pathetic, supine embarrassing group of humans (with associated state) on the planet.

[Moctezuma]

 

The Guardian

 

The Metro

 

I wonder if these taken from today's front pages are all linked?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Good to see the Government taking exactly the kind of action that's needed.

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-boosts-regional-air-connectivity-with-43-million-to-fund-flights-to-london-from-dundee-and-newquay

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

EU showing how shit they are. Again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60229199

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Meanwhile, in Dear Old Blighty...

 

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/north-sea-oil-and-gas-project-gets-green-light-just-months-after-uk-hosted-cop26-climate-summit-12531113

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 18/11/2021 at 03:52, halewood pete said:

Horrible, horrible lying Fox cunt. I hope he loses his house in a bushfire.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 02/02/2022 at 21:39, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Meanwhile, in Dear Old Blighty...

 

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/north-sea-oil-and-gas-project-gets-green-light-just-months-after-uk-hosted-cop26-climate-summit-12531113

 

We're not just giving the go-ahead to North Sea oil & gas - we're giving the companies involved massive handouts on top of their untaxed profits.

 

[TheHowieLama]

Popetual motion bitches!!

 

 In the quest for a near-limitless, zero-carbon source of reliable power, scientists have generated fusion energy before, but they have struggled for decades to sustain it for very long.

On Wednesday, however, scientists working in the United Kingdom announced that they more than doubled the previous record for generating and sustaining nuclear fusion, which is the same process that allows the sun and stars to shine so brightly.

Nuclear fusion is, as its name suggests, the fusing of two or more atoms into one larger one, a process that unleashes a tremendous amount of energy as heat.

[dockers_strike]

3 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

Popetual motion bitches!!

 

 In the quest for a near-limitless, zero-carbon source of reliable power, scientists have generated fusion energy before, but they have struggled for decades to sustain it for very long.

On Wednesday, however, scientists working in the United Kingdom announced that they more than doubled the previous record for generating and sustaining nuclear fusion, which is the same process that allows the sun and stars to shine so brightly.

Nuclear fusion is, as its name suggests, the fusing of two or more atoms into one larger one, a process that unleashes a tremendous amount of energy as heat.

Depends as Sabine says, did they use more energy to make the fusion than they got out?

 

 

[dockers_strike]

This is cool!

 

It is a Californian colossus which hails from the Sierra Nevada mountains.

But soon, the largest tree on the planet, which can be 300 feet (91.4 metres) high and have a circumference of up to 100 feet (34.4 metres), could be much closer to hand - in the Brecon Beacons. 

While giant sequoias are rapidly growing in number in the UK as Britons plant the trees to offset their carbon emissions, numbers in America are rapidly declining due to climate change and forest mismanagement. 

Extreme climate conditions mean that giant sequoias are registered as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with around 80,000 left in North America today - down by around 98 per cent from peak levels two centuries ago.

Numbers are falling at a rate of around 10 per cent per year, with up to 14 per cent of mature sequoias lost in the Castle Fire of 2020 alone. While moderate fire is beneficial for sequoia reproduction, intense fires are devastating for the species. 

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The recent droughts in California are also an issue for the trees, which can require hundreds of gallons of water a day in summer periods. 

Preservation organisations across the world are collaborating to find a place for the species to survive long-term. They believe that western areas of the UK might be a good fit, due to high levels of rainfall and moderate temperatures. 

Campaigners say that without forest fire they will not be able to reproduce naturally and become an invasive species, and are instead each propagated and planted individually. 

A windy fire burns along a ridge in Sequoia National Forest, California, in September last year Credit: FR34727 AP/Noah Berger

A company called One Life One Tree has already planted over 700 sequoias in the UK. There are plans to reach 100,000 by 2030, with sites in Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and around the Brecon Beacons. They call the project “The Great Reserve”, to maintain numbers of the trees for generations to come. 

Each sequoia is planted with three native British trees to maintain biodiversity in the groves. The company charges patrons £395 to plant a sequoia, with the promise that it will help to offset their carbon emissions. 

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The company claims that a hectare of their sequoia groves could sequester 6,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over 100 years, which could be 10 times more than typical woodland due to the sequoias’ great height. 

“The climate in the UK is very good for them,” said Henry Emson, founder of One Life One Tree. “We haven’t had one failure, they’ve all taken off. Sequoias are peaceful giants … They have been here for 160 or more years already and they are not a problem with native species."

Henry Emson, founder of One Life One Tree, which is planting giant sequoias across the country Credit: David Rose/David Rose

David Milarch, co-founder of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, an American charity which propagates trees that are in danger of extinction, said the disappearance of sequoias is “a devastation that we've never experienced before”. He added: “Henry is on the right track. The future will be in other countries, it’s already too late for California.”

The first sequoias were introduced to England in the mid-19th century by plant collector William Lobb, who produced saplings from some of the tallest trees in California and sold them to wealthy landowners. Lobb also popularised the monkey puzzle tree in the UK. 

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In the UK, the trees are sometimes called Wellingtonia, after Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, who had died just before the sequoia received its species classification. 

However, anyone planning a trip to Wales to see the enormous trees might have to wait a few years. Although they grow rapidly, by about four feet a year, giant sequoias can take hundreds of years to reach their full height.

The trees are known for their hardiness and ability to withstand temperatures as low as -25F (-31C), as well as survive moderate forest fire.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

 

[TheHowieLama]

Anyone wishing to change their "not sweating" vote?

[Jairzinho]

5 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Anyone wishing to change their "not sweating" vote?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

 

[A_S]

I heard it's 37C there today. I'm fucking jealous!

[Numero Veinticinco]

40 minutes ago, A_S said:

I heard it's 37C there today. I'm fucking jealous!

41 tomorrow apparently. Fuck that noise.