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Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, is planning on spending, even more money on Ukraine.
Trump has said, Europe must pay, to sustain the proxy war against Russia.
The U.K. is currently a basket case.
Starmer is a lunatic, if he thinks the U.K. can sustain a war against Russia.Wiltshire
This seems like joined up thinking.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4rp2yzkpeo
A waste facility in Wiltshire, is asking for permission to used their cleaned, waste Carbon dioxide, to help grow high valve crops, like avocado, in sealed greenhouses, on site.
The greenhouses will be slightly mobile, they will be placed over the concrete capped waste dump, extracted Methane will make electricity to power the equipment, some electricity will be moved to the National Grid.
The produce will grow more prolifically because of the heat from waste break-down and also because CO2 will be introduced into the sealed glasshouses. The glass housed can be shifted to allow the removal of left over waste and the introduction of fresh waste.Overall, there will be very much less waste that enters long term landfill.
About twenty five years ago we were told we had gone past peak oil.
Recently British petroleum have claimed they are to develop a massive hydrocarbon resource, two and a half kilometres deep off the coast of brazil.
This is likely to be the biggest B.P. find for 26 years.
B.P. have pulled out of Russia, because of pressure, mainly from the U.S.A.
now, they will concentrate their business in the South Atlantic and South America.
Brazil is part of BRICS.
The last summit of BRICS was held in Brazil.
Donald Trump is threatening Brazil, with massive penalties.
To me, this shows several things, one, the age of Hydrocarbons is certainly not over.
American control of the World economy is slipping away.
The dollar is not as powerful as it once was.A good read, thank you Shibboleth.
Very dramatic. Perhaps we should stop making cement?Concrete is the second most consumed resource on Earth after water.
Essentially Cement is made from Limestone.
Limestone is the fossil remains of sea creatures.
As the sea creatures fall the the bottom, their hard parts are sequestered, eventually to become Limestone rock.
So, that Carbon has been locked up for three/four hundred million years.
Building a new runway at Heathrow will use a lot of Cement.
This is U.K. Government policy.Is that all you have to say, Michael? Not too long ago you were extolling the virtues of more CO2 in the atmosphere – greening & etc. Do you now accept you were wrong?
Shibboleth,
listening to U.S.A. Energy secretary – Chris Wright,
he said, when he started in this “game” fifty years ago the 87% of the Energy used by the World was derived from Carbon.
These days, it is still 87%.
So, Nuclear, Hydro, Wind, Solar, biomass have done little to alter the status.
Probably what has happened in those fifty years, is that India and China are consuming power.
So, probably the people of India and the people of China and the peoples from all over the World, no longer accept, being poor, no longer wish to be energy poor, no longer wish to be resource poor?In 1992, Chris Wright founded Pinnacle Technologies, a company involved in commercial shale gas production through fracking and served as its CEO until 2006. He was also chairman of Stroud Energy, another company involved in the production of shale gas.
So, he is a very bad man.
The question remains.
Why should the rest of the World give up Carbon?If the rest of the World gave up Carbon, how would they cook their dinners?
How would they drive their fossil fuel agricultural vehicles?
How would they power their fossil fuel boats that allow them to trade with the rest of the World?
How would they power their fossil fuel machinery for extracting Copper?Did you actually read the article I linked?
Hello Shibboleth,
I did read the piece you illustrated from the Guardian.
I will add, I almost never read the Guardian, I think it is a mouthpiece of the security services and of the captured woke/Labour administration.Carbon dioxide is a huge benefit to life on Earth.
With out the marvellous molecule of Carbon dioxide we would not be discussing anything because we would not be here.
Since complex life turned up huge quantities of Carbon have been drawn down into that life, to make that life.
Some of the dead bodies have turned to rock, sequestered Carbon.
As the great coniferous forests spread over a lot of the World, this drawing down of Carbon, picked up in pace.
About one hundred million years ago flowering trees started to form rain forests in the tropical zone, again the drawing down of Carbon, picked up in pace.
About thirty five million years ago, Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere became quite low, C4 grasses came about, possibly as a response to the very low quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere, this was the start of the ice age, when Antarctica started to freeze over, reducing the height of the oceans. With some up and down, coming in and out of peak glaciations, atmospheric CO2 continued to decrease.
“Possibly” at the height of the most recent glaciation, about 20,000 years ago, atmospheric CO2 reduced to about 180 parts per million. At about 150 parts per million, most plant life would struggle to live.
Yes, almost certainly, for the last six thousand years, humans have been altering the environment, by taking up agriculture and burning Carbon.
Yes, this accelerated, from about 1800 when Coal use increased.
Yes, free Carbon dioxide, picked up pace again after the Second World War, when many countries started to modernise, especially from about 1980, when China entered its modern phase.
I do think their are advantages of having more Carbon dioxide in the air.
One of those advantages is CO2 fertilisation.Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was always higher before the coming of the glaciation, starting about thirty five million years ago.
Eocene levels are now thought to have been around 1600 ppm.
About four times higher than now.Shibboleth,
I found this presentation ( mainly on Carbon dioxide) and the questions afterwards very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDAXzcMD2Ng&t=1168s
Lecture given by John Christy, Ph.D. “Scientific Facts of Global Climate” on July 17, 2023John Raymond Christy is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) whose chief interests are satellite remote sensing of global climate and global climate change. He is best known, jointly with Roy Spencer, for the first successful development of a satellite temperature record, and for his rejection of mainstream climate science.
