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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.
Shibboleth, I am sorry you can not reply in phrases of longer than two sentences.
Perhaps you have been triggered by recent events, like our warm Summer?Romashkino
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romashkino_FieldRather an interesting film.
The last fraction discusses = Abiogenic formation of Hydrocarbons.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gold#The_Deep_Hot_Biosphere
It would seem some Russians are more or less convinced that Hydrocarbons are produced very deep down, which is why they think Romashkino is still producing oil, after it should have become essentially depleted.
Quote “Exploration and photography of a deep-sea hydrothermal vent showed a dense amount of life living on chemical energy. Stationary organisms depending on vent outflows included albino clams and tube worms larger than ever seen in surface marine ecosystems. Most astonishing was that such ecosystems were based on microbial life living entirely on chemosynthetic rather than photosynthetic ways of capturing energy and building living cells”
The Russians think there is much oil to be had at plate boundaries, especially around South America.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYolazm4Qc0
A very interesting film.
The Russians hold to theories of this man, probably their most famous chemist/scientist.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev
Mendeleev studied the origins of petroleum; he concluded that hydrocarbons are abiogenic and form deep within the earth – see Abiogenic petroleum origin. He wrote: “The capital fact to note is that petroleum was born in the depths of the earth, and it is only there that we must seek its origin.”So, the new oil that has emerged at Romashkino has a different make up to the previous fifty years of oil
Good news for the Green Agenda.
The board of Tesla are going to be awarding Elon Musk
£740bnDidn’t he do well.
This Green Scam is mostly about some people getting very rich.
Almost nothing to do with Global Warming.Whilst it is still an obscene package Musk has negotiated it’s not quite so simple. He has a number of hoops to jump Tesla through within 10 years.
To receive his full compensation reward, Musk will need to meet the ambitious goal of raising Tesla’s market cap from around $1 trillion at present to $8.5 trillion within a ten-year period. I don’t think that will be possible given the huge drop in Tesla sales across the world due to his behaviour, the competition from China and other incumbent car makers and just the fact that is a huge task.
Other set goals include selling 12 million more electric cars, 10 million autonomous driving subscriptions, operate 1 million Robotaxis, sell 1 million Tesla Bots and increase adjusted earnings to $400 billion, among others.The SEC filing is here:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000110465925087598/tm252289-4_pre14a.htmI haven’t read it all through nor will I tbh.
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it seems possible that after Keir Starmer initiation of Phase Two, they are rowing back on Net Zero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2JI16jpIPA
“Build Baby Build” new housing secretary is claiming that the biggest hold up of new house building in the U.K. is Net Zero.
The Labour Government want a new runway at Heathrow and they want their vision of Growth, to be the vital aspect of Phase Two.
So, new fields will be opened up, maybe even the new Cumbrian Coal mine.Albanese government pours $12 billion into expanding AUKUS defence facility near Perth
By political reporter Samantha Dick
Topic:Defence Forces3h ago
The funding will support plans to build naval ships and dock nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS agreement.
What’s next?
Defence officials are waiting for the Pentagon to complete its review of AUKUS under the Trump administration.So, the Australian government, think this is still going to happen?
I know this will make Clark and Glenn, cough into their bowls of Muesli, I think we have reached Peak Woke.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/09/19/after-peak-woke-what-next
There has this weekend been a monster rally in London.
“Unite the Kingdom”
Police think, one hundred thousand attended but some think, the Raise the Flag numbers, were most certainly much more than one million marchers.
They are marching against the Labour Government but also against Woke and Net Zero and against mass migration.
This will become a very, very powerful movement.
Soon, Donald Trump will be staying with the King in Windsor Castle ( quite near to where i live), Donald has an agenda, he hopes that in part, this agenda, will be taken up by a new government in the U.K.Micheal, have you actually read the article in the Economist that you linked to?
And do you find the Unite the Kingdom rally as a hopeful development?
Heathrow, runway three.
“The UK government’s climate change advisory panel has said it has not yet been asked to formally assess how plans to expand Heathrow airport would impact on carbon emissions targets.The Climate Change Committee (CCC) told the BBC it would give a view on plans to build a third runway at Heathrow, if advice was requested.
The government said the expansion must not breach the UK’s legally binding target of lowering emissions to net zero by 2050”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jq43yjx35oI cannot see how the Labour Administration can square this circle.
The runway will mostly be made using cement.
Cement is essentially Limestone rock.
That Limestone was sequestered hundreds of millions of years ago.
The getting of the Limestone, its conversion to Cement.
Its conversion to concrete, will release a lot of Carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.
Then there will be the ongoing extra air traffic , expecting to increase journeys to about 150% of present.
Those aircraft burn a lot of fossil fuel. No tax is paid on that fuel.
Then there are the extra journeys of the passengers moving in and out of Heathrow.
Then there is the extra electricity that will be used in Heathrow.
recently Heathrow was shut for almost 24 hours, because a couple of old transformers caught on fire.
If we interrogate further, Phase Two is mostly about Growth.
If they mean growing the U.K. Economy, do they think that will up the Carbon dioxide leaving Britain to join its mates in the Atmosphere?
Joined up thinking Brigade, required.Hello Clark, I thought you had got fed up and left?
I am almost too old to go on demonstrations.
So, no, I did not attend the “Unite the Kingdom Rally”
I can tell you that round here there are quite a lot of flags on lamposts, most likely inexpensive ones as many now in tatters, from too much fluttering.
It now seems that very few protesters got arrested and the majority of those who did get arrested were the “Stand Against Racism” counter protesters.No, I did not read all the story in Economist.
However, I am becoming inclined to think that Peak Woke, has had its day.
I am sure less and less people are interested in the trans ideology movement.
Less and less people are interested in Net Zero, knowing whatever the Labour Administration say or believe, it will not reduce Carbon dioxide in the Atmosphere.
What does interest people is the collapsing economic situation in the United Kingdom, in part caused by the drive to Net Zero.
