nickorman.bsky.social
Things about church, urban drainage, engineering, environmental which means I do get political sometimes. UK.
Born at 315 ppm atmospheric carbon, now at 424 ppm.
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But Brexit is a past policy - even though its effects are very much with us and still get worse. Remain voters are not likely to support him anyway so little point in attacking him on that. Better to focus on the damage Farage would do in the future if he got into government.
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A wetter climate is one of the factors that might be different to our warmer climate in the roman/early medieval period.
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Yes its as if those people who are seen to be successful and get paid lots of money because they are might be found out for being normal and could not justify being paid stupid money!
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I am glad you do but I know some commentators really don't understand that such change is not as simple as they think. We should be piling lots of research and development money into finding ways to make this happen as much as possible.
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Yes but, at least in our current climate, much of the land used for livestock will never be suitable for arable farming. There is a reason we graze sheep on our mountains! We have to look at what is possible rather than just look at numbers.
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Nor have I seen an assessment of how climate change will affect existing agricultural land uses. Archeological evidence suggests that some of our grassland was used as productive arable when our climate was warmer, but that may not match onto future climate.
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The most disappointing aspect is that there is a reduction in arable land as well as grassland. Also there is no mention of agrisolar schemes where both agriculture and solar flourish together.
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I doubt it Billy Graham died in 2018. I could believe it of his son Franklin Graham though.
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Its important to have dreams - some of them come true!
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That is what it should be. I only wish backward England would follow the lead from Wales!
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The figures are astounding. Every year the biomass of birds in the UK doubles after the release of the captive bred birds. Its unnatural and unnecessary. They distort the ecosystem in a myriad of ways - out competing native species, damage the ground. It needs to stop.
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If costs are simple, why is DfT having such difficulty coming up with the cost of HS2. According to the Perm Sec at the PAC they can't even agree with HS2 Ltd how to do it!
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Yes its some arbitrary date, but even the winter solstice would be an arbitrary date - who says that is the start of a cycle? Why not the summer solstice or anything in between.
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If you want to revert to Lady Day what evidence do you have that Jesus was born on 25th December (and therefore that conception was 9 months before that) there is evidence in the Bible to the contrary.
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The church year starts with the first Sunday in Advent. The agricultural year was said to start on Lady Day. England and Wales have celebrated 1st January as new year since 1752. Scotland before then. It follows the start of the new year in the Roman Julian Calendar (since 46 BC).
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Yet somehow this headline has become a headline on the BBC news. Where is the balance there?
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OK sorry I missed that emphasis
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So it is a niche solution to some problems, but not to everything.
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In truth hydrogen production and (other than from oil & gas) is inherently inefficient and so we could not produce enough for it to be the only solution. In addition the energy density of hydrogen means that fuel tanks would have to be huge.
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What I am hearing especially from right wing politicians and their supporters (those that actually think oil and gas have to end) is that we don't need to spend money on rail electrification and many other things because hydrogen is the solution to everything.
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We need hydrogen, but we need to understand that it is not the solution to everything that the ill informed (particularly politicians) think that it is.
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Its not just in the North East, Hammersmith Bridge in London has been closed since 2020! www.lbhf.gov.uk/transport-an...
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Its been like that in the USA for many years. Maintenance is neglected so that the money can be spent on shiny new things that attract more publicity. I suppose that is what we should have expected from US obsessed Tory Government. Perhaps things will change soon.
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Have you sent the photo to Openreach?
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I understand that is the plan. Let's hope they succeed. The number of people not in work due to health issues is much higher than similar countries. That suggests such a plan might work. However, given the mess the country and the NHS are in how to improve health services?
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No they are not. A previous government sold it to a company who now want to sell it to the Czech billionaire. Do the present government have any say in the matter?
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There was me thinking that the change in Inheritance tax was about farms. Is a castle necessary in order to farm these days?
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Non farmers were responsible for 56% of land purchases last year.
400,000 hectares of land were taken out of use for agriculture in the same year.
Experts link this to financial advice that recommends tax breaks of investing in farmland.
Source the London Economic
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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That led to a steep rise in the price of farmland. That priced many aspiring farmers out of the business. It also meant that for those who did buy land the rate of return on capital was low.
So anyone who says that there was not a problem that needed solving is wrong.