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Post by zenfootball2 on Nov 10, 2021 20:34:06 GMT 1
A Green council leader flew from Gatwick to Glasgow to protest against climate change at Cop26, it has emerged. Councillor Phelim Mac Cafferty, leader of Brighton and Hove City Council's (BHCC) Green group, took the 80-minute flight from Gatwick on the same day he criticised the Government for a lack of action over climate change. After completing the 460-mile journey, Cllr Mac Cafferty made a speech on cutting carbon emissions and appeared at a protest march, led by Greta Thunberg, calling for world leaders to stop temperatures rising. The leader of the Green Party which controls the Sussex council, who co-chairs BHCC carbon neutral working group, has now unreservedly apologised, saying he had been worried his train might be cancelled. Daily Telegraph. get an erlier train then
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Post by northwestman on Nov 10, 2021 20:38:13 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Nov 11, 2021 9:44:49 GMT 1
'An exciting day for us Allegra Stratton watchers!
Like a rare migratory bird blown off-course to land on these hallowed shores, or a shooting star fleetingly glimpsed blazing across the heavens, she granted us a brief interview on Channel 4 News that managed to be entirely devoid of any actual content.
However - and watch out for history being rewritten tomorrow - when asked about it, it was quite clear that neither she nor Johnson were aware of the climate deal being agreed between the US and China.
By tomorrow of course, the usual choir will be singing that the agreement between Xi and Biden is be a massive triumph of Johnson's diplomacy and proof positive of global Britain (which is absolutely, definitely not a corrupt country)'.
Comment from a Guardian reader.
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Post by venceremos on Nov 11, 2021 13:34:45 GMT 1
Imagine, the UK in the global spotlight hosting COP26, the world's eyes on us and up steps our leader to announce that the UK is not a corrupt country. Tinpot or what?
Good grief, this is how low we've sunk - and it seems unlikely we've finished sinking yet.
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Post by SeanBroseley on Nov 12, 2021 2:15:01 GMT 1
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Post by staffordshrew on Nov 12, 2021 9:02:17 GMT 1
Just when we need a strong government, we have Boris.
Whatever we do, we have to keep warm in winter, we have to have the energy business needs - whatever source that energy comes from. Heat pumps are not the answer, off shore wind farms might be. But, at the moment we are heading for being held to ransom over our energy sources with electric from France and gas from Russia.
We need a long term strategy with some common sense in it.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Nov 13, 2021 12:37:14 GMT 1
Just when we need a strong government, we have Boris. Whatever we do, we have to keep warm in winter, we have to have the energy business needs - whatever source that energy comes from. Heat pumps are not the answer, off shore wind farms might be. But, at the moment we are heading for being held to ransom over our energy sources with electric from France and gas from Russia. We need a long term strategy with some common sense in it. "We need a long term strategy with some common sense in it." we badly do but given boris the clowns track record long srtrategic planning is beyond Boris and this goverment
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Post by zenfootball2 on Nov 13, 2021 12:38:05 GMT 1
the way it is going we are going to get a watered down agreement that wont even hit the 1.5 target, so kick the can down the road yet again.
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Post by staffordshrew on Nov 13, 2021 12:42:00 GMT 1
the way it is going we are going to get a watered down agreement that wont even hit the 1.5 target, so kick the can down the road yet again. In a few years we will be hoping a new ice-age is on the way.
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Post by staffordshrew on Nov 13, 2021 19:03:22 GMT 1
They are burning the midnight oil to thrash out an agreement at the end of the summit. Don't they koww there's a climate emergency on?
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Post by South Stand Salopian on Nov 13, 2021 20:51:59 GMT 1
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Post by SeanBroseley on Nov 13, 2021 22:16:28 GMT 1
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Post by servernaside on Nov 14, 2021 15:08:39 GMT 1
Watered down in the end by China and India, the world's biggest polluters.
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Post by SeanBroseley on Nov 14, 2021 15:33:47 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2021 19:15:38 GMT 1
Watered down in the end by China and India, the world's biggest polluters. Which countries have been the biggest polluters over, say, the last 100 years?
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Post by Pilch on Nov 14, 2021 19:21:13 GMT 1
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Post by armchairfan on Nov 14, 2021 19:47:54 GMT 1
Imagine, the UK in the global spotlight hosting COP26, the world's eyes on us and up steps our leader to announce that the UK is not a corrupt country. Tinpot or what? Good grief, this is how low we've sunk - and it seems unlikely we've finished sinking yet. Somewhat inaccurate and pathetic!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2021 20:05:36 GMT 1
Very disappointing outcome 🙁
A real missed opportunity to address the urgent climate change issues.
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Post by servernaside on Nov 15, 2021 15:04:26 GMT 1
Watered down in the end by China and India, the world's biggest polluters. Which countries have been the biggest polluters over, say, the last 100 years? I can see where you are going with the question, but just because certain countries were early to industrialise, this in no way give any kind of free licence to more recently industrialised nations to continue spewing out carbon.
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Post by staffordshrew on Nov 15, 2021 15:24:52 GMT 1
Which countries have been the biggest polluters over, say, the last 100 years? I can see where you are going with the question, but just because certain countries were early to industrialise, this in no way give any kind of free licence to more recently industrialised nations to continue spewing out carbon. We do things differently now, we must help recently industrialised countries to get things right first time.
Some think we are expecting third world countries to bear the brunt of cuts, but what has to happen is that third world countries benefit from the latest knowledge and from financial help from developed nations.
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Nov 15, 2021 15:58:12 GMT 1
I’ve been listening to Ed Milliband’s podcast about Cop 26, it’s clearly a very complex subject and there are grounds for both optimism and pessimism.
He is critical and disappointed with the USA, China and India but hopeful that business (except for fossil fuel exctractors) and financial institutions have got the message.
He also says Alok Sharma did a good job, so with Mr Sharma also doing well with vaccine rollout maybe there is at least one competent minister in the cabinet.
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Post by SeanBroseley on Nov 17, 2021 2:43:14 GMT 1
Some roads getting blocked around Vancouver right now. Could have done with this water during the summer. No doubt the fires then have contributed to greater run off.
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Post by SeanBroseley on Nov 18, 2021 2:06:56 GMT 1
It's getting balmy in the Antartic
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Post by Pilch on Nov 18, 2021 9:17:53 GMT 1
It's getting balmy in the Antartic his avatar is a pic of him on a Britney Spears demo he’s only just back from finding nemo too
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Post by SeanBroseley on Nov 18, 2021 11:11:30 GMT 1
It's getting balmy in the Antartic
his avatar is a pic of him on a Britney Spears demo he’s only just back from finding nemo too May be I was wrong about Ricketts andthis was posted in the moment of ecstacy. 9 degrees C in the Antartic is parka and shorts weather in the UK for men over 50.
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Post by Pilch on Nov 18, 2021 11:32:58 GMT 1
why didn’t we ever do anything to save doggerland 5000 years ago ?
All our own fault
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Post by SeanBroseley on Nov 19, 2021 1:08:13 GMT 1
RIsible Pilch. A large part of the Antarctic is hitting 18 degrees C. Parka off.
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Post by SeanBroseley on Nov 24, 2021 11:55:19 GMT 1
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Post by zenfootball2 on Nov 24, 2021 11:57:49 GMT 1
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Post by staffordshrew on Nov 25, 2021 14:50:53 GMT 1
Doesn't have to be depressing, depends how quickly it's used when it's found and how efficiently. Strategically, we will need oil and no country, including ours, should put themselves in dependency to Russia or OPEC with regard to price and availabilty if they can help it.
There won't be many Global Warming protests this weekend, they will be all indoors, by the fire, keeping warm.
That's the bottom line, keeping industry supplying what we need and keeping ourselves warm. We just have to do it as efficiently as possible.
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