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I see old Jugears is in trouble too now for calling a member of his polo team Sooty!
That takes the biscuit (Duchy, of course!). We need to Sweep this under the carpet before someone decides to Sue.Causing death by dangerous driving has a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. To be murder, it would have to be a deliberate act of violence. This was an accident resulting from extreme recklessness by the driver.
There seem to be no mitigating circumstances in this case.
I remember we had a boy at school whose nickname was ‘Pants’.
Are we allowed to call ourselves white trash?
Low-energy bulbs make great sense – using a fraction of the electricity and lasting many times longer than conventional bulbs. Nearly all the bulbs in my house are low-energy and have been for years. I think one or two are still ones we brought with us from our previous house over 10 years ago.
But when conventional bulbs are phased out, I worry that manufacturers of low-energy bulbs will deleiberately reduce their lifespan so we have to buy replacements more often.
It’s not a ‘bloody great’ BMW, it’s a BMW 1 Series, which is about the size of a VW Golf not as good looking.
I think one blade came loose, the turbine became unbalanced, the blade broke away and collided with the other two, mangling them, before falling to the ground. The lights could have been to do with electrical disturbance or shorting during the destruction
Or…………… could it have been ball lightning – a known phenomenon that is little understood and not constant in its behaviour?
Shove CO2 that aint the problem methane is a far bigger problem than CO2
So they say – and particularly from cows and sheep around the world. But how does that compare with the amount of methane produced in untamed nature – from the sea, from rotting vegetation, from wildlife?
If Britain reverted to its natural state most of it would be oak or beech woodland. There would be a vast carpet of rotting leaves in all these forests, not to mention big forest fires from time to time . Wouldn’t all that produce lots of methane (or CO2 in the case of forest fires)?
Well I’m not giving up my Hairspray for anything!
That’s OK, they don’t use CFCs as propellants in aerosols any more, they were banned in (I think) 1987. But the effect on the ozone layer and the consquent global warming was predicted to continue for up to 50 years after the ban.
I have just wondered, thinking about the reduction in global average temperature last year – it coincides with a significant reduction in the number of airline flights. Could this mean that aviation has an even greater role in global warming than we thought?
As I said in my original post, I don’t think it’s been conclusively proved that the warming is a result of human activity, it’s just that we know the things we do could be causing it.
Sorry but global warming is a fact
It was a fact until last year. From 2007 to 2008 global cooling is a fact! OK, annual statistics are just a snapshot, you can’t tell much from them. We’ve had a trend in rising temperatures for some decades now – in fact the general trend has been rising temperatures for the last 20,000 years, give or take the odd ‘mini ice age’ when the Thames freezes over.
The recent trend of rising temperatures could be entirely natural, it could have been caused by human activity, we don’t know. We do have a scientific model of how pushing more CO2 into the atmosphere would cause global warming, we also have the theory of the delayed effects of CFCs – but we don’t really know how much or how little of an effect these have had.
The real crisis facing us is the running out of fossil fuels as worldwide demand grows – that will bring forward the time when these resources become scarce. Look where we are now – already talking about the imminence of ‘peak oil’ less than 100 years after civilisation took to using large quantities of oil.
