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You'd think they'd take a look and learn some lessons from their cousins across the pond.
If Kicorse is correct that would mean that if the arctic ice was more stable global warming would be non-existent bellow latitudes 20N.
Unfortunately it looks like a Soviet Politburo.
On which point, it must be of greater than average interest who his running mate is if he gets the nomination.
That's why those who ran before and did well, always have an advantage when running again.
As long as that remains the case, and people refuse to depoliticise the science and the solutions, that will continue to be the case.
In the end Warren was the one who lost because no one believed that Sanders was a sexist.
And it doesn't end there. He also shares much of Corbyn's personal unpopularity and issues. Witness Hillary Clinton's comments about him the other day.
It doesn't require world wide radical changes, but climate change is too often used as a vehicle for those seeking or holding power through radical change.
It's KLOBUCHAR.
I'll have to sell a kidney if Bloomberg somehow does it.
https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1221139263867301888?s=20
It's proper hair-shirt guilt and hypocrisy stuff.
Solutions the Right need to get behind is on new renewable tech/tax breaks, and jobs to go with them, nuclear fusion, carbon capture, subsidising electric vehicle infrastructures and development, engineering animal feed and/or making grass-fed only, electric or renewables-based slower aircraft, council tax incentives for airpumps/groundpumps in the home, and market payments for keeping ecological reserves preserved etc.
I rarely critique the BBC (it's become a bit of a cliché) but they've become really myopic on this recently and thought putting on George Monboit the other day versus a Government climate change academic panelist who wants us to cut meat consumption constituted "balance" seemingly being wholly unaware they represented the moderate and extreme view from the same side of the argument.
It's another (more promising) front for them to have another crack at socialism.
For example, if veganism got democratic traction in the UK (or meat shaming became widespread) I could see myself supporting immigration from very conservative and/or religious overseas areas to overturn white liberal numbers here, and (at the risk of giving William Glenn a heart attack) its possibly one thing that could turn me into a Rejoiner if an ideological delta opened up between the UK and EU on it.
I feel that strongly about it.
On the environment (and other things) :
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6476/348 - The UK government is going to move away from the EU model of agricultural subsidies to ones that provide environmental benefits. So bonus points for reductions in chemicals that kill (useful) insects etc.
On the subject of useful divergence from the EU - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51240785.
"Canary Wharf’s Winter Lights Festival has become a firm fixture in the post-festive calendars of many Londoners – providing as it does a welcome opportunity to wrap up against the cold and enjoy a rare dose of the outdoors in these dark deep winter days."
https://laterthanyouthink.org/2020/01/25/winter-lights2020/
Imagine a UK election (presumably a PR one to have so much choice) featuring as party leaders Ken Clarke, Bill Cash, Vince Cable, Jeremy Corbyn, Hilary Benn and as token 'youngsters' Nicola Sturgeon and Adam Price.
Plus a speaker who's nearly 80 ... our ex-speaker is only 56.
Plus a candidate who's had a heart attack mid-campaign. A heart attack was the end of Michael Heseltine's career.
Rolls Royce this week confirmed that it is to go ahead and manufacture mini-nukes. Seeing as this project has been done with the aid of Govt money i.e Tory Govt money then the right is providing and supporting solutions.
What could possibly go wrong?
It is leveraging submarine power plant technology, particularly the natural circulation technology given to us by the US. For those who don't know, the noise a nuclear sub makes is a function of the noise made by the pumps for cooling the reactor. A reactor can generally run at lower power with the coolant being moved by the natural convection in the cooling circuit So "silent" speed for a nuclear sub means the speed at which the sub can run its reactor without pumps. in the case of the old Polaris subs this was 2-3 knots - slow walking speed. The new designs based on the American breakthroughs can achieve much more - the Seawolf class can run at 20+ knots without turning on the pumps....
When applied to land based reactors, this means among other things, that they are much safer, since they only use the pumps for a maximum power operations.
Where are the "substantial problems"? Well, by using a standardised design, that means only one enquiry into the design of the reactor. For all installations. Which in turn means a huge diminution of lawyers earnings per GW installed.
https://www.moltexenergy.com/
I want to eat meat. Forever. I love it. I am very concerned by the geometric growth of this fad over the last couple of years and it's starting to impinge on mainstream politics.
If it comes down to it I will align myself politically with anything or anyone that protects that. End of.
I have no beef with you (ha ha) personal or religions vegetarians have been around for decades. They've always been tolerant of ominvores and never tried to leverage mainstream politics to impose their views on others.
The neo-vegans are zealots on a crusade and on totally another level.
Estate cars with roofracks used to be a big alternative in the 90s but these seem to have now largely disappeared from the roads.
The RR design above uses existing reactor technology - and in turn supports the industrial base for making submarine reactors (brownie points!). It envisages a production line of small, identical reactors.
So instead of using your first, test reactor as a production item, you have a developed design before you deploy it. A developed design that will require certification once (brownie points!)
You can then deploy them to existing nuclear power station sites. Where they simply plug into the existing grid infrastructure. So it is very hard to hold them up at the planning stage (brownie points!).
In contrast, MSRs and the rest require a development program for a new design - no, there are no off the shelf designs. Then you have the whole nuclear planning enquiry comedy to go through....
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Sunil060902+Crossrail+roundel&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1
"For the following question, you will be shown a series of proposed names for a new rail organisation covering England, Scotland and Wales. This would be a single organisation responsible for maintaining the track, managing contracts with train companies, and dealing directly with passengers."
Then about 20 follow-up questions. Options are British Rail, Rail for Britain, UK Rail, Rail UK
https://www.moltexenergy.com/stablesaltreactors/
I tend to agree with your general point about nuclear, but this is likely a more economic way of dealing with our high level nuclear waste problem long term than the alternatives.
In a classic mini.
I remember helping my dad force the boot shut. We didn’t need airbags. The pillows did that.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/25/bombs-blood-feuds-malmo-explosions-rocking-swedens-cities
And people wonder why Sweden's leading party, in the polls, is on the Hard Right, and descended from pukka Fascists.
https://www.twitter.com/WindsorMann/status/1217936911999913984
Heroic.
I like meat, though I eat much less than I used to - preferring quality over quantity - but I would not make it more important than democracy or avoiding an illiberal theocracy.
The quote which includes ‘inshallah’ is hardly straining your imaginary editorial muscle...