I see coconut tree stumps that have previously grown about 4 or 5 meters into the sea, would that be a clue that the oceans are rising?
Not necessarily. That could equally be caused by other environmental factors such as tidal erosion, currents and wind. Only tree-huggers are more prescriptive.
Water is likely to become your problem as Malta aquifers are exausted/polluted 50% of the water is from desalination now
The hounding of Greta Thunberg is proof that the right has run out of ideas "She was “chilling”, declared Brendan O’Neill, editor of the hard-right website Spiked, after picking on her “monotone voice” and “look of apocalyptic dread in her eyes”. Given Thunberg’s openness about her Asperger’s, this was a dog whistle if he knew about it, but it was at best crass if he didn’t: the kid’s on the spectrum! Bringing up the rear were the bloggers at Guido Fawkes, trying to eke a three-course meal out of the morsel that Thunberg’s mum performed in the Eurovision song contest 10 years ago – cast-iron proof of “an incredibly privileged background”. This finding has been gurningly spread on social media by none other than that vomiting dustbin of opinions Toby Young. You don’t need to be much sharper than him to observe that he is the son of a baron who rang Oxford University to get his boy a place." https://www.theguardian.com/comment...thunberg-right-environmental-activist-attacks
Or a different view https://www.google.com/amp/s/blogs....nbergs-supporters-cant-have-it-both-ways/amp/
The piece I posted mentions Dale "The Spectator apparently can’t get enough of this story, even running a piece by Helen Dale, who posted a tweet calling for “this Greta Thunberg character” to “have a meltdown on national telly”. This was a “gag”, Dale says now, deploying the excuse of bullies down the ages: can’t you take a joke?"
It was certainly business as usual for the leftie elitist Emma Thompson who on Friday settled into her private suite in the First Class cabin of a British Airways A380 flight to New York at a ticket cost of £18,000 and a personal carbon cost of almost two tons. That's after standing on the deck of a pink boat in Oxford Circus and exhorting us not to fly and to travel less generally. During the flight, we're told, the multi-millionaire Corbynista activist also drank Laurent-Perrier champagne and dined on beef carpaccio – even though cattle farming is also a major contributor to greenhouse gasses. The luvvie has also previously called on people to eat less meat in the name of ‘preserving the planet’. Cows produce methane – which is 23 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide – while clearing forests for pasture and to grow feed for livestock also drives global warming. It really is rather obscene for an overpaid actress and a rather privileged teeny-bopper in plaits to fly in and out of this country to tell us how we must behave whilst they do the opposite.
[QUOTE="Markham, post: 194043, member: 598" It was certainly business as usual for the leftie elitist Emma Thompson who on Friday settled into her private suite in the First Class cabin of a British Airways A380 flight to New York at a ticket cost of £18,000 and a personal carbon cost of almost two tons. It really is rather obscene for an overpaid actress and a rather privileged teeny-bopper in plaits to fly in and out of this country to tell us how we must behave whilst they do the opposite.[/QUOTE] You of all hypocrits (plaits or otherwise) paraphrasing the Mail More methane is produced by you (overpaid actress) than cows When you say "this country" Do you mean Malta or is that just the efect of you plagerism
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain, the birth place of coal power, has gone seven days without electricity from coal-fired stations for the first time since its 19th century industrial revolution, the country's power grid operator said on Wednesday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-coal-idUSKCN1SE160
Extinction Rebellion founder cleared over King's College protest Jury finds Roger Hallam not guilty of causing damage after spray painting building’s wall "The founder of Extinction Rebellion has been cleared by a jury of all charges relating to a protest against fossil fuels in what campaigners say is a historic moment for the climate justice movement. Roger Hallam, 52, did not deny criminal damage worth £7,000 in an action to urge Kings College, London to divest from fossil fuels. He sprayed the walls with the words “divest from oil and gas” in protest against the institution’s fossil fuel investments. But on Thursday after a three day trial at Southwark crown court, Hallam and another activist were cleared of all charges. They represented themselves and argued to the jury in their defence that their actions were a proportionate response to the climate crisis." https://www.theguardian.com/environ...on-founder-cleared-over-kings-college-protest
One of those do-gooders supporting Extinction Rebellion is the environmental activist and BBC presenter Chris Packham and like so many other self-styled environmentalists, he's a class-one hypocrite. He's been busy of late, whether it’s causing chaos for farmers, joining disruptive Extinction Rebellion protests, writing articles warning about the “catastrophic impact” of climate change, ranting about “extreme capitalism” or generally lecturing everyone else on how to live their lives. A petition to have him sacked from the BBC has already racked up a whopping 135,000 signatures in just two weeks. Funnily enough, Packham’s concerns with climate change and capitalism mysteriously vanish when it comes to his own "Travel with Chris Packham" business. It turns out he is quite happy to take punters thousands of miles round the world on luxury wildlife tours, pumping out hundreds of tonnes of carbon dioxide to fly there. For example: This August you’ve got a “a rare opportunity to spend time in the company of Chris whilst surrounded by the spectacular wilderness of Alaska” on a Wildlife Photography Cruise – for a cool £7,195 per person excluding flights. Over 11,000 miles return from London via Seattle. With 22 passengers on board that’ll be 75 tonnes of CO2 pumped into the fresh Arctic air. In December 2018 you could have spent two weeks exploring Antarctica with Chris on the luxury RCGS Resolute, complete with gym, spa and steam room, all for the modest sum of £8,799 per person excluding flights. It’s a 16,740-mile round trip to Ushuaia via Buenos Aires. If the full 110 people went that’s a staggering 588 tonnes of CO2 Chris has helped pump out. This February you could have enjoyed "The Ultimate Birdwatching Trip to The Gambia with Chris Packham"– with three separate tours of up to 17 people each and prices varying from a few hundred pounds to over £1,000. Banjul’s a mere 5,560-miles return. Only 88 tonnes of CO2 on Chris’s conscience, although he’s been running this tour for over a decade. There’s still time to book onto a “Stunning Photographic Safari in Kenya with Chris” this September, a lucky group of 12 will stay in luxury tents for 8 days for just £7,699 per person. Just the 8,500 miles return to Nairobi. Chris’s safari group will only be adding 58 tonnes of CO2 this time. All in all that’s over 800 tonnes of extra carbon dioxide Chris Packham is helping to pump into the atmosphere in just 9 months, while trousering big bucks for himself. Good to see he’s taking the climate “catastrophe” as seriously as he’s busy ordering everyone else to. All together now: HYPOCRITE!
30,000 people a year die of polution related diseases in the UK. This is reason enough to do something
I put 3 very big buckets of mango tree leaves on a new compost pile I made today and then gave the tree a hug for good measure. If I can save just one of those 30,000 lives this year, it would all have been worth it.
Does that mean that any aerosole (sp) anarchist spray painter has a free ticket to graffiti destruction?
