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Well, there are a lot of vegetables in Lincs...

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I know i live next door to a family of them ;)

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Well, if anyone expects me to cut down on my cow pies, they will soon know what they can do with their suggestion. :sniper:

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Are you Desperate Dan in disguise ?
https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2019/05/3.jpg

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And proud of it! :D

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48206325

Well i'm glad I don't live on the coast, although I suppose the seaside will be nearer.

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I wouldn't worry too much, Mr K. The Maldives would be under water by now if you believed all these scare stories.

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Hardly scare stories OB, sea levels are rising now, its not some future prediction.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/e...ea-level-rise/

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I've been wondering how many Nuclear Power stations are built very close to the coastlines . . and how they'd perform under 3ft of water :shocked:

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Actually the tide is falling now;)

https://www.tideschart.com/United-Ki...thorpes-Beach/

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The same way fukushima daiichi does i guess.

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Was at a meeting yesterday where it was mentioned that in Leeds some of the flood defenses we're building have been redesigned for the 1 in 200 year event as it was felt working to the 1 in 100 year model is probably no longer resilient enough (due to the more regular extreme weather events). Also, back in March Leeds City Council declared a climate emergency - long overdue and something my team has spent many years pressing for.

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So, will the Leeds City Council's declaration of a climate emergency reverse the effects of climate change?

It's just hype, but hopefully it makes people feel better.

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Meanwhile back at the coalface

climate change protester tries to glue himself to MOVING automatic doors

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/11...tion-Rebellion

must have been dirty electricity working against him:rofl:

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On its own probably not, but we won't by any means be the last council to make such a declaration and before long it won't just be hype and we'll start to make a difference.

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“Climate emergency” declarations are just virtue signalling, with about as much weight and significance as a trade body declaring “national eat bacon week”. It’s an awareness campaign run by environmentalists, deliberately designed to sound like “state of emergency” which in some countries carries legal force when declared by government and grants emergency powers to act in mitigation. Typically it is signed up to by organisations that have little power to change anything, like local councils, or in the UK’s case by bored MPs using parliamentary free time to pass non-binding motions while the government is busy elsewhere.

Responsible governments, especially of rich, industrialised nations like the UK, are looking at these measures already, and taking hard, grown up decisions about how fast we can decarbonise an economy without crippling it. The last 10 years have shown that it is the poorest in society who suffer when the tax receipts that pay for healthcare and social security dry up. Going next zero on carbon by 2045 rather than 2050, for example, has implications for the size of our economy measured in the billions. Responsible government is spending time working out how to manage that and balance competing pressures, not pinning green ribbons to their lapels and giving impressive speeches.