Rockmeister
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Wasn't Happer the loon psychologist 'helping' Burt Lancaster in 'Local Hero'?
Wasn't Happer the loon psychologist 'helping' Burt Lancaster in 'Local Hero'?
I've just remembered this Agnès Varda documentary worth watching:
The Gleaners & I
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
Directed by Agnès Varda
France, 2000
Documentary
Synopsis
Varda’s rumination on this art of “living off the leftovers of others” finds inspiration in both past and present, rural and urban, the political and the highly personal. Camera in hand, Varda interviews those for whom gleaning is a way of life, or an encompassing philosophy.
Longer trailer here: https://mubi.com/films/the-gleaners-i/trailer
Why on earth (no pun intended) is anyone taking this ill-informed, unqualified young lady even slightly seriously? Especially world leaders who, frankly, should know far better. Her position/argument is completely emotional, no facts in it at all.
There is no 'climate crisis' or 'global warming'. Yes the climate changes, but it is very slowly, like over millenia, not a couple of decades, it cools and warms very slowly, mostly based on the temperature of the sea.
As for CO2 being responsible, that doesn't stand up to the slightest scientific scrutiny. The planet has been warmer in the past with lower CO2, and colder with much higher CO2 levels, long before the SUV (or even the motor car) was thought up. CO2 is actually at dangerously low levels at present - around 400ppm. Life on earth starts to die off at around 270ppm. CO2 is essential for life on the planet, it is therefore not a pollutant - nature doesn't work like that. Why do gardeners increase the level of CO2 to around 1500ppm in greenhouses? To speed up plant growth. This would be unlikely if CO2 was actually a pollutant.
Not a single one of the predicted 'disasters' that so-called 'climate change' (rebranded from 'global warming' in 2004 when it was discovered that the planet wasn't actually getting any warmer) has actually happened.
"The Arctic will be ice-free in summer by 2012" said Al Gore... turns out ice at both poles is increasing. Maldives disappearing under water by 2014? They are still there.
These celebrities and world leaders all go to these summits in jet aeroplanes, and get ferried around in huge limos while there. Does that not tell you that they KNOW it's a scam?
Lastly, I will leave you with this thought: Barack Obama and Al Gore have both bought beach front sea level properties. Why would they do that if sea levels were actually rising?
Should we thank Greta?
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is to replace one of its five daily flights between Brussels and Amsterdam Schiphol with reserved seat capacity on a Thalys high speed train service from March 29 2020.
This is intended as the first step in a programme to gradually cut back the number of flights between Brussels and Amsterdam, with passengers using rail to connect with intercontinental flights at Schiphol.
https://www.railwaygazette.com/high-speed/klm-replaces-plane-with-high-speed-train/54577.article
This would support the airline’s sustainability initiatives, and enable airport slots to be used for flights to long-haul destinations.
So on the assumption that long haul pollutes the planet more than short haul, the initiative will be more polluting.
No idea. Sorry, I got it from the beeb.well there you go.
Why is the image so massive on screen though?
No idea. Sorry, I got it from the beeb.
In theory, yes they do. However in practice the difference is so vanishingly small it's not worth talking about.surely more carbs are required and more consumed with a resulting increase in methane emission, esp if subject is vegetarian?
Of course, that could just be the little microparticles of poo glowing in the methane-fuelled inferno!Sadly most people produce hydrogen in farts, not methane. I'm told hydrogen has a yellow flame, methane blue. My farts give yellow flames. I'm disappointed. It's a useless gas in the normal world.