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It was reported yesterday that climate modellers are predicting two years without significant warming, and then from 2009, steady rises in the Earth's temperature. The UK's Met Office Hadley Centre has downloadable files of this work; their titles alone make grim reading — more heavy 3-day rainfall events in northern mid-latitudes, recent Central England warming exceeds natural variability, European 2003 summer temperatures could be normal by 2040s, cool by 2060s, Arctic summer ice could disappear by 2080s under IPCC High Emissions Scenario, North Sea storm surges could be one metre higher . . .
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Zero-emissions aircraft by 2050? Possible? Too late anyway? |
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Former Alitalia chief, IATA chief Giovanni Bisignani, has set a target for air travel to have zero carbon emissions by 2050. "I'm sure research can find the way to achieve zero percent in 50 years," Bisignani said. "When you consider clean-fuel technologies, we can already achieve
some fuel efficiencies. It's up to governments to put all that
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There is no single solution, no silver bullet response to the challenges of over-population and climate change. Shortages of water, food, energy and space, coupled with mass communications and mass transit systems, will lead to unprecedented social and geo-political disruptions in the coming years. A tiny part of the solution might possibly be in the Vertical Farm Project, the brainchild of Colombia environmental health scientist, Dr Dickson Despommier.
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A magical place that?s disappeared
I found a picture of Miss Snape’s house on the internet. In the 1950s, it was a scruffy next door but one from us. Miss Snape was kind enough to us, always said hello from beneath an oddly shaped felt hat, but she was inevitably distant from my then-concerns of itchy woollen vests, the collapse [...]
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Can an atheist be a fundamentalist?
In an essay of the above title, the philosopher A C Grayling ended:
Any view of the world that does not premise the [...]
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Charles Hinton (1853-1907)
Charles Hinton, a talented mathematician, had an entertainingly interesting life — which included teaching at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and Uppingham College, being convicted for bigamy marrying both Mary Ellen and Maud Wheldon, teaching a two prestigious US universities as well as working at the US Naval Observatory and the US Patent Office . . [...]
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Death: a privative
The absence of the stomatopod Dougal’s life and its previous presence showed immediately in the eyes, the “window to the soul”, a stomatopod soul?
In the creature’s death, I can share the same medium as Dougal — mine. The dead body, three weeks after s/he died somehow seems less dead though not at all alive, perhaps [...]
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JBS Haldane?s ?On being the right size?
The most obvious differences between different animals are differences of size, but for some reason the zoologists have paid singularly little attention to them. In a large textbook of zoology before me I find no indication that the eagle is larger than the sparrow, or the hippopotamus bigger than the hare, though some grudging admissions [...]
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