Two airports were permitted to kill as many brent geese as required to secure air safety, although none were reportedly killed.
Nearly 50,000 animals licensed to be killed by NatureScot
No brent geese were licensed to attack airports, although several shat on the terminal building.
A novel British satellite designed to map the heat signature of buildings has been launched.
The idea is to highlight those dwellings that are wasting energy and could benefit from better insulation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65775901
Not the week to start assessing heat loss from buildings as a bad thing.
Some of the icebergs looming before us are literal. It is thought that the Titanic was sunk by one that calved off of Jacobshavn Isbrae, one of Greenland’s great glaciers. Today it is source of around 10% of icebergs plunging into the sea from Greenland, and one of the fastest moving on Earth. The rate doubled from 1996 to 2005. Freshening caused by melting icebergs diminishes the saltiness that causes Gulf Stream waters to sink, thus hindering the mechanism that drives the current. The North Atlantic circulation is now at its weakest point in at least 1,000 years, and scientists point to those calving icebergs as the source.
The collapse of the Gulf Stream would cause climate chaos across the world, intensifying extremes in Europe and storms in North America. Already the slowing is piling up warm water off the U.S. East Coast, where waters are heating faster than anywhere on Earth, adding to sea level rise already created by melting glaciers and threatening greater storms. In a supreme but predictable irony, one of the descendants of the Morgan trusts, J.P. Morgan & Chase, is the largest bank funder of fossil fuels since the Paris Climate Accords were signed in 2016, having invested $434 billion by 2022. J.P. Morgan financed the Titanic. J.P Morgan & Chase is financing the iceberg.
…it seems too many of us are comfortably sleeping in our cabins, believing that the captain has matters well in hand. When it is clear the captains of the world do not, with great power conflict escalating seemingly beyond control, and the climate crisis mounting even as it is shoved into the background.
Critics stress that the time to engage with experts and the public would have been before the company began injecting material into the stratosphere and trying to sell cooling credits—and that it’s likely to face an icy reception from many of those parties now.
An icy reception may be a good climate result.
[Both chimpanzees & gorillas] were relaxed around one another instead of alert to attack. The study also found chimpanzee and gorilla females with young offspring also bonded with each other, as did the whole spectrum of age ranges. Chimpanzees were even seen mimicking the classic gorilla chest beat. Neither species ever made alarm calls when they encountered each other.
If the meek who shall inherit the earth turn out to be non-human apes, that would be a especially ironic for religious dominionism.
Thousands of Americans diagnosed with alpha-gal syndrome, an allergic reaction to mammal meats like pork, beef and lamb, which growing evidence shows can be triggered by a tick bite.
“It feels like you’re on fire, and then it feels like you slept with a cactus,” she said. “The itching is unbearable.” …
At one point, an infectious disease doctor told her she could not have alpha-gal syndrome, because there were no lone star ticks in the state of Delaware.
“I was livid”…
But that was just another unattributed symptom.
Does this sound like a Western-style vegan revenge fantasy spoof? Or is nature responding to forest clearance for soya-fed livestock with ingenious irony?
Boris Johnson has hinted Saudi Arabia could speed up oil production to help calm spiralling energy prices for Britons, as he praised the country for improving its human rights record despite three more people being executed during his visit.
Diligent as ever, Boris brings new meaning to ‘getting blood out of a stone’.
If extensive areas of land prohibit trail hunting then it’s “difficult to see” how the sport could be sustained, suggests social anthropologist Prof. Gary Marvin of Roehampton University.
“One of the different things about fox hunting to pheasant hunting is that it’s extensive, it goes across many people’s lands. If those areas become fragmented, then it’s impossible,” he explains.
“Or you run a trail around a very small area, and it becomes unexciting for people. They aren’t going to pay money to gallop around a couple of farmer’s fields,” he adds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58654916
That would be as silly as steeplechases, gymkhanas, polo, and cavalry manoeuvres.
a group of industry associations including the International Meat Secretariat and International Poultry Council called for the UN to support increased meat consumption worldwide, arguing that “advances in intensive livestock systems” would “contribute to the preservation of planetary resources.”
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/09/21/un-food-systems-summit-meat-climate/
Part of the current wave of inclusion, to ensure all voices are heard, especially those from crania filled with brawn.
The UN still wants to hear from the fish fraternity, the insect protein interest pressure faction, the lab-grown meat lobby, the game group, and any others you can construct.
“continued investment in oil and gas in the UK remains critical to the country’s energy security. We believe the North Sea – and Shell in it – has a critical role to play in the UK’s energy mix, supporting the jobs and skills to enable a smooth transition to Britain’s low-carbon future.”
Shell pulls out of Cambo oil field development – BBC News
Smooth, like oil on water.
Siccar Point Energy CEO Jonathan [‘Jolly’] Roger said: “Whilst we are disappointed at Shell’s change of position, we remain confident about the qualities of a project.
Shell pulls out of Cambo oil field development – BBC News
siccar [ˈsɪkər]
adj. Safe, secure, free from danger, trouble or molestation.
https://www.scots-online.org/mobile/dictionary/scots_english.php
Perfectly describes fossil fuels, climate change, and the energy market.
Ecomical 