WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[PanBiker]

Is this invisible ice by any chance? The area you quote is the equivalent size of Greenland. I don't really think that a lump like that would have gone unnoticed to the satellites. Oh I forgot, those are managed by a bunch of scientific conspirators who are altering the imagery, silly me!

[Tizer]

..and the dreaded scientists saying we may be on the threshold of a cooling period.

For `dreaded scientists' read `Daily Mail'. Climate deniers love to confuse short-term cycles with long-term trends, whether it's solar cycles, ice cycles or whatever. The extent of arctic ice is more this year than in 2012 which was extremely low, but it's still below the 1981-2010 average and declining in the long term. Short-term cycles of ice extent are superimposed on a long-term downward trend, just as climate warming is superimposed on short-term cycling of warm and cold periods. The graph below comes from the National Snow and Ice Data Center and is explained on this web page: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2013/ ... -the-pole/

[Stanley]

"How can so called educated people get it so wrong."
I think you may have answered your own question.
The lovely weather over Barlick yesterday for the War Memorial re-dedication.....
Do we really need to be forced to listen to Chris Hune on Today explaining that the reason he went to gaol was the machinations of Rupert Murdoch?

[hartley353]

..and the dreaded scientists saying we may be on the threshold of a cooling period.

For `dreaded scientists' read `Daily Mail'. Climate deniers love to confuse short-term cycles with long-term trends, whether it's solar cycles, ice cycles or whatever. The extent of arctic ice is more this year than in 2012 which was extremely low, but it's still below the 1981-2010 average and declining in the long term. Short-term cycles of ice extent are superimposed on a long-term downward trend, just as climate warming is superimposed on short-term cycling of warm and cold periods. The graph below comes from the National Snow and Ice Data Center and is explained on this web page: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2013/ ... -the-pole/

There is no evident proof of anything in this graph, other than natural change, have a look at data from early in the last century. Not being a Mail reader I can,t comment on there articles , again an e/mail reported that the press had spoken on the matter.

[hartley353]

Is this invisible ice by any chance? The area you quote is the equivalent size of Greenland. I don't really think that a lump like that would have gone unnoticed to the satellites. Oh I forgot, those are managed by a bunch of scientific conspirators who are altering the imagery, silly me!

Nothing went unnoticed Ian. Tizer put up a graph from the N.S.I.D.C. This is a federally funded organisation that has been very selective with its data releases, but you can be assured that they noticed this. Neither is it exceptional, just a natural occurrence. With a hundred years of documentation. Greenland as you rightly mention has been a point of observation for many years, and last year showed high ice melt due to a warm front that lingered over it for weeks, but soon re froze as it moved on but the global climate people failed to mention this in their scaremongering. I dont expect you to understand what is going on, after thirty years I am still dipping my toes. What I do expect is people to not be so gullible in an informed society. The truth is out there you just need to know where to look, and please don't expect me to educate you.

[Tardis]

A 550kw anaerobic digestor is to be set up in Gisburn, using material gathered from 4 surrounding farms

[chinatyke]

A 550kw anaerobic digestor is to be set up in Gisburn, using material gathered from 4 surrounding farms

From only 4 farms? Sounds like a lot of bullsh*t to me.

[Stanley]

The fact that archaeologists have never found any evidence on Bronze and Iron Age sites of fish or aquatic animals being eaten. I know! I should get out more! But this is something I wasn't aware of and is an interesting reinforcement for a hypothesis I am building at the moment. Now I have the LTP off the table I am getting up to mischief!

[hartley353]

Anaerobic digesters are not new technology,Thames water have used electricity from this method for many years now and over 50 years ago used the gas for their vehicles, and before this for street lighting. I worked on a scheme at Mogden water treatment plant. next door to twickers in the early nineties. The system of producing Methane and Nitrous oxide for fuel, can tenuously be attributed to the ancient Assyrians.

[Tizer]

The fact that archaeologists have never found any evidence on Bronze and Iron Age sites of fish or aquatic animals being eaten.

Be careful! Archaeologists are not always precise about their `fish and shellfish' and sometimes fail to distinguish between marine and freshwater species, an important omission. Also, I'm not clear whether the fish avoidance was only around Britain or was supposed to be wider than that. As I understand it, the two main hypotheses for absence of fish bones from about 6000 BC until Roman times (in Britain) are (a) a cultural change and fish eating possibly becoming taboo and (b) warmer sea temperatures driving the pelagic fish such as herring further north away from the coast of Britain. I wonder if they avoided eating freshwater fish; and what about mammals such as seals and beached whale? I look forward to hearing your views on the topic.

[Tardis]

Anaerobic digesters are not new technology,Thames water have used electricity from this method for many years now and over 50 years ago used the gas for their vehicles, and before this for street lighting. I worked on a scheme at Mogden water treatment plant. next door to twickers in the early nineties. The system of producing Methane and Nitrous oxide for fuel, can tenuously be attributed to the ancient Assyrians.

Of course it isn't new, the regulations for disposing of the waste are, however, quite honorous

[Tardis]

Interesting slant on 'empty shops' and how the internet is once again changing our shopping habits:

http://www.bmmagazine.co.uk/news/20954/ ... h-streets/

[Tardis]

On World Suicide Prevention Day, you are not alone

http://www.prevent-suicide.org.uk/find_help

#WSPD #NoStigma

[Tardis]

Yesterday was the 500th anniversary of Flodden. The English annihilated the Scots. The last time a British monarch died on British soil, King James VI of Scotland

Today is Gibraltar Day, are we flying the flag?

[Stanley]

Tiz. Quite! That's what I am looking at. It's part of a wider picture that is emerging with my research into the old track and the site of the early church in Barlick. You start with what looks like a simple question and then find there are a few more angles that need investigating before you can start! Bit like knitting a jumper but having to make your own yarn first!
Have a look at this LINK. Fascinating stuff but what use is it?
News that the Welsh Parliament is to ban any firm that has used black lists from bidding for government contacts. Good! About time. Will Westminster follow? Don't hold your breath.

[Big Kev]

Finally got an itemised quote from Yorkshire Water, it has shed some light on why it is so much more expensive than a similar connection in March last year. I have to pay £512 + vat for a closure of the back street. Seems like a money making exercise to me, the only real use I've seen is the bin wagon.

[Stanley]

Hard luck Kev! My mind goes back to the old days when a firm called United Kingdom had a virtual monopoly of digging trenches in roads. They were almost all Irish Labourers and it was all pick and shovel. They never bothered with road signs or anything, just dug like moles following the lines chalked on the road! Weather never stopped them and they were fast! All hopelessly old-fashioned now I suppose. I can just imagine that in your circumstances they would all have leapt out of the hole and wheeled the bins up to the wagon.....

[hartley353]

Road or street closures are not a simple process, notifying all who may be inconvenienced costs money, and the extent of this notification all local house holds, police,, fire, ambulance, taxi companies, bus operators, maybe even waste management etc.

[Tardis]

Road or street closures are not a simple process, notifying all who may be inconvenienced costs money, and the extent of this notification all local house holds, police,, fire, ambulance, taxi companies, bus operators, maybe even waste management etc.

...and those satellite navigation systems too will block roads if you tell them that they are unsuitable

[Tizer]

But shouldn't the cost of notification be borne by the public in general rather than dumping a large fee on an individual who needs a proper supply?

[PanBiker]

Bits of Barlick town centre are closed off on a regular basis when stuff is going on in the town square and surrounding area. Sundays events are a good example of cooperation from multiple parties. Why should a utility company be able to hold someone to ransom for a simple hole in the road on a back street is a nonsense and Kevs evaluation of it being primarily a money making exercise has probably hit the nail on the head.

[PanBiker]

As an addition to my last post and a case in point. Second house down on the street below us is having a new kitchen extension built. Current operation by the builders is knocking down the old one along with the outhouses. So the back street at the moment has a mini digger and a tipper truck for moving stuff about and about 5 tons of stone in the middle of the back street. I doubt very much that they will have informed emergency services, all the utility company's and Uncle Tom Cobley and all! The lads are simply getting on with the job, it's a "needs must" and will be sorted before they knock off if previous days workings are anything to go by.

You can't make an omelette without cracking eggs!

[Tardis]

I believe that all these regulations were brought in under the last administration and everyone now has to tick those boxes for due diligence. In some respects I can see both sides of the argument, but I'm always wary of legislation that doesn't allow a modicum of common sense in the approach

[Tardis]

Anyone know where the spoil is coming from that is building up in The Butts, next to Carlson Filtration, opposite the garage and Briggs & Duxbury? On the pavement outside the gated car park area?

Apparently it is someone working around the corner. Is this the spoil from Ian's neighbours renovations?

[Stanley]

Whatever it is it's doing no harm and is in the same place the contractors used when doing the deep excavations further up the road recently.