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Interesting votes at major oil company annual meetings. But Gazprom and Aramco are outside the ‘democracy’ of shareholder votes. So governments should adjust their tax take according to the zero carbon credentials. It can be that easy!
But of course we have a government that is long on rhetoric and short on policy and action. They will continue to import goods from abroad and not add these products carbon footprint to our total.
98% of internet traffic flows through submarine cables. I want to know more. How have they planed for seismic activity? There are probably only a few Trans-Atlantic cables to the UK, how many with Europe? Did Brexit affect these? I am sure the mega important links are via satellite, but are these affected by atmospheric conditions?
I have just received my second purchase from Crowd Farming Both times the deliveries have been fast and the quality excellent. Firstly clementines then olive oil. The price is ok – not the cheapest but organic olive oil for £10 ltr is not bad.
A massive iceberg has calved in Antarctica. Probably nothing to do with global warming but impressive at 170km x25km
Geography news! I think the DRC could have done without this! The city of Goma with 2 million people is within 10km of the volcano, lava reached the edges of its airport. The photos as ever with a volcano are impressive as shown here.
Johnson will tough it out when his erstwhile mate slags him off in Parliament on Wednesday.
The trade agreement with Australia. If it is cheaper to bring beef from Australia than it is to produce our own there is something very wrong with economics. And then the pollution caused, not to mention the hormone treatment of Australian beef. The abject failure of Brexit must be assuaged somehow? And as we come out of the pandemic in this country we have a serious lack of workers.
Bad news. Vaccine supplies to poorer countries and the COVAX scheme are being cut as the worlds biggest supplier in India says it will not be exporting any doses of the AstraZenica vaccine until the end of the year. With possibly millions dying in Africa we should not criticise them too much.
If only the government could be believed? They have already refused to reward a popular and profitable, nationalised East Coast Line. Now we have a rebranding, but is their any real subsidence to their plans?