The Climate crisis

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Jasper fire: Canadians mourn as jewel of the Rockies burns

The wildfire destruction to Jasper National Park has reverberated across all of Canada.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Saintjay]

Jasper fire: Canadians mourn as jewel of the Rockies burns

The wildfire destruction to Jasper National Park has reverberated across all of Canada.

www.bbc.co.uk

That's crazy bad. I'm due to visit Calgary again next year. Banff and Jasper national parks are my favourite places on earth.

 

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London City airport: 54% of journeys take under six hours by train, data shows

Exclusive: Most popular routes can be reached quickly by train, as government mulls expansion proposal

www.theguardian.com

 

[Amiga500]

London City airport: 54% of journeys take under six hours by train, data shows

Exclusive: Most popular routes can be reached quickly by train, as government mulls expansion proposal

www.theguardian.com

Well, a generic rule that'd be worth considering trying to put together:

The landing fee tax is (i) both proportional to the number of people on the flight and inversely proportional to the distance of the flight or (ii) inversely proportional to the difference in time taken to reach the destination by other public transport.

London City can't even do true long haul, runway length isn't big enough.

But longest scheduled commercial flight in the world is around 15,500 km, Singapore to New York.
Shortest is < 3km... between two of the Orkneys. Don't understand why the Scottish govt feel the need to subsidise that route. A boat would cover that distance in minutes as well and probably be more weather resilient.

You'd probably want a formula that'd add ~£150 per ticket to the price of London City to say Amsterdam, but the fee from London City to New York would be nominal. [feel a bit dirty saying that, as its likely bwankers using that flight, but fair is fair, they've no realistic alternative outside airtravel.]

 

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Climate crisis fuelled storm that sank yacht in Sicily, say experts

Record sea temperatures in the Mediterranean contributed to waterspout that hit Bayesian

www.theguardian.com