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

 

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UK to close last coal power station after 142 years

The UK's last coal power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, is due to end operations on Monday.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Government pledges nearly £22bn for carbon capture projects

Sir Keir Starmer says carbon capture clusters on Merseyside and Teesside will reignite industrial heartlands.

www.bbc.co.uk

Miliband on BBC breakfast news. Actually holding his own with the questioning.

 

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Milton just made landfall, off the back of Helene. These Hurricanes and typhoons are going to get worse.

I was in Orlando back in 2017 when Irma hit and that was also category 4. Remember waking up and it felt like the a bomb hitting the hotel. But thankfully we weren't coastal - but couldn't get to Tampa and St Peter'sburg. All the disruption afterwards was pretty bad - with no electricity for 2 days afterwards.

Lady in the Disney store just went pfft. When we were discussing it. They are so used to it.

 

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Apparently winds of 13000mph plus arriving.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Not sure my fence is gonna survive that