CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
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It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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Since 1970, the Earth’s temperature has raced upwards faster than in any comparable period. The oceans have heated up at a rate not seen in at least 11,000 years. “We are conducting an unprecedented experiment with our planet,” said Hayhoe. “The temperature has only moved a few tenths of a degree for us until now, just small wiggles in the road. But now we are hitting a curve we’ve never seen before.”
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Football's fight to stay afloat
The clubs feeling the effects of climate change
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/16x9wuq4hs/Football-fight-to-stay-afloat
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Yet in relation to climate policy as in some other areas, the First Minister’s vastly more effective performance on the international stage conceals some serious failures – to meet Scotland’s own carbon emissions targets, to strengthen Scotland as a manufacturing centre for renewable energy systems, and above all to confront the huge gas and oil interests that are still trying to stall and divert the climate debate, after decades of near-criminal disinformation and denial.
The truth is that in this field as in many others, there is currently no pressure on the Scottish government to raise its game – by, for example, declaring its straightforward opposition to any further opening up of new oil and gas fields – because it can always present itself as the lesser of two evils; and that is a dangerous situation for the SNP in at least two ways.
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Some non SUVs had tyres deflated in error.
Tickets were left on targeted vehicles explaining why the action had been taken. Unlike when people target bike tyres!
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The Labour leader continued with the charge sheet. If the UK was serious about climate change, shouldn’t it be setting an example to countries who were dragging their heels? How come we had cut our overseas aid just months before the summit? Why were we opening a coalmine in Cumbria and the Cambo oilfield in the North Sea? Why had the £100bn a year for developing countries still not been met? Why had the trade deal with Australia ignored climate commitments? And why had the chancellor’s budget not mentioned the climate crisis even once?
“This is just pathetic,” said Bertie Booster. Though he wasn’t able to explain why, other than that it didn’t conform to his myopic vision of himself as a celebrated world leader. Though this did rather set the tone for the rest of the debate. Opposition MPs would press Johnson on points of fact and detail, reminding him that all he had achieved was a temporary stay of execution, while the home team MPs merely congratulated him on for once having done something at least partially right.
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Rain will replace snow as the Arctic’s most common precipitation as the climate crisis heats up the planet’s northern ice cap, according to research.
Today, more snow falls in the Arctic than rain. But this will reverse, the study suggests, with all the region’s land and almost all its seas receiving more rain than snow before the end of the century if the world warms by 3C. Pledges made by nations at the recent Cop26 summit could keep the temperature rise to a still disastrous 2.4C, but only if these promises are met.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/30/rain-replace-snow-arctic-climate-heats-study
Considering the fossil fuel implications of areas in Highlands deprived of power.
Just an observation... obviously plenty of wood to burn with swathes of trees down.
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