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Well, the problem's miniscule, so why bother eh mate. Besides, are you not uncomfortable restricting the freedoms of clear-fellers and tarmaccers?

Oh, and supposing someone bothers to check whether the trees are suitable, it takes ages until a tree starts sequestering sufficiently to replace the carbon that was released from the pasture in which it was planted. And then, before they're big enough to even do that, they may well die from drought or fire. Especially nowadays with all that tarmac. That's if, as you realise, they were actually planted and not just cooked up on someone's ledger.
keep up if possible, i think i said the global impact of mankinds co2 emissions were miniscule...anyway, i agree with your point about where trees should be planted and as to whether its suitable for them to flourish, i know some botanists who planted about 5,000 saplings on the shore at Waterloo/Crosby at no small cost and wouldn`t you know, the first tide that came in washed the lot away. think about it.
 
Yeah, no idea where their ammo comes from mate.

Small company from Cornwall to oversee huge £70 billion Net Zero contract

The Place Group will 'control, manage and deliver' the public sector transition to Net Zero

A company based in Cornwall has been given the job of overseeing a £70 billion contract to help deliver the country's transition to Net Zero - the target of completely negating the amount of greenhouse gases by reducing emissions. The Place Group - which is based at The Regent, Chapel Street, Penzance - has won the huge framework contract to "control, manage and deliver" the public sector transition to Net Zero.
Wonder which Tory Minister/Donor has links to them
 
1/ Plants absorb co2. - isn`t the simple answer to plant more trees instead of destroying millions of acres of woodland every year.
2/ tarmac absorbs the suns rays and it heats up. Plants absorb the suns rays and turn them into sugars/carbohydrates not heat.- isn`t the simple answer to stop tarmacing over everything and plant more trees.
photosynthesis is simple biology and chemistry that kids of 12 learn. if the planet/humanity is in as much peril as the alarmists say, wouldn`t it be a good place to start with schools etc planting stuff
Think they do a lot of this stuff already. Councils and NHS all now have green/sustainability programmes.
 
The politicisation of it is the weirdest thing. The mental gymnastics people have been convinced to perform just to think it's some global liberal tax conspiracy is amazing work from oil and fossil fuel lobbyists, but not so good for the world unfortunately. I always imagine how weird it must be for scientists to do years of research, deliver their findings and then see their work dissected by random internet dweebs who have no qualifications and don't even possess a basic grasp of the scientific method.
✊ my heart goes out to them too. i`ve often wondered if they get paid and would they even accept moneys as its probably a `calling`
 
Wonder which Tory Minister/Donor has links to them
No idea. From elsewhere:


-Same directors and same company (slightly different name but they’ve got dozens of companies registered) were in an iffy funding scandal around free schools etc. back in 2016.

Looks like another “VIP lane” for those with the right mates.

https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2016/apr/26/academy-chiefs-pay-bromley-schools-rachel-de-souza

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If you go through the Companies House listings for these people it's always the same thing. They are all assigned as directors of a bunch on "consulting" firms that don't seem to do anything or have much internet presence. Then as you look down the listings you see that once every couple of years they loop through the same 5-10 people being assigned then shortly after resigning. Then if you pick another person from the list of directors you can find 5-10 other consulting firms that they have been cycled through for a year or two.

I assume money laundering is involved, but there is a clear network, and it's very well organised. Someone needs to do machine learning exercise over this data and make a big diagram showing who is linked together more than, say, five directorships over the last 20 years or something. Would be interesting, wish I knew how.

-One of the comments spells it out: "COMPANIES HOUSE lists 20 officers of the company, 17 of whom have resigned since 2002. Not very reassuring as an organisation to look after £70 billion of public money is it?"

-Nothing suspicious at all...just links to offshore funds in Panama and Saudi Oil... https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1554288392841609219.html
 
This looks interesting! Gonna have to give it a read when I can.
 
Interesting

Yeah. Good article.

I often wonder, when the carbon of an environment is calculated, whether all the active biomass is included, yanno, like microbes, slightly biggerobes, insects, fungi and animals, they all store carbon. Obviously, the arboreal monocultures described therein won't, but a healthy old growth forest is more than the sum of it's timber.
 
Yeah. Good article.

I often wonder, when the carbon of an environment is calculated, whether all the active biomass is included, yanno, like microbes, slightly biggerobes, insects, fungi and animals, they all store carbon. Obviously, the arboreal monocultures described therein won't, but a healthy old growth forest is more than the sum of it's timber.
i think about 7 old growth forests were butchered for the HS2 line construction. what is it now £100b and rising just to get to London twenty minutes quicker!! why not just get an earlier train :( or am i missing something?
 
i think about 7 old growth forests were butchered for the HS2 line construction. what is it now £100b and rising just to get to London twenty minutes quicker!! why not just get an earlier train :( or am i missing something?
It expands the boundaries of metropolitan london so development has a greater radius for more homes, flats, penthouses and then those affected by city rates which pulls in more money. It also allows for development to hem the poor into tighter areas under the regime of 'social housing', gentrification of certain current areas 'cos youve a brand new home in ''wherever'', adios!'. This has at least a two pronged benefit, those that own actual prime central property will see its value increase again as theres more initial capacity in a broader city which leads to take up and demand being tweaked, but exclusivity and infrastructure pays off again as well. I wonder what extra capacity there is on the jubilee line, and what scope there is for extension in future.
Tokyo is 2200 sq km
London currently is 1575 sq km
 
i think about 7 old growth forests were butchered for the HS2 line construction. what is it now £100b and rising just to get to London twenty minutes quicker!! why not just get an earlier train :( or am i missing something?
As above mate. Focus on growth of property prices and extending London's importance.

Probably woods like, not forest. Could have invested in something far less destructive for growth, but we are where we are...
 


I wish I shared this chap's optimism, but there is still a very healthy population of clueless numpties who think climate change is a liberal conspiracy
i don`t know about `conspiracy` but every time a problem crops up, like fizzy drinks and overweight people for instance. the first thing that happens is a tax on the supposed `problem`. did a ten pence sugar tax on a can of coke tackle obesity? the way to remain optimistic is not to believe the hype/scare stories from the media. David Bellamy the Botanist fella, spoke out against the `official climate narrative` he lost his career and everything as a presenter. he was blacklisted and no-one would employ him, he ended up in Australia. did certain elements in the UK conspire to keep him quiet?
 
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