"Global Warming"

They found a Lobster with 3 Claws near the Hinkley Point outfall off the Somerset coast

 

there are some strange things happening to frogs in some places around the world

 

Now don't start that strange things bit again Dim, you know you just get over excited about that sort of stuff:WINK1:

 

Yes, I've seen that one on Youtube. I guess the moral of the story is, if you happen to be a frog, never trust a monkey.

 

Damn I have just started drawing my pension today
Best not to invest it then and have a 35 day blow out

Jack McH

 

I've seen that one with the frog and the chimp ...

 

Just to get back on subject I think the whole "climate change scaremongering" is a good thing. I don't care if it exists or not, but it's making people think about the way they treat natural resources and the idea that they may one day run out. With more people recycling, less items going to landfill and most people thinking in greener terms.

 

Fantastic that all this recycling is going on ----------or is it.
There are reports the councils are dumping the stuff in land fill because they cant cope with the quantities,also reports they are shipping the recycled waste abroad to be dumped somewhere else.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3298540/Waste-being-sent-abroad-marked-as-recycling.html

 

Much of the stuff that gets 'recycled' when we separate our rubbish into different containers for the many different bin days, actually goes off on great container ships to half way round the world to be dumped on the doorstep of some poor community, who then sort out what they can sell, and just leave the rest on the ground.

Whenever you ask a green energy company or the manufacturer of the lasted super 'green' car how much energy is used in its production, shipping and ultimate disposal compared to how much it will save during its useful life, they usually just go all quiet.

I don't like the scaremongering just because I believe it is detrimental to the planet in the long term. When news first broke that we'd made a hole in the ozone, people took it seriously and started trying to change their ways. Then once we started hearing that we're all doomed, its too late, we're stuffed, we're all going to drown/bake/freeze no matter what we do, people increasingly just don't care.

I also think all the focus is in the wrong area. There are many things that threaten the balance of nature, and our lifestyles, that just get ignored in the mainstream. We know about huge scale deforestation of the rain forests, yet most of us (me included) do and say nothing. Lets well known is the rapid decline of our pollinating insects. We all know of the plight of the honeybees because honey bees have direct commercial value, but we hear far less about bumblebees and butterflies and lots of either creatures that play a vital role but are not perceived to have any value.

I'm not saying we shouldn't try to look after the planet, on the contrary I think its our duty. I just think that if we don't get our priorities right we're more likely to starve to death because our crops stop growing way before our towns get submerged by the rising sea.

 

Clueless, whether you like scaremongering or not - you are actually making a good job of it!! I, like most of GC members are troubled but I sometimes wonder,in my simple way, whether it's not JUST our turn as a species, to decline. Maybe it's the ants turn next. I'm just a country bumpkin with straw in my hair Clueless and I intend to continue leaning on the gate ,staring out across the meadow.....
sincerely,
Jenny namaste

 

Same goes for you to Dim,
Jenny namaste

 

humans still don't understand nature fully and lots to learn ... so there is hope

http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/mathematics-of-dna/

snip:
Imagine that someone gives you a mystery novel with an entire page ripped out.

And let’s suppose someone else comes up with a computer program that reconstructs the missing page, by assembling sentences and paragraphs lifted from other places in the book.

Imagine that this computer program does such a beautiful job that most people can’t tell the page was ever missing.

DNA does that.
In the 1940′s, the eminent scientist Barbara McClintock damaged parts of the DNA in corn maize. To her amazement, the plants could reconstruct the damaged section. They did so by copying other parts of the DNA strand, then pasting them into the damaged area.

This discovery was so radical at the time, hardly anyone believed her reports. (40 years later she won the Nobel Prize for this work.)
And we still wonder: How does a tiny cell possibly know how to do…. that???
A French HIV researcher and computer scientist has now found part of the answer. Hint: The instructions in DNA are not only linguistic, they’re beautifully mathematical. There is an Evolutionary Matrix that governs the structure of DNA.