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Mass crop failures expected in England as farmers demand hosepipe bans
Leaked documents predict crop failure rates of up to 50% as water companies resist calls to prioritise food production
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Half of the potato crop is expected to fail as it cannot be irrigated, and even crops that are usually drought-tolerant, such as maize, have been failing.Don’t worry, this isn’t actually happening. They’re just measuring the temperature too close to an airfield. Don’t prepare or change in any way, this always happens and nothing is out of the ordinary. Keep buying stuff as much as possible.
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3 storeys open plan? No doors on the communal areas to stop heat going upstairs?
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Nice work. However much online these businesses get there will always be physical bodies needed. A virtual viewing is miles from the real thing.
I quite fancy doing viewings for The Modern House, mainly so I could nose around the houses.
Edit: they do have some vacancies https://www.themodernhouse.com/careers/saturday-viewings-coordinator/
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14 minutes ago, nightowl said:
It has become that now so it hard to genuinely tell what the planet is actually doing and reacting which is important to know.
Anytime anyone queries any aspect of the science and the response is to demonise the questioner isn't a good sign for those particular fields.
If I suggested dinosaurs weren't wiped out by an asteroid because of XYZ, it's unlikely anyone will a accuse me of being an alt right Trumpist or nonsense like that even though the asteroid is the fashionable consensus.
How dare anyone have an emotional response to the likelihood of their children suffering.
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56 minutes ago, Mikhail Liebenstein said:
Beat me to it, shutters really do work, though double glazing with blinds is also effective if you let air in from the cooler sides of the house.
Just planning some climbing plants for the south facing terrace doors as well. Should help shade it as the heat gets worse (important to have timer irrigation though).
We're also lucky to have skylights that open upstairs and act as a chimney for the hot air.
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29 minutes ago, Bob8 said:
People who think what Murdoch tells them says other people are gullible
Interesting veering of direction from Murdoch recently: https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/11/09/climate-change-tabloids-murdoch
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Cost of living latest updates: New prediction bills could top £5,000 next year – at £571 in January alone; energy bosses summoned for crunch talks
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8 minutes ago, Staffsknot said:
It basically encapsulates a chunk of what has been uncovered for last 30 years. It was a great 3 part series.
It does require someone to actually watch it though, when online denialism only takes moments. Being open minded on an internet forum is a minority sport.
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It's all here https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0cgqlv1/big-oil-v-the-world-series-1-1-denial
Really well documented, unless you have an interest in not hearing it.
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5 hours ago, kzb said:
You don't have to go back that far. Look up oz bush fires in 1974. Peanut knows this already.
They were really small fires
There's no proof of how much land was even burned. Sensationalist nonsense being dug up, in fact, the measuring tools they used in the 70s simply didn't work that well. The fires were welcomed in many places, and provided much needed entertainment for families.
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3 minutes ago, scottbeard said:
If it's dead easy and way overpaid why aren't you doing it?
My opinion but, there is no amount of money that could induce me to have to talk to every nutter that wants to rant about their pet obsession.
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On 21/07/2022 at 15:17, PeanutButter said:
5yr fix 60% LTV remortgage comparison:
RBS 3.16% 1k fee
HSBC 3.19% 1k fee
Lloyds 3.19% 1.5k fee
Buckinghamshire BS 3.19% 1k fee
RBS (EPC A or B required) 3.22% 1k fee
3.09 First Direct 500 fee
3.16 Natwest 1k fee
3.19 RBS 1k fee
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45 minutes ago, Badhairday said:
Solar panels aren't really off grid though. I am in the process of getting solar panels and they basically need electricity to function.
OK.
Stay on grid, create a set up that allows you to minimise reliance on services. Water, energy etc.
Or buy lots of Hermes Birkin bags and stick them in a vault.
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Solar panels, get off grid capabilities.
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This is a weird one, not sure why a bog standard mid-terrace (which LR has listed as detached) would sell for 450k in 2022, when the exact same type of mid-terrace on the same street sold for 540k (12k loss) in 2021.
Any thoughts?
By any measure, that place (ex-rental) market rate was over 500k. Something dodgy going on? Landlord up to tricks?
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8 minutes ago, Confusion of VIs said:
NB it is our reliance on fossil fuels that is already and will continue to make us poor.
As a nation we only pretend we want to be independent. Sucking at oil nations' teats is what we're really built for.
We left the EU to show them who is boss and it turns out the answer is also: Not Us.
National clownery, no wonder we got Boris for a leader.
Talking of clownery...
WARNING: HEARTLAND INSTITUTE LINK
VESTED INTEREST ALERT!!!For a full list of their astroturf websites please visit https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heartland_Institute
But I do like how you titled the link so it seemed legit, nice work 🤡
1 hour ago, sexton said:ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (July 27, 2022) – A new study, Corrupted Climate Stations: The Official U.S. Surface Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed, finds approximately 96 percent of U.S. temperature stations used to measure climate change fail to meet what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) considers to be “acceptable” and uncorrupted placement by its own published standards.
Guys guys guys we got it all WRONG. It wasn't HOT, it was just a MISREADING of the thermometer! You can stop sweating now, it's fine. Tell the farmers their crops aren't dying, it's just they're measuring them wrong!!! Huzzah for science!
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On 16/07/2022 at 13:07, PeanutButter said:
I got a message from Zopa with an increase just last week.
Zopa instant access is 1.81 now. Thrilling.
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38 minutes ago, sexton said:
If there were records of all the floods,fires and droughts in the last 10,000 years one could possibly say whether the present day is better or worse.
Why are there not people still living in Göbekli Tepe, Chaco canyon, Ur, Xanadu etc?
Buddy, there are records. Science is a wonderful thing.
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Bad news for buyers as best mortgage deals disappear fast while rates highest for eight years
The average five-year deal is now higher than 4 per cent for the first time since October 2014, data shows. A typical two-year fixed mortgage also rose for the tenth month in a row to 3.95 per cent.
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Never believe your eyes. Your very eyes and ears are lying to you. There is no climate change, everything is fine. Keep consuming. Keep working.
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15 hours ago, kzb said:
I must say it is absolutely amazing they know the average global temperature in 1880, to an accuracy of 0.01 degrees. It's like science fiction coming true before your eyes.
I must say it is absolutely amazing you know the exact size of bushfires that happened in 1974.
You must have spent so much time personally measuring them! It’s like science fiction coming true before your eyes.
wHat evEN iz TRuE? MAybE wE aLL JuSt a DReaM
But remember, kzb has already stated that man made climate change is real. About 100 pages back of time wasting “debate”.
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12 hours ago, dugsbody said:
Let's just keep our fingers crossed that MarkG of the internet is correct. Otherwise "the libs" might be right huh and you can't believe that.
If only there was a way he could explain to NASA where they are going wrong. Would save them so much time, the poor dears.
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15 hours ago, bartelbe said:
Sigh, you don't get it do you?
Some things are natural monopolies and trying to create competition simply doesn't work. Water is a classic example, it would be madness to have multiple companies laying different sets of pipes and building their own reservoirs to provide competition.
By definition the water industry is a natural monopoly and no amount of regulation, to appease loony free market Tories can change that.
Monopolies work better in the pubic sector than the private sector.
How badly have you felt energy crisis?
in House prices and the economy
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Not fixed, eon.
Not felt any difference, house is small and well insulated.
We’re still not allowed to put solar panels up unless no one can see them.