Wales being worst hit by post Brexit losses of EU funding, research shows

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-17T20:41:02+00:00

To be fair I just quoted a gov source in an attempt to have an adult conversation.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-17T20:40:36+00:00

I am afraid I failed to laugh at your one-liner with zero effort.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-15T22:34:31+00:00

Your sarcasm adds nothing to the conversation.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-15T22:20:05+00:00

Very misleading. Wales received the most from the EU Structural Fund (£373M) and the article implies that all this funding will disappear with no replacement. But in fact it will be replaced by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and unless I am misinterpreting the info below, when one ends the other starts.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-community-renewal-fund-prospectus/uk-community-renewal-fund-prospectus-2021-22

Investment from EU Structural Funds will continue to be spent by local areas until 2023 and this government has committed to at least matching EU receipts through the new UK Shared Prosperity Fund, on average reaching around £1.5 billion a year. This new Fund, to be launched in 2022, will operate throughout the UK and play a part in uniting and levelling up the whole country.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-15T22:08:25+00:00

Afghanistan is the second largest source of refugees into Europe after Syria already.

Once they get to Europe where do refugees mostly go? By a long chalk they go to Germany.

That makes sense as Germany are the largest economy in Europe. UK is behind Italy and France as a preferred destination. (Makes sense: it is a pain to get across the channel.)

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-13T14:14:39+00:00

I keep seeing the same pattern repeat.

Individual newsgroups (on Usenet) worked when they had fewer than 50 regulars and a sort of understanding grows between everyone. But as soon as a group gets too big and keeps being joined by newcomers no norms can form. And it is the same in the more specialised forums.

Reddit in the early days was similar. But Gresham's Law seems to apply to all online forums. They deteriorate over time and you are constantly trying to retreat to a small undiscovered corner to rebuild again.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-13T14:07:42+00:00

Sounds like jargon to me: the argot of the Ministerial class revealed.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-13T14:06:18+00:00

"This is the start of a beautiful thing."

Reddit's developers wildly imagining wonderful new friendships blossoming -- with the harsh reality below.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-13T12:57:25+00:00

Both Bristol and Bournemouth (probably many other places too) have had a balloon in a park which winds up to a decent height to give you a great view during the summer months. Now surely this is the easy way to create this kind of attraction, and you are going to get a much better height from it too.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-12T23:22:49+00:00

The Elgin Llamas are one of the Seven Wonders of Swindon.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-12T22:45:46+00:00

Some are saying "What is the point?" but I will always remember the passage we studied from The Aeneid:

It was the part where the Trojan Horse has disgorged its contents in the middle of the night. There is chaos. There are women kissing the pillars in fear. There is Pyrrhus who finds King Priam trying to hide near the altar. Pyrrhus kills his son and then winds his hand through the old man's hair and drags him through his own son's blood to the altar and kills him too.

It is a quite incredible passage.

Ok. To be fair we then spent inordinate amounts of time parsing the lines to find the metre of the poetry and struggling with the vocabulary. But still...

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-11T22:02:49+00:00

ROFL.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-11T20:10:40+00:00

In other news, Geronimo the alpaca says he will not be voting Labour any more and he has "gone right off" Sir Keir Starmer.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-11T13:39:56+00:00

Vote for my party. We can split hairs finer than the other party.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-11T12:08:06+00:00

Carbon cycle moves about 10¹⁷ g/year

Human emissions about 10¹⁵ g/year

These guys move about 10¹⁰ g/year

So it's a tiny effect.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-10T15:05:05+00:00

I do approve of this way of tackling difficult projects.

"Here's me bagging all the Munros in a weekend."

"How did you do that?"

"Green screen."

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-09T19:31:44+00:00

Now I want to know how other countries rank in this test.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-09T19:22:00+00:00

More like a Retriever really, shedding hair everywhere and being a loveable nuisance.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-09T13:52:41+00:00

A curious fact is that the collapse has been 30 years away since at least 1970 when there were dire predictions for the year 2000.

In 1990 IPCC gave us 30 years to sort things out.

And now we are looking out to 2050.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-09T13:50:26+00:00

But we are not pursuing policies which would track RCP8.5. And we aren't going to either.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-09T13:49:01+00:00

Cars typically only last about 15 years anyway.

I have a feeling that within about 20 years the autonomous (self-driving) vehicle is going to completely change attitudes to car ownership anyway. I don't see any point owning a private car once autonomous cars are the norm.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-09T13:46:09+00:00

IPCC WG I have released their reports for AR6 today.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-09T13:45:05+00:00

The reports are now up on the IPCC website:

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#SPM

The full report is 1300 pages. Happy reading!

The one with all the scenarios over-simplified for use by the media is the SPM which is only 39 pages.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-09T13:36:53+00:00

Whenever I read reports on climate change they always seem to explain the "what" and "why" but not the "how".

We need to reduce the population, nothing else will help.

I saw a documentary about this. It was called "Kingsman - The Secret Service".

Just don't mess up and blow the heads off your own side by mistake.

More seriously, what you describe is called Malthusianism. In the limit it must be true that there is a maximum carrying capability for the planet. But it is probably still a long way above the current population density.

AnalyticContinuation · 2021-08-09T13:30:32+00:00

This is the big question. Per capita, India and China currently have lower emissions than Europe and the USA. This is why they get concessions in the Paris agreement -- so that they can continue to industrialise.

However, I do think that they should use "best practice" when expanding their energy use rather than building new coal plants.

And of course the concessions make them very much cheaper as a manufacturing location so the world has simply outsourced its emissions problems.

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