Giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their flatulence, say researchers. British scientists have calculated the methane output of sauropods, including the species known as Brontosaurus. By scaling up the digestive wind of cows, they estimate that the population of dinosaurs – as a whole – produced 520 million tonnes of gas annually. They [...]
US tycoon Donald Trump has warned that wind farms could “completely end” tourism in Scotland and the country is “in effect committing financial suicide”. Mr Trump said he would not have built his golf course in the north east of Scotland if he had known about plans to install turbines off the coast there. He [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Politics, Science, scotland, Technology
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Tagged "mad alex", Alex Salmond, Donald Trump, renewable energy, Scottish National Party, scottish parliament, wind power, wind turbine
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December 27, 2011 – 6:07 am
As I’ve written previously, Christmas is an ancient pagan rite, its relationship to the baby in the feedbox tenuous at best. However, it is a rite, and with rites come repetition (indeed, that is the point). Research bears out the common hunch that the important bits of religion are in its rituals, not theology: this [...]
September 1, 2011 – 8:21 pm
In case you wondered how the French could afford to keep it lit up all the time, now you know… A lightning bolt appears to strike the iconic Eiffel Tower while the Paris landmark is seen illuminated in vibrant blue lights. Amateur photographer Bertrand Kulik captured the shot which will appear in an exhibition titled [...]
August 3, 2011 – 12:53 am
Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around “as high as a kite”, a government official has said. Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine. She was reporting to a parliamentary hearing on [...]
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Tagged crop circles, lara giddings, poppy farming, rugby union, skippy the bush kangaroo, tasmania, wallabies
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For those who live overseas, the Australian Prime Minister has recently unveiled a plan to introduce a carbon tax, after brokering an acceptable deal with independent and Green MPs. In this post, I want to look at a possibly interesting shift in opinion about the need for direct action on climate change, upon which the [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Tagged airplanes, australia, Australian politics, carbon offsets, carbon tax, climate change, climate change policy, Economics, Facebook, Jetstar, Julia Gillard, Lowy Institute, moral hazard, revealed preferences, stated preferences, tax
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A few weeks ago I wrote a post about animals and how the law can best protect animals whose habitats are threatened by development. Little did I think that I might hear of a European case, nor did I think that case would involve European hamsters. In fact, I didn’t even know that there were [...]
From one extreme of human engineering achievement, to another. The picture was taken by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli as he left the International Space Station in May in a Soyuz capsule to return to Earth. Safety procedures mean the Russian vehicle would never normally be in transit when a shuttle is present. It makes this [...]
… is likely to be £6 – £8 billion. That’s the likely oil-based revenue that stands to be removed from British coffers if Scotland restored Independence and withdrew its share of North Sea assets (previously established in both The Continental Shelf Act 1964 and the Continental Shelf (Jurisdiction) Order 1968 as the UK North Sea [...]
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, England, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Popular culture, scotland, Taxation, Wales, Welfare
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Tagged Alex Salmond, Cadder ruling, crown estate. renewable energy, cymraeg, Holyrood, it's scotland's oil, natural resources, north sea, offshore windfarms, oil and gas, S4C, Scots law, scottish independence, Scottish National Party, scottish parliament, scottish politics, south wales valleys, tidal power, welsh, welsh assembly, wind power
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A while ago back on the blog, we were having a debate about whether the idea of property, and private property in particular, is a peculiarly human thing. Certainly, I think animals have a notion of territory. Sometimes they have a very strong notion, and will chase any interlopers off their territory. Our dog had [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Tagged animal rights, animals, apes, endangered species, Environment, environmental concern, environmentalism, John Hadley, Law, Leadbeater's possum, property law, property rights
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