The Guardian writes that devastating global warming can be avoided without excessive economic cost but only if we act now and limit the temperature increase to 2C.
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A notice has appeared on the wire fence that surrounds the land at the junction of Princess Street and Whitworth Street. This is the proposed site for a controversial eleven-storey building that, opponents say, will cast a shadow across Manchester’s gay village.
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The air in our cities contains a cocktail of airborne pollutants that could be seriously damaging your health.
The Guardian offers ten tips on how you can reduce your exposure.
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There has been a big drama lately about the area of land on the corner of Princess Street and Whitworth Street, which is just across the canal from the New Union pub in the gay village.
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On 18 January, six trees blew over in the park near where I live. Some of them blocked one of the main paths into the park.
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Britain was hit by high winds today and here in the north-west they reached 100 miles per hour. I’ve lived on the 8th floor for more than seven years and have never felt the building shake in the wind the way it did today.
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In The Times, Giles Coren comments on the suggestion that obesity is caused by pollution!
Funny and worth reading.
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The Gulf Stream is an ocean current that keeps Britain warm by dragging water northwards from the tropics
Now scientists have revealed that a part of the Stream came to a temporary halt for ten days during November 2004.
No one is quite sure what this means. Will it happen again? Is it a sign of the current stuttering to a permanent halt?
‘A complete shutdown would lead to a 4C-6C cooling over 20 years.’ A new ice age…
Sea change: why global warming could leave Britain feeling the cold.
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A horribly distorted parsnip has won the prize as England’s ugliest vegetable. The competition was created to challenge the idea that tasty fruit and veg must look perfect.
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Excited to see a red squirrel in the garden this morning. It was being chased by more than a dozen sparrows. They have made the overgrown clematis their base and I expect they saw the squirrel as a predator.
From 30th September to 8th October 2006 it’s Red Squirrel Week. This one was nine days early!
Northumberland is one of the last strongholds for the red squirrel, which has been driven out of most of England over the past 100 years by the grey squirrel.
These stills are from some video that will be up on the site in a few days as part of a longer film.
More about red squirrels:
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