OT Global warming

[Jethro_uk]

The same Romans that grew grapes in Yorkshire ?

[newshound]

I was thinking that. The first time I visited Hadrian's wall (on a relatively nice summer day 40 years ago) I asked myself what on earth did they come here for (the standard answer in those days was the copper in Anglesey and the tin and lead in Cornwall). That was before I looked up what they were growing.

[bert]

And stop building houses altogether because they contribute to flooding downstream wherever they are built.

[bert]

In message , Capitol writes

It used to be the responsibility of the Rivers Authority to assess the impact of all housing developments on the local waterways and streams.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , bert writes

Still is or rather the EA. They have a strong say in what happens within

8m of a river bank.

I only got permission to build a calf shed (more than 8m from the bank but well within the flood plain) by agreeing flood water must be able to enter the building. They are rightly concerned that structures will occupy some of the available flood volume.

Local development was not allowed to have garden sheds!

[dennis]

Not if they don't accelerate the run off into the rivers.

[Martin Brown]

They were homesick for wine and warmth so were brewing their own low grade plonk locally to drown their sorrows. Today there are vineyards making commercial quality wines just outside York and also at Helmsley.

And these are wines that match up to international judging standards not some Centurions home brew gut rot.

Copper, Tin and Lead. They also brought us the stinging nettle, ground elder and the sycamore tree all three of them pernicious weeds.

Stinging nettles to help keep them warm! Ground elder for the gout and sycamore presumably as a quick growing source of a familiar wood.

[Tim Lamb]

I sold a small strip of development land so kept a close watch on the eventual planning consents.

Surface water had to be collected and restricted from joining the existing drainage system at more than a specified rate. This was perhaps more to do with not overwhelming the existing pipe work than protecting riverside dwellings. Nevertheless, some thought is given to development drainage impact.

I have long thought that town planners must have some inbuilt fear of allowing private housing to overlook valleys. Hence exception 32 (I think) where low cost housing may be permitted to the exclusion of conventional.

[Bill Wright]

We have to build houses because the population is going to go up a lot, because of immigration.

Bill

[Weatherlawyer]

How long ago was that written?

Bill's best beat IBM at IBM. GNU was a loner's wet dream and Linux wasn't even a twinkle. Then Windows became a monopoly and the Gate knew just how to work a monopoly.

Apple could have made a rival but their business plan was to replicate IBM not do a software. Software became a part of the product because Jobs had superb writers working at bottom dollar rates and he could always get more of them

[John Williamson]

Before the 11th of May 2001.

IMO, Apple's mistake was to try and create a walled garden. This was also their strength, as they could quite truthfully say that their stuff "Just Worked", as long as you were working the way they wanted you to. The IBM model, while being a lot more open, was also less reliable.

[Weatherlawyer]

Ignoring the fact that Siberia (particularly the coastal stretch where the logs were dragged out of the lake) has it's own peculiar climate conditions ; we don't know what conditions caused the growth of these trees, they were i n a bog and the region is known to suffer problems from cold and heat as we ll as sunburn for trees not actually in the wet soil.

And we don't know if the pond was a pond when they were growing. It seems f air to assume it was. Or does the region have beavers capable of altering t he climate locally?

The biggest problem on relying on such sparse data is that if there was a f orest fire near where the trees were growing in a pond; they would have bee n spared, showered with ash as fertiliser and received more sunlight from t he destruction of any trees upslope.

[harryagain]

Another of your fantasies?

[harryagain]

[dennis]

From a link on that page:

Colin Bignell

Talcum powder is dangerous, its also probably carcinogenic.

But that article doesn't say its safe. Maybe you didn't understand what it says?

[Nightjar]

The evidence suggests that the Roman introduced rabbits died out in Britain around the 5th century BC. They did not take too kindly to being transplanted from the warmer climate of Spain.

The wild rabbits in Britain today (with the possible exception of those on Lundy, which may be descended from Roman rabbits) are almost certainly descended from those introduced by the Normans.

The Romans did leave us with the edible dormouse though, as well as (probably) guinea fowl and chickens.

Colin Bignell

[polygonum]

Really? I thought it was Lionel Walter Rothschild!

Nasty things to invade your house. Neighbours have had them in recent years.

[Richard]

[Bob Martin]

MicroSoft's revenues have never come close to IBM's.

Yes, they make more from software but that's never been a major part of IBM's business.

[Adrian]

Sales are slightly lower ($78bn vs $108bn for 2013), but income is higher ($57bn vs $49bn for 2013). Both fairly typical years, although MSFT is climbing whilst IBM's more static.