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[Nickbat]

This really makes me wonder whether you can rely on anything you read these days. Everything seems to be agenda-driven.

"Partial walrus estimate alarms conservation group. A partial federal assessment of Pacific walruses estimates their minimum population at just 15,164 but says the count likely missed a number of animals.

The estimate released Thursday only represents animals counted in about half of walrus habitats in the Bering and Chukchi seas and does not account for animals that were in water rather than on ice.

"You don't need to know if there are 500 passenger or 1,000 passengers on the Titanic," he said. "When it hits an iceberg, they're all endangered."

We realized we were missing a lot of walrus groups," he said.

The biologists cautioned against relying too heavily on the partial count of 15,164 walruses.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j9aV0ROdcdWzWf19M8bAS0uftv_AD98TD10O0


So, just count a few, stick out a press release, make a few soundbites and take the dosh. I'm just going to stick my head out of the window and do a population estimate. I might miss a few people, but there you go.


Oh, and while we#re on the subject of walruses, wildlife experts had this to say in 2007:

"While scientists lack a firm population estimate for the species, researchers have encountered herds as large as 100,000 in recent years.."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071226-walrus-stampede_2.html

Where is the scientific truth out there? 

I need a lie down...

...but first I need to go to Vx to get oil filters to do oil changes on my Miggy and SWMBO's Corsa. Anybody want anything while I'm down there? 

[Nickbat]

..and while we're on the subject of truth, Sky News environmental correpondent, Catherine Jacob wrote an article on about that idiotic Met Office prediction for the UK in 40 years time. In it, she waxed lyrically about the UK's Mediterranean future and wrote:

"At Otter Farm in Devon, Mark Diacono has already started to grow peaches and apricots and even has a small olive grove."

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/UK-Climate-Impacts-Report-Says-Droughts-And-Floods-To-Plague-Britain-Because-Of-Climate-Change/Article/200906315310858?videoSourceID=11a319b1e2d31210VgnVCM1000005d04170aRCRD&lpos=UK_News_Article_Inline_Player_List_1&lid=ARTICLE_15310858_UK_Climate_Impacts_Report_Says_Droughts_And_Floods_To_Plague_Britain_Because_Of_Climate_Change

If you bothered to research instead of just regurgitate nonsense, Ms. Jacob, you'd have discovered that most, if not all, of the olives and almonds at Otter Farm have popped their clogs, because they can't hack the UK's weather. 

http://www.otterfarmblog.co.uk/2009/05/dull.html

I want the truth. Is that too much to ask for? :-/

[Omega man 2]

See this report on telly, but I'm still holding out that common sense will eventualy prevail although it doesn't look likely any time soon

"Can you believe anything these days?"

No.

You want the truth on the enviroment? Here it is

Amazingly my omega is affecting the weather on Neptune, my cat must be knackered

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/05/08/neptune-news/

[Debs.]

I want the truth. Is that too much to ask for? :-/

Many confuse 'news' with 'truth'; concepts, which (I believe) are mutually exclusive!

[Nickbat]

News in the last 24 hours:

"Coldest Weather in 100 Years to Strike by 2012"

http://www.spaceandscience.net/id16.html



"World cooling is hear to stay and the new round of climate alarmism just announced by UK Government ministers and the Met Office of more extreme weather and warming in coming decades driven by mankind has no merit and is defied by the facts and front-line science"

http://www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=50&c=1



The UK needs to plan now for a future that will be hotter and bring greater extremes of flood and drought, says Environment Secretary Hilary Benn.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8107014.stm



FFS!   

Still, let's rely on Benn and the Met Office and close down a few more power stations. The windmills will see us through.