Molly Coddle

People like Abbott who are in denial about climate change, don't or won't take it seriously and if you have a government who doesn't take it seriously, his/hers followers aren't likely to either. Also to add to that, I'd say a good 60% maybe more, I don't know, of people couldn't care less about climate change, mainly because they don't understand or care about the consequences it will eventually have on society. I feel for the scientists in the know, I bet they feel like banging their heads against a brick wall.

Molly Coddle

Yeah I know what you mean, I really wanted to do the LM this year (on the bucket list of things to do before I'm 40) but because I'm not a member of a running club or an elite runner I would've had to run for a charity, which isn't a problem until it's time to collect the money.

My husband did it last year for charity, a close friend of ours died from Leukaemia and he ran in her name, but he had to get over 2k just to be able to do it, he managed to get more but he said he hated chasing the money.
This year he's running just to compete. Like you, that's what he likes best about it. He only managed to get in this year because he came in the top 5% last year, and I think as long as you come in the top 5% you just automatically get a place for the year after.


Regarding all the bike talk, I recognise some of your speil, my lads are into their bikes.
I have a friend who works for Hope and people who work for Hope all get a complementary Hope bike, the lucky swines, they are rather smart I must admit. I didn't realise until now that they aren't for sale elsewhere........................Italy huh? I love that place, will you be testing your new frame out on the Italian Alps when it's ready? ....It would be rude not to wouldn't it?

I suppose it gave your wifes ears a rest for a while....... ................ You can tell I'm speaking from experience can't ya!

Amazulu

I don't believe in MMGW

Plenty of scientists don't either

Molly Coddle

I didn't use to either but I do now.


What are your reasons?

Molly Coddle

Oh God, I've opened a can of worms now haven't I!

Just going to say this, if this thread ends up getting nasty don't blame me!




Blame Garry!

Tr1boy

Good work on the LM race from your husband:thumb up:


Those Hope bikes are just open mold far eastern frames, there's a million of 'em out there. Sadly there are no carbon bespoke frame builders in the UK any more. There was one in Devon but they folded.

Hope are generally regarded as being for the mtb crowd. Their road hits are good (but loud) but their go to market strategy has put a lot of dealers off side, especially in the bespoke wheel building world.

I won't be testing my bike in the Italian Alps. The year's plan now that IronMan Lanzarote has been canned will be:

Mallorca Stephen Roche training Camp next week (old bike).
Tour of Wessex ( probably old bike)
High Altitude 12 col climbing camp week in the French Alps, 1st week of June (new bike)

4 day stage race based in Lake Annecy 1st week Sept (new bike)

Hopefully will have another solid year on the domestic TT circuit as well.

Alfresco

Why do approximately half of the noodles in my cup of chicken noodle soup float and the other half of them sink? They all look the same.

GarryP

Actually there seems to be a repeated pattern.

• You get someone with the inquisitiveness and 'step back and look at the big picture' nous. They find the general area, do what they do best (research & think) and find the size and shape of the problem.
• They don't believe it's hopeless and come up with all kinds of ideas how it can be fixed (these tend to be problem solvers by nature).
• Weary heads point out the problems, the thing they didn't see. They consider and try again, and again...
• Eventually they realise there is a BIG problem and start looking at how the world can be alerted to the necessary actions.
• They find out nobody's listening and there are dumb voices (backed up by vested interests) claiming that black is white and there is no problem. These voices tend to use the same script, over and over, even when it's shown to be crap.
• Heads are banged.
• They get disheartened, give up on the masses as a lost cause, and either a) go down the self-sufficiency, pastoral idyll, line, or b) give up and accept that the world will be going to shit within a decade or two, it can't be stopped, so they have fun now.
• They tend to then effectively disappear from area - there being no point in re-rehearsing the same points over and over.

That's been happening since the Club of Rome and Limits to Growth over 40 years ago. They, even with simple data and model, basically nailed the big, big picture back then - but nobody really listened. Comparing their business as usual/do nothing scenario with reality is chilling, an economist would be looking for a nobel prize if one of their models was this good over that time horizon - but SWHTF as an when we hit one or more of their predicted systemic tipping points...

Alfresco

It is healthier to eat 100 grams of German sausage than 100 grams of Almonds.



X 2 for 100 grams of Almonds below.

Amazulu

No point in posting reasons because I won't debate it - I'm not going to change my mind

I'm educated. I read. I draw my own conclusions. There is enough info and 'expert' opinion to support my standpoint

But you party on and form your own opinion

Amazulu

Germany rocks

Dreamy

No it's not.

There's more than calories involved in healthy eating.

chris955

Australian Magpies are actually Pied Crows and not actually a species of Magpie.

Alfresco

Indeed there is.

lesleys

It is possible to distinguish carbon that occurs 'naturally' and that which results from fossil fuels.

Since carbon-14 is created during exposure in the atmosphere, low isotope carbon-14 has not been subjected to atmospheric exposure and therefore must have come from underground. In other words, we dug it up, burned it, and now low isotope carbon-14 is in the atmosphere. That is how the two origins of carbon can be clearly identified, by the isotopic signature.

Said another way, low isotope carbon-14 is from fossil fuels, while the rest of the carbon has been in the natural cycle for longer periods. Longer expose times increase the C-14 in the molecule. Carbon that is stored and released through natural processes such as the normal seasonal carbon breathing that occurs in plant life has a longer atmospheric lifetime.

Source

http://ossfoundation.us/projects/env...g/human-caused