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Worms Important to the world |
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"Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than most persons would at first suppose." Charles Robert Darwin, English naturalist and author (1809-1882). |
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Why are our summers getting wetter? |
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Global warming, do they really mean ‘global wetting’? Well we’re told that as a result of ‘global warming’ the winters will get wetter and the summers will get hotter. It seems the reverse is more the case, should we be talking about ‘global wetting’. I pity anyone who suffers from depression, summer is a great uplifter and recharges us for the dull, wet, cold, dark winter ahead. |
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Are hybrids too ‘un-green’ to build? |
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We read nearly every day of the ever increasing costs of motoring or about the unsustainable damage our cars are still doing to the environment. But, what’s the answer to all of this? The motor manufacturer paces up and down in his design offices like a caged lion, wondering what he can do to survive the latest onslaught from the expanding ‘green’ lobby. |
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In the 1860’s the US oil price was above $110 per barrel. We are now at similarly high levels. This is not the problem. Our problem is that from 1870 to 1970 the oil price flat-lined, in absolute and relative terms, and in that century of cheap oil we configured ll our modern industries to rely on it |
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Monday, 28 April 2008 17:42 |
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A radical solution to tackle climate change by reducing harmful gases from car exhausts, while sheltering motorists from soaring petrol prices is to be cut back or even scrapped.
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