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A load of old sh*t!
Red Defender:
i get cold enough with the draught in my car here - imagine how cold it would be in the north pole!!
carbore:
My favious part "Forest, 19, one of the seven women who are touring the country celebrating people who reduce emissions but targeting others who they say promote high carbon lifestyles."
Touring the country to clebrate low emissions!!!
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
At least they can't blame this one on 4x4 drivers!
Banana skins ruining Ben Nevis claim environmentalists
SCOTLAND'S highest peak is being spoiled by discarded banana skins, conservationists warned today.
More than half of the rubbish collected from Ben Nevis in the Highlands is made up of the fruit peel, according to the John Muir Trust.
The charity says up to 1,000 banana skins can be found on the summit plateau at any time.
In the cold temperatures they can take up to two years to biodegrade.
Hillwalkers are being urged to treat their fruit waste like any other rubbish and take it back down the mountain with them.
Conservation officer Sarah Lewis said: "Banana skins are a particular problem because people think they will quickly disappear.
"Sadly this isn't the case.
"We've often caught walkers in the process of chucking their banana skin on the path.
"When you speak to them about it they say it is not a problem because they will biodegrade.
"Quite simply, if you carry something up, you should carry it back down."
At 4,406ft (1,344m), Ben Nevis is the highest peak in the UK.
Cool conditions at the summit means the breakdown process of natural waste takes significantly longer than it would at lower levels.
Skins can become buried in large areas of packed snow and remain there until after it has melted.
Manicminer:
I have cut and pasted this from elsewhere on the internet
--- Quote ---As we all know, the so-called science that "proves" man - made global warming is full of fraud and mistruth. Like how they throw out climate data they dont like, for entire centuries in fact, and "reinterpret" other data that doesnt fit their lying conclusions until it does.
Here is a great video from a weatherman and climatologist on the subject, and the icing on the cake is the picture of the uss Nautilus surfacing at the North Pole in March of 1959... and it is OPEN WATER, not a hint of ice pack just at the end of winter up there. It is at about minute 4:40 on the video. Beautiful!
http://www.accuweather.com/video-on-demand.asp?video=39454465001&channel=VBLOG_BASTARDI&title=Some%20Extra%20Post
--- End quote ---
V8MoneyPit:
But, to be fair, both sides of the fence are prone to leaving out information that is 'inconvenient' for their argument. Although, I tend towards the side that says we are making far less impact than some would have us believe. Nature is far more powerful than the human race, being just an insignificant part of it, are. However, there is no doubt that we are having *some* impact. And anything we can do to reduce that can't be a bad thing.
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