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by newmac
26 Mar 2009, 18:21
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Help needed for climate change action tomorrow - London
Replies: 4
Views: 1717

Help needed for climate change action tomorrow - London

Time to prove you aren't an armchair activist and come along tomorrow for mintues to hours whatever you can spare...see below: Friday, 27 March, from 6.30 am, near Waterloo station It’s time to Make Carbon History, and prove we’re Not Stupid. Tomorrow morning, we’re printing news from 2020, showing ...
by newmac
24 Sep 2008, 10:55
Forum: London & The South East
Topic: London drink ?
Replies: 27
Views: 38956

Looks like that is a bailout. Perhaps we should postpone but also publish it on the general area once we have agreed a date as I'm sure there are plenty of people in London who read the forums but don't look at the regional bits all that often....
by newmac
03 Sep 2008, 14:16
Forum: London & The South East
Topic: London drink ?
Replies: 27
Views: 38956

How about, to give everyone time to organise their diaries we go for Wednesday 24th at the Citie of York, starting around 6, 6.30? James, can you make it? If so I'll bring along your olive oil and laminated poster. Anyone else what some wholesale priced fair trade extra virgin in conversion olive oil?
by newmac
04 Aug 2008, 12:41
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Climate Camp: "the energy gap is a nonsense"
Replies: 52
Views: 7856

The only way I can see that the governments target of 40% renewables is going to be reached is if the capacity is reduced - Gas shortages close down the 30% gas plants, Nuclear cliff closes down the 30% nuclear plants and the coal plants are shut in. The current 3% from renewables and 5% from France...
by newmac
05 Jun 2008, 16:11
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: London Drinks tonight
Replies: 0
Views: 570

London Drinks tonight

For those that don't notice the different regional sections down below....6.15 drinks tonight at the Jerusalem Tavern on Briton Street, near Farringdon.
by newmac
28 May 2008, 18:23
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: National Meet Up - August 2nd/3rd
Replies: 231
Views: 52478

May be able to come on the Sunday to say hello - I'll check with the missus. Good work all. Hopefully catch up with those I know soon (next week in London?) as I've been pretty rubbish for a while.
by newmac
28 May 2008, 18:01
Forum: London & The South East
Topic: London meet up Thursday 5th?
Replies: 23
Views: 31240

London meet up Thursday 5th?

Whose up for a London meet up next week? How about Thursday 5th?
by newmac
12 Apr 2008, 16:02
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Newmac Update
Replies: 7
Views: 1387

Current housing stock, I mean not new build. With 20 odd million houses already with an expected lifespan of 1000 years and most of them in bad shape I'm happy to leave the jazzy new builds to green architects and concentrate on sorting these out. AEES is the course I am going to do. Thanks for the ...
by newmac
11 Apr 2008, 16:57
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Newmac Update
Replies: 7
Views: 1387

Newmac Update

Haven't been posting for a while so for those who don't know me please ignore. For those who do here's where I'm at. Sold flat a few weeks back. Got out in the nick of time I think. Have resigned from my city job and have 4 more weeks left till I'm free. Starting MSc at CAT in September. Also going ...
by newmac
09 Apr 2008, 14:52
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The real truth about Climate Change from a real scientist.
Replies: 49
Views: 7165

Carter is a member of the Institute of Public Affairs. http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Public_Affairs Video kept crashing when I was watching so not sure if he mentioned this. If he didn't or did and didn't explain it properly then I think we can move on and waste some time on so...
by newmac
18 Dec 2007, 13:19
Forum: Books, Magazines & Film
Topic: DVD Review: A Crude Awakening, The Oil Crash
Replies: 36
Views: 18712

I agree that the possibility of the UK production going above 3mbpd is extremely small but it is not analogous to an apple jumping back into the tree. As far as I am aware, we know of no logical way that an apple will move against the force of gravity and empically it has never happened, we can ther...
by newmac
18 Dec 2007, 12:01
Forum: Books, Magazines & Film
Topic: DVD Review: A Crude Awakening, The Oil Crash
Replies: 36
Views: 18712

A proven fact takes a lot more than 10 years of post production decline in the UK (see Russia). Does this mean that I don't think the UK and US have peak, no of course not - because where things cannot be proven beyond doubt we rely on common sense and logic based on empirical observations etc. Russ...
by newmac
13 Nov 2007, 15:06
Forum: Books, Magazines & Film
Topic: DVD Review: A Crude Awakening, The Oil Crash
Replies: 36
Views: 18712

Rubbish on a number of levels: Firstly, you have allowed your view of "theory" to be tarnished by Creationists. We still refer to evolutionary theory, theory of relativit etc. There is nothing wrong with the word theory. Secondly, Peak Oil, although sensible and extremely probable is not a...
by newmac
13 Nov 2007, 09:19
Forum: Books, Magazines & Film
Topic: DVD Review: A Crude Awakening, The Oil Crash
Replies: 36
Views: 18712

Chris Peak Oil theory is not purely an observation. Observations can lead to many conclusions depending on where you are standing and how you want to observe. They also need to become put into a hypothesis to explain them and then a methodology for prediction - even if that methodology is purely &qu...