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Probably not a good thing. I do think we should be making a clear effort not to exterminate ourselves. On 8/16/2022 2:49 PM, Underpaid N. Overpentaxed wrote: Some scientists contend we may have altered and polluted her enough to prevent the evolution of another lifeform similarly „intelligent“

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Well, yes, but some of the tributaries dried up too so they’ll contribute their dry bits. > On 17 Aug 2022, at 07:05, mike wilson wrote: > > The river gets so much wider, it will only be a few millimetres long. >> On 16/08/2022 15:24 Bob Pdml wrote: >> >> >> It would be interesting to be

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Some scientists contend we may have altered and polluted her enough to prevent the evolution of another lifeform similarly „intelligent“ as us in the time remaining until the expansion of the Sun puts and end to her habitability. Perhaps that’s a good thing. > On 11 Aug 2022, at 21:08, Ralf R

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Still, I'll be sad to see us go. On 8/16/2022 9:52 AM, Steve Cottrell wrote: Gaia!! Agree. Cot On 11 Aug 2022, at 21:08, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Earth won't mind. We have developed into some kind of nasty infection and it will be better off without us. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss

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Am 16.08.22 um 16:24 schrieb Bob Pdml: It would be interesting to be by the river in London when that dry bit passes through. We're almost having this kind of situatin with the banks of the Rhine being a few times wider than usual and areas which are normally under several meters of water now

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Talk about coincidence - a friend of mine who is a journalist at ITV Westcountry sent me this link - he did a piece on the river near the source of the Thames. He just got a new toy, an Insta360 so he was showing me its uses. Some here might find the video interesting, and again shows the

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It would be interesting to be by the river in London when that dry bit passes through. > On 16 Aug 2022, at 14:49, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > I understand the headlines but this is not strictly true. > > First of all, define ‘source’ = how large an area? The actual source of the > Thames is

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If you had ever seen Bob’s dibber, believe me you’d want to head for the hills ;-) Cot On 12 Aug 2022, at 07:44, Bob Pdml wrote: And in spring she could help with my dibber. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the

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Gaia!! Agree. Cot On 11 Aug 2022, at 21:08, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Earth won't mind. We have developed into some kind of nasty infection and it will be better off without us. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from

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I understand the headlines but this is not strictly true. First of all, define ‘source’ = how large an area? The actual source of the Thames is merely an area in a dip where water runs off surrounding hills in Gloucestershire (quite near me) and collects, forming a trickle downhill that turns

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Meh. Certainly not ‘swathes’ of the country. There have been an unprecedented number of fires during the recent hot spell - most started by carelessness: BBQs, smoking, other. But nothing on the scale of past/current fires in other parts of the world. France and Spain are suffering far more

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> On 11 Aug 2022, at 23:47, mike wilson wrote: > >  >>> […] >> >> *no hosepipes allowed even in normal weather, so if you’ve ever seen the >> film Jean de Florette you’ll have an idea of what’s it like to keep it >> watered. > > No Emmanuelle Beart to, er, give you a hand, I suppose? > -

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> On Aug 11, 2022, at 4:08 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > > Earth won't mind. We have developed into some kind of nasty infection > and it will be better off without us. Amen. Mother Earth provides for us, and the rest of life, generously. Beyond our pitiful capabilities of imagining.

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alas , my browser aint fancy enough to look there .. but I did find some maps to look at that let me in :-) ann On 8/11/2022 4:45 PM, Bob Pdml wrote: https://geologyviewer.bgs.ac.uk/?_ga=2.78805268.1253513310.1660250677-1942513119.1660250677 On 11 Aug 2022, at 21:43, ann sanfedele wrote:

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https://geologyviewer.bgs.ac.uk/?_ga=2.78805268.1253513310.1660250677-1942513119.1660250677 On 11 Aug 2022, at 21:43, ann sanfedele wrote: Thanks for that very detailed and interesting story of your neighborhood geology/geography. The chalk substrate I gather is related to the "white

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Thanks for that very detailed and interesting story of your  neighborhood geology/geography.  The chalk substrate I gather is related to the "white cliffs of Dover"  ?  And I am off to look at topgraphic maps of England :-) ann On 8/11/2022 4:24 PM, mike wilson wrote: I live close to a

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> On 11 Aug 2022, at 21:24, mike wilson wrote: > > I […] > In south eastern England there is a chalk substrate, so groundwater literally > disappears into the ground when there is a shortage of rain. It is also the > most highly populated part of the British Isles. When there are complaints

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Am 11.08.22 um 20:23 schrieb Eric Weir: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/james-lovelock-obituary “The planet we live on has merely to shrug to take some fraction of a million people to their deaths,” Lovelock wrote in 2006. “But this is nothing compared with what may soon

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Sadly decades too late and even more decades late. But any mitigation that delays collapse is good at this point. Cheers Eck Daniel J. Matyola schrieb am Do. 11. Aug. 2022 um 14:52: > Ghe American Conress may have just taken a first cautious step toward > addressing climate change. > > Dan

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The geography of your location interests me - I can't remember what part of the country you live in .. how is it that it could be so radically different in terms of water in alandmass so relatively small? So awful what you are going through over there... it is unbearable here too in many 

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> On Aug 11, 2022, at 10:17 AM, Toine wrote: > > Very strange times... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/james-lovelock-obituary “The planet we live on has merely to shrug to take some fraction of a million people to their deaths,” Lovelock wrote in 2006. “But this is

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Am 11.08.22 um 16:16 schrieb Toine: It's dry, so dry the power plants don't have enough cooling water due to low water in the rivers. And the barges supplying their fuel, if it's oil or coal, can only be loaded at 1/3 or 1/2 of their normal capacity. In some places, the big Rhine barges have a

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It's dry, so dry the power plants don't have enough cooling water due to low water in the rivers. Next winter another horror scenario is planned due to gas shortage. I'm lucky to have PV panels and inverter AC's installed last year. Only problem: if the 230V fails the PV panels shut down. Maybe I

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Ghe American Conress may have just taken a first cautious step toward addressing climate change. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 8:00 AM Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > Am 11.08.22 um 13:19 schrieb Daniel J.

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Am 11.08.22 um 13:19 schrieb Daniel J. Matyola: I am reading that the government in the UK is warning that Wildfires could sweep across swathes of the country this weekend, with an “unprecedented” risk.that devastating blazes may spread into residential areas, because of bone-dry conditions and