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[cjcregg]

If I ignore something you say it's because I don't think it's relevant and I'm not interested in engaging with you on it.

Why was the elephant on a rampage? It wasn't, it's what they do.

 

[tobyjugg2]

Much of that information is official and from Botaswana documented issues so why is it NOT relevant?

You sound like one who would profit from the elephant hunting and trophy market reintroduction as you seem to be promoting hunting and trophies rather than humane herd and environment management - which you apparently consider not relevant or chose not to engage when your presentations are questioned ?

Or is it just that an elephant has inconvenienced you?

 

Simple fact: its up to Germany whether they import elephant hunting trophies which are widely banned anyway.

Simple fact: 'reintroduce hunting and trophies (never left really did it) and many 'conservation minded' folk you seem to disparage will take their custom elsewhere - but you'll get a newish hunter market - acknowledged

You: Present dubious claims - they will be challenged, whether you like it or not.

 

This bridge must be the last one left in Botaswana if your statement re 130,000 elephants actions are in any way true

[cjcregg]

I've set your profile to ignore so I never have to read your nonsense again.

Bye 

[tobyjugg2]

Ok so I'll summarise your apparent stance/opinion detailed above and let readers judge

* You are in favor of exterminating elephants specifically via hunting, and might as well profit from the trophies while they last, and Germany and everyone else should import those trophies for sale whether they like it or not?

* You seemingly imply elephants all need to be exterminated; or close too; by hunting; as 'it's what they (all elephants) do' .  So humane culling of a few problematic ones and humane methods of herd management isnt an option or even 'relevant' in your opinion?

* Using available funds to invest in better management of herds, the tourist industry (20% of national income) and the wider environment in Botswana as part of national growth is all ...  not relevant?

Those do seem to be the meaning of your statements.

 

 

Edited April 5 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

While I save the last Smithsonian $45,000 question for if @cjcregg retruns .. maybe before ..

 

Thames Water default: What's next for the company now it can't officially pay its debts?

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Further cracks in the Thames Water ecosystem have appeared and are gushing today as its parent company defaulted on an interest...

 

Foreign banks key to Thames Water's fate as owners seek delay to repay £190m loan

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Foreign banks to decide fate of crisis hit water company as deadline repayment deal approaches

 

reuters.com

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Edited April 5 by tobyjugg2

[theoldrouge]

On 05/04/2024 at 13:08, cjcregg said:

I've set your profile to ignore so I never have to read your nonsense again.

Bye 

Don’t ignore CJ his nonsense is pure comedy 

Edited April 6 by theoldrouge

[tobyjugg2]

Smithsonian: The $45,000 question

Verreynne points out that rural villages rarely benefit from income generated by safari tourism, but instead bear the highest costs of human-elephant conflict.

On average, a legal elephant hunt in neighboring countries costs about $45,000. Comparatively, a night in a luxury safari lodge runs closer to $355.

 

1: Is a political and herd management issue

2. Is a greed issue.

 

[tobyjugg2]

Saturday was provisionally the warmest day of the year so far for the UK, according to the Met Office, with 20.9C recorded at Santon Downham, Suffolk, about 8C above average for the time of year.

Germany has just had its warmest March since records began in 1881, with mean temperatures 2.77C above average at 7.4C (45.3F).

 

[cjcregg]

On 06/04/2024 at 17:51, theoldrouge said:

Don’t ignore CJ his nonsense is pure comedy 

A black comedy maybe. I do think it's quite disturbing and imagine his family would be concerned if they knew how he behaved.

Some of the mods on here don't help by humouring him and pretending he's a normal, well-balanced individual when he clearly isn't.

[theoldrouge]

Poor old Steve Wright clearly modelled his character “Mr Angry from Purley” on him
 

I suspect he spends most of the time arguing with himself 

[tobyjugg2]

Understanding climate: Antarctic sea ice extent | NOAA Climate.gov

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Antarctic sea ice extent hit a record low extent in February, but thanks to large natural variability from year to year, experts say there is still...

 

An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem

 

‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/09/march-record-global-heat/

 

 

Sea Temp   VS  Antarctic Ice  .... roughly 60 METERS (approx 200 feet) of sea level rise in that Ice that is melting

30% less ice @ minimum so far

[tobyjugg2]

On 20/03/2024 at 10:27, tobyjugg2 said:

So much for the Torys and Brexit protecting the UKs waters and fish

“Industrial fishing is designed to kill marine life as efficiently as possible,” said Hugo Tagholm, the executive director of Oceana UK. "Everything from sharks to starfish are hoovered up by bottom trawling, which can destroy whole ecosystems and empty our seas of life. This also threatens communities seeking to make a sustainable living from our seas.

“How can we call them ‘protected’ if we have such highly extractive industries in them?

 

 

‘Hoovered’ up from the deep: 33,000 hours of seabed trawling revealed in protected UK waters | Marine life | The Guardian

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Analysis shows alarming prevalence of harmful fishing methods thought to ‘destroy whole ecosystems’

 

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Brexit Britain err EU Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom trawling in marine parks

 

Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom trawling in marine parks | Fishing | The Guardian

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The law will come into force in national parks within two years and in all of the country’s marine protected areas by 2030

 

[tobyjugg2]

Dubai is experiencing major flooding as 1.5 year’s worth of rain just fell in a single day.

[honeybee13]

It's worse than I thought.

‘Dirty secret’: insiders say UK water firms knowingly break sewage laws | Water | The Guardian

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Exclusive: Whistleblowers point to broader sewage scandal, with wastewater systems manipulated to divert sewage

 

[tobyjugg2]

So they seem to be deliberately fouling Britain - not 'just negligently

Need to be in jail alongside the PO crims, and rabidly corrupt MPs

[tobyjugg2]

and more ..

As thames water pushes to further rip off captive customers, not get fined for it, and allow more dividends .. for little more than 'aspirations' to do better

More detail comes out of the literally and figuratively sh** companies apparently shunting money out of the regulated business to profit/bonus/dividend generating unregulated side companies

 

"Accounts filed at Companies House show :

(Kennets) accounts, filed more than 12 months after the end of Kennet’s financial year, showed that the company made a £1.15m pre-tax profit for the year to 31 March 2023, up from £374,000 a year earlier. Revenues rose to £1.6m in 2023 – up from £1m in

"Kennet Properties paid out a £14.5m dividend in the year to 31 March 2023"

"Kennet ?takes on? land no longer needed by Britain’s biggest water company before developing it and selling it on, typically for housing or commercial premises. It also received income for the use of sewer networks by third parties for fibre-optic cabling."

 

Thames Water could raise bills to £627 a year to help fix leaks | Thames Water | The Guardian

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Embattled water supplier promises to invest up to £3bn more over the next five years

 

 

Thames Water-linked firm paid £14m in dividends despite concerns over group | Thames Water | The Guardian

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Kennet Properties sells off Thames Water land, whose owner, Kemble Water, has warned it would not be able to pay a £190m loan

 

[tobyjugg2]

Truly Gobsmacking for a number of reasons ..

For first time in a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into one

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‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,’ scientists say

 

 

For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism | Popular Science

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It is a discovery that’s 'one for the textbooks.'

 

 

[tobyjugg2]

and something for aurora watchers to err watch out for

 

4 solar flares simultaneously erupt from the sun in rare 'super' explosion — and Earth could be hit by the fallout | Live Science

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In the early hours of Tuesday (April 23), quadruple solar flares near-simultaneously exploded from across the sun's surface, and there's...

 

[tobyjugg2]

Thought for the day

"The interesting thing is that (some) humans have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that 2,400 gigatonnes of carbon (our total emissions since pre-industrial times) might make a difference to the climate,

.. but very readily get behind the idea of a few hygroscopic flares making 18 months worth of rain fall in a day."

- theconversation

 

So No, cloud seeding did not cause the effects in Dubai.

[tobyjugg2]

China green-lights mass production of autonomous flying taxis — with commercial flights set for 2025 | Live Science

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The EHang EH216-S autonomous flying taxi is the first eVTOL ready for mass production and could lead the way for flying cars around...