Reply to: A single bullet

[EternalOptimist]

What?

A doggie frightened of a mere 5kt?

Shocked.

you can not be sirius

[Swiss Tony]

I grew up in Singapore and my folks still live out there. It is not uncommon to get a smoky haze, sometimes a pretty bad one, when the winds blew from that region. There’s no way to put them out without getting into the mines which are ablaze and well rather warm, and they are still burning.

[threaded]

When younger on my Grand Tour I visited Indonesia and remember seeing several places where they were 'improving' the land. One place they removed entire hills, asking the farmers permission first of course.

This democratic process produced wonderfully amusing sights where a farmer or two had said no to them removing the hill. Their fields were left where they were, perched up the top of towers of earth, some up 4 storeys in the sky.

[Churchill]

Didn't the UK have some mines somewhere that were smouldering away for many years?

Have a trip down the Thames, there's a big f**k off shipwreck with a no fly zone around it...

That baby goes up I want to be in Glasgow...

[Doggy Styles]

Didn't the UK have some mines somewhere that were smouldering away for many years?

[EternalOptimist]

Sorry to be a pain here, but Borneo is just an island that has three countries on it. Brunei is there as is Malaysia and Indonesia. Suharto was the President of Indonesia till 98 and not Dictator of Borneo.

Also the last fire (The 02-03 one) emitted 1 billion tonnes of CO2, which is a lot, but not a third of world emissions and nowhere near the USA's annual 6.1 billion tonnes.

So the point of the sotry was....?

'just' an island. what do you mean by 'just' does that make it insignificant ?
Britain is 'just' an island
Borneo is three time the size


Nobody get voted 'Dictator' (not since Julius Caesar) Adolf Hitler was Chancellor, but no one disputes he was a dictator. Suhato was also a dictator, albeit voted in as president.


The last fire was in 2003 ???? bollocks


http://www.reuters.com/article/homep...1803._CH_.2400

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...sia_fires.html

http://portal.campaigncc.org/node/1374

http://redapes.org/science/indonesia...-choking-haze/



It is true that I cant answer Brillos question, are the peat fires still burning ?
they were last year. I will have a little poke around tomorrow to see if I can find out

[NickNick]

Not many people know this.

A couple of decades ago, the dicator of Borneo, Suhato, decided to clear the rain forest then drain the peat bogs in order to plant rice.

Sorry to be a pain here, but Borneo is just an island that has three countries on it. Brunei is there as is Malaysia and Indonesia. Suharto was the President of Indonesia till 98 and not Dictator of Borneo.

Also the last fire (The 02-03 one) emitted 1 billion tonnes of CO2, which is a lot, but not a third of world emissions and nowhere near the USA's annual 6.1 billion tonnes.

So the point of the sotry was....?

[Ruprect]

Burning brazillian rainforest accounts for about 10% of the world's CO2, but this has the double whammy effect of reducing the capability of the forest to process the carbon (as there is less of it).

Basically, we need the rainforest, not more cows. But tell that to Rodrigez who has to feed his family and doesn't give a flying fexk about the planet.

[Gordon Brown]

It just goes to show that taxes on CO2 are way too low.

[EternalOptimist]

This news comes to you from a site called Mongabay which appears to be run by a geezer called Rhett Butler.

and your point is ?

[Cyberman]

It just goes to show that raising taxes has absolutely no effect on worldwide CO2 levels. What a surprise !!

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Not many people know this.

......
For the cost of a single bullet we might have saved ourselves a lot of angst and a really nice rain forest.


http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0421-tina_butler.html

This news comes to you from a site called Mongabay which appears to be run by a geezer called Rhett Butler.

[EternalOptimist]

That was 4 years ago. The peat must have burnt out by now?

It has been burning since 2002 at least, it still burns AFAIAA

[BrilloPad]

That was 4 years ago. The peat must have burnt out by now?

[NotAllThere]

In an alternate world, Suhato was assassinated. His replacement decided to implement the same program. The world moves on, the timelines merged.