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[Green Squall]

Canada pulls vehicle license plate deemed offensive

Canada pulls vehicle license plate deemed offensive

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) -- A Canadian provincial government has withdrawn a man's eponymous personalized vehicle license plate, saying Lorne Grabher's surname is offensive to women when viewed on his car bumper.

Grabher said Friday that he put his last name on the license plate decades ago as a gift for his late father's birthday, and says the province's refusal to renew the plate late last year is unfair.

Grabher says the Nova Scotia government is discriminating against his name.

Transport Department spokesman Brian Taylor says while the department understands Grabher is a surname with German roots, this context isn't available to the general public who view it.

The personalized plate program introduced in 1989 allows the province to refuse names when they're deemed offensive, socially unacceptable and not in good taste.

 

[shithawk420]

That's fucked.I guess they're gonna start making people change their hundreds year old last names next.

 

[armedoldhippy]

fuck 'em. i'd paint it on the trunk of my car. outlaw THIS, assholes!

 

[CosmicGiggle]

..... hmmm, 5 gold rings, now what's that all about?

 

[Meraxes]

 

[Green Squall]

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They actually eat these birds in the Faroe Islands! The babies are fat and can't fly so are easily caught. Learned about this on Bizarre Foods w/ Andrew Zimmern lol. I would definitely give it a try.

 

[[omerta]]

Climate Change Pushes World Into ‘Uncharted Territory’

By Damian Carrington, The Guardian
Published: March 26th, 2017

The record-breaking heat that made 2016 the hottest year ever recorded has continued into 2017, pushing the world into “truly uncharted territory", according to the World Meteorological Organization.

The WMO’s assessment of the climate in 2016 reports unprecedented heat across the globe, exceptionally low ice at both poles and surging sea-level rise.

Global warming is largely being driven by emissions from human activities, but a strong El Niño — a natural climate cycle — added to the heat in 2016. The El Niño is now waning, but the extremes continue to be seen, with temperature records tumbling in the U.S. in February and polar heatwaves pushing ice cover to new lows.

“Even without a strong El Niño in 2017, we are seeing other remarkable changes across the planet that are challenging the limits of our understanding of the climate system. We are now in truly uncharted territory,” said David Carlson, director of the WMO’s world climate research program.

“Earth is a planet in upheaval due to human-caused changes in the atmosphere,” said Jeffrey Kargel, a glaciologist at the University of Arizona in the U.S. “In general, drastically changing conditions do not help civilisation, which thrives on stability.”

The WMO report was “startling”, said Prof David Reay, an emissions expert at the University of Edinburgh: “The need for concerted action on climate change has never been so stark nor the stakes so high.”

The new WMO assessment also prompted some scientists to criticize Donald Trump. “While the data show an ever increasing impact of human activities on the climate system, the Trump administration and senior Republicans in Congress continue to bury their heads in the sand,” said Prof Sir Robert Watson, a distinguished climate scientist at the UK’s University of East Anglia and a former head of the UN’s climate science panel.

“Our children and grandchildren will look back on the climate deniers and ask how they could have sacrificed the planet for the sake of cheap fossil fuel energy, when the cost of inaction exceeds the cost of a transition to a low-carbon economy,” Watson said.

Trump is aiming to cut climate change research. But the WMO’s secretary-general Petteri Taalas said: “Continued investment in climate research and observations is vital if our scientific knowledge is to keep pace with the rapid rate of climate change.”

2016 saw the hottest global average among thermometer measurements stretching back to 1880. But scientific research indicates the world was last this warm about 115,000 years ago and that the planet has not experienced such high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for 4 million years.

2017 has seen temperature records continue to tumble, in the U.S. where February was exceptionally warm, and in Australia, where prolonged and extreme heat struck many states. The consequences have been particularly stark at the poles.

“Arctic ice conditions have been tracking at record low conditions since October, persisting for six consecutive months, something not seen before in the [four-decade] satellite data record,” said Prof Julienne Stroeve, at University College London in the UK. “Over in the southern hemisphere, the sea ice also broke new record lows in the seasonal maximum and minimum extents, leading to the least amount of global sea ice ever recorded.”

Global sea level rise surged between November 2014 and February 2016, with the El Niño event helping the oceans rise by 15mm. That jump would have take five years under the steady rise seen in recent decades, as ice caps melt and oceans get warmer and expand in volume. Final data for 2016 sea level rise have yet to be published.

Climate change harms people most directly by increasing the risk of extreme weather events and the WMO report states that these raised risks can increasingly be calculated. For example, the Arctic heatwaves are made tens of times more likely and the soaring temperatures seen in Australia in February were made twice as likely.

“With levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere consistently breaking new records, the influence of human activities on the climate system has become more and more evident,” said Taalas.

 

[Weezard]

"[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Climate Change Pushes World Into ‘Uncharted Territory[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"


[/FONT]A Trump-less U.S.
could cause less stress.
But unless and until China complies,
we are all gonna die like flies.[/FONT]

 

[[omerta]]

yes, china build whole world, with all kinds of sh*t you can image..

edit

here is article about smog in china, titled : ‘Airpocalypse’ smog events in China linked to melting ice cap, research reveals

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/15/airpocalypse-smog-events-linked-to-global-warming-research-reveals

pictures from it looks really serious

 

[Robrites]

 

[Weezard]

@Omerta

They have already killed that URL. so, here's another.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...nts-linked-to-global-warming-research-reveals.
Looks identical, lets see if it links.
Edit:
The URL look the same. but this one works, for now.
I downloaded this page in case it gets removed again.

 

[[omerta]]

yes, this is the same, thanks for check it..

 

[Meraxes]

 

[noyd666]

so this lil guy was being tailgated and took offence and turned and gave the bonnet a few dabs lol.

 

[geneva_sativa]

heh heh, those marsupials are some crazy critters !

 

[noyd666]

sure are, bottom one is a gif but no workee for me.

 

[Robrites]

 

[[omerta]]

Dead Sea evidence of unprecedented drought is warning for future

A 30-metre layer of salt discovered beneath Dead Sea reveals drought worse than any in human history – and it could happen again

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...edented-drought-future-warning-climate-change

 

[[omerta]]

now this is wacky..

Shark found in Australia puddle after Cyclone Debbie

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/shark-found-in-australia-puddle-after-cyclone-debbie/

 

[Robrites]

Tornado uncovers marijuana grow operation

Tornado uncovers marijuana grow operation

Lost his home and his grow....


DECATUR COUNTY, Tenn. — Sheriff Keith Byrd says he was driving around Decatur County Tuesday afternoon, assessing storm damage from the night before.
“They were taking pictures and trying to determine what class of tornado that it was and all that stuff,” Sheriff Byrd said.

It was in the wreckage of a mobile home on Brooksie Thompson Road where the sheriff said he noticed something that looked out of place.

“So while we’re over there, over in the edge of the woods, I found a pile of green, leafy material that looked like it didn’t belong where it was,” the sheriff said.

That green, leafy material turned out to be marijuana plants, and that’s not all they discovered.

“When I found those, then we got to looking through the rubble, and we found more plants,” Sheriff Byrd said. “And we found containers and piping and grow lights and things that were part of his hydroponic grow operation.”

The sheriff says they recovered about 28 pounds of marijuana from the property and are currently searching for the man who lived there. John Ernest Tidwell, faces charges for the manufacture of marijuana and the possession of drug paraphernalia.

“I’m very sympathetic to him losing his home. I mean, I feel very badly that he did,” Sheriff Byrd said. “But I’m not the least bit sympathetic that he was in our county violating the law.”

The sheriff’s department says they received a call Thursday morning from an individual who said they were Tidwell’s attorney informing them that Tidwell plans to turn himself in soon.
http://wbbjtv.com/2017/03/30/tornado-uncovers-marijuana-grow-operation/