Monday, March 23, 2009

 500 migrants a day will push UK to bursting point
In one doomsday scenario everybody in the world will want to live in Britain as they flee global warming.
Nigeria: Trace amounts of CO2 somehow cause fisherman to kill fish with insecticide
Actually the feral fish that we depend on (that is, catching fish in the wild) is dwindling greatly both as a result of global warming and as a result of indiscriminate use of fishing gears.
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The implication of all these, when the artisan fisherman becomes desperate, [is that] he can go to the extent of poisoning the water where he cannot reach with his fishing gears. He may use some chemicals such as insecticide, called Gamalin, which is an organophosphorus compound. It is used to poison the fish so that the fish will float on the surface of the water. But mind you, this is at a cost because you are not only poisoning the fish but also man, at the top of the food chain, who is feeding on these fish and the water he drinks and even the crops he grows in the vicinity.
No flatulence tax on UK cows
The UK government must avoid the temptation of a flatulence tax on cows and other farm livestock, according to a Tory Euro MP. Struan Stevenson says that moves by Ireland and Denmark to introduce such a tax must not be mirrored here as it would devastate farming and drive the beef and dairy industries overseas.

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