Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

bril

The Living Planet report revealed how more than 9,000 populations of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians and fish are faring reveal a planet in crisis, with serious implications for human health, wealth and well-being.


Freshwater creatures in the tropics have seen the worst declines, of around 70 per cent, while tropical species as a whole have seen populations tumble by 60 per cent since 1970. In Asia, tiger numbers have fallen 70 per cent in just 30 years. Industrial fishing has caused a catastrophic loss of fish such as northern bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic.


Wildlife is under pressure from ever-growing human demand for resources, the study by WWF, the latest Living Planet report from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the Global Footprint Network revealed in the run up to the Rio+20 summit later this year.


And research into demand for water revealed 2.7 billion people live in areas that suffer severe water shortages for at least one month of the year.


People are exploiting resources such as water, forests and fisheries and putting greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere at a much higher rate than they can be replenished and pollution absorbed.



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The "ecological footprint" of human activity was 50 per cent higher than the capacity of the Earth's land and oceans in 2008, the most recent year for which figures are available, with people living as though we have a planet and a half to sustain us.

This means the Earth now needs 1.5 years to produce and replenish the natural resources consumed in just one year.

Rising population and consumption means that by 2030, two planets will not be enough to meet human demand, threatening the resources including food, freshwater and a stable climate that people need to survive, the report said.

WWF-UK's chief executive David Nussbaum said the underlying cause of declines in nature was the rate of human consumption.

"If you're relying on your annual account and you overspend, you eat into your savings until there's nothing left. At the moment we are in danger of doing that with our life support system, Planet Earth."

He said the UK was living in the eye of the storm, without yet feeling the impacts of its over-consumption, but warned the "whirlwind of consumerism is whipping up and causing all sorts of damage".

The UK is 27th in the global rankings for how the ecological footprint of how each person in the country consumes, a five-place rise from the last report two years ago.

And while wildlife populations in temperate regions such as Europe have risen by around 31 per cent since 1970, WWF warned this only showed habitats and species bouncing back from previous lows when they had been degraded and damaged.

ZSL's Professor Tim Blackburn said: "We are living in a planet in crisis, and the Living Planet Index is one window into how bad that crisis is."

He said the Living Planet report monitored the Earth's "natural capital" in the same way the FTSE 100 tracked the stock market, and was showing declines that if they occurred in the financial sphere would cause global panic.

And he said: "Nature is more important than money. Humanity can live without money, but we can't live without nature and the essential services it provides."

Experts from WWF said there were ways of living within the planet's bounds and still providing the food, water and energy a growing global population needed.

For example, 40,000 farmers in a project in Pakistan are growing cotton using 37 per cent less water, 40 per cent less chemical fertiliser and 47 per cent less pesticides, while maintaining yields and improving incomes.

Solutions are needed to tackle the amount of water used by agriculture, reduce food waste and improve energy efficiency, the experts urged.

WWF called on governments and businesses, who are meeting in Rio de Janeiro next month to discuss sustainable development, to address the situation with the same urgency and determination that they put into dealing with the financial crisis.

The Brazil meeting is being held on the 20th anniversary of the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 which spawned three landmark environmental accords on climate change, dwindling biodiversity and desertification.




the population is out of control breeding like rats as got to stop.


















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brooks . when are they going to charge hundreds of POLICE OFFICERS for taking cash .
and the one that resigned stephenson. he took gifts that is againts the law .

she can then say in court who took money and gifts it could bring down the met .
very dangerous position for the met

Nvidia chip aims to power fastest supercomputer

Chip maker Nvidia has revealed details of a new graphics processing unit (GPU) which it says will create the world's most powerful computer.

Thousands of the firm's Tesla K20 modules will be fitted to an existing supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, US.

Nvidia says the machine will run nearly eight times faster than at present, carrying out up to 25,000 trillion floating point operations per second.

It marks the shift to hybrid computing.

Face book is looking more and more like a good short after they upped the price.

I thought they had raised the size of the offer?

On edit - yes I've just seen that they intend to raise the price range also.

Facebook boosts IPO size by 25 percent, could top $16 billion

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Ok -

'Do you ever get that when you're half way through eating a horse and you think to yourself, 'I'm not as hungry as I thought I was' :-)

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Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don’t like that.

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Milton Jones - similar MO to Tim Vine - my favourite is -

'If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious.'

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Hmmmm

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Someone on have i got news for you said about teenagers wearing trousers that looked like they had brick's stuffed down the back , suppose its better then showing half their underpants

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