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"DataVita says that by shifting all five #datahubs to #Scotland theoretically, emissions could be cut by more than 80%. Relocating Frankfurt’s hub – the most carbon-intense – to Scotland would see emissions drop by a staggering 91%."
@ucu@academicch@gavmaclean@Stoat
Pic 4: nursing students at #UHI are NOT happy! They made a board to show their support and solidarity with staff being made redundant. It’s a large white board with lots of messages of support.
Student nurses understand the issues with recruitment in #remote and #rural areas of #Scotland & #Highlands, why don’t the folks in charge?
I’m not a hydrologist, but I”m constantly amazed by how many influential people, when commenting on flooding, and possible solutions continue to pedal a dangerous myth. Rivers are NOT too shallow. Dredging is the last thing we should be doing to speed up flow.
Dredging greatly increases risk of flooding to downstream communities …a selfish act of betrayal of one’s neighbours!
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To reduce flooding we should be concentrating all our efforts on slowing the flow,. Watersheds need restoration of the sponge effect of natural scrub vegetation & rivers need to reclaim floodplains. Floodplains should return to their natural condition …wet woodland. Low quality farm land in floodplains should be regarded as sacrificial & even in some cases returned to woodland & wetlands. Beavers can help with this at no cost.
@ScotHomestead you are right to question ‘selfish’ #
It was an immediate response to hearing Vice President of NFUS in a #BBC#Scotland interview about the #flooding. He was advocating dredging rivers, which are ‘to shallow’. It’s such a dangerous fallacy, which any hydrologist will tell you increases the risk of flooding to vulnerable downstream communities. Influential #farmers trying to protect their highly subsidised businesses at expense of neighbours are indeed selfish …at best unthinking
"The U.K.'s weather forecaster, the Met Office, issued a rare red alert — the highest level of weather warning — for parts of Scotland, predicting “exceptional #rainfall” Thursday and Friday that is expected to cause extensive #flooding and “danger to life from fast-flowing or deep floodwater.”"
#StormBabet to bring high waters from Ireland to Sweden.
"Parts of eastern #Scotland experienced severe #flooding on Friday after #StormBabet brought heavy rainfall and winds of more than 70 mph (113 km/h) which overwhelmed defences and left thousands of homes without power.
Britain's national weather forecaster, the Met Office, issued its first red warning for rain since February 2020, predicting some locations would see as much as 250 millimetres (9.84 inches)."
Councillors and activists keep quitting the Labour party over its leadership “seeming to condone” Israeli actions in Gaza.
"I am horrified by the loss of life in Israel and Palestine. Two million Palestinians in Gaza, who had nothing to do with Hamas’ actions should not be punished collectively for it.”
Councillor Jesse Hoskins, Stroud District Council #LabourParty#Gaza#Palestine#Israel#UKPolitics
@IsoscelesKramer@junesim63
It took 20years for a party of the workers (#labour) to replace the liberals/whigs as opposition to the #tories and for the liberals to become largely irrelevant
Labour do not have a right to every vote left of the tories
They may be the default opposition for now but that may change
The SNP wiped out Labour in #Scotland and are still the main opposition party, maybe Aspire will decide to stand in #london for a start, and I expect the Greens to grow
#Fairies were not evil. However, they were amoral, not tied to the moral and ethical demands of humanity. They were merely playful troublemakers rather than devilish opponents. They commonly tried to lead travelers astray. This was a minor inconvenience and could be quite frightening, but even without protection, the #fairy eventually grew bored with the trick and released the ensnared human. More seriously, the fairies attempted to lure useful or attractive people into the #Otherworld, to do their bidding until released.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
#FolkloreSunday: The gruagach may descend from #Celtic guardian divinities who watched over specific families and may originally have been divine ancestors. In #Scotland the gruagach was a #fairy woman who watched the cattle like a barnyard brownie; she required frequent libations of milk, preferably poured into special hollowed-out stones called leacna gruagach. She dressed in green, as was the fairies’ habit, and had long golden hair, another indication of her #Otherworld nature. Even on sunny days, she was often drenched, as though she had been out in a downpour, and quietly asked humans who encountered her if she could stand beside the fire and dry herself. Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
Day 26 of #photOctober2023 and how could I resist the theme of rainy? I live in Scotland, and not only we do rain very well, we often combine it with other weather to great effect.
I think this is the first of the October photos that has appeared here before, but this rainbow was ace. So low and lazy against the trees.
The superb glass-encased Shandwick Stone, standing in a magnificent location overlooking the sea near Shandwick in Easter Ross. This 2.7m high Pictish cross slab dates back to the 800s and occupies its original position. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/balintore/shandwickstone/index.html
🍂🌹💖 'October Flowers' : name inspired by a beautiful (gentle, inspiring, uplifting) fave piece of #music / #dance collaboration from #Finland, I'll share later, stay tuned! 🔜🎵🎥💃🕺🎸🎻🪗🔊
Love #Nature#beauty of #flowers in this in-between time, seasons shifting 1 to the next.. Such #gratitude for moments like these, getting to be out & enjoy it!