Saturday 27 February 2021

Here we go again...

From the BBC:

A mortgage guarantee scheme to help people with small deposits get on the property ladder is set to be announced at next week's Budget. The government will offer incentives to lenders, bringing back 95% mortgages which have "virtually disappeared" during the pandemic, the Treasury says.

An extension to the Stamp Duty Land Tax "holiday" is also on the cards.
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From The Daily Mail:

Biden bombs Syria border crossing and 'kills 22' Iran-backed militia fighters in retaliation to rocket attacks that injured American troops and killed a contractor in Iraq.

The poor sods will be looking back fondly at the Trump years.
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And for a bit of light relief, a "global warming causes cooling" story from The Guardian:

Rahmstorf said: “We risk triggering [a tipping point] in this century, and the [Gulf Stream] would spin down within the next century. It is extremely unlikely that we have already triggered it, but if we do not stop global warming, it is increasingly likely that we will trigger it.”

Research in 2018 also showed a weakening of the AMOC, but the paper in Nature Geoscience says this was unprecedented over the last millennium, a clear indication that human actions are to blame. Scientists have previously said a weakening of the Gulf Stream could cause freezing winters in western Europe and unprecedented changes across the Atlantic.

7 comments:

Bayard said...

"The poor sods will be looking back fondly at the Trump years."

As I kept saying for the last four years. Trump was good news for everyone except the Americans, and who gives a stuff about them? They certainly don't give a stuff about anyone else.

Bayard said...

"but the paper in Nature Geoscience says this was unprecedented over the last millennium, a clear indication that human actions are to blame."

And when was the Mediaeval Warm Period at its warmest? Over a thousand years ago, how convenient. Anyway if the Gulf stream didn't pack up then, when it was a lot warmer, it's not going to pack up now.

John, Uk said...

Nothing to see here.

Checkout https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/

‘Slow’ Atlantic Ocean may cause climate chaos–Or There Again Maybe Not!

Complete opposite conclusion.

Graeme said...

Rahmstorf is one of the worst of the climate warriors. His every utterance is nonsensical

Mark Wadsworth said...

B, Trump was excellent news for the Middle East. Not sure whether he had much +ve or -ve impact on anywhere else.

B, you know as well as I do that the MWP never happened. It is propaganda invented by Big Oil and the science denier community.

JUK, yes, that sort of thing.

G, it would appear so.

Lola said...

"Research in 2018 also showed a weakening of the AMOC" Eh? What has the Aston Martin Owners Club got to with [alleged] global warming?

Mark Wadsworth said...

L, easy, all the CO2 their cars emit.