Should China be made to curb emissions?

Who should take responsibility for rising global CO2 emissions? China is now building about two power stations every week, the top climate change official at the UK Foreign Office, John Ashton, has said. Many climate change sceptics have been asking why people in the west should be going to such lengths to save carbon when [...]

Is London still expanding?

London was originally just the City – parts of what are now London – Westminster, Hackney, Ealing, Croydon etc – were villages nearby. Gradually London has grown to consume them. Is this still happening? Could London keep growing? London Cities mentioned in this Post: LondonCountries mentioned in this Post: United Kingdom

Last year, in the Amazon Rainforest, an area the size of Wales was cut down last year. And the year before. Is this as serious as it sounds? How many times could Wales fit into the Amazon forest?

-‘The size of Wales’ is a ‘statistic’ commonly bandied about by our hard-working journalist chums. And this is the area of trees cut down in the Amazon just in the last year – and is six percent LARGER than the year before. So it is getting worse rather than better. Presumably ‘An area the size [...]

Global Warming.

A load of cobblers? I believe so, throughout history there have been cyclic rises and dips of average temperature (approximately 60 year cycle), the last dip being in 1970 and in fact since 1998 the average temperature has been falling. What are your feelings?

What will happen when the moon drifts to far away from the Earth for it to have an effect ?

There was a programme the other day that said the Moon moves away from earth about roughly an inch every year what will happen when it is too far away ?

How far will a person walk on average in their life?

I saw an ad for some kind of foot product which said that the average person walk 70,000 miles in their lifetime which is apparently three times around the world, is this ture? or is it just advertising propaganda?

Which UK county has the shortest coastline?

This is a small dispute over a quiz question recently. I couldn’t find any REALLY AUTHORATIVE data to prove which county has the shortest coastline. Can you help? Countries mentioned in this Post: United Kingdom

What is China doing that is making the Tibetans protest?

I haven’t watched or read the news for a little while, and i don’t understand why Tibet is against China (although I’m sure that they have a perfect reason to be as most other nationalities are) And as China has been and is going to kill Tibetans, why isn’t everybody boycotting the olympics? Countries mentioned [...]

embaracing place names.

do you know any worse than wetwank in yorkshire? or the ine i stumbled across afew mins ago on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador Dildo is a town on the southeastern Dildo Arm of Trinity Bay on the island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is about 100 kilometres west-northwest of St. John’s. South Dildo is a [...]

My sat nav says I’m at Lat: 55 deg 41′ 34" Long -3 59′ 13"

The time is 00:30 local time on the 16th October 2006. My telescope’s mount is set to azimuth: 212 deg 12′ 20.5"alt: 21 deg 16′ 34.9" What am I looking at?

volcano

hi, im making a model of a volcano i was wondering if anyone new to good chemicals to add together to make my volcano look like its erupting ? Any sudjestions please

Is there a major city in the World, whereby if you wanted to travel to every Continent and use it as your base(i.e starting and returning to that point)the difference in time zones incurred would be less than from anywhere else?

Thus, making it the best place to live so as not to suffer jetlag.Ok,so the world is 360 but continents are not equally distributed and large water mass e.t.c..Perhaps, this is a really silly question .Im defo, not a mathematical person.But say picking your continents -London-Europe, Sydney-Australia, Rio de Janeiro-South America, New york -America ,Bangkok [...]

What’s the 3rd one…….?

This has been wrecking my head for quite a while now, apparently there are 3 countries in the world that Start with the letter A but don’t end with the letter A the first 2 are easy, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan, but I’ve looked everywhere I can think of to find the third. please, somebody help [...]

Are these hotels real? If so where are they?

I mean, the ice castle one. Come on. That can’t be real. Can it?http://www.frogview.com/show2.php?file=1984

I need some help with 18th centruy UK addresses

First in 1792, Admiralty Office, I am assuming London; but would there have been an Admiralty Office in Portsmouth? Second in 1792, No. 8, Craven Street, Strand, again I am assuming London, but could it have been Portsmouth, or somewhere else? Third in 1794, Savage, Lochryan, I have no idea. All three were return addresses [...]

Where is Spithead, England

I think I have been led astray. Google Earth tells me it’s at Dartmouth, Devon, but I ran across an old map that tells me it’s at Portsmouth. Specifically, I want to know where the Spithead is that the Bounty sailed from Dec 23, 1787. Cities mentioned in this Post: Spithead, PortsmouthCountries mentioned in this [...]

Can someone tell me where Staten Land is and/or what its modern name might be

I believe it is an island, I know it is in the neighborhood of Tierra del Fuego. It is mentioned in many old books about voyages around Cape Horn. I need to locate it on a map.

The Glastonbury Zodiac… Fact or fancy ?

Have any of you ever been to have a look for yourself ? http://www.palden.co.uk/leymap/environs.html http://www.labyrinthina.com/zodiac.htm

Biggest explosions in history

Does anyone know the biggest,recorded explosions in history? Both natural and also the biggest man made explosion. (I may be a contender for the latter following the wreckless consumption of a packet of dates). Some pictures and information would be useful.

Town or city in Ireland

I’m looking for a town or city in Ireland, I think the name is Carmell, or Charmell but I could be wrong. It definitely begins with C and ends mell. Can anyone help please Countries mentioned in this Post: Ireland

Why are there several independent ‘principalities’ in Europe?

Liechtenstein, Andorra, San Marino, Monaco – how come they exist as independent states? Why were they never conquered (not even during World War 2)? Why don’t other continents have tiny little countries like them. Monaco Cities mentioned in this Post: MonacoCountries mentioned in this Post: United States, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Monaco