Re: Best argument for tightening the lockdown? Archived Message Posted by Mark Doran on April 21, 2020, 2:07 pm, in reply to "Best argument for tightening the lockdown?" Regarding the empty skies and massive drop in carbon-based pollution, I think it's worth being aware that the consequent, inevitable reduction in 'global dimming' is likely to give us a spring that feels like a summer, and a summer that feels like life on Mercury. We were already in line to get record-breaking maximum temperatures this year, and late 2020 was pencilled in for a possible contribution from El Nino in addition. I do not expect the next eight months to be at all good for life on earth. In fact, I don't consider it impossible that COVID-19 is the event that has finally tipped the biosphere into total disaster. M. Message Thread: Best argument for tightening the lockdown? - AlanG April 21, 2020, 11:42 am Was their journey really necessary.? - George Brennan April 21, 2020, 1:10 pm Re: Was their journey really necessary.? - AlanG April 21, 2020, 1:26 pm Three men arrested after being caught with Tesco shopping bags 'full of drugs' - Keith-264 April 21, 2020, 1:34 pm Re: Three men arrested after being caught with Tesco shopping bags 'full of drugs' - Sinister Burt April 21, 2020, 5:31 pm I expect that she doesn't inhale so that's all right then....nm - Keith-264 April 21, 2020, 5:41 pm I'd be pleased to see the whole damned industry vanish. Hasn't been a single plane aloft here this - Rhisiart Gwilym April 21, 2020, 2:01 pm Re: Best argument for tightening the lockdown? - Mark Doran April 21, 2020, 2:07 pm Re: Best argument for tightening the lockdown? - Ken Waldron April 21, 2020, 3:27 pm   Searching