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Michael Penn
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> it's always Jersey! <
Ain't it the truth? Heh!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 14 July 2026 at 1:56pm | IP Logged | 2
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Was it Jersey before there was a Jersey? Before the British arrived and started reusing favorite names?The weather/climate (not the same thing, I know) we are experiencing is all our fault. What was it like along the Atlantic coast before we mucked it up?
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Michael Penn
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Part of NJ was New Netherland and part New Sweden.
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Josh Goldberg
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"Was it Jersey before there was a Jersey?"*****
Often, when watching Star Trek, they mention that they are in orbit of a planet named Alpha Beta Gamma VII (or something like that). That usually prompts me to lean over to whoever I'm watching the show with and ask, "Do you suppose that's what the indigenous population calls it?"
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John Byrne
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The original STAR TREK was putatively (although rarely practically) about First Contact (“where no man has gone before”) so they could be forgiven for not knowing native nomenclature.
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 14 July 2026 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | 6
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I did an environmental science degree back on the late 80s.
I’ve worked in environment one way or the other since then, first in a water
company for 15 years, and then 20 years in resource efficiency.
The things we talked about in the degree, together with the timescales, are
what we are seeing now.
We will see more competition for water, food and energy.
The movement of people will increase as climate changes, bringing more
extreme weather events, on a more regular basis.
Habitats will suffer, both from natural events and man made decisions such
as removing green spaces.
The big ones will be water, insects and soils.
Anyone noticed less bugs on your windscreens in the past few years? They
haven’t learned to dodge cars - they aren’t there anymore.
Soils are incredibly fragile and we haven’t been looking after them in recent
years. If we lose them, we really are screwed.
But if people refuse to listen, it will only get worse.
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Edward Aycock
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And The Lorax still hasn't come back.
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Bill Collins
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| Posted: 15 July 2026 at 12:36am | IP Logged | 8
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Funny you should mention bugs on windcreens James. For the
last 15 years i have been banging on about the lack of
them. I regularly travel back from Devon at 3.30am at this
time of year and my windscreen has been pristine. On
Saturday i did that journey and was amazed to have to be
regularly clearing moths from it, once home the front
grill, bonnet and windscreen was a mess. I mentioned to my
wife that although it was a pain, it was a good sign. I
also drive to work at a similar time and notice a lot more
moths this year, although i'm not doing the speeds to
squish them. Not sure if it's the climate or better farming
practices, or just a blip.
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James Woodcock
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Good to hear Bill. I’ve not used my wipers for bugs once this summer, just
to clear the usual Black Country dust.
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Bill Collins
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Here's a bug related story...on our first trip to Florida
it was the first time i'd drven an automatic, and the
first time driving on the wrong side of the road (to us
Brits!) It was the days before Satnav, so we printed off
a step by step set of directions from Sanford airport to
International Drive in Orlando via the AA before we left
England. All well and good, until we exit the airport and
face roadworks diversions, rendering the guide useless,
also it was dark! We got lost and ended up in the sticks.
I saw a sign "Warning Swarm" and laughed to my wife
wondering WTF they needed a warning, then it happened! It
was like hail hitting the windscreen, very unsettling! I
managed to use the wipers and screenwash to carry on, and
eventually found the hotel. Next day in daylight the
front of our white rental car was black with bugs, and
shockingly some were still alive mating with the corpses
of their mates. Not sure if they were Love Bugs, but they
were definitely mating on the wing in a huge swarm!
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