Let’s start a debate about climate change By Douglas Hughes, in News, Opinion · 14-05-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
Last time I approached the subject of climate-change, I wasn’t very polite about Planet Mars and I’m really sorry about that.
I more or less said it was ugly and, well, dead. So, if there are any mysterious Martian expats out there who think I was a tad harsh about their home planet, I do apologise.
But - dead is precisely what Mars is. No one, as far as I’m aware has yet managed to declare that life ever existed there. Every indication to date seems to suggest, quite strongly, that everything on the Martian surface, from it’s thin atmosphere to its abundance of toxic red dust is actually hostile to life. The notion of colonising such a forbidding place as some sort of furtherance of humani
Wet but warm weekend
The whole of Portugal will experience rain this weekend, although it will be feeling mild.
Lisbon: It will be mainly wet in the capital over the weekend with intermittent heavy showers and temperatures reaching highs of 21 degrees and lows of 15 degrees. The wet weather is to continue for the remainder of the week although showers are to ease slightly from Tuesday and more periods of sunshine are expected.
The north: Heavy rain showers are to continue throughout the weekend although it will be feeling mainly warm with highs of 21 degrees and lows of 13 degrees. The chance of rain is to subside slightly by Tuesday but it will be feeling cooler with average daily highs of 17 degrees and nightly lows of 12 degrees.