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Traveller as we negotiate the border bans brought on by the pandemic. Here s an initial selection of the so far fairly evenly split correspondence we ve received:
I m also pretty much over domestic travel stories. After arriving back from Norway in February 2020, I immediately booked another Viking cruise from Bergen to Montreal in anticipation of borders reopening by 2022. Hopefully by August 2022 international travel will again be possible. Having already been vaccinated, the only impediment to my planned journey will be unaffordable international airfares. I remain positive.
The untold story of James Gibson: My uncle saved Manchester United - he d have hated a Super League
The great-nephew of man who rebuilt United in 1930s explains how he rescued club and why he would have fought against European Super League
22 April 2021 • 3:44pm
The name of James William Gibson is unfamiliar to most Manchester United supporters despite his instrumental role in the club s history
Who is the most important figure in the 143-year history of Manchester United? A question worth asking in this tumultuous week – one in which the club’s American owners, the Glazers, and their executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward, have been at the forefront of the failed attempt to make the biggest, most divisive changes that the game has known.
Carbon reduction cash is tiny next to coal subsidy
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The Prime Ministerâs pledge to spend $500 million on carbon reduction schemes over an unspecified period contrasts with the billions of dollars every year in subsidies to the coal industry (âPM promises $500m hydrogen, carbon fundâ, April 21).
Adding insult to injury, nearly half the new expenditure is for unfeasible carbon capture schemes. To compensate for Australiaâs direct CO2 emissions we would need to capture and store more than 400 million tonnes every year. There must be better ways to reduce atmospheric CO2 than this farcical concept.
NZ s potentially catastrophic near-miss from outer space: We re not learning
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Experts including a former chief science advisor say New Zealand s risk-management systems are flawed and we can no longer rely on our she ll be right mantra. By Donna Chisholm. The email giving New Zealand 24 hours warning of a potentially catastrophic solar flare landed in chief science advisor Sir Peter Gluckman s inbox in late July 2012. It was an alert from his UK counterpart, Sir John Beddington, advising of a severe space weather event known as a mass coronal ejection. A huge amount of matter had been released from the sun that, if directed at the Earth, would cause a geomagnetic storm with the potential to destroy critical infrastructure including satellites, GPS systems and electricity grids.
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