Photos From Lanzarote February 2017 #lanzarote (at Costa Teguise Lanzarote)

This is where I've done most of my Open Water Swimming this week. This is a lagoon in Costa Teguise which provides a sheltered place for a swim. At high tide it us over 200m long. Water temperature a balmy 19.5 degC. #lanzarote #openwaterswimming #costateguise (at Costa Teguise Lanzarote)

First entry into Tumblr

This is my first post in Tumblr.  This seems a nice system for writing blogs.  I have sort of tried Wordpress but it doesn't lend itself to short posts.  I will move the blogs that I have created so far to here.  I'm not going to put any tags on this entry.  - Note to myself - Only one entry per day.  I was following a blog on Tumblr called "Today I learned (TIL)".  With a title like that you might expect to learn one new and hopefully important thing per day.  No he/she seems to put things out every hour and it completely clogged up things.  I got fed up and stopped following the blog.

5 posts! Tumblr is sure easier to use than WordPress.

There were dolphins or porpoises off The Esplanade in Greenock last night - or maybe Nessie on holiday 😊

Stacey Hearl and I went down for an Open Water Swim 🏊 today. It was just after the turn of low tide. It was overcast and dead calm. My swim was 448m in 13:49. Water temperature 7 degC. #greenock #rwsabc #openwaterswimming #shoreline #beach (at The Royal West of Scotland Boat Club)

Lovely day - very calm 2 hours before high tide. I did a non wetsuit swim on my own. 675m in 18:24 water temperature 8.6 degC #inverclyde #rwsabc #openwaterswimming #greenock #scotland #theesplanade #clouds (at The Royal West of Scotland Boat Club)

A Good Story

Do wolves save rivers? Are they saving Yellowstone? A popular YouTube video makes the case beautifully that they do, but things aren’t quite that simple. Have we all fallen spell to a good story?

(33 cities chosen from) more than 1,000 registrations and nearly 400 formal applications from cities around the world. Each city was asked to present a clear and compelling description of how they are approaching and planning for resilience to decrease vulnerabilities, and after careful review of the applications, a panel of esteemed judges, including former presidents Bill Clinton and Olosegun Obasanjo, recommended the first set of 33 cities for the 100 Resilient Cities Network.

It wasn’t easy to choose only 33 – we had so many passionate, vibrant entries. Among the winners: One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world wrote of the city’s history withstanding shocks for the past eight millennia. One African city wrote of a resilience plan as harmonizing climate change adaptation, biodiversity, planning and management and water security. And a city in South America finds itself dealing with landslides and forest fires, all while sitting in the shadow of a volcano.

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Europe

Bristol (UK) Glasgow (UK) Rome (Italy) Rotterdam (Netherlands) Vejle (DK)

Links to the rest of the cities, here. What’s surprised me most was Oakland, California(!) made the final cut. Also, Bill Clinton and Olosegun Obasanjo were on the panel. Bizarre stuff.

The fuel of the future, unfortunately

WHAT more could one want? It is cheap and simple to extract, ship and burn. It is abundant: proven reserves amount to 109 years of current consumption, reckons BP, a...

This article from The Economist magazine dated April 19th to 25th April suggests that Coal is going to play a large role in providing electrical power for he foreseeable future.  This will be especially true in poorer countries.  What we need is to make nuclear cheaper than coal.