Credit to Bill Bryson for this nugget of information though he got it from someone else. To help visualise the time line of planet earth if you stretch your arms out to their fullest from your left hand finger tip to the start of your right hand nothing much happened, the first single cell life forms start at your right hand wrist, human life is at the very tip of your finger nail and one brush of a nail file could remove all that human life span. But we've be monitoring the weather for 100 years and the scientists now know we are causing climate change.
HCC, and other councils, should take a leaf out of the airlines book. Their flight times are often exaggerated so when they're on time, or early, after taking off late their figures look good.
