I apologise for diverting the thread ever so slightly. This is an interesting article for two reasons, first, it's interesting and second, the date it's from the future.
I just know I'm going to regret doing this but.... there wasn't any link or article in your post. If the link was to youtube, could you just say what the point is that you are trying to make rather than us having to watch a 26 minute, yes it was 26 minutes, not 20 minutes as you said it was, clip of people I've never heard of telling me things that I'm supposed to believe because they are saying them. Thanks
Sorry, it was late https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/...apore-style-brexit-no-matter-what-boris-does/
Interesting. Where do you envisage the new causeway to be, i.e. the one that the low cost workers use to come in from Johor every morning?
OK so really sorry, again! I just pasted the link I'd saved but that was another article. https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/12/weve-just-had-the-best-decade-in-human-history-seriously BTW when we sort out a trade deal with Aus can you send us some of your sunshine and we'll trade you as much rain as you want
An interesting article. In fact doing for 10c what any fool could do for $1 is a philosophy that serves me well. Using less stuff is always good provided the residue from the stuff you do use is equally benign.
It's true apart from maybe mental health, there isn't many reasons why anyone should be out of work or hungry, loads of jobs out there and most above min pay. Of course there will always be them who smoke 60 a day and drink complaining how they can't feed their kids.
Just watched the response to the queen’s speech, elation from the Conservatives when Boris stood up, almost silence when Corbyn did. Several Labour MPs absent from the bench, Corbyn’s speech must have been very painful for the rest of the party to listen to. If he were an animal, he’d be put out of his misery, he still doesn’t get it, how out of touch he is. SNP equally as painful to watch, comical when they did they’re “going to put Scotland first and block Brexit” speech
the article is just stating the obvious isn’t it. My car uses less fuel than those 10 years ago. My house is a self build and my gas bill is half that of the house I lived in that we knocked down, despite being bigger. This is the reality of technological advancements. Recycling or not, the natural resources are finite though, so we continue to eat in to them. The future of the planet has always hinged on whether technological advancements would ‘save us’ from the restrictions of our resources. Bearing in mind that what are quoted as available resources are often referring to those economical to retrieve... technological advancements move those goalposts too. no room for any complacency on the whole global environment front though... which I know you remain firmly in the sceptics club!
It's whether you believe that the current religious like hysteria around climate change calamity is grounded in facts Yes I am skeptical because common sense tells me that there are still questions but you aren't allowed to ask them. Is CO2 the only driver of global temperature rise? Is the rise natural anyway? Is the climate like the biggest oil tanker we've ever imagined that once it's on a course you can't change it? How much is it costing us (billions a day) to fight an outcome we can't predict? How much CO2 is optimal? Could there be other factors involved? Natural climate adjustment? As I've said before, man contributes 3% to global CO2 emissions. I would think that measuring global CO2 emissions is not an exact science so it must have a margin for error. Maybe about 5%? I'm not saying I'm right, I'm saying we've stopped asking the questions.
There is no way to be 100% certain or to prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt as we have no control earth to compare results with. So shall we just wait and see what happens?
I’m confident we won’t cut emissions globally by enough so we will find out. Or our children / grand kids will. It’s slightly unfortunate we don’t have other planets to live on if the doom mongers are right. (Which is your point, I know. If climate change is likely, we don’t need to prove it 100% for it to be extremely prudent to take action). You are right it’s impossible to be 100% certain. The vast majority of experts (sorry to mention them) seem to think the science is convincing. And right now we are indeed getting weather that’s consistent with the climate change hypothesis.
