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Global Warming
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Ah that makes more sense. I thought drinking tapwater was normal so I didn't think of bottled water. As you said you "drink water from the tap" I imagined you sticking your head under and drinking it direct from the tap. :rotfl:0
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Kill all worthless scum in prisions for serious offences. Reduces the air they breath and also the resources they use up. Thats energy saving0
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Moggles wrote:It has become fashionable in some sections of the media to portray the scientific evidence about climate change (and the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities) as an exaggeration, but the overwhelming majority of scientists agree on the main points even if there is disagreement on some of the details. One thing is certain. The longer we delay, the more serious the situation will become.
Something to remember is that the UK isn't going to be worst hit by global warming. In fact I am enjoying the warm winter right now.
Why should we be going out of our way to save the USA and China when global warming will be felt harder there than in the UK? If they don't want to help then neither should we.
The planet has heated and cooled naturally which has forced evolutionary changes for the strong and wiped out the weak. So what if this increase is man made, it's still an evolutionary incident where by the stronger and more adaptable species survive and the weaker ones die. Giving growth to the next evoluntionary level for the surviving species.
People worry too much about a problem that has no realitical answer to prevent. You can delay it all you want but since the world is divided about doing something it's pointless in slowing it down. It's going to happen, might as well be now so that we can see the effects with out own eyes.0 -
going2die_rich wrote:Something to remember is that the UK isn't going to be worst hit by global warming. In fact I am enjoying the warm winter right now.
I hate to break it to you, but we've currently experiencing autumn: winter does not start until 20 December. The UK is predicted to feel the effects of global warming by the sudden plunge in overall temperatures as the Gulf Stream fails giving us the same weather conditions as Moscow, which is at the same latitude as London.0 -
To add to that - it won't take much of a rise in sea level to inundate London. Now you might not live in London and you might not like it, but you can be damned sure that the UK economy will be somewhat affected by London disappearing into the sea.
And you won't enjoy the warmer climate much if you're suffering from malaria and your house is eaten by termites.
Is your memory that short that you have forgotton the unpleasantness of the heat waves we've had these past few summers?Time is an illusion - lunch time doubly so.0 -
Shrewder MSE's will be checking the Environment Agency's hydrographical surveys and buying properties right at the end of the Thames floodplain, or in 2050 - the beach.
Investments in Uranium mining companies, nuclear power plant constructors, electric generators/distributors and water companies would also be a good starter for ten.
Like global warming, the ending of the gulf stream is also a theory and, while we are at the same latitude of Moscow - it would probably mean we have a continental as opposed to marine climate.
This means colder Winters with clearer blue sky days and hotter Summers (like say, Germany), as opposed to a Siberian Winter, or the cold damp Winters and wet Summers we have 'enjoyed' in the past.
Still, more snow and falling leaves bodes ill for all those folks switching from their cars to British Rail.0 -
British Rail? Only 15 years behind the times!Time is an illusion - lunch time doubly so.0
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Does one not get the impression that many of the people in denial about GW are the ones who might have a teensy bit to lose from possible actions to be taken against it... 4x4 owners club, costavillaowners'r'us etc etc..?
Sorry, but I DO believe that taxation, whilst not a complete answer, does have its part to play in the fight.
In essence, we have to wean people away from their bad habits. Pure and simple. I don't see why we shouldn't start with a strengthening of the tapered road tax system. Application of proper taxation to aviation fuel might also be a step forward. Ryanair and suchlike have been laughing all the way to the bank on this one for years.
Pro-active measures such as government insistence on renewables in ALL public buildings - schools, hospitals, MoD etc etc - and in ALL new build, private developments might also give a badly needed kickstart to the sector.
It's about time they extracted the digit here. We badly need leadership before the fat lady starts singing. I'd rather make some sacrifices now than have 60 feet of water above my grandchildren's heads.0 -
Gromituk: Network Rail, The Office of the Rail Regulator, The Health & Safety Executive, 25 x TOCS (Train Operating Companies) and 3 x ROSCOS (Rolling Stock Leasing Companies) - jeez, it's easier to say British Rail.
The problem for the politicians LizEstelle is to bring in your programme without losing votes and tipping the economy into recession. Whilst a good recession will do wonders for reducing CO2 emissions - voters are quite keen on being able to pay their mortgages and put food on the table.
It's the aerospace/automotive/construction/electricity generation/utility companies, the banking and service sectors that supply them, that provide nearly all of UK plc's GDP. This pays our wages, and the taxes that pay for HM Govt and all it does.
Tax some or all of these sectors too heavily, even if you reduce taxes elsewhere and Houston: we have a problem. This of course, assumes the US/EU, China, India et al are all willing to do the same - which they are not.
I would imagine the 4x4 owners, costavillaowners and MP's will be able to afford the taxes that any Govt. would be willing to impose - assuming the businesses so taxed managed to stay in business. Those that don't will be dishing out redundancies left right and centre., or worse, moving to China or India.
Poorer folks will, I suspect, lose out - whether its their jobs or freedom to move about.
Expect a lot of spin and hot air on this subject from politicians of all persuasions and little in the way of delivery.0
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