The SE now running short on water.

SecondLegDownIsTheBigOne

suburbanwifey wrote: »

I'm not here for credibility sunshine, I leave that to people like you who get their back up at things not worth getting upset about, no doubt ruining your whole day, spending a whole heap of time trying to think up smart replies that you hope will annoy me. You failed. Never mind .... have a nice day Off to eat my Cheerios now LOL

Don't forget to ask your husband for some new opinions.

loobylou232

PasturesNew wrote: »

The SE now running short on water.

Oh no!!! What'll they use instead of ice to cool their Pimms???

Oooh, let me see. I'll use Pimm's to cool my Pimm's. No use watering it down now is there;).

A._Badger

SecondLegDownIsTheBigOne wrote: »

I have made no assertions about the capacity of the UK water supply. I have made assertions about climate change and expressed my contempt at the wasteful entitlement of special people. The above post of yours, in fact, supports what I have said about water privatisation. Well done.:rotfl:

Let's see - that's three palpably stupid things you believe is: AGW, fantasy house price crashes and that my post didn't prove you wrong.

Is this a poorly timed record attempt for the East London school sports day?

lostinrates

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

Yes, I know folks who live in t'cun'reesoide are all mucky and smelly. I remember when I worked in a stables even my teeth were dirty at the end of the day.

I'm talking about those of us who spend the majority of their day sat commuting and then sat staring at a computer, occasionally ambling over to the photocopier. Not exactly working up much of a sweat.

Absolutely. We stink.

However, when i was a london commuter i might not have stunk in the same way, but was in many ways filthier....i remember that yucky black grime when one cleans one's nose with a tissue...yuck, yuck. It might mit stink, but its filthy!

Never the less, most of us could make more of an effort in times of shortage, me very much included.

SecondLegDownIsTheBigOne

A._Badger wrote: »

Let's see - that's three palpably stupid things you believe is: AGW, fantasy house price crashes and that my post didn't prove you wrong.

Is this a poorly timed record attempt for the East London school sports day?

Your post didn't prove anything. You link to a political blog with an anti-European agenda which you seem to parade as your education on the subject of water as opposed to my "uneducated twaddle." There are plenty of other sources out there such as Water Aid, Blue Gold (Have you read the book? You'd like it.), the UN and more. Instead you take your gospel from vociferous Eurosceptics. If you have proven something, it is this:

You have no credibility, your comments could have been pulled from the comments section of a Daily Fail article.

A._Badger

SecondLegDownIsTheBigOne wrote: »

Your post didn't prove anything. You link to a political blog with an anti-European agenda which you seem to parade as your education on the subject of water as opposed to my "uneducated twaddle." There are plenty of other sources out there such as Water Aid, Blue Gold (Have you read the book? You'd like it.), the UN and more. Instead you take your gospel from vociferous Eurosceptics. If you have proven something, it is this:

You really are an twerp of the first, um, water.

First, you raise some idiocy about 'climate change' when, as has been established, there has been no rise in temperatures for 17 years. Then, when confronted with Dr North's unassailable facts about the lack of water storrage capacity in the South East of England (he is, incidentally a specialist in public health issues), the best you can do is fire-off an inane an ad hom about the primary theme of his blog.

Why? Because you have no scientific background to your clams ('Water Aid' indeed!), in fact no credible argument just a load of (oh dear) hot air.

To get back to the topic, the current lack of water in the SE of England has been caused by natural variations in rainfall combined with a lack of investment in resources and a massive population increase.

Anything else is just 'green' catastrophising twaddle.

SecondLegDownIsTheBigOne

A._Badger wrote: »

You really are an twerp of the first, um, water.

First, you raise some idiocy about 'climate change' when, as has been established, there has been no rise in temperatures for 17 years. Then, when confronted with Dr North's unassailable facts about the lack of water storrage capacity in the South East of England (he is, incidentally a specialist in public health issues), the best you can do is fire-off an inane an ad hom about the primary theme of his blog.

Why? Because you have no scientific background to your clams ('Water Aid' indeed!), in fact no credible argument just a load of (oh dear) hot air.

To get back to the topic, the current lack of water in the SE of England has been caused by natural variations in rainfall combined with a lack of investment in resources and a massive population increase.

Anything else is just 'green' catastrophising twaddle.

Now you're embarrassing yourself.

you have no scientific background to your clams

You evidently derive your opinions from whatever Daily Fail article or political blog that successfully piques your angry prejudices.

You can't even construct a coherent position:

Climate change is an unproven artificial construct (that was initially called global warming, but after over a decade of falling temperatures, they had to think up a new name).

Here you deny climate change then go on to describe how temperatures fell over a period of time. If that is not 'climate change' then what is?

Contrast your bumbling ineptitude with the statement that I made:

Climate change is proven and real. Mankind's contribution to it is real, the extent of mankind's contribution to it is debateable.

Where I state that the climate changes, but the extent of mankind's contribution to it is debateable.

From your initial post your argument has accelerated down a death spiral with compounding incompetence. There are wider reasons for fluctuations in temperature over cosmologically infinitesimal periods of time (like, I don't know, a decade) such as the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit. All this aside there is a lot of credible scientific evidence that refutes your agenda driven 'expert' Dr Richard North. You seem to have been convinced that the significant majority of the world's interested scientists are working in cahoots with governments to justify increased taxation, whereas, what you really have is two separate groups, one of which is only interested in science and the other which is interested in leveraging whatever evidence it can to do what it wants, whether that be to tax you more, build wind turbines or whatever. That's what politicians do.

I don't disagree with you on water mismanagement, lack of investment and demographic issues which is something that I alluded to before you threw down your Daily Mail letters page and started frothing at the mouth. It is evident that you have difficulty in understanding what you read. None of these issues make it OK for individuals to waste water.

Don't talk to me about idiocy. I had you pegged as an AWOL village idiot, but the Association of Village Idiots has already come out and distanced itself from you.

Generali

4 pages later and the solution is still as simple as it was on page 1. If you charge more for a scarce resource, people will use it less.

It's quite amusing to see some posters trying to turn a mild drought into class war though.

chewmylegoff

i use san pelligrino for watering my plants and flushing the toilet anyway, so i doubt this (not even a) drought will affect me too badly.

kabayiri

Generali wrote: »

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It's quite amusing to see some posters trying to turn a mild drought into class war though.

I think you have to blame us interfering Northerners for that

There are few things the North generally has more of than the South, but Water and Ramraiders are two of them !

(We're just jealous of the better weather of course)