Global Warming

All of which pales to insignificance against one decent volcanic eruption.
IMHO HS has very little effect on the weather. We do rather well on
desertification though which should be the priority.

 

I'd imagine battery technology would have moved on from today in X [1]
years time, especially in the final 5 years when the realisation dawns
that oil *is* going to run out...


[1] Include the 'Champ factor' of oil having more than 30 years, say 50,
and that a cheap, synthetic low impact fuel hasn't been found.

 

I find this a rather facile argument.

It has the conviction of a smug 13 year old who's discovered an algebraic
equation to prove 2+2 do in fact make 5. But is wrong.

 

The principle contained within the argument I don't have a problem with
as such. Its the clever, clever "its weather" method of putting the case
over. It seems to have an under lying sneer to it.

The whole issue of global warming and carbon emissions is so clouded by
self serving agendas and money that it will always be difficult to get a
clear and an undistorted picture.

There is so much power and influence at stake in fossils fuels, (see the
extent the western world will go to ensure they still have influence over
the suppliers of oil), that any threat to them will be vigorously
resisted.

"...For without fuel they were nothing. They had built a house of
straw..."

 

Disagree.

There's always an average temperature, it just may not have been
recorded accurately enough to work with.

 

He's me, when I was 20. so obviously he's the right height. So I'm
correct, and don't you forget it.

Also I'm not convinced as to the average height of a 20 yr old man in
the UK.

 

I think I was about 11, or maybe 12 when I hit 5'8"
Yus I was an uber tall git when I was that age.
All well and good, 'cept that my family has a habit of stopping growing when
we hit about 14.
So not short now, but not terribly tall, 'bout 6'1"

It's definitely changed in my lifetime (I'm 35 BTW).

Tell you though... weirdness of all weirdness... spent a lot of time with
both Dutch and Afrikaans dudes... feck sake, average height prolly no
different than ours, but variation of a theme? Ho yus! Loads of minature
little teeny dudes, about 5'4" with the wind behind them, but feck feck
feck, they have *loads* of uber tall dudes too. Have you *ever* met somebody
who not only stands about 7'4" but is also: built like a brick shithouse on
body building day; utterly without an ounce of excess fat upon his body; and
is still only 23yo? I have... feck feck feck! TF he's a top bloke,
thoroughly gentle giant; tell you now, I'm not a small geezer, it's
extremely unlikely that anyone reading this could *easily* lift me off the
floor (given that I weigh about 20 stone) but this giant of a South African
dude grabbed hold of me with one arm and swung me about in the air like I
was a rag doll![1] Talk about a weird experience! Fortunately we can bless
his cottons cos he's sweeter than than a sweet thing on sweet day. Phew!


[1] OK, so I don't blame him, I had just grabbed him and lofted him into the
air and dangled him around at a party[2]
[2] Which made me stagger under his weight[3]
[3] And I ain't no weakling[4]
[4] Not that he seemed to have any trouble at all repaying the compliment!

ZK

 

Talking of which, and I've nicked this from the letters page
of today's Metro[1]:

Why does the Guinness Book of Records not have an entry for
the tallest dwarf or the shortest giant?

[1] Train[2] into work on account of beers in Town tonight.
[2] Actually, bus, train, tube and train[3]
[3] And they wonder why people use their own transport[4]
[4] Sorry Paul C., this isn't meant to start an argument )

 

You flatterer. I shall practise my "underlying sneer".
Perhaps it will make me look like Humphrey Bogart!

What's wrong with posting a conclusion rather than the analysis?

 

"CT" <> spouted the following in $8m780$-berlin.de:

<fx: Ducks>

 

(The Old Fogey) spouted the following in

Heh, safe bet, for now.

I wonder if the report that if the current trend in the weather
continues for 50 years or so, that about a third of the current species
on the planet will be heading for extinction is true.

It seems to me that the arguments put forward that the net effect of all
the carbon release caused by human activity is a small amount compared
with the natural carbon cycle don't take account of the fact that
systems can be tipped into catastrophic change by relatively small
additional quanta.

Interesting to note that young growing forests absorb lots more CO2 than
mature forests. Natural forest fires followed by regeneration aren't too
much of a problem then. However, when the forests are burned down and
the land cleared for Mclivestock, It's all a loss to the lungs of the
earth.

When I look at the vested interests and those who deny the reality of
global warming, I find myself thinking that I wouldn't really really
want to be seen agreeing with a bunch of cunts like them. Hats off to
HMG for taking their obligations under Kyoto seriously. Roll on clean
power, but I hope electric bikes have come on a bit by the time they
outlaw my current oil powered steeds!

 

Of course it's true that if the temperature increases by so many degrees
per year then nasty things will happen.

Have you noticed that all reporting of global warming assumes a rapid
rate of temperature increase, and quite logically infers some
consequences therefrom?

However, that assumption is far from proven.....

 

As about 2/3 of them are nasty little fuckers that's just fine.

 

Old Fart at Play <> spouted the following in

Sure. There does seem to be quite a large body of scientific opinion
tending towards it though. The Merkins are in denial however.

The counter opinion that human caused increases in CO2 emmissions don't
matter in the great scheme of things is far from proven too....

 

"Hog" <> spouted the following in 105725.news.uni-berlin.de:

Heh, "Bitey Things"

 

Simian <Simian@in_valid.semi-evolved.org> spouted the following in

Some of the scientists are even considering the facts rather than the
funding too.

 

Ask TOG.

 

I watched the thing about parasitic worms....

 

There's no chance of them dying out unless their hosts do...

 

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