Potential Level 4 heat warning for Sunday/Monday/Tuesday in England (i.e., you might die)
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sideshowbob
Champagne fascia aficionado
That aged well.
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
kensalriser
pfm Member
Part of the problem is utter complacency in the face of the bleeding obvious.
Let’s hope Gingerbeard is surprised and still with us.
mansr
Objectionist
When you put more energy into a chaotic system, greater and faster variations are to be expected. Ask any mathematician.
Le Baron
Unbiased advice at reasonable rates
Quite so. I hoped that's what I was alluding to. I need to work on my clarity of expression.
NeilR
pfm Member
Years ago on PFM there were many bitter arguments about man made climate change and whether it was real or not. Most protagonists are long gone but I wonder what they are saying now?
most of the deniers were right wing loons so they are likely to be still in denial I would imagine.
most of the deniers were right wing loons so they are likely to be still in denial I would imagine.
I think the daily mail is still telling us to enjoy the sunshine, have a barbeque and if it's still not in the evening you could go for a drive. Anyone complaining is just a snowflake. Oh, and vote Penny.
Joe Hutch
Mate of the bloke
The progression in their views goes like this:
1) No such thing as global warming; scientists are lying
2) Maybe a bit of global warming, but it's just a natural cycle; scientists are exaggerating
3) OK, there is global warming, but there's nothing we can do about it because China
4) Although global warming is bad, I'm not going to change my lifestyle/pay more taxes because I'll be dead before it really hits
Dogberry
pfm Member
Gov.net zero strategy illegal.
https://goodlawproject.org/news/we-won-net-zero/
https://goodlawproject.org/news/we-won-net-zero/
gavreid
Pretty Words...
Excellent!
mandryka
pfm Member
There is a fifth view
5) That the conditions which lead to global warming will continue, but their effects will be adequately mitigated by geo-engineering solutions. Mirrors in space to divert the sun’s rays, that sort of thing. Science will come to our rescue.
gavreid
Pretty Words...
Equally barking.
There will be some solutions but it's dangerously lazy to rely on this approach. This is the inherent weakness of the 2050 timeline. If such technical solutions are to be a reality my view is there would already be working prototypes in place. Think of the cost and the scale.
Just 1/2 an inch of rain over a small city releases the same energy as ca 50 million car tanks of petrol - the sums are just incomprehensible!
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
It does expose the hollowness at the heart of government. Under Johnson, it’s been deemed sufficient to make the right noises without needing to back them up with planning and action. The GLP called them out on it and has been proven right. Which is gratifying, but not surprising.
Dogberry
pfm Member
Have you been drinking the tap water down there again?
paulfromcamden
Baffled
Politicians like to promote this because it means they can tell everyone to just carry on as normal. No pesky behavioural changes required. No impact to the economy. Ignore all the 'green crap'.
"Currently unavailable technology will, at some unspecified point in the future, save us!"
Exactly the same argument was made five years ago for how the post-Brexit Northern Ireland border would work. Yay! Technology! That's going well.
Ponty
pfm Member
As I said elsewhere, politicians don’t GAF about it, except perhaps the Greens. It’s short term agendas only. 8BN people are torching the planet through net over consumption (clearly some consume less and others a lot more). Changing what cars we drive or what boiler we have etc is tinkering around the edges IMHO.