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Reply | Anyone you know?
at 07:26 17 Sep 2025
It has been clear for a while that this poster repeatedly derails other people's threads. I'm not going to post a response to their sh1te, just downvote it. |
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Reply | I very much doubt that....
at 09:58 15 Sep 2025
This Labour government has already cut the adoption and special guardianship support fund (ASGSF), which as my partner will testify as an Occupational Therapist, is having a material impact on children with SEND. Reform would no doubt make this situation even worse. |
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Reply | Some good news on climate change
at 17:53 10 Sep 2025
It would be very welcome if China can maintain the momentum to make up for those now stalling (UK) or regressing (USA). |
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Reply | Some good news on climate change
at 17:50 10 Sep 2025
"How can we be sure climate changes haven't happened thousands of years ago and that the earth will eventually cool down for another ice age. There were people who believed the earth was flat and that proved totally wrong."
The fact you know about glacial cycles is down to paleoclimate data that allows us to reconstruct CO2 levels from the past using proxies such ice cores, boron isotopes, etc. If CO2 levels are too high (something we can measure) then the glacial cycling will be postponed.
Physics dismisses flat-earthers as complete nonsense, but if you have an alternative to physics to explain the Earth system then I'm all ears.
Plain language explainer here;
https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-the-rise-and-fall-of-co2-levels-influe
As for the economics, it is becoming more and more apparent that The West have a totally disastrous understanding of the economy and until they join the 21st Century, the decline will continue. [Post edited 10 Sep 17:53]
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Reply | Some good news on climate change
at 10:08 10 Sep 2025
If that is who I think you're referencing then hopefully he won't turn up on this thread as I have him div. listed. |
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Reply | Some good news on climate change
at 09:57 10 Sep 2025
Capacity does not equal generation, we only care about what CO2 enters the atmosphere. China is starting from a much higher base, however, that rate of change is actually higher than the UK phase out of coal if it is sustained. |
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Reply | People considering voting Reform
at 08:42 10 Sep 2025
You missed the Greens off (I know you were having some mouse trouble)
REF: 27% (-2)
LAB: 22% (+2)
CON: 17% (-)
LDM: 15% (-)
GRN: 12% (+2) |
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Thread | Some good news on climate change
at 08:33 10 Sep 2025
China is finally turning the corner on emissions and renewables now cover all additional energy demand.
The Carbon Brief report states;
"The CO2 output of the nation’s power sector – its dominant source of emissions – fell by 3% in the first half of the year, as growth in solar power alone matched the rise in electricity demand."
"Coal use in the power industry fell by 3.4% compared with the same period a year earlier, while gas use increased by 6%, resulting in a 3.2% drop in emissions for the sector overall."
In terms of renewables the additional capacity to be added is quite astonishing.
"The State Grid should have detailed knowledge of projects seeking to connect to the electricity grid, so its projections carry extra weight compared with others. If its expectations for wind and solar growth are realised, this would result in around 850TWh of annual clean power generation being added to the grid in 2025...
This new clean power capacity would be more than enough to meet the entire electricity demand of Brazil (760TWh), or Germany and the UK combined (817TWh)."
As an engineering feat alone it is very impressive to see.
China is still well short of its' National Determined Contributions (NDC's) as is the UK, but it is some positive progress.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-solar-growth-keeps-chinas-co2-fallin |
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Reply | Reform v The Greens
at 16:30 9 Sep 2025
What environmental concerns are they not focussing on?
Who are the marxists?
Please educate us. |
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Reply | People considering voting Reform
at 16:19 9 Sep 2025
“Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough.” Mario Draghi
The ECB surely can't take the risk and repeat the mistakes of Greece. |
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Reply | Reform v The Greens
at 12:09 9 Sep 2025
Mike Graham was at the Reform conference no doubt pushing his innovation of growing concrete as a central tenet of their economic policy. |
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Reply | Reform v The Greens
at 12:35 7 Sep 2025
"...people who want the left wing utopia and those people generally seem to want 100% purity."
You have a chap up the thread talking about doughnut economics which would require the economy reducing to fit inside scientifically determined planetary boundaries. This pejorative labelling is just plain false. It won't be utopia, far from it.
You also assume a fixed system. There aren't going to be any climate impacts between now and 2029? The economic policies of the Labour Party aren't going to drive people further into debt and poverty? |
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Reply | Reform v The Greens
at 11:28 7 Sep 2025
People like you who take a systems approach to these problems and are prepared to conscientiously do the sci-comms work. Michael Mann gave a talk to the Global Systems Institute back in June. He basically said the gloves have to come off and we need to start debunking much of the nonsense put out there in the MSM. I have a tiny minority on here who post the most egregious nonsense when it comes to emissions data, climate impacts and economic modelling.
The collaboration with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries will hopefully bring onboard professionals from business and finance. The insurance sector is currently miles ahead of the rest.
I have to admit it looks bloomin' scary when you have the middle ground people still banging on about net-zero 2050 and you compare it to this analysis. It would be interesting to know how this analysis makes you feel. I been involved in transdisciplinary work for a while now and that can include people with little formal education, right up to full professors. I guess we need to get engagement about the genuine urgency of the situation without people losing all hope.
Thanks for taking the time to have a look at the dashboard. [Post edited 7 Sep 11:30]
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Reply | Tough start for the ladies.
at 14:55 6 Sep 2025
Set pieces have been poorly defended, but there has been some decent build up play. Struggling to match them physically all over the pitch. |
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Reply | FM 24
at 14:51 4 Sep 2025
New match engine looks cool. |
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Reply | Scum fan
at 16:14 3 Sep 2025
Natural hazards have always forced migration, the issue we face now is that migration under climate forcing is permanent with little prospect of returning to homelands. Amoc collapse is likely to be mad-max scenario, however, something with very disruptive impacts such as sub-polar gyre collapse (SPG) could mean those in the UK would be forced to migrate.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2024GL113871 |
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