| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil 08:30 - Mar 12 with 5748 views | rbee |
From the BBC website
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. |  | | |  |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 16:58 - Mar 13 with 914 views | GaryHaddock |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 16:53 - Mar 13 by kensalriser |
Some of you might think you're smart and informed enough to argue with NASA. Not me.
"Since the pre-industrial period, human activities are estimated to have increased Earth’s global average temperature by about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), a number that is currently increasing by more than 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade. The current warming trend is unequivocally the result of human activity since the 1950s and is proceeding at an unprecedented rate over millennia."
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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist… oh wait. |  | | |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 17:09 - Mar 13 with 886 views | dmm |
While not wanting to start another back and forth with Hud - and we've discussed the issue of climate change very amicably offline - I must restate that it is a proven scientific fact that CO2 and other gases emitted by humans burning fossil fuels causes the climate to warm. This was discovered at the end of the 19th century and has been repeatedly tested and confirmed.
The scientific consensus is that increasing greenhouse gases are warming the planet as explained in this simple article by NASA: https://climate.nasa.gov/causes.amp
EDIT: just seen kensalriser got there before me! [Post edited 13 Mar 17:11]
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| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 19:26 - Mar 13 with 805 views | rbee |
I am probably wrong but I really don't remember humidity in this country before 1990. I had been to the far east before then and experienced it but not here. I remember being at work sometime in 1990, everyone felt hot, we opened the windows and it made little difference. Placed an order for fans.
You look at a forecast now and it's always there, 90% tonight. | | | |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 01:43 - Mar 14 with 691 views | PunteR |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 11:06 - Mar 13 by GaryHaddock |
As Kensal says though, it's working so can we be really sure that greed is his motivation and not air quality improvement and the onset of a huge fine?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/mar/11/britain-300m-fine-london-air
I don't like the way CC and ULEZ are funded, I think they punish people who are the worst off but the rhetoric from Khan's opponents is based on misinformation, cynical politicking, and in a few cases something else.
Overall we're breathing cleaner air and our kids are living longer. That's a good thing no? [Post edited 13 Mar 11:10]
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Yeh , brilliant. Just as we head on into WW3. |  |
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| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 01:46 - Mar 14 with 688 views | PunteR |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 11:30 - Mar 13 by plasmahoop |
Personally im against the expansion into outer London, and don't like how it is being implemented. Not in favour of brexit, but if we've done it not sure why we are allowing ourselves to be facing a 300 million pound fine. Not keen on khan or Boris, personally id abolish the mayor of london position. |
We should expand out of London. My guess is they cant because its already owned. | |
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| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 02:47 - Mar 14 with 674 views | PunteR |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 14:15 - Mar 13 by kensalriser |
You've completed only half the cost-benefit analysis there.
If the congestion charge were scrapped it's certain that traffic inside the zone will increase. So if you're spending the day working in central London you could easily have an hour added to your journey times, which means an hour less available for chargeable work. I have no idea what your hourly rate is, but if it's less than £60 please PM with your trades capabilities. |
Scrap the CC and Keep the ULEZ, why have both? Isnt it basically for the same thing? Less traffic, pollution, safer on the roads in public places..?
London is just an island on its own that's sold everything of value and now cant look after itself, so charges the public to sustain itself.
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| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 05:58 - Mar 14 with 628 views | Gus_iom |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 17:41 - Mar 12 by GaryHaddock |
You are 100% correct.
With one caveat (and a huge generalisation), encouraging non Londoners to get public transport into London is a difficult ask as long as public transport is more expensive than driving. [Post edited 12 Mar 17:46]
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This.
It needs to be cheaper, cleaner, more reliable. It needs to be able to cope with the amount of people who want to use it.
And....and....it needs to feel friendlier and safer for users. Which includes stopping people playing their music, films , whatever, for the whole carriage to hear. |  | | |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 08:05 - Mar 14 with 565 views | GaryHaddock |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 05:58 - Mar 14 by Gus_iom |
This.
It needs to be cheaper, cleaner, more reliable. It needs to be able to cope with the amount of people who want to use it.
And....and....it needs to feel friendlier and safer for users. Which includes stopping people playing their music, films , whatever, for the whole carriage to hear. |
Sadly I spend nearly four hours on a train / underground every day but they are incredibly safe and the obnoxiousness is there but fairly rare.
Appreciate this varies from service to service, but I have never found them unusable to the point I’d prefer to drive because of it. [Post edited 14 Mar 8:14]
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| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 08:47 - Mar 14 with 518 views | Gus_iom |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 08:05 - Mar 14 by GaryHaddock |
Sadly I spend nearly four hours on a train / underground every day but they are incredibly safe and the obnoxiousness is there but fairly rare.
Appreciate this varies from service to service, but I have never found them unusable to the point I’d prefer to drive because of it. [Post edited 14 Mar 8:14]
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Generally OK, but it's also different for men, my wife would tell you! | | | |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 08:54 - Mar 14 with 512 views | GaryHaddock |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 08:47 - Mar 14 by Gus_iom |
Generally OK, but it's also different for men, my wife would tell you! |
This is true. | | | |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 10:43 - Mar 14 with 462 views | GaryT |
In 30 years time people will look back at The Handmaid's Tale and say "wow, this was ahead of its time". The inability to reproduce won't lead to us disappearing in one generation, there will be egg harvesting and pregnancies will be 'to order' but the massive fall in the population will have catastrophic knock on effects (it will fix the climate problem though so at least there's that).
Our civilised world is far more precarious than most of us realise. A temper tantrum in the White House can cause a domino effect that could set off a series of unfortunate events and not just pensions to plummet. We've come a long way in the last 80 years and those of us approaching retirement couldn't have chosen a better time in history to live but it's clear the good times are coming to an end. Whether it's failing antibiotics, Covid26, bio weapons, a climate catastrophe or a Trump enabled whoops apocalypse, we've brought it upon ourselves...or AI will decide, 'enough of this shit'....and we'll be gone.
Difficult to stay upbeat some days, I guess this is one of those days, for me anyway. It's raining as well. [Post edited 14 Mar 11:00]
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| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 11:43 - Mar 14 with 422 views | GaryHaddock |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 10:43 - Mar 14 by GaryT |
In 30 years time people will look back at The Handmaid's Tale and say "wow, this was ahead of its time". The inability to reproduce won't lead to us disappearing in one generation, there will be egg harvesting and pregnancies will be 'to order' but the massive fall in the population will have catastrophic knock on effects (it will fix the climate problem though so at least there's that).
Our civilised world is far more precarious than most of us realise. A temper tantrum in the White House can cause a domino effect that could set off a series of unfortunate events and not just pensions to plummet. We've come a long way in the last 80 years and those of us approaching retirement couldn't have chosen a better time in history to live but it's clear the good times are coming to an end. Whether it's failing antibiotics, Covid26, bio weapons, a climate catastrophe or a Trump enabled whoops apocalypse, we've brought it upon ourselves...or AI will decide, 'enough of this shit'....and we'll be gone.
Difficult to stay upbeat some days, I guess this is one of those days, for me anyway. It's raining as well. [Post edited 14 Mar 11:00]
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I don’t know when the earth will end, but I’m pretty sure it will be before a QPR fifth round cup win. | | | |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 11:51 - Mar 14 with 408 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 11:43 - Mar 14 by GaryHaddock |
I don’t know when the earth will end, but I’m pretty sure it will be before a QPR fifth round cup win. |
Or *because* of a QPR Fifth Round win... |  |
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| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 12:14 - Mar 14 with 372 views | GaryHaddock |
| The Upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil on 11:51 - Mar 14 by BrianMcCarthy |
Or *because* of a QPR Fifth Round win... |
Andy Sinton:
‘Celar hat trick puts QPR into the quarters! What’s that noise?’
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