'5 ways to save the world' BBC2 (last night)

[gingerjedi]

Can somebody please tell me if those historic warm periods have been explained? Without insults or links to multi-hundred page documents please.

We Daleks are very simple creatures so just "no" or "yes, it was because of <insert one line explanation>" will do.

Thanks in advance.

Change the record, how do you know what you are saying is accurate anyway? Wine is produced in Britain today so why would it have been so unusual? Even if the climate was not ideal for growing grapes they would probably try anyway due to it being a roman staple of the time.

[xoggoth]

Right on Jawz. I would not say GW is proven but I find it very convincing. The vast majority who sneer appear to know nothing about simulation or even basic physics.

[All Day Breakfast]

Now it's very clear that this board is full of IT people who are also experts in every field under the sun but I don't think basic physics is a very good skill to have when it comes to global warming.

One thought, if you are all experts then why aren't you putting your skills to good use by discovering cures for cancer, nuclear fusion and other such mysteries known to man?

I have a very difficult day tomorrow where I have to remove a very deep brain tumour, surely there must be a qualified brain surgeon out there amongst you who can give me some advice?

Maybe if you do a "google" then you can help me?

[Betty]

Now it's very clear that this board is full of IT people who are also experts in every field under the sun but I don't think basic physics is a very good skill to have when it comes to global warming.

One thought, if you are all experts then why aren't you putting your skills to good use by discovering cures for cancer, nuclear fusion and other such mysteries known to man?

I have a very difficult day tomorrow where I have to remove a very deep brain tumour, surely there must be a qualified brain surgeon out there amongst you who can give me some advice?

Maybe if you do a "google" then you can help me?

Pee off you pretentious smug btard.

[sasguru]

Can somebody please tell me if those historic warm periods have been explained? Without insults or links to multi-hundred page documents please.

We Daleks are very simple creatures so just "no" or "yes, it was because of <insert one line explanation>" will do.

Thanks in advance.

Aye. The era of the soundbite and glib phrase to explain a complicated issue. GCSEs based on TV. Meejah Studies at Polyversity. Who needs in depth exploration and the discipline to wade through the facts?
Doomed in more ways than one, I tell you

[Betty]

Great Plague 1665


Bubonic Plague, known as the Black Death, first hit the British Isles in 1348, killing nearly a third of the population. Although regular outbreaks of the plague had occurred since, the outbreak of 1665 was the worst case since 1348.


London had changed little since this engraving was made in 1480. Houses were tightly packed together and conditions insanitary - ideal conditions for the plague to spread, particularly during the hot summer of 1665.


Spring 1665
When plague broke out in Holland in 1663, Charles II stopped trading with the country in an attempt to prevent plague infested rats arriving in London. However, despite these precautions, plague broke out in the capital in the Spring of 1665. Spread by the blood-sucking fleas that lived on the black rat.

June 1665
The Summer of 1665 was one of the hottest summers recorded and the numbers dying from plague rose rapidly. People began to panic and the rich fled the capital. By June it was necessary to have a certificate of health in order to travel or enter another town or city and forgers made a fortune issuing counterfeit certificates.


July 1665
The temperature and the numbers of deaths continued to rise. The Lord Mayor of London, desperate to be seen to be doing something, heard rumours that it was the stray dogs and cats on the streets that were spreading the disease and ordered them to be destroyed. This action unwittingly caused the numbers of deaths to rise still further since there were no stray dogs and cats to kill the rats.




Bring out your dead!
Those houses that contained plague victims were marked with a red cross. People only ventured into the streets when absolutely necessary preferring the 'safety' of their own homes. Carts were driven through the streets at night. The driver's call of 'bring out yer dead' was a cue for those with a death in the house to bring the body out and place it onto the cart. Bodies were then buried in mass graves.


November 1665
The numbers of deaths from the plague reached a peak in August and September of 1665. However, it was November and the onset of cold weather that brought a drastic reduction in the number of deaths. Charles II did not consider it safe to return to the capital until February 1666.

[All Day Breakfast]

Sasguru is an expert whose opinion has to be respected - he knows which facts are the real facts and which facts are the dodgy ones due to being one of this site's experts

[All Day Breakfast]

Great Plague 1665


Bubonic Plague, known as the Black Death, first hit the British Isles in 1348, killing nearly a third of the population. Although regular outbreaks of the plague had occurred since, the outbreak of 1665 was the worst case since 1348.


London had changed little since this engraving was made in 1480. Houses were tightly packed together and conditions insanitary - ideal conditions for the plague to spread, particularly during the hot summer of 1665.


Spring 1665
When plague broke out in Holland in 1663, Charles II stopped trading with the country in an attempt to prevent plague infested rats arriving in London. However, despite these precautions, plague broke out in the capital in the Spring of 1665. Spread by the blood-sucking fleas that lived on the black rat.

June 1665
The Summer of 1665 was one of the hottest summers recorded and the numbers dying from plague rose rapidly. People began to panic and the rich fled the capital. By June it was necessary to have a certificate of health in order to travel or enter another town or city and forgers made a fortune issuing counterfeit certificates.


July 1665
The temperature and the numbers of deaths continued to rise. The Lord Mayor of London, desperate to be seen to be doing something, heard rumours that it was the stray dogs and cats on the streets that were spreading the disease and ordered them to be destroyed. This action unwittingly caused the numbers of deaths to rise still further since there were no stray dogs and cats to kill the rats.




Bring out your dead!
Those houses that contained plague victims were marked with a red cross. People only ventured into the streets when absolutely necessary preferring the 'safety' of their own homes. Carts were driven through the streets at night. The driver's call of 'bring out yer dead' was a cue for those with a death in the house to bring the body out and place it onto the cart. Bodies were then buried in mass graves.


November 1665
The numbers of deaths from the plague reached a peak in August and September of 1665. However, it was November and the onset of cold weather that brought a drastic reduction in the number of deaths. Charles II did not consider it safe to return to the capital until February 1666.

I'm sure I've read something similar on "google" - are you sure this is all your own work?

[mcquiggd]

As long as there is money to be made from 'global warming', or 'the next ice age', it will continue to be peddled by newspapers, scientists, and politicians who want to increase tax.

But what's the point? We are all going to be killed off by a collision with a Near Earth Object anyway. Or Bird Flu. Or MRSA....

If El Gordo was serious about reducing poverty, debt relief, etc, he would simply do the decent thing and resign. That would help to ease it in the UK at least.

[Betty]

I'm sure I've read something similar on "google" - are you sure this is all your own work?

I studied plagiarism and media studies at uni