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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by ace00 View Post
    Environment: Huge increase in spending on water urged to avert global catastrophe
    · Infrastructure investment must double, say experts
    · Climate change likely to put 4bn people at risk

    Todays on-message Guardian headline. No evidence supplied, not even close.
    No need. Everyone is brainwashed even though common sense shows it's absolute bollox.

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  • ace00
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    Environment: Huge increase in spending on water urged to avert global catastrophe
    · Infrastructure investment must double, say experts
    · Climate change likely to put 4bn people at risk

    Todays on-message Guardian headline. No evidence supplied, not even close.

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  • Mailman
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    Look up the statistical concept of confidence intervals, cretin.
    Although I can tell you in advance you won't have the brain-power to comprehend the idea
    Well Im pretty confident you know f8ck all guru

    Mailman

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    Oh shut it you hypocrite.
    All you think about is the price of your crappy terrace in Swindon


    link-detached

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    sasguru weeps real tears.

    THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!

    How about thinking about real issues that actually exist and are proven such as education, clean water, immunisation, contraception, medical care, sustainable farming....etc
    Oh shut it you hypocrite.
    All you think about is the price of your crappy terrace in Swindon

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  • Moscow Mule
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    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
    What changes

    You're focusing on the wrong bit, just imagine the superlative timepiece.

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
    What changes
    The slight fall in global temperatures.

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  • oracleslave
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    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
    able to reverse the climate changes of the last few years....
    What changes

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  • Moscow Mule
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    Everytime I look at this post, I can't avoid thoughts of some kind of superlative timepiece, able to reverse the climate changes of the last few years....

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  • ASB
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    Look up the statistical concept of confidence intervals, cretin.
    Although I can tell you in advance you won't have the brain-power to comprehend the idea
    And how the media can deal with confidence intervals.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7605118.stm

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by ace00 View Post
    Climate inaction 'costing lives'

    Oxfam says rich nations' carbon footprint are putting lives at risk
    Failure to take urgent action to curb climate change is effectively violating the human rights of people in the poorest nations, an aid charity warns.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7605927.stm

    They must love this round the dinner tables of Islington
    sasguru weeps real tears.

    THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!

    How about thinking about real issues that actually exist and are proven such as education, clean water, immunisation, contraception, medical care, sustainable farming....etc

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  • ace00
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    Islington based outrage!

    Climate inaction 'costing lives'

    Oxfam says rich nations' carbon footprint are putting lives at risk
    Failure to take urgent action to curb climate change is effectively violating the human rights of people in the poorest nations, an aid charity warns.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7605927.stm

    They must love this round the dinner tables of Islington

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by Mailman View Post
    IF they are going to use the word COULD, then surely the range should start at ZERO?

    How can you say something could happen and then give a specific range?

    Thats just like saying guru could know what he is talking about when the chances of that happening are 0%

    Mailman

    Look up the statistical concept of confidence intervals, cretin.
    Although I can tell you in advance you won't have the brain-power to comprehend the idea

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  • Mailman
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    Originally posted by ace00 View Post
    Latest climate change prediction from IPCC:

    World temperatures could rise by between 1.1 and 6.4 °C (2.0 and 11.5 °F) during the 21st century
    IF they are going to use the word COULD, then surely the range should start at ZERO?

    How can you say something could happen and then give a specific range?

    Thats just like saying guru could know what he is talking about when the chances of that happening are 0%

    Mailman

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  • TimberWolf
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    Originally posted by Gordon Brown View Post
    Not a problem. We make excellent Weapons of Mass Destruction which we sell to anyone with cash, and then buy energy from terrorist states. It's how the world works.
    It's how the world works at the moment. But oil is a finite resource and consumption is increasing. We'd be better off having our own energy supplies (and being an exporter if possible) even if it's not the cheapest energy around today.

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