What happened to global warming?

[JonB]

Even the BBC seem to be arriving to the conclusion that man made global warming is a myth.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8299079.stm

Funny how it completely slipped through all of the major news reports though?
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Keep up, they've renamed it 'Climate Change'.

Load of old toss.

[Ste]

Global warming became climate changing. If it gets warmer they can blame climate change and if it gets colder they can still blame climate change. The perfect money spinner!!

Climate change is going to destroy the world unless the governments tax us, that'll teach people not to complain about the weather all the time!! In a couple of decades people will have stop noticing the weather for fear of being taxed if the weather has changed since the previous day.

[Mister James]

Even if man-made climate change was real (and it isn't) ANY actions we take in the UK (or indeed the entire West) would be irrelevant.

China and India have no choice but to spew out huge amounts of CO2 and other shit in order to provide the increases in the standard of living that their populations demand.

Our output of all waste gases are NOTHING compared with that, and compared to what it will be in the future - so for the government to crippled companies and penalise citizens with so-called 'green taxes' is unconscionable.

Besides, if stuff IS actually killing the planet - they should ban it, not fucking tax it!

[bazza]

Wait till the next big volcano goes off if you want to see some real climate change.

[Mushroom]

al"goon outed by a question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf-fzVH6v_U .

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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

If climate change wasn't happening (it is, but it's not down to us) and the government admited it was a natural process, then they'd only find something else to tax us on, or "save" us from.

Personally I think it's good that we are using more renewables as it's stopping us being so reliant on oil. But the goverment would only tax the arse out of the new fuel anyway.
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[Skudd]

If someone said we were making the planet untidy, then I would have to agree with them, but all this save the * insert any insect/animal/flower* gets on my jelly tophat.
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[Robby]

One of the highly ironic things is that if you're going to believe in climate change, then greenpeace and the like got us into this mess. If they hadn't resisted nuclear power the world over then there would be a lot less coal being used to generate power.

But no, policymakers the world over have been lobied by them for the last 30 years, hence not enough nuke.

Renewables are a joke. The energy used to make wind turbines, transport them to site, erect them, and service them, is a huge proportion of their output. Wave and tidal show promise and make the most sense for the UK, so we're spending all the (development) money on wind turbines.

The environmental lobby has far too much power. They have also done an excellent job of demonising the big energy lobby. Bastards.

One fun little side note. One of the anti climate change groups, probably greenpeace but it could be any bunch of hippies, protested outside my office the other night. They lose credibility when they leave all of their banner and other crap on the street outside afterwards, along with a suspiciously high number of empty packet of king size rizla.