Prince Charles.

maxfli65 said:
I'm indifferent to monarchy, just wish it was toned down here. Trouble is Charles surrounds himself with loyal yes men so he rarely gets both sides of any argument or cause he takes up. Means well enough but he's been so pampered his whole life he's just very out of touch with the everyday concerns of most people i.e feeding their families and paying the bills. I think he gets less and less relevant every passing year but yearns to be listened to.
His Princes Trust does good things but whilst I agree with his views on some things like architecture, I don't on others such as GM foods. This current global warming thing relating to problems in Syria doesn't make much sense really. The global warming thing is still a theory imo, historic big climatic events relate to earths distance from the sun as influenced by the pull via lining up of bigger planets in the solar system which caused ice ages, or meteors hitting us, rather than anything we do as a species. Seems just another way of taxing us and its seen as heresy to doubt it. The prophecies of Al Gore and others have failed to happen.
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Really???

"Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals1 show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities"

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
 
maxfli65 said:
...The global warming thing is still a theory imo, historic big climatic events relate to earths distance from the sun as influenced by the pull via lining up of bigger planets in the solar system which caused ice ages, or meteors hitting us, rather than anything we do as a species. Seems just another way of taxing us and its seen as heresy to doubt it. The prophecies of Al Gore and others have failed to happen.
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Then think again!

We are pouring millions of tons of Greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, some of which actually boosts crops/trees that use it but the vast majority is 'counterproductive' and creates global warming.

It's not so much the 'big climatic events' that we need to be educated about - they can generally be predicted and some can be avoided - but the creeping destruction of our environment that has greatly accelerated since the industrial age began!

I'm afraid the naysayers to this effect, that acts within the 'normal' fluctuating cycle of weather, are the same sort of folk that have denied all the other industrial related threats that appear to stand in the way of 'progress'!

There is 'good' news though! One major area of consumer pollution - Ozone layer depletion by CFCs, something that has significantly increased the rate of skin cancer in New Zealand - has actually reduced sufficiently that the 'hole' is also reducing! Btw. I was recently informed that a significant portion of the effectiveness of (the original and current) Goretex fabric was/is down to CFCs. Good to see that there is work being done to find/create replacement materials!
 
Global warming. Load of tosh imo. Obviously plenty of folk will hold an opposing view and that's fine. Not that there is not a problem with pollution, which is a different matter altogether.
 
They dropped David Bellamy like a stone because he wasn't an advocate of global warming.

They've done tree ring analysis from hundreds of years ago and there are periods of great warmth and periods when its cooler - cyclical. London was commonly snowy in Victorian times.

I'm not saying global warming isn't true or burning fossil fuels is good, just there are many great minds saying what we are doing is not that significant but they get slaughtered for their views.
Carbon emissions are massive naturally whenever a volcano goes off, the oceans also release massive amounts of carbon naturally, much much more than we produce.

The earth has evolved over millions of years, the antarctic was once lush and green in prehistoric times. Earth will continue to evolve, species will come and go and eventually when our sun dies the planet dies along with humanity.......unless someone can invent light speed travel!!!

I am not entirely convinced by the global warming 'theory' but I do think renewables are the way ahead as fossil fuels are finite.
 
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