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In spite of the 100 or so Repubs who didn't want it.

I've got some chocolate Digestives if anyone wants any.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68863796 Rishi Sunak has "set us back" on climate change and left the UK at risk of falling behind other countries, the head of a government watchdog has said. Chris Stark, head of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), told the BBC the prime minister had "clearly not" prioritised the issue as much as his predecessors. He accused Mr Sunak of sending the world a message that the UK is now "less ambitious" than it once was. [...]Mr Stark said politicians in the UK across the spectrum have a "collective fear" of talking about climate change. "You look out your window and you see we've had, you know, the wettest 18 months ever in this country, we've got the hottest year on record in the last 12 months. "I think people around the world know climate change is happening, but there is definitely a fear of talking about it in British politics at the moment." He cautioned against leaving a "vacuum" where climate change denial could creep in. Short-term self interest trying to creep in and wreck the future, yet again.

Any one you walk away from! Vital three points.

You're more than smart enough to be able to make the distinction between the government and its people in such countries. Sadly a lot of people choose not to make that distinction and as such I have heard such vilification (if only implied a lot of the time by snide suggestions that because the systems persist, the people lack the strength to change the systems there) and tarring of a nation state, all of its people and its government for the actions of only the latter. More so in the case of China than Russia, especially after Covid, come to that. Edit: The irony of course being, that in a democratic system the people are actually far more responsible for the actions of their government than in places like China or Russia - the free and fair vote confers at least some power.

Absolutely. Some fans are utter hypocrites on the matter, quite honestly. If a fan is running their mouth at a player and then that player makes them look daft, the player has every right to look the fan in the eye and give it right back.

Martinez is a cvnt in the way that a lot of fans of other teams think Jamie Vardy is a cvnt. Shithouse troll but does have the skill and talent for the big occasion, often.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-68838219 Interesting piece about the manufacturing crossroads that China is at.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68835575 A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was "impossible" without human-induced climate change, scientists say. Temperatures soared above 48C in Mali last month with one hospital linking hundreds of deaths to the extreme heat. Researchers say human activities like burning fossil fuels made temperatures up to 1.4C hotter than normal. A separate study on drought in Southern Africa said El Niño was to blame, rather than climate change. For me, El Nino certainly acts as a multiplier, but as the graph above categorically shows, it just sticks an extra peak in what is overwhelmingly an upward trend.

It's not like there hasn't been multiple warnings about this and other consequences of current courses of action, is it? (Pardon the cynicism.)

"The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems. Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large. The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth." And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper." The consequences of digital information flow are becoming more and more stark - another example is what @The Doctor just put in the News thread. I fear where it all leads.

I do in fact agree with you on the matter above and I'll happily admit my OP was rather facetious. At the same time, the extreme level of ignorance in the original comment deserved all that facetiousness and more and I would hope anyone would agree.

As per above, that's actually a pretty decent shout considering 96.2% of the Australian population isn't "native".

The Sydney fuzz apparently don't think so, but I guess we'll see.

I was expecting quite a few "but I got banned for expressing my OPINION" related rants in Forum Support tbh. NB. Like the new pic there, have to put the new Fallout series on my watch list.

I would agree about the alcohol being a factor today, but IMO the place has been nasty pretty much from the moment form in any way dropped even slightly.

It's truly rather bizarre how toxic the discourse has become.

Bugger me, it's a mess out there.

Carl Sagan was iconic, and this speech has more and more value as time goes by.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ndg7g75g8o Lambing on one family's farm took a "horrific turn" this year because of a virus that killed nearly 40% of the offspring. Experts say the impact of the Schmallenberg virus is likely to be at some of the highest levels we've seen nationally, but that cases are likely being under reported and the true situation may be much worse. Another corollary of increased average global temperatures that isn't given the consideration it deserves. Warmer, damper weather = higher numbers of parasitic insects = higher amounts of disease caused by those insects.

Further to the above... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68665166 Climate change could move "into uncharted territory" if temperatures don't fall by the end of the year, a leading scientist has told the BBC. The warning came as data showed last month was the world's warmest March on record, extending the run of monthly temperature records to 10 in a row. It's fuelled concerns among some that the world could be tipping into a new phase of even faster climate change. A weather system called El Niño is behind some of the recent heat. Temperatures should temporarily come down after El Niño peters out in coming months, but some scientists are worried they might not. March 2024 was 1.68C warmer than "pre-industrial" times - before humans started burning large amounts of fossil fuels - according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. You can see the El Nino peaks, but the overall trend is always up, up, up.

Yeah, it's the first time I've seen such a rivalry based largely on hundreds of years of sectarian hatred described as "friendly" and/or "colourful". Presumably the Troubles were just merely "troublesome", too.

A pox on both their houses IMO. Rodgers being at Celtic doesn't change that.

Ah, the FT curse. It gets into your blood.

That's it, Rumble. Fight the good fight.