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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68110310 For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU's climate service. World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts. This first year-long breach doesn't break that landmark "Paris agreement", but it does bring the world closer to doing so in the long-term. Urgent action to cut carbon emissions can still slow warming, scientists say. "This far exceeds anything that is acceptable," Prof Sir Bob Watson, a former chair of the UN's climate body, told the BBC Radio 4's Today Programme. "Look what's happened this year with only 1.5C - we've seen floods, we've seen droughts, we've seen heatwaves and wildfires all over the world, and we're starting to see less agricultural productivity and some problems with water quality and quantity." The period from February 2023 to January 2024 reached 1.52C of warming, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The following graph shows how that compares with previous years. Not good. What was it Carlin said? "The planet is fine. The people are fvcked."

Come back when it's actually a science being discussed.

The Koreans really not happy with Klinsmann considering the strength of at least some of their team and how piss poor they were in this tournament. A team full of individuals, not a team itself, is the word. Sounds like the England "Golden Generation" era.

Tbh having a second elected house could well just make a new set of problems rather than solve any. Look at how dysfunction US Congress is.

Granola-flavour 5G conspiracy theories, mostly.

I've been lucky in that regard too. Mea culpa, point about modern life. On topic, football, like many other things, has evolved a lot in the past couple of decades and Enzo represents a lot of that IMO.

That's very true, as said above by another it is entirely subjective. NB. There is a real issue finding good quality and value dentists, isn't there?

Everyone says this until they get toothache. But in all seriousness, I can understand why the experience was higher-octane way back when (and it certainly was cheaper), but at least these days there's much less possibility of ending up in the hospital (through various different possibilities that were prevalent in the 70's, 80's and early 90's) after simply going to watch a football match. The MON era will always have a special place in my heart seeing as it was at that formative stage of me as a LCFC fan, but I recognise that is the rose-tinted spectacles talking and the actual standard of play as well as the level of success we've enjoyed have both moved on massively.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/68206676 Super Bowl conspiracy theories involving Taylor Swift are "nonsense", says NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Music superstar Swift is dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, whose team will compete in their fourth Super Bowl in five years on Sunday. Right-wing critics say their relationship is part of a plot to rig the NFL's championship game and help get US President Joe Biden re-elected. We live in a strange time, folks.

Speaking personally I would say that solar panels on south facing parts of buildings and roofs where possible have utility as the tech is maturing, but interesting points here. It is a most complex problem.

That's another element to it that needs to be considered, yeah. Complex problem that needs a number of different approaches to solve.

I think the discussion was about giving up agri land for growing rapeseed oil for fuel, rather than using it for renewable energy. Of course you're right however, especially about the last sentence. The dark irony, yet again, being that not doing enough will cost, at least, an order of magnitude higher than doing enough in the long term.

So they will practically be at full strength and will be even more formidable. It will be tough but I do think this England team can rise to the challenge.

Another reason why renewable and contained fission solutions tend to be better all round for the future. Of course there is going to be a need for biofuels and oil for some things, but as you say setting aside agricultural land for something used for power generation in a big way is not a good precedent to set, for a lot of reasons.

Well, after being the equivalent of 3-0 down at half time against one of the world's best teams away from home two times running, England have won one 4-3 and lost one 3-2. Now the thing is trying to ensure they don't go three down by half time in the first place next time, they've shown they can match India everywhere else.

They've instilled a real sense of self belief, which has given results, which leads to other people believing too. Rehan slapping the last ball of the day for four being a case in point.

By far the highest target chased in India, and the highest ever chase by England to win? It wouldn't just be incredible for this team, it would be historic in terms of England cricket full stop.

Think this is going to be set up for one of those heroic failure chases. Set about 390, end up 260-8 or something and then someone does some incredible hitting to get us close to the target...only to fall short and finish on about 340-350.

And add that to a ridiculously zealous "plea bargain" system that encourages innocent people to take a smaller sentence and a criminal record on the off-chance that their lawyer doesn't do the greatest job of picking a jury and they get much longer...

Requiring a Stokes Special yet again.

I know, I probably shouldn't have started it.

No positive results yet, but keeping at it.

Not a great day, but considering losing the toss and a flat pitch, really not a bad one either.

It's certainly made for an interesting and enlightening read.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-023-00074-1 "Since the early 1990s, increasing political polarisation is among the greatest determinants of individual-level environmental and climate change attitudes in the United States. But several patterns remain unclear: are historical patterns of polarisation largely symmetrical (equal) or is rather asymmetrical (where one set of partisans shifts more than others)? How have polarisation patterns have changed over time? How generalizable are polarization patterns across different environmental and climate change attitudes? We harmonised four unique sets of historical, pooled cross-sectional survey data from the past 50 years to investigate shifts across seven distinct measures of citizen environmental and climate change attitudes. We find that contemporary attitudes are polarised symmetrically, with Democrats (higher) and Republicans (lower) attitudes are equidistant from the median. But the historical trends in polarisation differ by attitudes and beliefs. In particular, we find evidence of two distinct historical patterns of asymmetric polarisation within environmental and climate change attitudes: first, with Republicans becoming less pro-environmental, beginning in the early 1990s, and second, a more recent greening of Democratic environmental attitudes since the mid-2010s. Notably, recent increases in pro-environmental attitudes within Democrats is a potentially optimistic finding, providing opportunities towards overcoming decades-long inertia in climate action. These findings provide a foundation for further research avenues into the factors shaping increased pro-environmental attitudes within Democrats." If and when scientific truth and policymaking becomes a matter of populist opinion, then our species' future as a "civilisation" will become very nasty, brutish and (geologically) short.