RE: global warming
Bigvoice,
though I am sure Venetian can more than account for himself; as the Moderator of this forum, I join in Gilly's concern at your apparent negative tone.. Please show us that it was just a big typo
Leo
RE: global warming
Hi BV. I thought someone would pick up on that. 😀
ORIGINAL: bigvoice
You don't seriously read the Daily Mail, do you, venetian?
Not my fault, BV, says I. It gets left lying around. Perhaps all papers get boring if read regularly. Mail's downers for me are that it's quite oriented for the feminine gender (I'm not choosing a new bikini this summer), and its heckling on certain issues and people goes on and on. However it has good stuff too, and I don't even buy a paper as a rule.
Dear in-laws who posted afterward, I could tell the BV was also a wry, smiley voice. 😉
As for the issue of the thread, Bellamy makes some pretty amazing statements, and I wonder if anything like it is online? Too long to type out. E.g. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doesn't do what non-scientists think it does. More CO2 would even boost plant productivity. A petition signed by 18,000 - count them - 18,000 scientists has totally opposed the Kyoto Protocol with experimental data. Bellamy says that scientists in the main don't believe humans are causing the slight warming, but politicians tend to think we are. Who'd you trust? (Well, maybe neither, so...) The Kyoto Protocol would cost £76 trillion, so Bellamy is saying that if it goes ahead and is abided by, that is the disaster, since the money could be used to fight world hunger, provide clean drinking water, develop alternative energy sources, improve the environment, create jobs.
I'm not on either side. I've just suddenly realised that the media have taken me for a ride, and I didn't stop to question until now. And I find it very ironic that only today the CIA with a budget of untold billions is officially stated to have got everything wrong on Iraq re WMD. I'm just one person who went along and thought everybody knew what they were talking about on global warming. But I know how often majority or popular opinion can be so wrong, so I've pulled up my campaigning horse by the reins to a halt.
Is the global warming scare every bit as true and as real as the CIA's 'intelligence' on Iraq? 😮
Venetian
RE: global warming
Dear Venetian, Gilly and Leo,
I really didn't mean to cause offence and I do apologise from the heart and unreservedly.
While I must confess that the aforementioned paper brings up emotional reactions in me, suggesting I have personal issues there to resolve, I promise I don't believe for a moment you should all like what I like: that would be terrible and also very dull.
I hope it will explain my point of view if, aside from the homophobia which I'm sure you disdain as much as I do, we are often bombarded by my partner's Ulster Prot mother with annotated cuttings from the Mail: she uses these to warn us of all the dire calamaties which will probably befall us unless we live in perpetual fear and suspicion in this decadent land.
I'm rather undermined in this antipathy by the fact that you found a good article in there. So it just goes to show how blinkered I was:eek:
love and light to you all - and back to the thread proper!
BV
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RE: global warming
Venetian: The Kyoto Protocol would cost £76 trillion, so Bellamy is saying that if it goes ahead and is abided by, that is the disaster, since the money could be used to fight world hunger, provide clean drinking water, develop alternative energy sources, improve the environment, create jobs.
Wouldn't it be wonderful it that money was spent on such things? If the protocol isn't signed, perhaps we could remind them... 🙂
RE: global warming
ORIGINAL: venetian
Dear in-laws who posted
In case anyone wondered, that doesn't mean mine! :DBut if I've got it right, their own.
V