Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Guest 774- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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"The Road to Middle Earth"?
"If it ain't broke, fix it til it is."
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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It's about time short folk had a break.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Thank you Tom !
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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For some reason there are those who are missing the point. It's not an attack on short people but merely highlighting the latest research on the subject of "climate science".
Apologies to those who are easily offended.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Africans are generally not smaller than British people and Europeans.
Yet it is warmer in Africa than here.
So the theory seems debunked from the start.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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in some ways you are right, in some ways you are wrong alex, i remember a true story that emanated from the east cape many years ago.
a boer farmer walks into a bar in a remote area and asks for a pint of beer and a zulu and for his pet alligator, the barperson duly obliges.
this goes on for the next two evenings but on the third he is told that only pygmies are available, the retort comes back "no thanks he turns nasty when he goes onto shorts".
Guest 688- Registered: 16 Jul 2009
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We spend our lives in fear and then die,conspiracy theory anyone.
Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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I should be alright then, I'm only 5' 4"
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Today's Sky:
"Speaking about devastating bushfires that razed 100 homes in the southern island state of Tasmania at the weekend, Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned this week that Australia would see more extreme events due to global warming."
http://news.sky.com/story/1035107/weather-map-scale-changed-amid-australia-heatGuest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Indeed Alexander: Like David Cameron, here in the UK, Julia Gillard has promoted herself to Australia's chief climate scientist.
There are parts of the world where Mankind should not attempt to make his home - parts of Australia being one of them. Antarctica and the Arctic also spring to mind. Wood plus dry plus fire equals big fires.
It doesn't take a climate scientist to reach that conclusion surely?
It also has to be said that environmental policies in Australia have led to the deaths of hundreds of people over the years due to wild fires and floods but hey, We've got a planet to save right?
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Philip, it has been recently acknowledged by scientists in Britain that the 21st century has seen 4 of the 6 wettest years since 1910, when stats were started on rainfalls nationwide.
They say it is climate change, and that the same is happening in China and India, with heavy, drawn-out rainfalls beyond the norm.
Because of these long and protracted rainfalls and floods, farmers have been unable to plant all the crops, and consequently there is less agricultural product, in Britain, China, India...
Meanwhile, North America suffered a bad drought in 2012 owing to climate change, with large losses of crops.
All this will make the cost of food soar! Hunger a potential result!
Philip, what exactly are you trying to prove? This is serious stuff, you know!
Are you in denial of climatic change?
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Of course I am. Any sane person is.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I believe there is climate change, but for me, the big question is whether it is caused by us, or natural changes to the Earth's climate and as there has already been 8 ice-ages, I believe it is not caused by us.
Roger
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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You are right, Roger, in recognising at least that there is a climate change in course.
Climatic change means more rain here, more heat there... problems for farmers and less crops, inflation, possible hunger through lack of food.
So we need to address these problems, rather than simply denying that there is any climate change at all.
Jan Higgins
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Same here Roger, a purely natural event and not man made, having said that the pollution by places like China does not help.
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