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Follow the money.

Your conspiracy Geiger counter is correct to be clicking away there, but I reckon you should point it in this direction:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured/dp/1408824833

The Tory Party manifesto turns out to be more interesting than I ever thought it could be.

https://www.thetorymanifesto.com/

I think we can all get behind Occult-wanking.

What, like a mystic reach-around?

Amen brother.

I'm sorry if I came across as hostile Sharkey. I'm just a bit fed up of seeing all the same arguments come up time and again - we should be long past it now. 

The debate should not be about what is happening, as we know what is happening, but rather what we can do to get on top of it.  So that's what I'm going to concentrate on from here on in.

Page 98 as well:

Climate Diplomacy

There is no greater injustice today than countries in the Global South paying the price for a climate crisis they did not cause. Yet some world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, champion a climate-change denial agenda.

Britain's climate-change diplomacy was respected internationally, playing an important role in securing the Paris Agreement, following the leading role the UK played in securing the Kyoto Agreement. However, Boris Johnson – who has described global warming as a 'primitive fear... without foundation' – has overseen a 60% cut in the UK's global network of climate experts.

Only Labour can rebuild Britain's leadership on the most serious threat to our shared humanity.

We will:

• Rebuild our climate expertise within the Foreign Office, putting climate diplomacy at the heart of
our foreign policy.

• Use our influence at the UN, EU, G7, G20, World Bank, the Commonwealth and other global institutions to promote policies to tackle the climate emergency.

• Use our diplomatic expertise to negotiate and deliver more ambitious global targets to deal with the climate emergency, starting with COP 26 in Glasgow next year.

Damn, this is bloody good stuff!!

Oh man - pages 11 to 25.  It's so good. 

https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Real-Change-Labour-Manifesto-2019.pdf

Now, THAT is what I call a manifesto!! 

Wow, if a Labour Government can pull off even a quarter of that it will revolutionise the lives of millions of people.

https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Real-Change-Labour-Manifesto-2019.pdf

Thanks all.  I'll keep posting, but I'm going to try and post the more positive constructive things from here on, as we're probably all aware of the trouble we're in already.

I was chatting to Michael E Mann on Twitter the other day.  He's been battling with fossil fuel-led thinktanks and right wing ideologues determined to boot him into touch for decades, trying to keep the facts front and centre, which we were discussing.

I said "Thanks for fighting the good fight." His response was simply a GIF of a battered and bloody Captain America with the caption "I can do this all day." 

I honestly don't know how he maintains his energy and positivity in the face of it all, 'cos to be fair it's draining the fuck out of me.

Interesting - the number on the Lawman of the Future barcode is 210082055 whereas the one on my sticker given away free with Sugar Puffs (coincidentally unearthed just the other day) is 2205800149.  I wonder how they were coming up with the numbers in the film-related merch at the time?

I still have the Sugar Puffs one in a box somewhere, and I'm still considering getting a tattoo of it!   

https://youtu.be/2bgTi1IXDYA

*sigh*

It's happening again.

I've been in the environmental business in one way or another since I was a teenager. I've had thirty years of this. The only difference now is I'm earning qualifications left right and centre on the subject. But I can assure you, I KNOW MY STUFF.


I already understand how CO2 molecules work in the atmosphere. It's physics 101. It is chemistry 101. Shortwave radiation comes in from the sun and long wave radiation leaves the Earth, heading outwards into space.

However, CO2 traps the long wave radiation. If there were no CO2 in the atmosphere, we'd be a ball of ice. If there were mostly CO2 in the atmosphere we'd be a hellhole like Venus.

This isn't new science. The heat trapping properties of CO2 have been known since around the 1890s, and confirmed in a gazillion experiments since.


We've been at around 280PPM CO2 for several thousands of years, which gave us humans the opportunity to have a civilisation thanks to a largely stable climate, apart from the odd peak or trough due to solar or volcanic activity, or the variance of the Earths orbit.

Now, however, in a geological nanosecond, not in hundreds of thousands of years like previously, we have increased it to 415PPM. That is HIGHER than the atmospheric CO2 PPM during the last CO2 related extinction event several million years ago, and it has occurred over 100 years instead of 100 thousand years. Please read this paragraph again, and wrap your head around it, because it is crucial to our understanding, and therefore our survival.

We know the CO2 increase is coming from burning fossil fuels, because CO2 from that source has a lighter isotope than your bog standard atmospheric CO2. It's a very simple calculation to therefore work out how much we've pumped into the atmosphere, oh, and also to figure out how much has been absorbed by the sea, which by the way is becoming less alkali as a result, affecting marine life significantly (Let's not mention the actual HEAT the sea has been absorbing also, and is about to spit back out, as I don't want to totally freak everyone out tonight).

So I've been having these arguments and discussions with people for YEARS AND YEARS. Except THIS time everything the scientists have warned us of, everything I have been passing on for the last thirty years, IS NOW HAPPENING IN REAL TIME IN FRONT OF OUR EYES.

Yet STILL there's arguments and discussions and obfuscations and a whole load of absolute bollocks flying around, while the world is literally BURNING IN FRONT OF US.

But we have to keep trying, don't we? Because to be nihilistic about it, or doomist as some people call it, is to be in the same league as a climate change denier.

We still have a chance, just barely, to limit the damage. But it's going to be rough on all species on this planet regardless, because 1.5C is locked in.

So it's why I come here and have conversations about it.

It's why I've tried my best with you Sharkey, because you seem like a nice chap, and intelligent too.

You're a bit of an odd fish though Sharkey. It seems you're happy to accept some scientists, but not others.

Who is telling us about deforestation? Scientists.

Who is telling us about the crisis of plastic in the sea, and even in our drinking water? Scientists.

Who is telling us we are stripping the worlds resources at an unsustainable rate? Scientists.

Who is telling us about the latest breakthroughs in cancer treatment? Scientists.

Who created the internet? Scientists.

Who created computers? Scientists.

Who created cellular networks? Scientists.

Who put satellites into space? Scientists.

Who calculated the best way to get an object the size of a washing machine to land on a comet? Scientists.

Who is warning us of climate ch... oh, hang on - it's not is it? Is it scientists? The bastards! They've been lying to us this whole time to get grant money! (PS - no-one mention the $5 trillion in subsidies the fossil fuel industry got in 2017 as per the IMF report)


At the end of the day, when my tooth aches I believe my dentist has the most up-to-date way of dealing with the problem, so that's where I'm going. It sounds to me like the dentist is just one of many options for you when you need a filling Sharkey. Good luck with that.

Anyway, TL:DR? I'll keep posting the latest findings from scientists here, and also some thoughts on the REAL debate, which is how we're going to save ourselves.

Good luck everyone.

Here you go folks. Posted by a John Reppion on Twitter:

‪I say we wire up Orwell's grave to the grid and turn off some coal plants 'cos he's spinning so fast. ‬