Global Warming

[Aled]

Can't all be bad can it?

At least with no grit and salt on the road (like this winter in our area), we can drive our babies around all year !

Wahay !

[grum]

..... i dont know, probably not, as Bing Crosby is dead now!!!!

[lee bishop]

no such thing as global warming, its an excuse to add tax by the government.

what is actually happening is climate change, but thats been going on since the year dot, one millenia its an ice age, the next its a bit warm, i'll be long gone ( probably from some sun induced skin disorder ) to care

[ian parker]

no such thing as global warming, its an excuse to add tax by the government.

what is actually happening is climate change, but thats been going on since the year dot, one millenia its an ice age, the next its a bit warm, i'll be long gone ( probably from some sun induced skin disorder ) to care

Lee, i agree totally, all thats happening is a natural occurance, Our sh-tty goverment are using it as an excuse, plain and simple, if they wanted to stop us flying on planes, they would simply govern the amount of flights. No, its much easier and much more profitable to take MORE money out of our pockets, USA, Japan, Russia and India, what are they doing about it ?? sweet F.A. Good old blighty, if it werent for the kids, Lee, you know where i,d go, ?? tossers

[hally]

not bothered to be honest!.............

[graham John]

yeah,
be nice to have warm winters, wont have to buy so many clothes to keep warm, think of the money we will save on heating bills

cheeRS

[Frosticles]

no such thing as global warming, its an excuse to add tax by the government.

what is actually happening is climate change, but thats been going on since the year dot, one millenia its an ice age, the next its a bit warm, i'll be long gone ( probably from some sun induced skin disorder ) to care

Agree

[flyinfin]

i am currently doing a degree in environmental management, and the facts are that there is natural warming but figures show that we are speeding this process up. so naturally the earth could warm by a degree celsius or 2, but with our contribution it the temp could increase by 10 - 15 degrees. one theory even predicts that in britain the temperature could actually fall, giving us bad winters all year round!

[simon79]

Has anyone seen that Al Gore Docu/Film, Can't remember what its called, "Inconvenient truth" or something. All about climate change/ Global warming very informative, convinced me.

Si

[Aled]

Wow....its a close poll !

Thought it was gonna be one way.....

Register your vote in the poll !

Sun - ceam for the winner.

[RS2000EXPRESS]

Lee, i agree totally, all thats happening is a natural occurance, Our sh-tty goverment are using it as an excuse, plain and simple, if they wanted to stop us flying on planes, they would simply govern the amount of flights. No, its much easier and much more profitable to take MORE money out of our pockets, USA, Japan, Russia and India, what are they doing about it ?? sweet F.A. Good old blighty, if it werent for the kids, Lee, you know where i,d go, ?? tossers

I don't know if we will have a White Christmas again, did not have many in the past anyway. Global Warming is a money making excuse and will restrict and cost us all. People in the future will laugh at how much we spent on global warming and what a waste of time it was!

RS2000EXPRESS
RS Mk2 Club 099

[Aled]

Hmmmmm.........Perhaps I was a bit hasty with my comments on this subject !

A couple of pics of tonights snow below: I guess there will be a bit of salt around today !

















My car is car-cooned in the Garage above !










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[lee bishop]

just rain darn sarf

[rwdrs]

When the coast starts coming up the beaches and submerging the lower lying parts of the UK nobody will be laughing and people would gladly give up their life savings to save their asses but by then it'll sooooooooo toooooo late.

Mr Blair and Mr Brown may well be using global warming as an excuse to squeeze the british taxpayers but if we think the weather's all to **** now what's it going to be like in 15-20 years?

We may be unfortunate enough to witness in our lifetimes, some real havoc and every year such extreme weather that'll mean constantly having to rebuild stuff, i.e. floods ruining last years re-decorated shops and houses, and that every year.

Which costs, guess what, higher insurance premiums and more money in taxes. Wait 15-20 years until the Chinese and
Indians have far greater access to cars, should be great for the atmosphere!

[KL]

For those of more mature years, we can maybe look forward to a warmer climate in the UK. For those with rather more years left to survive, the likelihood is that the UK will then endure winters more like Norway. With the Arctic ice cap melting, quite apart from rising sea levels, the Gulf Stream that makes our climate milder may be halted or turned back. Someone in the Caribbean recently was proclaiming to me "then you'll all have to come down here more often for holidays to escape the cold". He was less happy when I pointed out that such changes could cause re-circulation and a permanent hurricane season down there.
Gaia theorists (no it's not an Escort model) might claim the earth will then heal itself by using the heat in a refrigerator-like manner to provoke a new ice age that will kill off a lot of the population causing the pollution.
Yes it's an excuse for stealth taxes. Yes what we do here will have little overall effect against the massive industrial growth in China and India (which is not fully compensated for by lower industrial output in the USA and Europe). Yes unleaded fuel and the catalytic converters that go with it make a massive additional contribution to CO2 emissions over and above what "lean-burn" technology and infinitessimal added lead content fuel could have achieved. Yes Mercedes and BMW are primarily responsible for that by first persuading the German government, then the EU, to go down that route because the US already had with its far less efficient engines of that era and they wanted to be able to continue to export there without the cost of different standards. Yes the classic car movement and motor sport uses far less fuel on a weekend day than anglers or football match attendees. Yes the extent of the company car culture unique the to the UK and the amount of unnecessary business travel (not least the EU Parliament constantly moving backwards and forwards between two sites in Brussels and Strasbourg) in the internet age are the areas of vehicle usage that should be addressed before attacking the infinitessimal leisure use of older vehicles. Tell your MP etc (especially if you live in a marginal constituency) that forcefully. It just might help you enjoy the years you have left slightly better........