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"What news story has caught your attention today?" thread

Post 17741

Pink Paisley

I am lead to believe that the smiley is appropriate at this juncture.

PP.


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Post 17742

Baron Grim

Yes, yes it would be.

smiley - evilgrinsmiley - laugh


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Post 17743

ITIWBS

Ow! smiley - cat

Curious, I was just thinking the same myself.


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Post 17744

Icy North

No real news in this story - various rock stars have invested their money in technology firms - but I enjoyed the way they managed to fit so many puns into such a short space.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/11/phil_collins_one_of_many_celebrity_backs_of_ukcloud/

Friday quiz for you - how many can you spot?


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Post 17745

Maria


There was a thread in Ask about this issue. I remember I was alone , except for Rudest Elf, critizising the many weak points and falsehood on the case.



http://johnpilger.com/articles/getting-julian-assange-the-untold-story


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Post 17746

Icy North

Thanks for that Maria - a good summary.

I have to say I'm surprised the UK hasn't just let him go to Ecuador by now. It seems that human rights here depends on the particular human involved.


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Post 17747

Lusus

Maybe the government here in the UK wants the honour of handing Julian Assange over to the USA.


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Post 17748

Pink Paisley

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40127326

Dear USA,

Your president is a moron.

PP.


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Post 17749

Baron Grim

That's not the word I just used for that wankspangle.


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Post 17750

Pink Paisley

BG, you're going to burn in hell!

I once (in the days of Aunty Beeb) got a proper dressing down for using the term 'moron'!

smiley - rofl

PP.


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Post 17751

ITIWBS

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-40109396


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Post 17752

ITIWBS

Climate change is real, but ill understood and much misrepresented.

Assuming conditions were 'always' like those that obtained at the time of one's base datum beforehand is pseudo-scientific nonsense.

Global mean temperatures before 1880? ---Unknown.

Limits of the antarctic sea ice before Captain Cook's late 18th century explorations? ---Unknown.

An arbitrary resolve to hold conditions as they obtained at the time of one's earliest datum? ---Bizarre.


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Post 17753

Lusus

There are numerous ways information about climate conditions of the past can be collected. Amongst other methods, drilling ice cores provides data as well as tree ring growth, and historical documents also help. We are therefore not as ignorant of past conditions as you may think.


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Post 17754

Pink Paisley



But since that isn't what this is about Trump remains a bottom.

Ignoring the huge consensus of scientific opinion and setting aside an aim not to accelerate change by our own hand?

PP.


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Post 17755

Pink Paisley

And it occurs to me that 'trump' is a childish euphemism for fart.

And since the methane in farts contributes to climate change.......

PP.


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Post 17756

swl

http://tinypic.com/r/zje97q/9

A picture says a thousand words.

Incidentally, Nicaragua haven't signed because they don't think the agreement goes far enough and Syria are a bit busy.


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Post 17757

You can call me TC

My eyes caught a headline just now which gave me a jolt:

"Android creator brings out new smartphone".

I thought - "here goes - they've started". Till I realised it meant "The creator of Android...." smiley - doh


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Post 17758

ITIWBS

There are qualitative informations that give some sense of what climate was like in pre-industrial times, say prior to the onset of "the little ice age", late 14th, early 15th centuries through the early 19th century.

England was a premier wine growing country in Geoffrey Chaucer's times.

Greenland was premier dairy country that paid taxes to Norway at the time.

There was still tree culture in Iceland.

The concord grape grew north of the Saint Lawrence in north America.

Were not yet back up to global conditions as warm as that.




Point I'm making is that public opinion and political reaction tend to be dominated by histrionic misapprehension untramelled by realism.

The idea that the world is going to or can be made to hold still is delusional.


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Post 17759

Lusus

I don't think anyone is claiming they can stop the natural fluctuations in the planet's climate. The Paris Accord for instance only intends to reduce the human impact on global temperatures.


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Post 17760

Bluebottle

They plan to send poo from the Isle of Wight to Scotland in order to film 4th-rate celebrities looking at it:smiley - huh
http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/whose-poo-the-isle-of-wights-poo-museum-to-make-bizarre-quiz-show-appearance-315464.aspx

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