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Climate change over 2c will cause major major environmental, food, structural and population challenges. We can either 1. Stop fuelling it or 2. Ignore the rise and hope that a new naturally occurring ice age saves us, and it turns up promptly. Whitey favours 2

Those figures only tell part the story. For example the UK's reductions have come about largely through de-industralising and getting our carp from China instead. Saudi Arabia's emissions would be far greater if they had to account for all the emissions resulting from the burning of fossil fuels exported (as opposed to only those arising from its production) I can't stand Cognac anyhow!

As you have for many years now - despite being corrected every time - you are still conflating two separate issues. 1. Yes climate has always changed over time due to external factors such as meteor impacts, volcanic and sun activity. No-one, most especially climate scientists who warn of climate change disputes that. Anthropogenic (man made climate change) is separate and distinct 2. Anthropogenic climate change is driven by industrial processes putting more insulating gases into the atmosphere and simultaneously reducing the earths ability to balance this by removing forest cover. It is a fact that longer chain molecules such as carbon dioxide and methane vibrate and trap heat in sunlight in a way that simple elements such as nitrogen and oxygen do not. It is exactly the same science that puts argon into double glazing to improve heat retention More GHGs in the atmosphere lead to higher surface temperatures than would otherwise happen without them. Man is not able to predict long term changes in solar activity, let alone volcanic or meteor activity in order to get the Goldilocks not too hot not too cold climate . Therefore it makes sense to control the controllables and keep climate at the same level as the one in which modern society grew up and to avoid forced migrations. No?

Anyone remember when GM tried to pump his own company. Would be hilarious if that one didnt work out either (spoiler alert).....

It's fair enough if one of them is sweetcorn

Maybe. As long as you don't want any actual truth.

https://x.com/mattletiss7/status/1777618329584218338 Tories to blame for rain

Only a few countries and not at any great scale. Lots of projects talked about for decades but not built. By contrast there are thousands of hydro electric schemes (dams) some far larger than any fossil fuel plant and have been for over 100 years. The fact hydro is so widely utilised and has been for so long hints at some of the problems of tidal. One of them, I think ( I havent read about it for years) is that hydro is effectively on demand - you can generate electricity when you need it at peak times, like mornings and early evening. Tidal kicks in according to moon cycles and you dont necessarily need a surge of power at 3am or 3pm on a Sunday .

Good - but cant see wave energy ever becoming viable, the maintenance costs are too high. Moving parts, submerged, salt water, sand /grit and electricity are all things that dont go well together

Only 500,000 active I read

It specifically singled out concerts.