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Oh come on, I think we all know that's not the most likely way it would turn out in America. More likely the bloke would turn up at Davenport's house, not with a knife but a semi automatic rifle, and gun down Callum, his mum and sister and sister's mate. Old Papa Davenport would emerge from out back with his old WW2 shotgun and blow the guy away along with a few well meaning neighbours who were in the way. At which point Cheif wiggum and a few other donut munching red neck coppers would turn up and shoot the crazy old fool. UK outcome - man with stab wound, man arrested. US outcome - 8 dead.

I don't know how you come to the conclusion that science is on your side when just a few minutes looking on the net... In February 2007, the IPCC released a summary of the forthcoming Fourth Assessment Report. According to this summary, the Fourth Assessment Report finds that human actions are "very likely" the cause of global warming, meaning a 90% or greater probability. Global warming in this case is indicated by an increase of 0.75 degrees in average global temperatures over the last 100 years. The U.S. Global Change Research Program reported in June, 2009[7] that: Observations show that warming of the climate is unequivocal. The global warming observed over the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases. These emissions come mainly from the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), with important contributions from the clearing of forests, agricultural practices, and other activities. In 2004, the intergovernmental Arctic Council and the non-governmental International Arctic Science Committee released the synthesis report of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment[8]: Climate conditions in the past provide evidence that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are associated with rising global temperatures. Human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), and secondarily the clearing of land, have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide, methane, and other heat-trapping ("greenhouse") gases in the atmosphere...There is international scientific consensus that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities. In 2007, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts issued a formal declaration on climate change titled Let's Be Honest: Human activity is most likely responsible for climate warming. Most of the climatic warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Documented long-term climate changes include changes in Arctic temperatures and ice, widespread changes in precipitation amounts, ocean salinity, wind patterns and extreme weather including droughts, heavy precipitation, heat waves and the intensity of tropical cyclones. The above development potentially has dramatic consequences for mankind’s future. n 2007, the Network of African Science Academies submitted a joint “statement on sustainability, energy efficiency, and climate change” to the leaders meeting at the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany: “A consensus, based on current evidence, now exists within the global scientific community that human activities are the main source of climate change and that the burning of fossil fuels is largely responsible for driving this change.” National Research Council (US) In 2001, the Committee on the Science of Climate Change of the National Research Council published Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions.[24] This report explicitly endorses the IPCC view of attribution of recent climate change as representing the view of the scientific community: The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability. Human-induced warming and associated sea level rises are expected to continue through the 21st century... The IPCC's conclusion that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations accurately reflects the current thinking of the scientific community on this issue. European Science Foundation In 2007, the European Science Foundation issued a Position Paper on climate change: There is now convincing evidence that since the industrial revolution, human activities, resulting in increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases have become a major agent of climate change. These greenhouse gases affect the global climate by retaining heat in the troposphere, thus raising the average temperature of the planet and altering global atmospheric circulation and precipitation patterns. While on-going national and international actions to curtail and reduce greenhouse gas emissions are essential, the levels of greenhouse gases currently in the atmosphere, and their impact, are likely to persist for several decades. On-going and increased efforts to mitigate climate change through reduction in greenhouse gases are therefore crucial. In fact, according to wikipedia, since 2007, no scientific body of national or international standing has maintained a dissenting opinion.

My mate is a sports Journo and says it's amazing how many know naff all about the game, they just use it as an easy route in. Scheiderlin has improved recently but yesterday was rubbish, back to his old game of poncing about in front of the back 4 offering nothing going forward and precious little defensively.

I cant believe it took them 22 months to realise he was ****. Fair play to Burley though, 14 games of complete rubbish usually leaves a manager out of a job after a few months. He managed to pretend to know what to do for 22.

We had better hope Saint George knows better than the scientific community because our politicians certainly not going to sort anything out. They can't even agree on targets let alone actually meet them. The UK's government might as well stop bothering trying to combat climate change and just concentrate of preparing for the changes.

You can't make rules up for stuff like this. For example if we play pompey in the cup this year and Wotton scores a 94th minute winner with a hand ball he would instantly become a legend. Likewise you could argue that though Keegan didn't hang around for long, the fact that he was the European Player of the Year when he signed on the dotted line for Saints, makes him a legend.

That won't make any difference, most students nowadays have as much disposable as normal people, they just get mummy or daddy to send them a cheque if they run out. When I was a student I spent half my life off my tits, it's OK when you're on campus but when you are stuck in houses amongst people who actually have jobs it does cause a problem and the locals have every right to tell them to **** off. Many of these kids wouldn't dream of acting the same way in their own cities.

I still can't decide wether SaintRichmond is taking the P or just crazy?

You're right, we need to concentrate on the Paint Cup.

Fed up with seeing Scheiderlin poncing about in front of the back 4, it's like playing with 5 at the back.

I wouldn't take any notice of Nineteen Canteen, he only hates Lawrie because of his love for Lowe. I don't know why people are even talking about Big Mac though, there is no way he would do a similar role to Oldknow. If Cortese wants him in though you would have to back his judgement.

Whilst over here in Gordon Brown's Britain we are closing down wind turbine factories.

I think thats a good draw, more likely to beat them in a one off game at home than over two legs. Beat Norwich and you have to fancy us over two legs against MK Dons or Hereford.

He was a **** the way he treated Luton.

no, I don't know anything, just wondered if anyone else was ITK.

Wasn't Oldknow the guy that Hone & Hoo's ect made a director just before they were kicked out?

While the Sun is a rag and did shamelessly exploit the letter thing I don't think you can criticise Mrs Janes for a) being offended by the shody looking letter and b) wanting to do something to highlight the lack of resources for our troops - which IS causing unnecessary death and injury.

Ditto, also heard he made alot of money out of the club during that whole Exec fiasco.

You've illustrated my point perfectly, it's about time we stopped acting like the World's Police and sticking our noses into places that should not concern us. Like you said - when was the last time the Irish, Greeks, Icelandics, Danes, Finns, Swedes etc bombed/attacked by Al Qaeeda? We're not a World power any more, we're just a small island a thousand odd miles away, lets stop making ourselves a target. Tell Nato we've done our bit, now it's someone else's turn to have their young men butchered.

I agree, accept that I don't think it's fair that we, or the US have to pay such a high price when it is a Worldwide issue. It's not fair that so many other countries are making such a pathetic token effort. We could easily pull out all our forces and let other countries do their bit.

Blimey calm down, no need to get abusive, we're not in the playground anymore. My point was however bad his eyes are he could have got a proof reader to check through his writing. Fact is some distraught relative was offended by his letter - whoever's fault it is, that is not good. Now if you really insist on replying, take a few deep breaths and try and leave out the insults or I will tell your mum you're being nasty.

I disagree, we have more than done our bit, get out now and let someone else do it. I fully support Nato's mission but how can this be fair... United States - 34,800 United Kingdom - 9,000 Germany - 4,365 France - 3,095 Canada - 2,830 Italy - 2,795 Poland - 1,910 Netherlands - 2,160 Turkey - 720 Australia - 1,350 Romania - 990 Bulgaria - 460 Spain - 1,000 Denmark - 690 Belgium - 530 Norway - 480 Czech Republic - 480 Croatia - 290 Sweden - 430 Hungary - 360 Slovakia - 245 Lithuania - 250 Macedonia - 165 Azerbaijan - 90 New Zealand - 300 Albania - 250 Latvia - 175 Greece - 145 Finland - 165 Estonia - 289 Slovenia - 130 Portugal - 145 United Arab Emirates - 25 Singapore - 9 Ukraine - 10 Luxembourg - 8 Iceland - 2 Ireland - 7 Jordan - 7 Austria - 4 Bosnia and Herzegovina - 10 Georgia - 1

Brown was happy enough to kiss the Sun's ass while it was spewing out his own propaganda - particularly when he was sending our young people to their deaths in an illegal war. I have no sympathy for the idiot. Hand writing condolence letters is a nice idea, but probably not the brightest idea if you have the illegible scrawl of a 12 year old and don't know how to spell.

To be fair, I think the least we should expect of our PM is the ability to write joined up. If his eyes are that bad he should have the common sense to have his scribbles proof read. Brown is a baffoon, everything he touches turns to ****, I applaud the Sun and that woman for giving the warmongering idiot a kicking.

You obviously missed this bit... "But Dr Wolfgang Knorr cautioned that the world should still be trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as part of any climate change deal decided in Copenhagen next month."