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I have no idea what this is for or about. Or what you are trying to imply or prove with this post. Seems a little odd given loads of new data was published today? However; your post shows a chart with improved data from 2013, over original data from 2011 (that basically looks like any other chart where more information has been gathered and better quality results are plotted). The email is from 2009. So, my question is simple; what was the point of your post? Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

No problem; although I hope most people realise that the industrial revolution, although starting in Telford, England, did actually spread out across the globe quite quickly!? Sadly, England didn't keep their taming of live steam to themselves! Any boy who has watched his westerns will know they had Railways in the new nation of the United States of America! Both Europe and Japan began to industrialise shortly after Britain and in the years after 1870 (sometimes called the 'second' or 'second wave of' industrial revolution) most of what we have called the 'first world' or 'developed world' in the past was fully industrialised (i.e. new technologies in milling, mining, chemical production, paper and print, agriculture, transport, use of steel, etc etc combined with most power coming from Steam). So, by 1880, you have your answer. We still live in the Age of Steam, by the way, burning coal or radiating uranium or whatever - it is all about turning that turbine! Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Seriously? Okay... ...does this help? http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/history/industrial_era/the_industrial_revolution/revision/3/ Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Thankfully the hideously-poor-and-totally-without-influence Power lobby have internet warriors like GM and George to discredit one group of scientist's (constantly peer reviewed and updated) findings. Thank goodness for that. We wouldn't want the struggling energy companies to lose out in this PR battle for hearts and minds. Those huge all powerful environmental cartels that run the world really get my goat, what with constantly publishing reviewable data and improving their projections n that.... ...I wonder what kind of data would be available if we lived in a world where the most powerful organisations with the most political influence and financial clout were actually energy companies? Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

This is a fair point and only adds further weight to the Climate Change argument. In the olden days finding a Lesbian with a cock n balls was quite tricky and they only really existed in large numbers in remote communities of far east Asia. Then a few years ago they started cropping up in northern European enclaves, but really you only heard about it from the odd kid at school who lived with his uncle. Nowadays they are everywhere and you never quite know until its too late; as anyone who has exhausted their normal supply of lesbian internet porn will attest. The shock and shame is not easily forgotten. Lesbian dinosaurs with cock n balls is one thing but I worry that I have started to grow an extra cock just thinking about it all. Climate Change that is. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

This is one forum contributor that has cracked me up over the last few weeks. " Desperate, Dim and Gullible. " Excellent stuff George; keep up the amusing facade of arrogance and ignorance. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

All good stuff. That's more where I had been with epigenetics, Badger; I have encountered it a few times in the ol' nature/nurture debate, vital stuff. Thee idea that such changes are then passed on to successive generations has blown my tiny mind a little bit and I will continue to read more. Initially i am sold, although I feel there is still a big responsibly on the mechanics of evolution to select those changes etc. Yeah right. Back on topic: "Solar Panels: is that an adaption in response or in anticipation of climate change? They are a waste of money and they look ugly? Or should we just paint our roofs white?" Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Interesting stuff, compelling defence of broad lamarckism. I have also bookmarked the website too, looks nicely geeky. Well, I take it all back George! You are right, we can just adapt! A few generations down the line and we will all have webbed feet and gills like Kevin Costner in that film. Or people from p**tsm**th. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Great links, nice one. I am aware of, but not overly familiar with, epigenetics so I will enjoy reading more. What little I do know suggests that, as contentious as it sounds, the implied effect of epigenetics is that learnt traits are passed down one or more generations; and this sounds remarkably Lamarckian. I'm not yet convinced it truly follows that these 'adaptations' are dominant, lasting or at truly DNA level (chemical response?). Anyway, good call and hopefully I'll know more in a minute. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Ummm. (again). Two issues here; you seem to believe that everyone that agrees mankind has contributed to the most recent rapid change in global climate is a) an alarmist and b) unwilling to adapt. As Bexy said, changing one's habits (eg reducing output of CO2), and adapting to counter negative effects of perceived climate change (eg flood defenses) are not mutually exclusive. Also, you seem to have completely misunderstood how evolution works; no organism has ever 'adapted' in response to a changing environment. Ever. Ever, ever. What happens is an organism may, by sheer chance, have a mutation that subsequently enables it survive in an altered environment (eg changed climate). What you're suggesting with the outrageous claim 'Nature Adapts' is right up there with Lamarckism. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Ummm. But it that is still a problem... ...as we have to live, en masse, in such a climate (One that has changed significantly, although no more so than before). In the past, every time the earths climate has changed (no more than it is currently) this quickly; it has coincided with either a mass migration and/or mass extinction. Just saying. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Already on the train home from London. Mind you I didn't make it as far as the Boleyn anyway. Glad this is the only game I have missed watching all season. Arse : just remembered I am out with a couple of hammers tonight. Reading between the hysterics, sounds like we were nearly there but not quite again. Glad to hear Gaston was on form. Will forget this result as quickly as I have forgotten about the FA Cup for another season (and hopefully I will soon forget the arrogance of the media/some fans thinking we were just a couple of selection decisions away from winning the thing!). Were we better than against Stoke? That's all I need to know. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

The most astonishing thing to me is that is seems that Guided Missile is NOT in fact a top scientist! All his posts so far had seemed so well informed and backed up with hard data no-one else could find, I assumed he was working directly in the field of climate studies. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Fair point! I guess I meant the cycle is broken as in 'the chain keeps falling off' and the handlebars are bent. Or something. Basically taking the very obvious and simplistic view that the carbon that *should* be in the ground, is now in the air or sea or short term flora based sinks. And THAT is a change (if not a break) to the carbon cycle. I think we are saying the same things, that we don't know for sure. Just that I am saying we do actually know enough to make a good guess at the shortfall and therefore start to do something about it. As I have said before on this thread; I am much more about positive action for us as a society/species than 'saving the earth' or crying foul at dodgy statistics: there will always be agendas and the planet can survive without/ despite us. We merely need to ensure we prepare our children well enough for the challenges they may face tomorrow. If that means being a little bit cautious, so be it! Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/climatechanging/climatescienceinfozone/exploringearthsclimate/1point6/1point6point2.aspx I thought these KS1 materials helped explain quite well that the natural carbon cycle has been broken!? However, if want to know more about short-term carbon stores, such as those lovely big untouched rainforests and our arable crops (!?) here's some slightly more grown up (KS2/3) explanations from one or two others. (Of course; FERN obviously have 'an agenda', as do those pesky 'scientists' at the royal society.)! http://royalsociety.org/policy/publications/2001/land-carbon-sinks/ http://www.fern.org/campaign/carbon-trading/what-are-carbon-sinks Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

https://eo.ucar.edu/kids/green/cycles6.htm http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-for-kids/0159-the-carbon-cycle.php Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Don't Panic - The Truth About Population. Starting now on BBC2. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Cool, I didn't mean to get 'all up in your grill' about it! Just having the conversation that many of the responses in today's press and social media have failed to; understanding heroin is just as likely to affect a loved one as it is a Hollywood star. This is the first step to tackling it head on. As Buctootim says;

True (although its important to remember not to geek out too much the other way!) I will never forget watching Magnolia for the first time and being utterly destroyed by PSH's character and story.

Okay, sorry it didn't read that way to me late last night. Although this 'culture of alcohol' you speak of; are you suggesting it is a good thing? Alcohol kills many times the number of people in the UK and ruins many many more lives than heroin addiction. One could argue because it is so available and 'culturally' acceptable. Many of us enjoy a drink or two, although most of us to our physical and mental detriment; even if we acknowledge that or not. Again, I don't see why an heroin addict is less worthy of help than any other really? Is it because it can take years of drinking to develop a dependency and addiction or because one stupid mistake with a needle one night can ruin your entire life? !?!?

Sad news. Powerful and understated actor. Sorry Bexy, but I have to disagree. If you are an alcoholic it is not possible to 'restrict yourself to a pint or two', far from it. As for heroin, most people who start on smack do so without full account of the situation: i.e. naivety and peer pressure (we've all been there to some degree) or, for many, they are already at point they need help. Sure, there are plenty of 'sickboys' out there who take the attitude they can handle and do 'dabble'. However, the sad fact remains that most addicts are addicts first, and the focus of their addiction comes second, determined by circumstance mostly; alcohol, drugs, gambling, etc, all on the rise. Addiction consumes and is a disease. People should be comfortable tackling, and then hopefully beating, all its guises head-on. Much love to the family and to anyone else who has suffered such a tragic, yet avoidable, loss.

Is American Football the only sport wherein a professional can wear a bum-bag whilst competing at the highest level? Quite enjoying it. Don't have a clue half the time, to be honest, but yeah enjoying it.

Cracking game, what a team performance second half! Superb play by our England internationals, and future England internationals, our Portuguese, Japanese and Polish internationals and, yes, our Northern Irish international. Our Kenyan international had a bit of a mare. And who knows? I still think 'second half' Morgan should be an international, just a bugger he is French!

Need to get it 'trending'; #WeareSouthamptonwereofftoBrazil

and Rodriquez! Hope Oswaldo or whatever he was called is watching! ;-)