Whitey Grandad

Nobody's mentioned me yet . I'd go for Bin Laden, alive or dead.

We're sitting on 400 years of energy supplies but we're not allowed to use them ( until the next ice age ). I was speaking to someone in south Wales about the closure of the pits and he said that you'd never get anybody to go down them again. Today's youngsters wouldn't hack it.

I've completely lost track of the years. I couldn't even tell you how many seasons we spent in the CCC. The Premier League days are fading memories now. There must be many junior Saints who have never experienced them.

It doesn't really say much except for a few platitudes. As an engineer, carbon capture and sequestration is the only solution for coal-fired power stations if you believe that emitting CO2 is causing a problem. It's expensive and won't happen until somebody forces them to do it and until the technology is readily available. It would push up the cost of energy. There is a more serious point about the proposed reduction in CO2 emissions that no-one has touched on here. All plants need CO2 in order to grow and crop yields would fall dramatically if CO2 levels were restored to those of 50 years ago so depending on who you believe we'll fry, drown or starve. We're doomed, I tell ye.

You should know.

A very wise and sensible move. A happy Christmas to you and all your staff.

At that time newspapers said that the new century did not begin until the start of 1901, but they couldn't count either. There were a lot of pedantics around at the Millenium and they missed a hell of a party.

Agreed, but we didn't know it was BC before it was AD.

It all depends on when you start counting. It goes back to the year dot.

Only 9 if you start at 2001, and that is what some people claim, if only to start an argument .

Layer Road was 6320. The 'Weston Homes Commnity Stadium' is 10,000 so maybe there is an overlap in the statistics.

I do hope we are not going to elect a new government on the basis of a few soundbites. That happened before and it didn't work out very well.

For question 2 I should have said 'just before the end of its first decade'. This decade began on the 1st January 2000, just after all the fireworks. 'learn proper' is an idiomatic expression that is used in parts of London with which I have been associated and I used it in a feeble attempt at ironic comic effect. A similar expression is used south of you in the form 'now listen, and listen good' but I know from experience that Canadians are better educated than that. A car's odometer will show zero until it has completed its first mile. The correct use of the zero for the start of a count is well-known by computer programmers, but less so by normal people.

The arabs invented the zero so that people like you could learn to count proper. How old is a baby before its first birthday? How old is it at the end of its first decade?

Do the same sanctions apply to the PL as to the CCC?

Hmm, mildly affluent sounds quite appealing at the moment.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. I have two season tickets. One doesn't get used much and I can't get to every game but I don't expect a refund for either of them. Go and buy something in the club shop. That's nearly all profit so you'll achieve the same result.

I prefer icthyophiliac myself.

It's the same reason that every country's map just fits onto the page. The more relevant question is what happened just off the left of the scale. All graphs that are published are used to justify the presenter's viewpoint, or else they would not publish them.

And in the interest of further debate: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_globalwarmingpseudo01.htm

Isn't there a Chinese curse: 'may you live in interesting times' ?

Spot on. We could have the same deterrent with a few cruise missiles.

I never actually said that this was my case. I am an engineer and my whole career has been based on the practical appliance of science and scientific methods. I was taught at an early stage to verify for myself all the 'facts' and information that was presented to me. If I ask questions of those who have been convinced, then it is to encourage them to re-examine their convictions and perhaps they will see things in a new light or perhaps they will have their beliefs strengthened. I would hate for any of us to rush headlong on a course of action without having thoroughly considered all aspects of the situation as we currently see it.

Are you talking about these professors? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming

I've met a lot of professors. Don't believe all you read. Keep an open mind.