Sheaf Saint

He doesn't help himself with his posting style, it's true. But there are certain posters on here who cannot refrain from responding to virtually everything he posts with childish ad hominem attacks, regardless of the content of the post. They are all as bad as each other, and it's getting really fucking tiresome now.

Didn't bother researching properly how to pronounce Hereford though did they, so RDN's character actually came across looking a bit of a knob.

It's a thoughtful and reasoned response, granted, and I like the way they are all very respectful to each other in their choice of words, but he doesn't 'debunk' them at all. He just falls back on the same arguments he makes in the book, and blatantly ignores half of their criticisms. It's all very well saying he shows links to the IPCC report to back up his claims, but all he does is take a few quotes out of context and presents them as if they serve as evidence to support his main claim that the science is less settled than some parties want us to believe it is. For example, from the IPCC AR5 report, he quotes: “. . . low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century . . .” On the face of it, this looks to the layman that things aren't as bad as is being made out. But he fails to expand on the reasoning given in the AR5 report for that low confidence assessment and the other surrounding context: "There is low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall), owing to lack of direct observations, dependencies of inferred trends on the index choice and geographical inconsistencies in the trends. However, this masks important regional changes and, for example, the frequency and intensity of drought have likely increased in the Mediterranean and West Africa and likely decreased in central North America and northwest Australia since 1950". He then quotes similar statements regarding low confidence in floods, small-scale weather phenomena, and intensity of tropical cyclones, but again utterly fails to provide any context or reasoning for those confidence assessments (such as the inherent difficulties in gathering the data necessary to conclude anything greater than low confidence). He then goes on to say that "The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) says very much the same things". Except it doesn't... " Human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. Evidence of observed changes in extremes such as heatwaves, heavy precipitation, droughts, and tropical cyclones, and, in particular, their attribution to human influence, has strengthened since AR5." IPCC AR6 Working Group 1: Summary for Policymakers | Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis The narrative he is trying to create is that the overall confidence in the assertion that AGW is happening is lower than it actually is, that nothing is as bad as is being made out, and that we've got loads of time to solve this so we might as well keep on burning fossil fuels as long as we like. He's wrong. I take on board his line about global energy infrastructure not being ready to transition to net zero instantly, and the undoubted problems that the global economy would suffer if we tried to do it too quickly, but he goes too far the other way and his blasé attitude and lack of urgency about the situation is disconcerting.

A lengthy, but interesting dissection of the numerous fallacies in Koonin's book... Debunked? A review of Steven Koonin’s book ‘Unsettled?’ – Debunking Denial

Yes, the world was warming prior to the industrial revolution as we were still coming out of an ice age, but the drastic increase in atmospheric CO2 over the last 150 years has accelerated that process and caused the planet to warm up at an unprecedented rate. How, after all these years, do you still not get this? You think posting an old photo with some dubious lines based on unknown data drawn on it disproves that? If you really want to see some evidence that human activity is the primary cause of the current rate of warming, have a read of this study from 2006. It confirms that the vast majority of energy in the atmosphere at the Earth's surface corresponds exactly to the wavelength at which it is captured by CO2. So we know that levels of atmospheric CO2 have risen markedly due to human emissions, we know that higher concentrations of CO2 in air lead to greater heat retention, and we have firm evidence that the majority of the energy being stored in the atmosphere is being captured by CO2.

Might give us the chance to resurrect that Jason Puncheon song though.

Do you actually have any idea how much of a massive prick you have made yourself look with this post? Today's performance from England (and, indeed, Australia) could never be described as "slow ponderous rubbish" by anybody who wasn't too dismissive of the women's game to watch it.

Which media outlet do we think will be the first to use the headline "South Downes"?

Or perhaps he just thinks he's better than he actually is and he's being unrealistic with his wage demands because someone at Saints, in their infinite wisdom, gave him a bumper contract that he didn't deserve.

It wasn't just those posts that you deleted though.

Plenty do. They're just not as vocal as the ones who constantly feel the need to remind everyone else that they don't.

If they've made it to the final then they must be very good, because the days of really poor women's teams going deep into tournaments and the USA being light years ahead of everyone else are well and truly over. England have perhaps ridden their luck a little today, with a couple of poor misses from Australia, but it's been another very solid, professional performance. Provided we can maintain that level of concentration in the final, we will have a great chance of winning because we have some incredible attacking talent.

GET IN!

And utterly failing to prevent them from getting to the ball and shooting despite being goalside and being firm favourite to deal with it.

Brilliant finish from Toone. Great technique. Not many keepers - female or not - are stopping that.

You think the UK is as bad as or worse than an extremist Islamic regime that openly murders dissident journalists, and gives out 34 year prison sentences for following and retweeting critical accounts on Twitter. Righto.

It's that bottom one that sickens me most. Half a million euros every time he posts something on Instagram blowing sunshine up the arse of the murdering despot Saudi regime. He's literally sold his soul to the devil.

Didn't we end up accepting a lower bid from WH for Prowsey?

No thanks. We need to be signing better CBs than we already have, and Holgate doesn't fit that description. Awful player - a major contributor to Everton's struggles in the last couple of seasons.

Well it certainly makes a change from all the 0-1 defeats we were served up last season!

Yup. And scored!

Penalty!

Jesus fucking Christ. Another shot on target, another goal conceded. Fuck me, this is isn't even funny anymore. Edit: disallowed but the point still stands.

Keeping up with our habit of conceding from literally every shot on target then 😒