Sheaf Saint

And as long as you keep taking the bait and reacting, they will keep doing it. You never learn. FFS can we please not derail yet another thread with this pointless, childish bullshit?

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2370179/climate-change-deniers-use-past-heat-records-to-sow-doubt-online

Doesn't look like it will reach us, thankfully. The high pressure system that is causing it is fairly stable and we are experiencing the low pressure that surrounds it, hence the wet, cool and windy conditions. I know it's a bit rubbish for July, but on balance I think I would rather we had this weather than the extreme heat the rest of Europe is getting. After the hot, dry summer last year and below average rainfall during the winter recharge period, we really needed a wet summer to prevent us from going into drought again (although some areas of the south west are still in drought mode from last year). And although summer rain isn't as effective at recharging aquifers as winter rain, it's at least meaning the irrigation demand from agriculture is massively reduced during this growing season.

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/heatwave-pictures-europe-temperatures-today-2485593 Pretty sure approaching 45C isn't 'fairly around what you would expect'. I guess they must have taken these recordings at or near an airport though.

Wrong. We are 17th in the world out of 209 countries for emissions per capita. That's not insignificant. We are also part of the Paris agreement, so it's not like we are standing alone and pissing in the wind while everyone else carries on as normal. We are part of a global effort, which is exactly what is required. You claim China is "laughing at us", but they have a very ambitious net zero target and their demand for coal is expected to peak within the next 3 years (link). And, although we may find their anti-democratic political system abhorrent, there is a major benefit of having a continuous government in that they are able to make long term investment plans in energy infrastructure etc. and actually see them through without fear of getting booted out of office at an election before they get the chance to complete them. Again - wrong. There is no evidence that transitioning to net zero will harm our economy. Quite the opposite, in fact. Between 1990 and 2019, our emissions reduced by 43% and in the same period our GDP rose by 75%. Every credible study into future impacts (and there have been plenty in recent years) indicates multiple economic gains across all sectors and all regions of the UK, which will significantly outweigh the capital costs of investing in decarbonising technologies, and massively outweigh the additional costs associated with failing to adapt.

This isn't actually the case though. The major natural cycles that affect our climate operate over huge timescales. The 3 Milankovitch cycles, for instance, take between 26,000 and 1000,000 years to complete, and they don't come even close to explaining the current rate of warming since the dawn of the industrial age. The solar cycle, which so many climate deniers love to cite as being the primary driver of warming rather than human activity, operates over a much shorter time frame (approximately 11 years), but the variation in solar output between cycles is less than 0.2% which is much less than what would be needed to explain the observed warming over the 20th/21st centuries.

Possibly/probably. El Nino is here, but the effects are not expected to peak until later in the year or into next year. Research into why heatwaves are becoming more common in Europe suggests a link to changes in the Jet Stream. A 'double' jet, which is happening more frequently, reduces the speed of airflow over Europe which is perfect conditions for a heatwave. Reduction in Atlantic current can also combine with the jet stream and other factors (including El Nino) to create greater likelihood of heatwaves, and this is another avenue of research currently being explored. Whatever the cause, there is no doubt that heatwaves are becoming more common in Europe. They are becoming an almost annual event now, which they never used to be.

If it was a one-off, it could be labelled as an outlier and not evidence of anything, but it isn't. Heatwaves around the world have been steadily increasing in frequency and intensity, and the current rate of warming in Europe is almost double the global average.

It's almost as if he doesn't have the slightest clue what he's on about.

"DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH SHEEPLE!" - the true rallying cry of the conspiracy theorist. You are accusing multiple people here of being suckers who only believe what they read/see in the MSM, but I'm not seeing any evidence of that. Most people nowadays are savvy enough to take it with a pinch of salt. I have no doubt that all media outlets have their own biases, and what I find most telling is not what they do tell you, but what they don't tell you. Regarding Icke - he's spouted off about so many things in recent decades that he was bound to get lucky on occasion and be correct. Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day. But some of the stuff he's come out with over the years is so obviously batshit mental, that it's impossible to take him seriously about anything. The fable of the boy who cried wolf springs to mind. Unfortunately, given some of his recent postings, MLT has gone the same way. Whatever salient points he may have, he's completely blown his credibility now. That's why I and many others are not interested in anything he has to say anymore. It's got nothing to do with just blindly believing the mainstream narrative.

Not a good news day for the Tories today. First of all the Rwanda deportation plan is deemed unlawful by the Court of Appeal (unsurprising), and now a new report accuses certain ministers of a coordinated campaign of interference into the Johnson partygate investigation (even more unsurprising).

I don't think it's necessarily the competence of the operators that's the issue, because I agree that whoever runs it there is still the constant, unlimited human capacity for fallibility. However, if you offer me a choice of a public service being run by incompetent people whose overriding responsibility is to its customers, rather than to its shareholders, it's a no-brainer really.

Where are they getting this bollocks from? Do they seriously expect people to believe that someone inside the club has been in contact with the press and told them exactly how much we would be willing to accept for Tella? Do me a favour. This is speculative reporting at its worst and can be safely ignored IMO.

Now it's time for the "legendary singer from the 60s whose voice has now completely gone and it's actually a bit cringey to watch" slot. Last year it was Diana Ross. This year it's Candi Staton's turn.

Alison Goldfrapp smashing it on the Park stage right now.

Oh dear lord, Matt. I can think of plenty of good reasons not to set foot in a Nandos. This, however, isn't one of them.

This review of GNR doesn't pull any punches... https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/guns-n-roses-review-glastonbury-festival-b2363553.html "Rose makes the whole thing sound like a Muppet Show pastiche of hard rock. It’s his voice: a creature that, were you to take it to a vet, would come home in a cardboard box. Mumbling vague approximations of English words as if chronically constipated (if you’ve hit the goat curry hard enough, you’ll feel his intestinal pain), he flips between a lower register that resembles a clogged lawnmower and a higher one that sounds like Barry Gibb suffering the mother of all wedgies."

Sparks are always entertaining

Just saw a guy in a 1996 (Sanderson) Saints shirt in the crowd at the Park stage.

Not sure about the outfit though 🤔

Enjoying Gabriels. This guy's voice is phenomenal!

Of course there is a strong link, but not all Jews are Israeli, and not all Israelis are Jews, so whether it is deliberate or just born of ignorance, it's still fallacious (and bordering on antisemitic) to use the words interchangeably.