Global Warming

[northumbrian66]

Here in the UK, back in 2004 or 2005, we were told by the 'experts' that in future, due to global warming, we should expect long hot dry summers. They even recommended that we should start growing drought resistant plants in our gardens! Gues what? Its pissed down every summer since! Floods all over the country. Houses virtually made unliveable etc. But we were given the reason for all this by the archbishop, or archdeacon (I can never remember their ranks) of Carlisle, claiming that it was GOD's punishment. The reasons were due to our selfishness, greed, love of beer and the opposite sex, blah, blah, blah and that red rag to all religious ghouls: HOMOSEXUALITY!
The bad weather appears to be worse up here in the far north of England in the border regions with Scotland, which is also having a bad time of it. Undaunted the 'experts' were at again earlier this year predicting a 'barbeque summer' (what ever the hell thats supposed to mean!). Yes you've guessed it RAIN, RAIN AND MORE RAIN. The temperatures have averaged 14C to 18C but on the odd days the sun has appeared, a balmy 19C/20C!! Hardly drought conditions.Over this weekend the forecasters have told us that this next week (17th to the 21st of August) will be ok and Wednesday will be be hot and dry. That means I can now use both hands to count the number of hot dry days this summer. O'h and GOD must still be unhappy with us, especially in the border regions of England and Scotland.

[Dotard]

Record amount of days with triple digit temps here in S. Texas.

And HERE's what we have to look forward to for the upcoming week.

Which actually is good news. I do Air Conditioning sub-contracting for a living. C'mon global warming!

[Eilonnwy]

Yep, Gays cause Global warming. With all their hot hot sex.

[Rhizomorph13]

So now we need more pirates and less gays to decrease the temperature of the Earth? I will consult the entrails of a slaughtered goat to divine how that might be acomplished. Oh and pray for rain.

Rhizo

[Retorth]

The earth has been around for billions of years...industrialisation has been around 1 to 200 years approximately...and we seem so sure that aluminium cans and plastic bags are gonna destroy the earth

[fr0d0]

Telegraph story

[Tiberius]

Telegraph story

That works for me. Anto, I sincerely apologise for every doubting that homosexuals caused all the problems in the world.

Given the I am bi, I will proceed to punish half of myself, and when I get married, don't worry, I'll make sure the gay half has nothing to do with it!

If we can work together, and rid the world of gay people, just think...we can pollute as much as we want! Pollution > human rights! Yay!

[Rhizomorph13]

Wait everyone,

I notice that crops grow great and because of this I can reason that god in fact loves what we are doing down here.

Rhizo

[northumbrian66]

Record amount of days with triple digit temps here in S. Texas.

And HERE's what we have to look forward to for the upcoming week.

Which actually is good news. I do Air Conditioning sub-contracting for a living. C'mon global warming!

SOD OFF!! YOU MUST ALL BE LOVED BY GOD!! A VERY DISGRUNTLED NORTHUMBRIAN66 (I hate people who have continually good weather!!!!)

[Eilonnwy]

The earth has been around for billions of years...industrialisation has been around 1 to 200 years approximately...and we seem so sure that aluminium cans and plastic bags are gonna destroy the earth

Climate change exists, it's naturally occurring. The question is whether our pollution is speeding up the process which can be disastrous for humans. The earth will still be here whether the climate shifts, it's just a question of will it affect us. I think there is good evidence that man-made global warming exists, but I don't think we know yet exactly how bad it is and how much it will affect us.