Global warming? Or not!

AllanP · Global warming? Or not!

The UK just now is under the spell of severe winter weather conditions.

How is it then that only now have we seen the total reverse of our clever scientists predictions of global warming turning into possible global cooling?

This current cold weather snap seems to me that we are all becoming addicted to governmental claims who believe that we humans are responsible for weather changes, or indeed that we can somehow alter this trend.

Humans are no more significant to nature as ants are to the rainforest in ecology terms.

We try to change the weather patterns by altering our understanding of conservation of many various species and make things worse by interfering or by trying to do something to help.

The winter period of 1962/63 was remembered as a warning back then that a new world ice age was a real possibilty.

Now What!
Answer? ....... Do we now increase carbon emissions to help?
THE MIND BOGGLES!

Lord Blackadder

I don't particularly believe in Global Warming. It doesn't help, but it's not the prima facie cause of our weather-shifts.

What I do believe in is epochal weather shifts. Such as have happened many times in our history, recorded and unrecorded.

The planet is going through one of these phases now and it isn't over yet ... not by a long shot!

I think also that perhaps the Earth's axis has altered ... which also happens every 10000 years or so.

Bush was NOT right ............ but his advisers weren't that much wrong either!

Sidsnotwasere

I remember the day the Thames froze over,jeez that was incredible.

As for GW,i think the fact that we're burning more fuel has to affect the way the earth has heated up.

Read the other day that in America,huge parts of it will be covered in water around 2050,vast parts of Florida will simply disappear from view.

Xcotty

It's very strange that four years ago.
There was a big hoo ha, about how the end of Scottish skiing was nigh.
Yet this season, has the best skiing for ten years.

I canny remember how long this Global Warming thing has been spoken about?
But if it's not one "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE" merchant, it's another.

I agree with Blackmadder on this.

Everything in nature, seems to go in cycles.

Haven't heard much about the Ozone Layer, for a wee while?
Or Bird Flu?

Lovely sunny day today.

Silverfox

I thoroughly approved of global warming, when we actually got some of that warm, but this stuff ... I want global colding now. It might get warm then.

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Xcotty

Lord Blackadder

AllanP

Lord Blackadder

Global Warming, eh??

irritateddata

correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought that whenever there's a warm spell, more water from melted ice hits various ocean streams, in our case, the gulf stream, which amongst other things would cool it, divert it, disrupt it, etc, causing UK's climate to enter an 'ice-age' (in varying degrees, from very mild to severe dependant on other factors and time). It's quite logical - cause and effect. After a period it warms again when the current resumes its usual circle or path. Same thing with the air flow, the jet stream. A shift below or above what we're used to would bring rain or drought accordingly.

Guest

In other words ID, a cycle...the likes of which have been happening for years and years!

irritateddata

yep a cycle, though humankind can slow it down or accelerate the process but certainly not the cause of it. That's why I think these on-the-bandwagon politicians who are soooooooo concerned about 'green' and 'climate' issues are rubbing their greedy mitts to con the public into paying yet more taxes.

Guest

Green= higher taxes!!

BoB

Aye this is green and they would like to take them all off us.

Are they still legal in Scotland?

Lord Blackadder

Nope! English pound notes are now collectables. They have no other monetary value!

BoB

How about a Scottish note?

Lord Blackadder

The following banks issue notes in the British Isles (not counting the Channel Islands and the Isle Of Man):

• Bank Of England
• Bank Of Scotland
• Royal Bank Of Scotland
• Clydesdale Bank
• Bank Of Ireland
• First Trust Bank
• Northern Bank
• Ulster Bank

It’s a source of endless frustration to Scottish and Northern Irish people travelling in England that shopkeepers will often inspect their perfectly valid non-Bank Of England notes and reject them as funny money. Yet the shopkeepers have a point, albeit a misguided one, because the notes aren’t legal tender anywhere, not even in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The confusion arises from a misunderstanding of the term "legal tender". It means, very specifically, payment that may not be legally refused in the settlement of a debt. In restaurants and taxis (for example) where a service has been provided in advance of payment ... therefore incurring a debt ... the restaurateur or driver must accept legal tender. In England and Wales, that's Bank Of England notes, but in Scotland and Northern Ireland only coins are legal tender.

So where does this leave the Scottish and Northern Irish tenner if they’re not even legal tender at home? The good news is that currency can be anything you and a shopkeeper (or other service provider) agree on. If Mr Bun the baker takes a fancy to your Peruvian 10 Nuevo Soles note (and who wouldn’t, with that fetching portrait of aviator José Quiñones Gonzáles on the front?) then he can take it in exchange for that cream horn you have your eye on. It’s between you and him, and the law doesn’t come into it. Similarly, Scottish and Northern Irish banknotes are quite rightly accepted by most businesses in England as currency.

For the record, David Brent was wrong: stamps are not legal tender.

And you, Sir BoB ... can go

AllanP

Lord Blackadder

What was their profit margin this year??

I'd say yes they do, Allan!!!

And thank you, all of peasants, for boosting my share dividend when you shop there!!!

BoB

Afraid you don't get much off me BA.

I hate the place!

Sidsnotwasere