err k9 was from Dr Who – C3PO was the other robot in Star Wars

Many thanks Paul, I promise to try harder in future.

Did C3PO make an odd whistling noise?

You really are a fool aren’t you , you think this earth is just here to be a habitat for the human race, and it will reset itself just to accommdate us.

That isn’t what I said at all, I was simply concurring with the idea that Earth will look after itself until it melts, just as it has for billions of years.

I also believe it will not accomodate our species for very much longer.

Just think about mars, It once had water and probably some form of microbial life,
but not any more, why because it went from one state to another, if you turn your liveing space in to a sh&t tip it will no longer be able to sustain you.

I guess those darned microbes were guilty of ruining Mars with their 4x4s and toxic waste?:D

You mentioned Royal Society.. the same Royal Society that Ridiculed Darwin for almost 50 years??

The same Royal Society that ridiculed Tesla and called him a mad man and “dangerous” when he said that “One day Man will sit at home in one part of the country and hold device that would let him hear Opera that was sang in another part of the country”???

Same Royal Society that for better part of century ridiculed theory of Continental drift and Movement of Tectonic plates and suggestions that there used to be one continent called pangea. ???

Same royal society that believed for better part of 100 years that supersonic travel by man is impossible, that laughed off suggestions of powered flight, and million other things

I do believe that’s the society being referred to as a source of fact.:D

Welcome to the fray, DJ, it’s high time we had another voice of reason on this thread about, ahem, hybrid cars.

The way things are going, I expect to see the BNP do better this time around.

And NO, I’m not a BNP supporter!!

😀 Earth will certainly heal itself until the day it’s melted by the Sun, but whether we earthlings are around for much longer is debateable.

It appears that GW has been taking a tea break since 1998, but it will probably get back on track eventually.

Shame we couldn’t say the same about GWB.:diablo:

There is also a very interesting, independent graph here, explaining that global warming peaked in 1998:
http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2008/2008_30-39/2008-30/pdf/42-46_3529.pdf

And we all know how much people like graphs?;)

We should all read the small print and try to balance this out with the ‘concensus’ of opinion that suits those who have something to gain by keeping the myth alive.

The whole process has become an argument between two sides, those who gain from perpetuating the idea and those who seek the truth.

If large companies were stupid enough to employ scientists, solely to quash the theory of MMGW, they would be very short sighted and have no thought for their offspring and future generations.
Does anyone here believe that is possible?:confused:

It would be much like an American or Russian President pushing the red button, just for the heck of it.

Try comparing this whole scenario with the invasion od Iraq, because someone thought they had WMD that could be launched in 45 minutes.

Here is a picture of an Imperial Storm Trooper

😀 Thanks, but although I’ve never seen a Star Wars film, it would have been impossible not to have seen photos and trailers over the years.

I remember R2D2 and K9 from years ago.

I gather that my education is sadly lacking on this subject, but thankfuly I’ve managed to survive reasonably well without it.

If serious global warming is fact and not simply mass hysteria, if nothing else, it’s obvious that sea levels would be rising at an unusual rate?

There are hundreds of scaremongers telling us that sea levels are rising at an alarming rate.
According to one expert, who doesn’t work for a large company that is trying to convince us it isn’t true, he states that some of the claims have been falsified.

Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner was head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University, began his studies in the early 60s, took his thesis in 1969 and retired in 2005.

One interesting interview with Dr Mörner:
http://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2007/2007_20-29/2007-25/pdf/33-37_725.pdf

Another interesting observation:

Back in carbonate sedimentation 101 at Southampton University in 1964/5 I can remember being taught how atolls keep pace with a subsiding seafloor or a rising sea level (different phenomena, by the way!) by constantly growing upward and outward.

http://globallychanging.blogspot.com/2005/12/prof-nils-axel-mrner-on-rising-sea.html

Let’s face it, global warming is better than global cooling, which would cause the need for the use of even more fossil fuels, while we await that seemingly unobtainable goal of safe, re-usable energy.

I doubt that any one of us here on this forum is anything more than a layman regarding this subject, so we take the word of experts to base our own theories on.
It’s my belief that not only us, but most world leaders, governments and people in high places are in the same boat, relying on the same experts, while those experts rely on someone to pay their salaries.
Whether or not many of those experts are worth the investment is questionable and I cite the IPCC as a good example of a very bad investment.

But do you want to be proud of something?

Not at all, I learned a long time ago that pride comes before a fall.

Yes, an accident of birthplace but ask people from any other country and they’ll usually give you a list a long as your arm.

😀 This I’m fully aware of, there are flag wavers everywhere, but they’re mostly misguided.

Ask the British, or more specifically the English, and most of us struggle to come up with anything.

Ask me, I’m English, I did 50 years there, (probably for my past life sins) but it isn’t my fault, I blame my parents.:D