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Climate Change and Great Britain

StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
Something tells me that the British aren't really motivated to change anything about their driving habits and are rather dragging their feet to do their part as far as the issue of climate change is concerned:

[I][URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QOqdjTD6vo"]"Every day we are told that global warming is coming. And that the car is to blame. They say, temperatures in Britain will rise by an average of six degrees, and that the effects of this will be profound. A six degree rise will give us a climate like the South of Spain. This means, there will be palm trees around our shores, Bougainvillea will cascade from everyone's balcony and the sky will be permanently blue. It all sounds pretty good to me, so plainly, what we need, are more, bigger, faster cars..."[/URL][/I] - Jeremy Clarkson, 2007.

[URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ladybegood/2840622483/"]Who can blame them?[/URL] :D

Comments

  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    Yeah well as funny as Clarkson is, he's also an idiot heh! I think by the end of the century the world is going to look a lot different to what it is now, and not for the better
  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    South of Spain? If the gulfstream goes (which it would), England'll look more like New Brunswick. For that matter, the south of Spain will look like upstate New York. I hope all of Europe enjoys enjoys getting weather appropriate to their latitude.
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    yeah, winters would become a lot harsher, and summers would also become a lot warmer. Basically the climate would tend towards more of the extremes, and thus becoming a lot more fun! :D
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    One thing is sure, the planet can't support 6 billion Clarksons. :D
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    It cant support 6 billion of the rest of us indefinitely at this rate either. We're all doomed! DOOMED!
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    Yeah, I fear we'll be heading towards even more conflicts and fatal diseases. We need to reduce our numbers one way or the other.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    Save the planet, nuke a politician...
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    How about 6 million Random Chaos'?

    Worf
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    [QUOTE=Stingray;180107]One thing is sure, the planet can't support 6 billion Clarksons. :D[/QUOTE]

    I believe Earth is only rated at tackling the Ego of 1.2 Clarksons. It would take an enormous endeavor to extend this to 2.0 Clarkons. Instead, we could easily terraform Mars, Venus, Jupiter, make Pluto into a proper planet, and still have enough money to feed the hungry space-children of Alpha Centauri.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMuO-8S_0Wg]Relevant.[/url]
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R22QUqy6wM"]More...[/URL] :D
  • WORFWORF The Burninator
    The actual [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-uIvdyWvS8"]Clarkson[/URL].

    Worf
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE=WORF;180123]The actual [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-uIvdyWvS8"]Clarkson[/URL].

    Worf[/QUOTE]

    What do you mean, actual? That's him in the original post. :D
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    I think [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbvN1UYuz-U&feature=related]this[/url] is also the real one..
    Ive never seen him before though. Funny.
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Q4iUcnAZ4"]This[/URL] is a far better example of the man :D
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFFDdgRj3nE&feature=related]This[/url] is awesome!! Cant stop laughing, and its 3 o clock. Poor neighbours.
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE=Stingray;180107]One thing is sure, the planet can't support 6 billion Clarksons. :D[/QUOTE]
    [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090312/ap_on_re_us/un_un_world_population"]
    Make that [B][I]SEVEN[/I][/B] billion Clarksons by 2012.[/URL] :(
  • A2597A2597 Fanboy
    Boom.

    Sooner or later.

    Boom.
    Boom Boom.
    BOOM!
  • I expand on Jack's notion....
    First find a dead island in the middle of nowhere (Example Iraq, Iran, Afganastan).
    Second drop every politition, lawyer, corporate brass onto this island.
    Third, drop a dozen of 50 megaton nukes on this island.
    There, we take care of all of our problems! Except the nuclear fallout.... oh well I play enough Fallout 3, I'm ready!
  • Falcon1Falcon1 Elite Ranger
    I'm all for shipping politicians off somewhere. Bunch of crooks the lot of them. It really winds me up how they are pushing wind farms big time here. Eh hello, tidal power? I've visited a wind farm in the Thames estuary, was about 50 of them. Half were not working as the gearboxes were blown. They would last about a month then burn out. About £150,000 a pop to replace. Ugly ugly things.

    At the end of the day we need to save ourselves, the planet will be fine. It will heal itself after a few 100,000 - 1,000,000 years, give or take.

    As for Clarkson, I like him but do take everything he says with a pinch of salt. He is a wind up merchant and thats what he loves doing.
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    What we really need to do is invest just half the money thats been invested in so-called 'green' R&D dead-ends like biofuels and windfarms, and put it into fusion power research. Its not the holy grail of energy generation, but its pretty damn close
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Or even just further advances in current levels of fission technology. It's not bad by any means, it's just not as good as fusion could theoretically be.
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    The only trouble with fission (apart from the waste anyway) is that you are still reliant on fuel that is a rare commodity, and that is finite. If we all start using fission then demand is going to skyrocket and that will open its own problems. Reprocessing will only go so far
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Any fuel is limited to a finite quantity. It's all a matter of how we manage to use it. Nuclear fuel can be used many times over in various stages of radioisotope emission. Trickle-down easily allows the fuel for a single plant to be reprocessed and re-used for various forms of decay-type facilities for decades on.
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    Yes but by that point I have to wonder if its worth the money. You've then got the cost of reprocessing, secure transport, secure storage of the waste for X hundred thousand years etc etc. Wouldn't the money therefore be better spent developing fusion, that has none of these problems?
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    [QUOTE=ShadowDancer;180167]What we really need to do is invest just half the money thats been invested in so-called 'green' R&D dead-ends like biofuels and windfarms, and put it into fusion power research. Its not the holy grail of energy generation, but its pretty damn close[/QUOTE]

    We already have a fusion Reactor that works and has been around for a long time. It's fuel is limited yes, but will burn at a fairly constant rate for several billion years. It's called the Sun. Why are we trying to re-invent the wheel when we just recently had a major advancement in Solar Technology?

    Just my $.02...
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Said recent advancement depends on a very rare mineral. If we rely solely on that, expect a few wars over its supply...
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    ...in the world!
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    Another argument for moving out into the solar system :D
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