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Climate Change and Great Britain
Stingray
Elite Ranger
in Zocalo v2.0
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
[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
Worf
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.
Worf
Worf[/QUOTE]
What do you mean, actual? That's him in the original post. :D
Ive never seen him before though. Funny.
[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] :(
Sooner or later.
Boom.
Boom Boom.
BOOM!
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!
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.
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...