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By the time this wonderful, not yet ready technology becomes available the problems will already be there. Procrastination is a wonderful idea, it takes away your options. Sometimes you are lucky, and a solution is found in time, sometimes you end up with no options. In the UK. in 1990, 80% of electricity came from coal fired power plants, most of the rest was Nuclear; renewables were trivial.. In 2024, coal provided only 0.6%, renewables 43%, Gas 26%. in one generation, Gas came and is now declining, because it is too expensive. renewable technology existed in 1990, but was in it's infancy as a commercial option. So, what's next? Nothing in the next 15 years, that's for certain. Fusion power? If you have been following that, it has taken 20 years to build the most recent research reactors, and they cannot even get it to work yet. Commercialisation not happening before 2050, if then. Renewables are ready to take over for the next 25 years. leave the fossil fuels in the ground for the next ice-age, they might need it in 10,000 years.

As has been said, Europe gives a lot more aid than the USA does. Germany, UK and Sweden alone give more than the USA, and the EU also gives an amount equivalent to about 60% of what the USA gives, on top. The USA is a skinflint. Anyway who gets the most aid from the USA? Guess. Should be obvious Israel. They get 3.8 billion every year, about 400 US dollars for every Israeli. And last year, about 20 billion. I bet that aid is not reduced in Trump's budget. It would be nice if Europe could help make up the Aid deficit. But Europe is being squeezed, They are providing aid to Ukraine (double what USA has provided), have suffered economic problems due to rise in oil and gas prices in the Ukraine war (from which the USA has benefitted), while Trump is screwing Europe on tariffs. They also get all the refugee problems to deal with from Ukraine, Africa and the Middle East, which does not affect the USA much. Some European countries are already cutting their aid budgets (e.g. UK) because they also have deficits in national budgets. taxation is going up and living standards down. Meanwhile in the USA, the rich are going to get tax cuts. Paid for by everyone else - in the whole world.

Pathetic.

Yes, look at big oil. Just like the tobacco companies before them. I am not panicking. There is very little risk of humanity being wiped out by climate change. There is a big risk that a lot of people will live in a degraded environment and migration will become such a problem that today's migration issues will seem trivial. There is a chance we will see resource wars - water, maybe food, maybe just better territory. When the Indian sub-continent runs out of all those things, do you think people will just sit down and die? The second half of this century will be a bad time; the 22nd century, no idea, could get better or worse. I just want my kids to be on the winning side.

Cuomo is a self serving idiot. An example - just before the vote, a journalist asked him and Mandani which city would they visit first after they were elected. Cuomo said he would go to Israel and Jerusalem, and see Netanyahu. Mandani said why would he go anywhere, if he was elected he would stay in New York and do his job. One only interested in junkets and making influential friends (even if they are wanted criminals), the other just doing what he was ewlcted for. I would say the level of bigotry in this thread is incredible. Any posters Ex KKK?

I am not to judgemental, but if i am scoring someone from zero to ten by their looks, visible tattoos would always mean knocking a point off. Or in his case, 3 points....

I blame the cost of living and the housing crisis. When you and your partner both earn 30,000 GBP a year and you realise after paying rent on your small flat and bills, that buying a house and starting a family will take another 30 years. Then you get depressed and do retail therapy or get pissed to forget.

News always sensationalise everything to get attention. You have to get at the underlying facts. You do know why they thought this in the 1960's? Air pollution put dust into the atmosphere which reflected light back out into space, just they couldn't measure that back then. The massive increase in fossil fuel use meant more air pollution, so that temperatures started to go down, this off set the very slight warming trend from CO2 we had at that time; and of course we were heading back into another ice age (in a couple of thousand years); It is now thought that the current warming will set that figure back another thousand or two. Thats the thing, climate change is a mesh of competing factors, some positive, some negative. 60 years ago we just didn't have enough data. We still need more, but if we just wait some tipping points could be reached and like a broken glass cannot be easily undone.

The exodus started with Brexit. UK was a very convenient place to live and administer your corporate Europe wide empire. Brexit made that less useful. And, how can UK compete with UAE's zero tax regime where oil money pays for everything? If you want to sit in your air-conditioned CONDO or office all day, gloating over your stack of dollars and gold bars, fair enough. But is it actually living? Nothing i want to do is in Dubai. I enjoyed my UK life in rural Hampshire. Big garden, Lots of nice countryside, could walk down to my local stream and catch trout, and see lots of wildlife. I do miss it. Unfortunately greedy multi-national company decided to make me redundant at 55 and that is old in IT. Without sufficient funds to payoff the mortgage, had to make some hard decisions. Dream home sold, paid off the ex-wife and had just enough for Thailand. But give me a million pounds and i would be on a plane back tomorrow.

Been using hotmail for 20 years, never had a problem. Gmail, Yahoo, Btinternet and others all had problems. Very little junk mail with hotmail.

Yes, natural climate change does happen very, very slowly. What we see now is a speeded up version where things happen in 100 years instead of thousands.

Sad to see that 90% of posters either do not believe in man made climate change or just do not care. Yes, it is a really complex issue and it takes a certain level of intelligence to even begin to understand the big picture. Also a lot of science. Not just Physics and Maths, also Biology, Geology, Chemistry; also Geography and History have a part to play. But lets just stick to what we do know. 1. For the past 5 decades, the average global temperature of the decade has increased. If it continues at the same rate, we will reach 3 degrees Centigrade of warming by the end of the century. 2. Ice is melting. Many glaciers, which provide year round water for many rivers will not exist by 2100. 3, Average sea level has been rising for over a 100 years; the rate has been increasing and in this century is currently at about 3 mm per year. 4. Sea temperatures are now at record levels since recording began. Corals do not like it too hot. warmer water means more evaporation, more energy, bigger storms. 5. Forest fires have increased in intensity, size and frequency in this century - More CO2 is emitted. human activity also releases CO2 So yes, it is happening. It is a slow process,, but what CO2 (and other gases) we do release does impact many things, and rarely for the better. More droughts, more heat waves, more floods more storms and impacts on the environment.

Getting a degree doesn't mean getting a good job is easy. 3 nieces/nephews got a degree and tried to get associated jobs. 2 did get jobs but found there employers were bullies, expecting them to work overtime and on holidays with no extra pay. One found an equivalent job she liked, the other just became a shop assistant. The third spent 3 years waiting for a promised government job which never happened, he killed chickens instead. Finally got the job he wanted in Bangkok after those 3 years (civil engineering).

Similar to the progress on HS2 in the UK, another white elephant.

Witness protection - an oil barrel and concrete.....