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14 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Raise and add more taxes, while they think about it, realizing of course, they can't do a damn thing.  But now have more tax revenue for the general fund to waste, and put in their pockets.

Another Pavlovian response from a climate change denialist.

12 minutes ago, sidneybear said:

Follow the money trail to see that these phoney "fact checking" outfits are themselves fake. Politfact is funded by inter alia the Poynter Institute, and look at all the lefty outfits that fund them: 

 

https://www.poynter.org/major-funders/

 

Dig around a bit and you’ll see that Bill Gates is another contributor.

 

All this climate hogwash is political or commercial. Haven't you realised it yet? Why are you so gullible?

 

Now please provide me with your analysis on the storage problem. 

Once again, rather than address the facts, you try to slur the source. The facts are clear, Not only are very very few of the signatories not climatologists, but a large number of them aren't even scientists.  Once again, you've got nothing.

9 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Who is that said by ?

Who says that right wingers are less able to detect irony ?

Underlying psychological traits could explain why political satire tends to be liberal

The need for cognition — a psychological term used to describe the enjoyment of thinking and analyzing problems — could help explain the differences in humor appreciation between liberals and conservatives.

According to new research in Psychology of Popular Media Culture, political conservatives tend to score lower on a measure of need for cognition, which is related to their lack of appreciation for irony and exaggeration.

“Having studied the content, effects, and psychological processing of political humor and satire for 20 years, I could never escape the question of why political satire tends to be liberal,” said study author Dannagal G. Young, an associate professor at the University of Delaware and author of the forthcoming book Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States.

https://www.psypost.org/underlying-psychological-traits-could-explain-why-political-satire-tends-to-be-liberal/

Here's a rare piece of journalism about what it's actually like for refugees living in Rafah. It's based on an interview with Scott Anderson, deputy head of the UNRWA. Among other things Anderson points out that Al Mawasi, the area it has designated for Rafah refugees to decamp to, is barren of any kind of infrastructure. 

"It is a crappy place. It’s like trying to set up a city on a beach. There’s no infrastructure, there’s no sewage, there’s no water. None of those things exist, and there’s already 450,000 people in that general area. It is crowded."

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/israel-rafah-scott-anderson-unrwa-00156924

There's a lot more in the article which will probably go unread by the apologists for the way Israel has waged war in Gaza.

4 hours ago, sidneybear said:

Since you're so fond of links, here is a list of 1,900 very clever and distinguished folks who think that the so-called "climate emergency" is a load of politicised codswallop... or are your links bigger than mine because yours feature academics who don’t live in the real world? 

 

https://clintel.org/world-climate-declaration/

 

Climate pseudoscience is just a way of lining people's pockets and keeping the peasants poor, cold and immobile. 

 

Of course, you'll counter with more links of your own, because you lack the faculties to do your own analysis and question what you post. 

 

Once again, you get it wrong. This time you fell for a fake. (At the time this article was published the total number of signatories was 1609)

Climate list claim melts away under closer inspection

PolitiFact FL: Not all 1.6K signatories of declaration against climate change were scientists

The updated version with 1,609 signatories, published Aug. 14, marked 12 people as deceased. Among the scientists, specialties included geology, chemistry, physics and agriculture. Those with climate expertise were few.

The list included engineers, doctors, lawyers, mathematicians, architects, entrepreneurs, and economists. Others did not list any occupation at all. Some descriptions read:

"Sceptical (sic) Scientific Contrarian in the Climate Debate"
"Leadership development and coaching"
"Physicist and YouTuber"
"Sculptor, designer and innovator"

https://www.wusf.org/environment/2023-10-11/politifact-fl-not-all-1-6k-signatories-declaration-against-climate-change-scientists

 WHAT WAS CLAIMED

1609 scientists have signed a declaration stating there is no climate emergency.

OUR VERDICT

False. The list of signatories includes lawyers, teachers, IT workers and relatively few climate scientists.

https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/climate-list-claim-melts-away-under-closer-inspection/

7 hours ago, nauseus said:

 

Damn. You're more confused than me. 

 

The OP mentions "the ramifications of this warming trend are being felt across continents, with Europe bracing for a surge in temperatures in the coming weeks. The U.K.'s Met Office predicts highs of 26°C in parts of England".

 

Do behave.

Thanks for the correction. But that still doesn't mean that you got it right. What you're referring to is a record breaking day or days. This article is about record breaking average temperatures for the month. Also, the days of the month you cited occurred later in May. Who knows, a record breaking day may yet be to come.

3 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Nothing evasive here, more than happy to point out the veil slip

 

 

The subject matter has been discussed numerous times, always brought up by apologists again and again despite it being in so many previous topics with the facts and not taken out of context. Your comment on it will also now never go away.

 

 

It's said that right wingers are less able to detect irony and autistic people not at all. Which one are you?

Just now, impulse said:

 

It's probably a small risk.  But I've never had a problem with a Samsung phone that I didn't cause by swimming with it in my pocket.  Usually, falling out of the boat.  I lost 2 Samsung phones that way.   My first smartphone was a Samsung S2, and it still works great. (Back when they had replaceable batteries and I've gone through a half dozen)    In fact, I wish they'd make another one that small.

 

I guess I'll take the small chance.

3 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

They tend to eventually out themselves, the veil always slips.

Certainly the evasiveness in regards to this issue reveals the hypocrisy and callousness of both of you.

1 minute ago, impulse said:

 I don't know about Samsung authorized repair centers, but the guys I've used in MBK and Fortune Town had it done in 15-30 minutes.  Part of that was to walk down to a nearby stockroom to get the battery, the rest was doing the deed.  I just wandered around a little and came back to a repaired phone.

 

Thanks for the reply. I was worried that any guarantees on the phone would be voided. Given that the phone is already over a year old, maybe there aren't any guarantees to worry about? 

Just now, coolcarer said:

Already given comments on this gross post of yours, the rest is now you attempting a lame deflection and trying to squirm out of it. No justification no matter what for  your "belief." I will no longer engage with such a person who can make such disgusting statements. 

 

"I actually believe that the bombing campaign should be expanded. Israel should target a country that helped to keep those terrorists in power for years. Israel should start bombing Israel now."

Do I really have to explain to you that the point of the comment was to make clear the hypocrisy Israel's gung-ho supporters who blame the Palestinian civilians for supporting Hamas and maintain that the Palestinians have no one but themselves to blame for their suffering? If anything is disgusting, it's that.

1 minute ago, coolcarer said:

Sick post. Cannot be walked back

More empty comments from you.  It is a fact that Israel helped perpetuate Hamas' hold on power in Gaza. Maybe you're living in an information bubble?

Do Samsung repair centers do this on the spot? Or do you have to return at a later date?

14 minutes ago, coolcarer said:

Na you already revealed what you think. Vile

Like all the gung-ho supporters of Israel, I see you have no answer for the fact that Israel helped to perpetuate Hamas' hold on Gaza.

Just now, coolcarer said:

I hope there’s no one from Israel or that have friends or family living there read that sinister and sick post.

What I think is sick is that the gung-ho supporters of Israel continually blame the Palestinians in Gaza even though Israel took action to bolster support for Hamas in Gaza.

6 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  Will you guys stop telling me I posted ?

I know what I wrote , you don't have to keep sending my posts back to me .

I do not have amnesia and I don't have the memory of a goldfish .

I can remember what I wrote yesterday , no need to tell me again 

Do I really have to connect the dots for you?

14 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   LOL, well of course if you're going to do a google search for something , it will show up a lot of times in the results .

   Besides, the headline is true , it was the worst day for deaths of Jews since the Holocaust 

amnesia much? Here was your first rebuttal:

"There were countless other newspaper headlines where the Holocaust wasn't mentioned , why focus on the one headline that mentioned it"

In fact, had you looked google results, you would find it in this connections addressed in the headlines of many major media sources.

10 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Meanwhile US hostages linger in the tunnels of Rafah.

 

Pro-Israel Democrats slam Biden’s threat to stop arms transfers if Israel enters Rafah

Prominent pro-Israel Democrats criticize US President Joe Biden for threatening to halt the transfer of offensive weaponry to Israel if the IDF carries out an offensive in Rafah. “Hard disagree and deeply disappointing,” says US Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania. Representative Ritchie Torres of New York told Axios he suspects Biden is “pandering to the far left.” 

“It looks like election year politics was driving it. That’s my impression,” he adds. “I’d like the president to do right by Israel and recognize that the far left is not representative of the rest of the country.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/pro-israel-democrats-slam-bidens-threat-to-stop-arms-transfers-if-israel-invades-rafah/

Yes. Hostages linger in the tunnels. And those big bombs are designed to collapse those tunnels. This looks like good news for them. And to date  Israeli forces have freed an impressive total of 3 hostages from captivity. 

5 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

Record breaking every day.

 

Found these May maximums for the UK at: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-climate-extremes

 

May*	32.8	22 May 1922^	Camden Square (London)
May*	32.8	29 May 1944	Horsham (West Sussex)
May*	32.8	29 May 1944	Tunbridge Wells (Kent)
May*	32.8	29 May 1944	Regent's Park (London)

 

 

Most confusing!

Allow me to unconfuse you. The report was about the highest temperatures for today and its implications. Here is the table for the previous  temperature records for May 8:

So a high of 26 is a huge jump.

57 minutes ago, sidneybear said:

ABC is an Australian mirror image of the BBC: A lefty outfit that is paid for by taxation and is supposed to be impartial. All it does is recite leftist nostrums like all this guff about changing the weather. People laugh at it.

The article in question was about published research. If you have any proof that the article contain falsehoods, please share that with the rest of us. In other words, put up or...

41 minutes ago, sidneybear said:

It's cooling off a bit in Thailand now. Haven't you noticed? Quite balmy now. Hot seasons are, well, hot, bit they end when it starts raining. 

 

Happens every year around this time. No need to get your knickers in a twist about trying to change the weather. 

Without offering evidence and explanation you have previously accused me of not understanding. And yet here is proof that you don't understand the difference between climate and weather.  I am happy to be able to offer this piece of assistance that should dispel your ignorance:

"Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area. Weather can change from hour-to-hour, day-to-day, month-to-month or even year-to-year. A region's weather patterns, usually tracked for at least 30 years, are considered its climate."

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/all-about-climate/