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I am concerned about the information level which some of the TV members show about climate change.

Go visit Greenland and observe the ultra rapid disappearance of the ice, which by the way - in case all are melted - will increase sea level around 6 meters. And yes, that level increase is of course global as all seas are interconnected. Besides from Greenlands ice we have the poles, and luckily they currently seem not to melt...

However, the change in climate is very different in different regions, some areas seem to get colder. But in average we globally face a warming as well as more fluctuations and more extremes.

I don't care much if the effect is caused by man, but I care if the lower elevated areas become inhabitable. This has enormous costs to many countries...

"I don't care much if the effect is caused by man, but I care if the lower elevated areas become inhabitable."

I assume you mean uninhabitable, there are deserts that once were oceans, mountains that were once sea beds. The climate changes and so does earth and man is just going to have to get used to it.

Considering the fraud science that is perpetrated by the likes of Hanson and Mann et.al. The IPCC report which keeps being quoted as the bible is a regurgitation of false information.

All the computer models say we should be another degree warmer, but temperatures have either not changed or have gone down in the last 15 years. The amount of ice in the Arctic and Antarctic has grown. The US Great Lakes broke new records of ice, but one year is not climate.

How can the US historical temperature go down in the early 20th century and be higher than measured in the late 20th century? First, historical data doesn't change, unless modified by an agency with a flawed computer models and a agenda.

Statistical studies show fewer storms and less energy than historical norms have happened over the last years. One reason these storms seem so bad, there are more people and development in harms way.

The lesser countries are looking to cash in on a global tax bonanza, and they are just lining up for the payoff.

The 97% of scientists agreeing is another bogus lie, but the propaganda masters know if you tell it long enough and often enough it will be believed.

You are cherry picking your science, a symptom of American Republicans. Are you one of those George Murderous Bush touting, Rush WIndbag worshipping idiots?

The rapidity of the Greenland ice shelf melting is so rapid that the land mass is rising an inch a year -- ask a geologist, and they will tell that is an insane development. Ask the people whose islands are being swallowed by the rising seas -- just pick one out of literally thousands -- and your arguments do not hold water. Ask people in central Virginia, where they will tell you that it snowed every year while they were growing up and now it is once every few years, because they live where snow is neither absent nor constant and can tell you their margin has shifted..

First, industrialists claimed there was no change. Then they claimed there might be change. Then they admitted there was change going on, even rapid change, but it was not from human action. Now the new call to inaction is that 'there is rapid change, but we cannot do anything about it."

I am one of the 97% of the scientists who agree, and I am no bogus lie. At conferences all over the world, in poll after poll after poll, more than 96.2% of all relevant scientists agree on climate change and furiously argue about what should and can be done (some polls only ask physicians, who are neither meteorologists nor climatologists, and are funded by Republican group-think tanks).

You are cherry picking scientific information to fulfill a political agenda.

That is laughable.

The climate has always changed, the sea levels have risen and fallen. The 97% of scientists you talk about are just kissing the butts of the mad railway engineer and his computer programmers because that's where the money is. The arrogance of man to think he can influence the climate,

now That is laughable.

Out accelerate? For sure! Out brake? Not a chance!

Depends on the bike and the speed from which the braking is done- from 100kph my bike has the same stopping distance as a Ferrari 458 (which stops faster than 99.9% of cars on the road), and from slower speeds I have the advantage- it's only at speeds above 150kph that decent cars (not your average pick-up or SUV) start to have the advantage- only sports cars and high-end sedans with upgraded brakes can compete with quality bikes at typical speeds.

If you're referring to the average scooter, than you'd be correct.

Well you must have some special bike, on average a car will out brake a bike.

BRAKING, 60-0 MPH bike 117 ft car 99 ft BRAKING, 100-0 MPH bike 322 ft car 272 ft

And the red thugs still in hiding, inside or more likely outside the country. Smash them

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YAWN!

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". Its is annoying to say the least certainly if you drive bike that can out break and accelerate 95% of the cars."

Out accelerate? For sure! Out brake? Not a chance!

As has been said before:

The good thing about Democracy is that all citizens have an equal vote .... regardless of their education or knowledge of the issues involved, everyone gets only one vote.

The bad thing about Democracy is that all citizens have an equal vote .... regardless of their education or knowledge of the issues involved everyone gets only one vote.

Thailand, the U.S.A., and the U.K. are all prime examples of that fact.

All you have to do is to talk to your typical voter for a few minutes and you will see that.

You make a good point, but what can you do?

Democracy has been hijacked by big money but is still the only system anywhere near fair, and I come from the UK where at the moment a party which had nearly 60 percent of the electorate vote against it, is tearing the very heart out of our once great nation, but still I vote for democracy.

The passengers and crew of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 most likely died of suffocation and plummeted on autopilot into the ocean, according to Australian officials searching for the wreckage.

Read more at http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2014/06/27/17/50/mh370-passengers-and-crew-suffocated-before-flying-autopilot-into-ocean#8sZPepIWlaIydmdS.99

Pure conjecture! I've seen better suggestions on this forum.

Please offer up another plausible scenario where the pilot needs to hide the wreckage.

I offered this scenario, total speculation mind you, when it first happened when there was talk of fire in the systems housing compartment below the cockpit. A fire created an emergency in the cockpit. Pilots working to deal with crisis and puts on oxygen mask. Fire somehow affects cabin atmosphere and most passengers, mostly sleeping at 1AM and an hour out of KL, pass out and then succumb to oxygen deprivation. Pilot, being Southeast Asian and having to deal with loss of face, can not land plane back in Malaysia filled with dead passengers. Panicked and grief stricken, pilot takes plane to furthest point from civilization to meet his maker.

But that doesn't explain why there was no Mayday call, nor why the aircraft was climbed to 45000 feet, and descended to 5000 feet.

"nor why the aircraft was climbed to 45000 feet, and descended to 5000 feet"

Says who?

NOTICE TO ALL YELLOWS

Please refrain from getting in a tizz, a flap, throwing tantrums or spitting your dummies. Do not sulk or pout.

I think the message the Junta has issued is to get over your petty and immature partisanship and start thinking about a new political Paradigm.

Cheers and good luck to Thailand.

Who cares what messages the junta have issued? They are illegal, in breach of Thai and international law and compliance with their orders is surely illegal in itself.

Would love to be there, but unfortunately not in Thailand at the time. Have a good time y'all!

I wonder if the military will return the military bases in Khao Yai, Doi Inthanon, Phu Phan National Parks, etc. "to the people"?

No chance! but they'll have no hesitation in returning the people to the military bases.

I bet all these people wish Yingluck had shut the reds down and the UDD and PTP made to be very quiet over amnesty and rice and etc.

They would still be running a corrupt government and no laws enforced. Go General Go.!

Just a thought

This action, and other similar elsewhere, were started under previous (legitimate) administrations, unfortunately the law is a slow and laborious process.

Great news!

The entire lawless and corruption-filled path Thailand has been moving over the past several years has been abruptly changed.

Bearing in mind these actions were started by previous (legal) administrations.

Ahem...er anti coup as I am, er as a resident of Victory Monument, I must admit - grudgingly - that regulating the minibuses in this area would be a good idea.

Agreed, though it pains me to agree with a Millwall fan. But surely, that's just window dressing, what's needed is proper regulation of the long distance mini vans and buses.

In Singapore, the law is very harsh with loan sharks and they can get 12 to 24 months in jail plus an extra three months if they are caught harassing anyone.

Not difficult forThailand to introduce similar laws if they wanted to.

Good on Singapore.

Loan sharks used to blight the UK in the 60's and early 70's - especially in the inner city areas affected by recession and high unemployment. Scum exploiting parasites who rely on violence and fear to extract very high interest from often desperate people.

Wonga.com?

Go to tescos, buy a dell and take it with you, cheaper than Thailand by far with a worldwide guarantee.

Depends how cynical you are.

Or realistic.

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What island landing strips exist around the "hot-spot" Inmarsat are talking about ?

Nothing.

There is only water.

The original source article (in the Mirror) states that investigators found that he had plotted a route on his flight simulator to "a remote south Indian Ocean island". The article doesn't identify the island.

I did a quick search in FSX and found two small island airports:

YPCC Cocos (Keeling) Island Int'l S12deg 11.32min E96deg 49.83min; 8033ft rwy; less than 1000mi off the Australian NW coast

FIMR Plaine Corail S19deg 45.46min E63deg 21.68min; 4000ft rwy

No idea how these figure WRT the Inmarsat "hot-spot". My guess is that YPCC is to the east of it, and FIMR to the west.

These are the only ones in the FSX stock database, which certainly can't be considered complete. There may be others out there. It's possible for FSX owners to search for & download additional aerodromes from the internet and install them in FSX, or even to create them yourself (with a little effort). Enthusiasts "build" these virtual airports (based on real-world airports or completely imaginary) as a hobby and make them freely available; commercial fltsim add-on vendors develop & sell them as well.

Whatever the case, I have absolutely no doubt that among the various govts involved there's an awareness of any & all such south IO island runways from Australia all the way west to the African coast, and that they've been repeatedly and regularly scoured by satellite surveillance at least. It would be interesting to know some more details from the investigation of the pilot's flight simulator though.

The only one that wouldn't have been scoured by satellite would be Diego Garcia, it's there, I'm sure of it.

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Why do they keep going on about free tickets for board members? That's chickenfeed and tokenistic. They need to deal with the cost structures , the bloated staffing, the free tickets for staff, family and friends of staff etc. They won't do that because of the payback for the union's support. It will just limp on, dead in the water..

Think about it for a minute. If you want to drop the "free tickets for staff, family and friends of staff etc." would not the bitter taste be lessened by the knowledge that the top echelon had already lost their perks?

Plus, they've already stated that they are going to deal with the cost structures. I remember years ago when one of the major US carriers reduced the number of olives in the first-class salads by one, thus saving some $38,000 per year. For one olive. THAI has so much bloat that I believe they CAN be turned around with the right management and mindset.

Believe me, there are no first class salads on Thai airways let alone olives in first class salads. Tis but a teat on the belly of state waiting to be sucked by whomever is handed the suckle spot by those managing the farm at any given time.

In 2009 London to Bangkok first class leaving, from memory at 13:30, served me a fine salad with olives, a lobster main and the cheese platter was to die for 1 hour after take off. I drank Jonny Blue (with coke) all the way because I could.

With that said, the seats were old, the stewardess rude after the 8th Johnny Blue ( I was polite and not drunk), the toilets were nothing special and the best thing about the trip was the Limo at the end….until I had to pay for the limo at the end of my journey.

In short, Thai were going down hill. They needed strong leadership. They were not going to get that under the previous administration. They will get it now.

Olives anyone?

"They will get it now."

How so?

Saving face?

Honestly, who really cares if the Dems agree or not with the NCPO. As with PT, they should be getting off their collective backsides and start floating real and genuine ideas NOW so that the people can have something to chew on. ATM it's all airy fairy hot wind. Nothing substantive. On the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief, they should be encouraged by the NCPO to get heavily involved in the reform process. This talk of them "taking advantage" is just so much hogwash. All anyone on the committee has to do is raise their hands and say "no" if they don't like a proposal.

They had their chance. they were told to go home study up on it and come back tomorrow with a plan. They blew it then. They weren't even willing.

Now they want in. Let them learn what it is like to pay for their arrogance.

I believe that their are honest politicians in all the different parties that really care about Thailand but how to sort them out is a big problem. Best to just skip them and go to the people who understand the problem and have no vested interest in it. At least not to big of a vested interest.

As the article said they all have suggestions. The best way to make them suggestions for the welfare of the country is to make sure that they have nothing to do with the party. They would not have a vote on them other people would be looking at them and evaluating them on there merit alone.

He said the party submitted Pheu Thai's reform plan and he suggested that the NCPO restore democracy as soon as possible and create an atmosphere where people with differing political beliefs could live together peacefully.

He said he wanted the country to have the rule of law and good governance and enforce laws without double standards.

Kind of admitting that was not the caser under the PTP. I* would be interested in hearing his version of restoring democracy as soon as possible. Also is he calling 48% of the people ruling 100% of the people democracy?

"Also is he calling 48% of the people ruling 100% of the people democracy?"

Yes! works most everywhere else.

Who needs political parties when you ally yourself with the real power in Thailand - the military.

Mr Suthep recently stated at a PDRC "charity event" that he had been advising Gen. Prayuth on how to unseat the Thaksin regime since 2010. He admitted he had discussed with Prayuth strategies to root out the influence of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his allies since the 2010 political violence. He further suggested that Gen Prayuth has been actively plotting to bring down former prime minister Yingluck Shinwatra, including the period leading up to the coup when she was defence minister. The Pheu Thai party never had a Pray(uth)er of survival.

Sadly I believe you are correct, the fascists will never let go!

Well what a surprise, the fascists are backing the fascists! Who'd have thought?

Army has tackled problems in a few weeks that politicians have been unable to address in decades.

Eat crow, Shincorporated fan boys.

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Such as?

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