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Hi Nige,
'Could' might just give certain politicians an excuse to do very little to address the problems now when in fact nearly all geoengineering simulations point to unwanted consequences. There are too many 'unknown unknowns ' and IMO, its better to avoid playing God with the elements. We need to bring people and nations together and agree on measures that we do know will reduce CO2 such as the relevant ones here that Bamps has suggested - if there's the will there's a way.
BoL
Hi Troubles
If the world was not overpopulated, we would not have climate change, starvation, wars caused by expanding land (and ethnically cleansing the inhabitants)… As David Attenborough has been saying for years.
One criticism of your last post is that you said it "Would" cause more problems as opposed to "Could."
The Scientists themselves regard (SO2) as being desperate measures, but I think we need more research on solutions, not proving what we know is going wrong.
Anyway, an epidemic probably on the way, followed by an Ice Age, so maybe no worries.
BoL
Hi Owls
https://www.positive.news/society/5-possible-solutions-overpopulation/
Difficult to enforce and have been attempted in various countries, mainly unsuccesfully.
Correction to my last sentance ' changes in co2 are almost irrelevant compared to changes in h20'.
Troubles, it may be me but I don't see a lot of discussion on overpopulation. We seem to encourage it with family allowance, free nursery places, maternity / paternity pay etc. I'm not saying there are easy answers but it needs to be on the agenda.
Dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere makes the atmosphere more humid.
Since water vapour is itself a greenhouse gas, the increase in humidity amplifies the warming from CO2 :-
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/vapor_warming.html
Climate change and greenhouse gasses - as usual no data on changes in levels of water vapour. AS I recall it is an order of magnitude stronger than co2 and present in much greater quantities but it is too inconvenient to talk about in the media because , actually some parts of the world are desparate for more rain. Changes in co2 , measure in ppm are almost irrelevant compared to co2 - check it out anyone who does not believe me.
Hi Nige,
Regards stratospheric sulphur aerosols, this may be of interest:
https://www.wired.com/2008/06/ff-geoengineering/
Would stay in atmosphere for a year or 2 and would cause even more problems.
Hi Owls,
Think overpopulation is discussed at length but don't think many of the solutions are ethical or palatable.
Nige, I agree with you that the fundamental reason for climate change is too many people, this seems to be the elephant in the room that nobody wants to discuss.
I disagree with your views on NS though, her blinkered view on independence for Scotland before all else would probably be a disaster for Scotland.
Hi Nige,
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/25/climate-heating-greenhouse-gases-hit-new-high-un-reports
No sign of a slowdown.
Seems you concentrate too much on individuals instead of actual policies - all parties will have to agree on measures to tackle the problem going forwards or else we're doomed - doomed, I say .
BoL
Hi Troubles
Nobody is suggesting any solutions (to climate change) such as releasing SO2 into upper atmosphere - which creates global cooling. The fundamental problem is too many people, which must be addressed by the UN and help given to developing Nations.
At least Corbyn (probably) won't get in. Bit tragic that the 2 main leaders are unelectable Imho.
BoL
Hi Nige,
Big or small, a lie is a lie.
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite.
If we don't address climate change associated issues with more radical policies, there'll be no monkeys left.
BoL
Ps
Just figured my plan for tomorrow to become 100% invested again.
Sell float in bwy (small profit), Buy bdev, rdw and psn. A lot more in bdev, (than system was saying) and not much less in rdw and a lot less in psn.
Don't expect anything much to happen on Monday, so hoping my deals will be pretty much as planned, only difference is bwy approaching XDivDt (28/11/19, about 3%) so should go up more than the others. Last of Divis until next year and I have already sold off Divis (at a loss) to become clear of waiting for them to break even.
At the moment I am not chasing Divis at all, and with current politics think that is a better idea. Still don't know the best policy, but suspect it is better to just ignore them - my new system should figure this out!
Hi SweetTooth
Has any Govt Policy ever helped builders. Imho, H2B doesn't make any difference at all and every other policy has been against them, so finally we cannot even build the houses we need (due to lack of labour).
Corbyn thinks throw money at an issue, but unless you import 100,000 Polish tradesmen (or whatever) we still won't have enough labour to build them.
Politicians make impossible plans before elections, which they know they cannot achieve. The biggest liar is BoJo, but Corbyn will destroy the Economy. That's not much of a choice but an alternative, LibDems. Don't know much about JS but a monkey would be fine by me as an alternative.
I would vote SNP to join Scotland (live in North East), cos got a lot of respect for NS, but no candidate here.
BoL
Thanks HareHopping - you are more intelligent than I am. The whole idea therefore doesn't really help UK resident housebuyers.
I thought the purpose was to make house prices in London more affordable because ' foreign buyers ' were pushing up prices. If it won't put them off, it just empty rhetoric and not being truthful about the policy.
Who would have guessed that.
BoL
Firstly, what is a 3% surcharge trying to acheive? Secondly can someone explain the maths in this paragraph from the article? (The higher tax suggests that a wealthy foreign buyer of a £1.5m home in London would pay £183,750 in stamp duty compared with £93,750 for a Londoner buying the property for their own use.) Looks like more than 3% to me. Thirdly, I live in Twickenham where 1.5M buys you a 3 bed terraced house - "wealthy foreign buyers" are not looking for that! Try 5m plus for "wealthy foreign buyers" in London. And finally, wealthy foreign buyers buying a 5m house can easily afford the extra 3% 150k - they usually spend another 1m gutting the place and refurbing.
Hi Ben,
Bit of a sweeping statement but in studies of delinquent adolescents, empathy plays its part based on examinations of an emotion based theory of conscience.
Pinnochio only becomes a real boy when he proves himself to be brave, truthful and unselfish.
Have a great weekend - been out and about all day.
Hi troubles
I don’t think any of them will have a conscience.
But I can imagine the bar at parliament being very similar to bar with the asses! Gl and enjoy
Read an article that wealthy Indians are snapping up Vastu compliant homes in London.
Don't know how Rishi Sunak who's married to a billionaires daughter really feels about the pledge.
Now that seems like a sensible suggestion. They have gained much much more % in exchange rate when they change to our weak pound and buy these London properties. I doubt it would put any off.
Tory party pledges 3% surcharge for overseas buyers of English homes
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/22/tory-party-pledges-3-surcharge-for-overseas-buyers-of-english-homes
Hi Tom,
Repeating lies over and over again, doesn't make them true.
Johnson hi,
Another few reasons for NOT voting for Corbyn and his motley crew, how on Earth can they suggest such nonsense. You should try band "E" that's £2223, a loss of £556 and that would be quite a sum for most people.
I for one am keeping well clear of the Labour party and that's for sure.
ATB
Great w/e to all.
Tom :-)))))))
WARNING !!
Sounds like the Daily Express again.
Ideas floated by discussion groups are not in the manifesto as far as I'm aware.