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" a 6 year old can understand it"
Really? They have the developed critical analysis and background scientific and statistical knowledge to challenge what they are indoctrinated with?
Peddling this rubbish to kids that young smacks of desperation to zombiefy them repeating the mantras. Interesting how the older people get, the more they question what is put before them. I only have a physics degree which included modules in physics of the earth and environmental physics, and an MSc in pollution science. Interestingly, in the physics modules speculation is not allowed, only hard fact and verifiable unproduceable experimentation to turn theory into fact. The whole theory of global warming was derived from the astrophysicist trying to explain why some planets are warmer than their theoretical value. Albedo. However, it is still only a theory!!!

"I always thought the argument of rising sea levels centred on the land based Ice sheets melting. Though that seems spurious to me as well. "

That came latter when the howler on melting north pole was realised. Now you will only hear reference to the likes of the Larsen ice shelf. Bear in mind though that the South pole glaciers have been sliding into the sea on a continuos basis for a few million years plus. If there is anything to be afraid of re south pole it is the volcanic activity melting the land locked ice - naff all to do with man.

Anyway, I had expected far more abuse for being a 'denyer' but instead a few more peer out from behind the door and speak out. There is hope for the human race yet - and maybe for the longer term IAG share prospects then.

Off to gorge myself on a bucket of KFC. Class!

Rate of change. I'm not going to get into the debunking of all the climate change claims on here but the important point is there are no claims that do not have significant counter claims but those counter claims are significantly suppressed to the point they are removed from search engines, social media, mass media and in many cases form publication in publications that should no better at the peer review stage. Meanwhile the bull crap is published, broadcast and number one in the search engines. You have to keep a 360 on everything. There is big money, very big money pouring into the climate change industry and where there's money involved there is lies deceit and corruption. From a stocks and shares investment point of view, if you are holding the likes of IAG for a long term, you need to consider the hysteria surrounding climate change and expect all rational argument and debate to be thrown out in favour of the new religion. You'll see soon. You think you are ok with your petrol engine for at least another decade? You'll be forced to scrap it within 5 years if they get there way. It will be illegal to own or operate a petrol engine. Can you afford the cost to buy a full electric car? Can you afford the five grands battery replacement cost every couple of years? The number of air flights will be reduced to the level today - if that. What used to be weird hysterical fringe propaganda manifestos are being presented at the highest levels as legitimate policies to be implemented. Trump was going to question the legitimacy of much of what climate change was saying but even he was suppressed.

I can't keep the wellies?

[petroleum derived plastic wellies perchance?}

I think the firm ice age predictions were in the 70's rather than 80's but memories fade. I think the 90's were dedicated to the non-existent hole in the ozone layer which was to take a least 50 years to restore but was fully restored by the next spring [despite Concorde!] Then the same happened the next year, then the next year and it was always the opposite effect between the poles. Eventually it was noted the predictable cyclic event meant it was a natural event guaranteed to occur every year. You won't find many admitting to the huge mistake. But it showed what can happen if you can whip up enough of a narrative to what extent the agenda can be controlled. For the ozone hole it became so blindingly clear it was natural that it had to be quietly swept under the carpet. You still get the odd reference to it around fund raising time to keep lining the pockets and funding the jollies to keep talking about it and the ubiquitous 'monitoring' of the situation.

The climate change claims has had more options to confuse and misdirect which is why it has established itself like a puritan religion. But there are holes in there indicating it will fall to pieces one day. The huge howler that the north pole will melt and sea level rise. Completely ignores the Archimedes principle.

When was the last time you heard a news report or documentary refer to north pole melting, sea level rising? It was saturation coverage during the naughties going into the teenies. Trevor MacDonald showing a map of the UK following the 10m sea level rise. Very large parts of the climate change claims have been pulled to pieces in the same way but it is very much a hidden subject. Media pinned its colours to the mast and has insisted that climate change is a thing. Now, they have to either admit they were fooled into promoting the rubbish and therefore weak and susceptible or they knowingly went along with the con. Either way, mass media has locked itself into the lie and there is currently no way out saving face.

The more the consequences of the actions taken to try and manage the climate of an entire planet (think that one through) impact directly on individuals, the more the questions will grow until they can't be suppressed thanks to democracy.

My biggest fear, plastic eating bugs being developed by laboratories. Once out in the environment, our civilisation ends. All electrical insulation destroyed. All machine components destroyed. And there is currently nothing questioning or stopping it just as with the climate change brief.

I've been a bit surprised that the climate lobby haven't been seizing the pandemic to impose their Marxist social control agenda on the planet. I have got some indication that it will now be kicking off over this year. Mass hysteria about non-existent extinctions, mass hysteria about non-existent global temperature rises and the rest.
While these things have all been waffle in conferences and the select few pocketing very large sums of money, it has only been impacting people through having to fund these very generous salaries and investments. But we are moving into a zone now where your basic freedom to choose is going to be significantly undermined. You are going to be forced to change you house heating system that your children will still be paying for in 25 years time. You are going to be forced to drive electric cars that the vast majority of people around the world will never be able to afford because of the replacement battery costs, you are going to be forced to only have access to products locally produced as cargo ships are scuppered, you are going to have a very restricted diet where meat may only be on the table one a month if you are lucky and your disposable income will be slashed as you will have to be taxed to the maximum to pay for all the idiot environmental schemes, welfare and social engineering projects.

There is no climate change, there has been no climate change. The only hope is that this will now go so far over the top people will start asking questions and start asking for actual real proof about the claims being made. The original claimed proof of increasing CO2 levels, the hockey stick or dog leg graph, which the entire climate change argument is based on has been so thoroughly debunked that it has been withdrawn from climate change reports and is not even referenced any more. The same doctoring of data and fiddling the statistical figures to suite continue. Politicians dare not question it because the media is so committed to it they wrongly believe they will be hounded out of office forever. In truth, wherever a political community starts to question the consensus they end up with support and frequently elected to office. People are sceptical about the extent of claims and where the verification is coming from.

Returning air travel back to the days of a select few in 'the jet set' will be a major step back in peoples rights and freedoms. The questions over the veracity of the climate change claims and if there is anything actually being measured over such a tiny time frame within existing statistical variation against whether humans actually would be able to create enough of anything to change the dynamics of a planetary climate system will get louder and have to be suppressed harder and harder. If you raise the question now you are slapped down as some sort of nasty right wing thug to be sectioned. There are huge questions which will not go away.

This is all very civilised, nobody is slinging much mud about and those on my filter list have disappeared.

I'm up for a fight and locking horns to pass the time away. Any takers?

Who sneezed?

sundexena,

that article made me laugh out loud. One check of the biog of the author shows why;
"Crispus Nyaga is a self-taught financial analyst and trader with more than seven years in the industry"
and a chartist spewing chartist numpty hocus-pocus triangles and black lines.

His reporting was also a 30 ft pile of bull crap. BA did not announce a return to flying transatlantic routes.
" Chief Executive
Sean Doyle said on Wednesday.

"There's an immediate opportunity to open up the U.S.,"
Doyle said during CAPA Live, an online industry event.

With the two countries "more or less mirroring each other"
on vaccination, Doyle said, "that should lead to the UK and the
U.S. being able to lead the way in terms of opening up."

Transatlantic re-opening would play to the network strengths
of British Airways and parent group IAG, he added. "The breadth
and depth of the network we have provided there historically has
been a competitive advantage for us.""
That is all aspirational, if this then that. Indeed Crispus Nyaga's report should be pulled as it is materially in accurate and misleading. He may dream of publishing a statement and have the market react to his words alone which he can then list on his CV trying to sell himself as a credible pundit, but I don't buy it. Posted on a bb like this maybe, but not something to take seriously.

Read between the lines;
https://newsweb.oslobors.no/message/530151

The quote about ending long haul does not appear in the RNS about the financing.

The last statement on the intention to withdraw from long haul is in the plan announced on 14th Jan. Subsequent updates only refer to progress of the overall restructure as being accepted. The plan is also 'indicative' and not fully implemented as yet - -and if I know one thing about business when the market changes your business must change to suit and fast.

It is more than likely as Norwegian wind down lh then we will hear about who took the slots, but I think BA may have already revealed they are not in the running since they said they would not be operating out of Gatwick for the interim and Norwegian operated out of Gatwick.

News about Norwegian would not impact much on the sp and if they did announce they were going to continue to operate, say, 5 lh flights to USA for the next year it would probably increase confidence in BA [IAG] because it would indicate their market research indicated a very healthy market to be and that would translate to better and easier sell for BA higher priced seats.

But the major problem is PCR tests from green zone countries. In fact any test from green zones will be a problem with airport delays and we have to wait till 28th June [I think it is] before the first review where testing could be withdrawn.

I am not retired, I am not connected with the commercial airlines or industries, only with RR, I am an independent engineering consultant with far too much time on my hands.

The Norwegian news was about the progress of debt and rights. The travel map on their web site still has Denver left as a destination but you can't book the route. Keeping a route on the official portfolio to keep access to US market perhaps? Don't know the intimate details about what is required to access the US market, but the route map has been updated since I last looked and there is a US destination still listed. They are entitled to return to limited lh if they want. Keep the 360, when the travel sector reopens knives will be out. It is a cut and thrust market in the skies and you can bet there are business teams already in place to snatch markets, routes, sectors and crush opposition. They will have small windows of opportunity. There maybe a bit of a blood bath and mega government bailouts in some areas. This is going to be fun!!!

I posted the report days ago.

Actually we should care about Norwegian because as far as I know they still have their slots to the US and elsewhere and still have their aircraft. They can return to long haul as quickly as they withdraw. If there is evidence to the contrary then great, otherwise they are a direct competitor to BA. HOWEVER, I don't think they will be tooooooo much a problem if they return to lh in the very near future as I expect every and any seat offered will be full.

What is a worry though were the news reports from somewhere, I missed the source, warning of 6hr long queues on the return to UK airports. THAT is of concern because that is enough to put of many travellers and suddenly the planes return to half-full. That one is the 20mm spanner!

SP over 212 so I'm back to break even - -how long that lasts or whether it keeps going up now down to the Downing Street goons. What size spanner will be next in the works!

Need a second tumble drier so I could do with the 250 this week please.

Many thanks!

the vague early May I would guess means in the first week, so around three weeks away. However, I am well informed the delay has been introduced not over liability issues but to hold UK backs o not so hugely out of snc with Europe. Sorry but those are sounds I have been getting. The bloc is supposed to move as one united force [collective] and over there most in the commission regard UK as still part of the bloc and many agent provocateurs within the UK happy to steer us alongside. Pressure to open up from the states will force a choice in Downing St, align with EU timetable or US timetable. We are closer to the US so you can answer that one yourself.

.......... and still no Gove. What IS going on behind the scenes?

Quite on the news front. Has the minister sent the CS off to OK a few details to report back to the airlines before a press release? Or was it a dead-duck meeting and a coordinate feather spitting press release being signed off by the airline captains?

Who knows, stay tuned for more news. However, my tuppence worth is that I will be above my av tomorrow and there will be 'encouraging' news on the testing front. Green light countries later flow test only??????????

Almost back to b/e for me. Good possibility of some useful news for the sector. Airways say test down to £60, so overall and extra £120 pp per flight. Shave a few quid on a minor hotel down grade and the impact on a travel budget is moving into a more manageable window. Let's not forget to let the yank tourist board know that we will be downgrading hotels, dinning out a little less and perhaps refrain from a tour or two to cove the test costs. Let's see what sort of voucher system or subsidy that results in. Business is business so them there hotels need to consider what the returning traveller disposable income is after all the tests. A good enough deal on the Strip and I might overlook the flight cost!!!!!! C'mon yanks - you are supposed to know all about free enterprise. DO ME A DEAL!