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We can't cut CO2 down too far because that'll stop the plants from growing, then we'll starve. The whole circle of life depends on plants. Also, we'd run out of oxygen. If you support cutting down CO2, you're basically supporting the anihilation of animals, including humans. Think about your family. Which members would you like to get rid of when the population has to go down. Of course it never works out the way you want. Maybe it's all of them get wiped out and people the other side of the world get to survive.
We are not going to starve after reaching net zero. Plants / vegetables are usually carbon neutral. Meats will need carbon offsetting.
Below about 180 parts per million and all plants die and with them all of life.
Pre industrial level was about 280 ppm.
Current level is 425 and rising.
China emits a third of global c02. The UK emits 1%.
China is heavily coal dependent for energy production and every year builds more coal fired power stations than the total electricity out put equivalent for the whole UK grid which now uses no coal.
I kwhr of Chinese electricity emits 582 grams co2
1kwhr of UK electricity emits 129 grams co2
we will though -
The industrial base of the UK will be wrecked and we will all be beggars.
And China India, the USA won't be stopping what they do now.
We will have nothing and the situation won't have changed at all except that China and the big emitters will continue making it worse.
China, India, the USA and Russia have GROWING emissions. China is building coal power stations all over Africa.
Idealistic nonsense gets us nowhere.
Why? Because we will switch to renewables and hydrogen?
I know it is idealistic balderdash when I read phrases like 'Meat will need carbon offsetting'....
EDIT: the other thing wrong was the remark that plants and vegetables are carbon neutral.... Well, they might be if you grew them in your garden and used hand tools to do it, but if you are ploughing up fields with great big tractors they certainly are not carbon neutral, not to mention shipping them to your house. There is a huge amount of fossil fuel content in salads and vegetables and wheat and corn. Not only in fuel to work the ground and transport it, but in the artificial fertiliser. Oh - and no animal poo allowed Tony - those animals need (according to you) carbon offsetting.
By the way Tony - did you know that you breathe out a third of a ton of co2 each year? You do. The average human breathes out a kg of co2 each day.
I calculated during the winter with all my food, spending and fuel consumption I emit a little under 4 tonnes of co2. I didn't take account of breathing though, so I am now about 4 and a bit tonnes. Very disappointing - or perhaps not really.
EDIT: the other thing wrong was the remark that plants and vegetables are carbon neutral.... Well, they might be if you grew them in your garden and used hand tools to do it, but if you are ploughing up fields with great big tractors they certainly are not carbon neutral, not to mention shipping them to your house. There is a huge amount of fossil fuel content in salads and vegetables and wheat and corn. Not only in fuel to work the ground and transport it, but in the artificial fertiliser. Oh - and no animal poo allowed Tony - those animals need (according to you) carbon offsetting.
By the way Tony - did you know that you breathe out a third of a ton of co2 each year? You do. The average human breathes out a kg of co2 each day.
I calculated during the winter with all my food, spending and fuel consumption I emit a little under 4 tonnes of co2. I didn't take account of breathing though, so I am now about 4 and a bit tonnes. Very disappointing - or perhaps not really.
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At last -a bit of common sense.
A woman is a literal woman.
www.bbc.co.uk
We can all now stop with the Alice and Wonderland nonsense that men who wish they were women are actually women and hopefully that men who are not that good in the men's boxing world can get in a ring saying they are women and knock a good female boxer into next week and walk away with the trophy.
A woman is a literal woman.
UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex - live updates
Judges say the "concept of sex is binary" while cautioning that the landmark ruling should not be seen as victory of one side over another.
www.bbc.co.uk
We can all now stop with the Alice and Wonderland nonsense that men who wish they were women are actually women and hopefully that men who are not that good in the men's boxing world can get in a ring saying they are women and knock a good female boxer into next week and walk away with the trophy.
I'm fine with someone identifying as one sex or another, but against such a legal definition that allows men(identifying as women) and women(identifying as men) to compete in each other sports as there is a biological difference, that could lead to an unfair advantage.
The simplest way around it though is to have 4 classes. Male. Female. Trans Male. Trans Female.
Seems fair to me.
Remember though, that most of the extreme level criticism is coming from people who don't care about the sports, but are only interested in spitting out hate.
The simplest way around it though is to have 4 classes. Male. Female. Trans Male. Trans Female.
Seems fair to me.
Remember though, that most of the extreme level criticism is coming from people who don't care about the sports, but are only interested in spitting out hate.
That's hate speech against trans lesbians, like me, and very unfair. I should be able to compete against all women, not just the trans ones.
I have no problem with men dressing up and acting like women, or women doing the same. I have no interest at all in objecting to the way adult people act in their private lives. People's sexuality is their own business and they should be left alone to act the way they want in their personal lives. I'm very happy for them. No one should be persecuted for their sexuality. It is a private matter.
Where there are problems is when absolute fools start telling the rest of us that biological males must be allowed into female changing rooms, or to fight girls in boxing matches. Where it goes very badly wrong is when people tell us we must start accepting ridiculous falsehood such as that gender is not a biological thing, and that anyone who says, 'I don't agree with that', is as Andy said, ' a hater'.
Any of us who have not taken in the koolaid of the trans fanatic front KNOWS full well that that is wrong.
It gets VERY irritating when people tell us I have to refer to a trans woman who is biologically male as 'her', and that if we don't we may be cancelled or lose our employmemt.
DON'T tell me how to use my own language and what words I can and can't use.
EVEN worse - when women like JK Rowling and many others object to the word 'woman' being appropriated by biological males who insist that they are entitled to use female only spaces,and are then persecuted for expressing plain common sense and threatened with all kinds of horrible attacks, I wonder if our society or some parts of it have gone completely mad.
Let's be clear - female lecturers and professors have lost their jobs over this stuff when craven, cowardly management teams threw them to the wolves. These victims are not in small numbers. There are plenty. This is insane and wrong in the worst way. Some of us have entered a crazy Alice in Wonderland state where we all are expected to agree with insane propositions which are manifestly false and even dangerous.
In many areas of employment, such as the public sector, the NHS, and universities, this stuff is rife.
There is a tribunal going on right now (I haven't heard of it concluding yet) in which a nurse called Sandie Peggie has been suspended for objecting to a man going by the name Dr Beth Upton being in the all female changing room. She may yet lose her job. In my view and I suspect in the view of 95% of the population, a woman getting changed in a female changing room is entitled not to have a male walk in and use the space himself, even if he does wear a dress. If he has the genitals of a male - that is what he is, however he conducts himself in private.
Anyone who thinks this situation is right or in any way normal needs to get some help.
The simplest way around it Andybike is that men are men and women are women, as far as sport and legal matters are concerned, but that men who wish they were women are perfectly entitled to dress and act like women and go about their business without demanding to compete in women's sport or use female only facilities.
To say the above is NOT persecution or removing rights. Men have no right to use female changing rooms and lavatories. Trans people can enjoy their lives any way they like as long as they don't infringe the rights of other people. We all have to accept that other people have long established rights to be protected from the foibles of people's personal oddities. Just ask the Naked Rambler... Remember him? A lot of people tolerated his very odd and strange behaviour marching about the country in a rucksack and a pair of boots and nothing else, but he came under a huge amount of scrutiny in Scotland. He seemed intent on being naked whatever everyone else thought and brought a huge amount of trouble on himself as a result - especially in Scotland. I think his name was Steven or Stephen Gough.
www.bbc.co.uk
Where there are problems is when absolute fools start telling the rest of us that biological males must be allowed into female changing rooms, or to fight girls in boxing matches. Where it goes very badly wrong is when people tell us we must start accepting ridiculous falsehood such as that gender is not a biological thing, and that anyone who says, 'I don't agree with that', is as Andy said, ' a hater'.
Any of us who have not taken in the koolaid of the trans fanatic front KNOWS full well that that is wrong.
It gets VERY irritating when people tell us I have to refer to a trans woman who is biologically male as 'her', and that if we don't we may be cancelled or lose our employmemt.
DON'T tell me how to use my own language and what words I can and can't use.
EVEN worse - when women like JK Rowling and many others object to the word 'woman' being appropriated by biological males who insist that they are entitled to use female only spaces,and are then persecuted for expressing plain common sense and threatened with all kinds of horrible attacks, I wonder if our society or some parts of it have gone completely mad.
Let's be clear - female lecturers and professors have lost their jobs over this stuff when craven, cowardly management teams threw them to the wolves. These victims are not in small numbers. There are plenty. This is insane and wrong in the worst way. Some of us have entered a crazy Alice in Wonderland state where we all are expected to agree with insane propositions which are manifestly false and even dangerous.
In many areas of employment, such as the public sector, the NHS, and universities, this stuff is rife.
There is a tribunal going on right now (I haven't heard of it concluding yet) in which a nurse called Sandie Peggie has been suspended for objecting to a man going by the name Dr Beth Upton being in the all female changing room. She may yet lose her job. In my view and I suspect in the view of 95% of the population, a woman getting changed in a female changing room is entitled not to have a male walk in and use the space himself, even if he does wear a dress. If he has the genitals of a male - that is what he is, however he conducts himself in private.
Anyone who thinks this situation is right or in any way normal needs to get some help.
Sandie Peggie is entitled not to have to undress in front of men. She should NEVER have been suspended for objecting.
The simplest way around it Andybike is that men are men and women are women, as far as sport and legal matters are concerned, but that men who wish they were women are perfectly entitled to dress and act like women and go about their business without demanding to compete in women's sport or use female only facilities.
To say the above is NOT persecution or removing rights. Men have no right to use female changing rooms and lavatories. Trans people can enjoy their lives any way they like as long as they don't infringe the rights of other people. We all have to accept that other people have long established rights to be protected from the foibles of people's personal oddities. Just ask the Naked Rambler... Remember him? A lot of people tolerated his very odd and strange behaviour marching about the country in a rucksack and a pair of boots and nothing else, but he came under a huge amount of scrutiny in Scotland. He seemed intent on being naked whatever everyone else thought and brought a huge amount of trouble on himself as a result - especially in Scotland. I think his name was Steven or Stephen Gough.
Naked Rambler: The UK's oddest legal stand-off
Stephen Gough has spent more than six years in Scottish prisons for refusing to put his clothes on. Why?
www.bbc.co.uk
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Planet 124 light-years from Earth could be ‘teeming with life’
"In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet's atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.
The two gases - dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl disulfide, or DMDS - involved in Webb's observations of the planet named K2-18 b are generated on Earth by living organisms, primarily microbial life such as marine phytoplankton - algae."
www.independent.co.uk
Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet
“This is a revolutionary moment,” Dr. Madhusudhan said. “It’s the first time humanity has seen potential biosignatures on a habitable planet.”
"In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet's atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.
The two gases - dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl disulfide, or DMDS - involved in Webb's observations of the planet named K2-18 b are generated on Earth by living organisms, primarily microbial life such as marine phytoplankton - algae."
Planet 124 light-years from Earth could be ‘teeming with life’
Researchers say exoplanet K2-18b offers the strongest signs yet of alien life in groundbreaking study
www.independent.co.uk
Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet
“This is a revolutionary moment,” Dr. Madhusudhan said. “It’s the first time humanity has seen potential biosignatures on a habitable planet.”
This is a veryy significant result. The probability of DMS detection at this level being due to chance is only 3%. Since we don't know of any other mechanism for it to exist other than being produced by microbes, we might just have a water world here with microbes on it.Planet 124 light-years from Earth could be ‘teeming with life’
"In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet's atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.
The two gases - dimethyl sulfide, or DMS, and dimethyl disulfide, or DMDS - involved in Webb's observations of the planet named K2-18 b are generated on Earth by living organisms, primarily microbial life such as marine phytoplankton - algae."
Planet 124 light-years from Earth could be ‘teeming with life’
Researchers say exoplanet K2-18b offers the strongest signs yet of alien life in groundbreaking study
Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet
“This is a revolutionary moment,” Dr. Madhusudhan said. “It’s the first time humanity has seen potential biosignatures on a habitable planet.”
This is how life got started on earth. It doesn't even need to be restricted to microbial life. There could be other sea life. We only have evidence of the microbial life forms.
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NOBODY has suggested any such thing. It simply means that 'sex' is a biological fact and not something you can decide one morning when you wake up and fancy being something different. This ought to be just about the least controversial thing anyone could ever say.
NOBODY has recommended stopping a male person from going about as if he was a female person if he wants to. I couldn't care less if anyone does that. It is none of my business. However - he is NOT entitled to go into the women's changing rooms at the baths where my granddaughters may be expecting to undress without men being around. I would expect that any decent 'trans-woman' would agree and keep that space private for female people.
Nobody cares what adults get up to in their private life, as long as whatever it is respects the rights of others.
Strongest evidence of life yet found on planet beyond solar system, scientists say
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists say they found indications of potential life on K2-18b, a planet outside our solar system.
The chief of the AA has said that they're going to cut down on EV training because there's a downward trend in sales, and he thinks there won't be enough of them in the future to warrant the money spent on training. What does he know that every media company doesn't?
www.telegraph.co.uk
Electric cars break down more than petrol vehicles, warns AA
Motoring association says belief in better reliability of EVs is a ‘common misconception’
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