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“Collapse of civilization on the horizon” because of climate change declared Sir David Attenborough
The collapse of civilization and extinction of much of the natural world is “on the horizon” due to climate change, Sir David Attenborough declared at the opening day UN climate talks in Poland. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesNice man that made some very entertaining documentaries, but don't buy his premise however that “civilization collapse” is on the horizon.
Dec 04th, 2018 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse -1More ominous tales of disaster from dreadful imminent global “climate change” is being franticly promoted by Globalists. Chile has embraced lowering its carbon footprint with enormous investments in solar and wind turbine protects and I'm all for fighting pollution and adapting to renewable energy projects when it makes economic sense.
Hysterical “chicken littles” however are trying to convince a gullible world populace that increased CO2 is causing air temperature to rise. However, the truth is not certain, and climate activists may have it backwards. You can easily read about how the Climatic Research Unit in England had been manipulating temperature data to support claims of global warming. There is strong evidence that global temperatures stopped increasing about 15 years ago. (There will be spikes – up and down – but the longer-range temperature trend is downward.)
“Ecological” Globalists are promoting the mandatory enforcement of evil carbon taxes and radically changingy our dietary habits by “educating” us about the dreadful harm to the earth by such ridiculous rants about consuming meat, taxing dairy farms for excessive methane emissions and redistributing wealth in what they consider “equitable.” In short, in my humble opinion, it's all bullsh*t!
“taxing dairy farms for excessive methane emissions” Like I told K.D. Lang when she became unpopular with the ranchers on this very issue. Tell them it's all a load of bull-shit.
Dec 04th, 2018 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse -1We can clearly see since the start of the industrial age, the effects of human population increase and industrial activities has on the planet. If the maxim is to do no harm then that is what we should be moving towards. While remembering we cannot walk without bending a blade of grass. There should be no reason why prudent care shouldn't lead to profitable successes, as is already occurring. The idea that everything is sustainable if we keep peeing in pool is not a very convincing argument.
”Chile's free market means there is a distinct lack of anti-pollution laws, either for industry or commuters. And as a result, Santiago has become desperately polluted. In 1992, Santiago had the fifth worst air pollution of any city in the world, with levels three to four times higher than the upper limits recommended by the World Health Organization.
Some 150 industries in Santiago emit 100 times the pollution recommended by particulate norms. Only 30 percent of the city's 600,000 cars have catalytic converters. Due to a lack of public works programs (and an equal lack of business interest), the city has nearly 600 miles of dusty, unpaved roads. The result is a thick, purplish smog that literally chokes the city.”
http://www.rrojasdatabank.info/econom~1.htm
Perhaps somebody could get this message to POTUS. He just may wake up to the fact that climate changes are definitely causing problems to the world. He may even not withdraw from the Paris Weather agreement. Miracles never cease!!
Dec 04th, 2018 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I knew my post would probably upset one of our SJW Snowflakes to react. Citing data from 1992 has nothing to do with what's happening today in Santiago. The idiot Terrence Hill needs to focus on the really nasty polluters like China, not Chile.
Dec 04th, 2018 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your the one who is claiming an economic miracle for your country and that “Ecological” Globalists are promoting .. it's all bullsh*t!“ When shown evidence that contradicts both your assertions, you rely on two fallacies, moving the goal-posts, and an argumentum ad hominem. A fact is a statement that can be proven true, while an opinion is a statement that cannot be proven true. So you stay with opinion and I'll stick to the facts.
Dec 05th, 2018 - 12:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0”Knowledge of the world depends on the power of drawing general inferences from individual examples; and he is the most likely to be correct who has the greatest number of facts at his command.“ Charles William Day
https://www.numbeo.com/pollution/in/Santiago
The Chilean journal Apsi reports:
”The liquid that emerges from the millions of faucets in the homes and alleys of Santiago have levels of copper, iron, magnesium and lead which exceed by many times the maximum tolerable norms. [The lands that] supply the fruits and vegetables of the Metropolitan Region are irrigated with waters that exceed by 1000 times the maximum quantity of coliforms acceptable. [This is why Santiago] has levels of hepatitis, typhoid, and parasites which are not seen in any other part of the continent.” (35)
The problem is not limited to Santiago. Half the country has become a desert under misguided industrial and environmental policies. A study by the Central Bank of Chile estimates that by the year 2025, Chile's native forests will have disappeared at current rates of extraction. (36) The Bank also reports that out of nine fish stocks off the Chilean coast, only one (sardines) has increased between 1985 and 1993. Five are in dramatic decline, having fallen between 30 and 96 percent. (37)
Chicago economist Ronald Coase, you may recall, won a Nobel prize for a theorem explaining how markets can resolve externalities like pollution. Chile — the Chicago boys' own experiment — strongly suggests otherwise.
https://www.numbeo.com/pollution/in/Santiagoo/econom~1.htm
I'm happy to join the “Snowflakes” on the world's environment issues...
Dec 05th, 2018 - 02:05 am - Link - Report abuse +1You surely can't really believe that we are not polluting the fcuk out of the planet...
The sky is falling!
Dec 06th, 2018 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse -1Force some very minor reductions from China/Russia/India if you want to make a radical impact.
The only thing that is falling is Drumf apparently.
Dec 06th, 2018 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Whatever you say, Trenf hill...
Dec 06th, 2018 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse -1JB
Dec 06th, 2018 - 10:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Whatever ...”
I wouldn't want you to think I wasn't paying attention, but frankly I've had more interesting bowel movements.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde
“You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.” Edward Flaherty
TH
Dec 07th, 2018 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ I've had more interesting bowel movements”.....I'm quite sure you have, as can only imagine how inconvenient it must be for you, to try to speak, and crap, at the same time.
JB
Dec 07th, 2018 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You must be speaking from your own personal experience. Try speaking the truth the truth for change, it might help you out of your present dilemma.
Diarrhea of the mouth; constipation of the ideas.
We're doomed! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!
Dec 08th, 2018 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Paris is burning, and the world is about to end.
“A YELLOWSTONE volcano eruption could trigger a volcanic winter, which would plunge the globe into freezing conditions and threaten to cut off food supplies, experts have warned.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1055774/Yellowstone-eruption-volcano-supervolcano-national-park-facts-caldera-active-latest-news
Chicureo aka “the fascista hustler”
Dec 08th, 2018 - 02:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0TROLL ALERT
TH
Dec 08th, 2018 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I didn't ask for your silly advice, far less for you to list all your maladies.
IDAWI.
Looks like the COLLAPSE of Macron... Oh my!
Dec 08th, 2018 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Donald J. Trump on Twitter: ”The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France. People do not want to pay large sums of money, much to third world countries (that are questionably run), in order to maybe protect the environment. Chanting “We Want Trump!” Love France.”
JB
Dec 08th, 2018 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you don't want advice returned, don't proffer it. PIMBA.
TH
Dec 08th, 2018 - 08:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Don't proffer it.”
And exactly where did I “proffer” it, Numb Nuts ?
JB
Dec 08th, 2018 - 08:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Read what you write bozo, I'm not here to read your posts out loud to you.
Jack
Dec 08th, 2018 - 09:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bozo the clown just called you a “Bozo”
Apparently he's having a mentally challenged day as his buddies in France are spewing thousands of tons of additional evil carbon into the atmosphere... Oh my!
Chicureo aka “the fascista hustler”
Dec 08th, 2018 - 10:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0TROLL ALERT
Jack
Dec 09th, 2018 - 12:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Terry just earlier my beloved country has a large portion of desert. It came a a terrible surprise shock, as I always thought we had instead an enourmous national Atacama rain forest located in the North. Someone tells me it's the “driest desert in the world!” I never knew...
You know when a Bozo the Clown Terry calls someone “bozo” you can easily conclude the boy is having a very mentally challenged day as he hasn't been able to contribute not one simple argument to counter solid evidence why he's not a complete ignorant idiot. What would be best for his bedtime with a large glass of warm milk, chocolate chip cookies and an entire bottle of Valium. It's the most merciful and kind thing to suggest.
Chicureo aka “the fascista hustler”
Dec 09th, 2018 - 02:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0A Pillock like you needs to keep worrying about Drumf and the French while your forests and fish stocks become depleted. while “half the country has become a desert under misguided... Santiago has levels of hepatitis, typhoid, and parasites which are not seen in any other part of the continent.” Due to contaminated irrigation water. But, don't worry ”Chicago economist Ronald Coase, you may recall, won a Nobel prize for a theorem explaining how markets can resolve externalities like pollution.
I owe a great apology to Mr. Terrence Hill for opening my eyes to the horrible disaster of a country that I was earlier mistaken to belive was fabulous.
Dec 09th, 2018 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Things importantly I've learned from Terry:
1. Wine does not come out of my kitchen tap, but inexplicably instead WATER!
2. That a large portion of my country is shockingly covered by a dry DESERT!
3. That my beloved Santiago is infested with ”hepatitis, typhoid, and parasites which are not seen in any other part of the continent.”
My question is why didn't anyone before advised me? If I'd known earlier, I could have moved somewhere politically democratically progressive, safe and prosperous, like Venezuela, Nicaragua or Cuba.
@TH
Dec 09th, 2018 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“JB
Read what you write bozo, I'm not here to read your posts out loud to you”.
I don't need to read what I have written, as first I don't forget what I write, far less deny it two hours later, and second, I would never offer advice to an idiot like you, it would be a waste of time...although I must admit, I am prepared to waste 30 secs per day on you....have I told you that you are amusing ? My friends and I always have a good laugh...
@Chicureo
Instead of wasting chocoloate chip cookies on Terry, wouldn't dog biscuits be more appropriate (no offense to the dogs, wonderful animals).
Regarding his explanation as to why Chile is this, that and the next, I believe we all owe him a great round of applause....such a nice man....what would we do without him ?
JB
Dec 09th, 2018 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“don't need to read what I have written” Well I'll remind you “can only imagine how inconvenient it must be for you, to try to speak, and crap, at the same time.” To which I responded. “You must be speaking from your own personal experience.” You followed with. “I didn't ask for...” Well you most certainly did.
TH
Dec 10th, 2018 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0that wasn't advice, Numb Nuts.......it was statement of fact....and I was just imagining your pathetic figure, head prostrated over potty.....
JB
Dec 10th, 2018 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well unlike you I haven't stuck my head one.
Well you have sure cleaned a lot of them.....remember ? your first job......the one in which you got a promotion after 10 years ?
Dec 11th, 2018 - 02:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0JB
Dec 11th, 2018 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“remember your first job..” Mine was as an ECM technician which took three years plus, of full-time training. As I've proven with my displayed commemoration tankard from 18 squadron. Where I was in direct opposition to real communists during the Cuban missile crisis
https://imgur.com/a/WDPeU
“The Valiant element subsequently acquired sole title to the squadron numberplate before moving to Finningley in 1958 where it was promptly renumbered as No 18 Sqd.”
Figure 6 shows a typical selection of the equipment fitted to No 18 Sqn’s Valiants.
https://www. rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/Research/RAF-Historical-Society-Journals/Journal-28-Seminar-Electronic-Warfare.pdf
So thats my record, you as an army reservist must have been in the pioneer corp. As that seems to tie in with your fixation about toilets. Did you have to guard them to prevent any from reds trying to steal them? I guess you didn't record your service history from the toilet stall wall?
TH
Dec 11th, 2018 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are the typical “chato de galocha”.....when someone meets you, and asks you how you are - out of sheer politeness - you probably go on to tell them how you are.....who cares ? likewise, why lie about your first job ? cleaning bogs is a noble profession, like any other....did you also clean out the 'paper' receptacles beside the pots ?
Regarding your “tankard”, I can get one at any mall, and have whatever I want inscribed on it...even that I was the General in command in Haiti....
JB
Dec 11th, 2018 - 05:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't have to lie since my record is maintained with my personal memento, and the verifable squadron were I served from the RAF museum.
It is yourself who conceals your shame about your service record, since nothing verifiable is forthcoming says it all.
@TH
Dec 11th, 2018 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's what you say, bozo.....prove it. But again, who cares ?
“...who conceals your shame about your service record, ...”. Nothing to be ashamed about, just did my duty as per Brazilian law, and nothing to conceal.....why is it even relevant to this discussion ? Ah, I get it, 'attack' is the best method of defense...when you have hit a brick wall. You could've tried calling me a fascist, or a racist.....
Are you daft ? (rhetorical question).
JB
Dec 11th, 2018 - 07:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“....prove it” Already did with two URL's
“did my duty” in the pioneer corp, if not you'd leap at the chance to prove otherwise.
“You could've tried calling me a fascist,” and proved it with your own words.
Brazil's corruption scandals reach Lula da Silva: ...
12 Jack Bauer; “..'Military dictatorship', ..history is showing,.. that it was good for Brazil
http://en .mercopress.com/2015/07/17/brazil-s-corruption-scandals-reach-lula-da-silva-probe-into-influence-peddling/comments#comment406602
Brazil supportive of Mercosur ...
14 Jack Bauer; ”.....but there is still one thing that can save Brazil...the Military..
Brazil waiting for 50bn dollars …
50 Jack Bauer; “Military taking over again, ….. they did it to prevent Brazil from being handed over to the communists. ... the Military , I hope, would be there again to save Brazil
Brazil remembers the 50th anniversary of the coupe…
15 Jack Bauer; “..Am pretty sure that military are accompanying all this … I hope they DO take over...”
http://en.mercopress.com/2014/03/31/brazil-remembers-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-coup-that-led-to-21-years-of-military-rule/comments#comment318071
TH
Dec 11th, 2018 - 09:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Terry Darling, I don't leap at the chance to prove anything about myself, first because I 'm used to dealing with normal people who aren't paranoid idiots who think everyone is a liar,
and second, I do not have to prove myself to anyone, least of all to an idiot like you.
But if you feel happy because you think you've proved something - other than you are an idiot - so be it.
Regarding your “revelations” about me, what exactly is your objective ? I have no reason to hide anything, because if I did, I wouldn't publish my opinions for all to read...
Are you sure you aren't daft ? did you forget to take your pills ??
But keep the entertainment coming....Numb Nuts.
JB
Dec 11th, 2018 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Who think everyone is a liar” I'm usually pretty well disposed to most. But, in your instance as you are an incorrigible liar. As I have shown many times before, and I'm quite prepared to parade the evidence again, in the face of your futile denials .
“I do not have to prove myself” Then your claim to military service is bullshit, what was it heel-spurs, bribery or the like. Your the one claiming, thus you bear the burden to prove, like I have. I hadn't given a second thought.
But its perfectly clear it's just another of your pretensions. For all of your life you've been an utter nobody want-to-be.
Come, show one instance where you have ever been able to refute anything I have claimed. Nor, conversely can you show any occasion where you have proved anything you've claimed as true. Here's a chance to set the record, no you won't, and we both no why.
TH
Dec 12th, 2018 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why do I have to prove anything to you, or to anyone ? I'm not trying to. Anyway, d'you think I care if YOU believe me ? Not in the slightest. There is no record to set straight, except in your wee brain....careful how you sit, you might squash it.
JB
Dec 12th, 2018 - 09:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I'm not trying to” That's because its an impossibility to prove a lie.
”Regarding your “tankard”, I can get one at any mall, and have whatever I want inscribed on it
Not within thirty minutes of being challenged as to authenticity of a claim to being involved in the Cuban missile crisis, and posting such a rebuttal you couldn't.
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