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I'm not claiming you're denying climate change. I was pointing out that the 'natural' factors lead to change on a much longer timeframe - thousands or tens of thousands of years, sometimes longer but since industrialisation we've managed to change that to hundreds or years, and getting smaller...

If we genuinely want to change things there is only one way we can do it and that's to make it so that capitalists will make more money from renewable energy and recyclable materials than fossil fuels etc. so they divest their interests into renewable. It's a sad indictment of our species but...

You do understand the issue is about the rate of change don't you? No-one has said that the climate hasn't changed over the history of the planet for various reasons, but there is no evidence taken from core samples etc that suggest the climate has ever changed as quickly as this unless it can...

I'm not trying to discredit a little girl. I agree with her that something needs to be done and she's highlighting the issue very well. But the answer isn't going to come from people going around talking about it, regardless of age. It'll come from providing genuine answers and alternatives to...

Her parents could've made her get her education first rather than sailing round the world. But my suspicion is they've encouraged this route rather than education. Rather than letting her enjoy growing up in a 'normal' manner they seem to have been drumming into her from an early age how bad...

She must be very high-functioning then. Can't believe any parent would think "we've got an autistic child so clearly the best thing to do is put her in the global media spotlight and giving presentations and speeches around the world to thousands of people and also putting her in the firing line...

Not sure if you mean climate change in general or this thread. Problem with climate change in general is that those who are the worst polluters deny it, arguably not due to the science but because they don't want to lose the economic 'advantage' and the companies involved have a great deal of...

Politics relies heavily on spin and leaking. If something will give you leverage over your opponent it will in some way find its way out, even if just in rumours. David Davis spent months saying how much preparation had been done and we were well on the way to getting a deal sorted, he just...

But if Alexander or his team did have an alternative they genuinely believed in why would he keep it secret? Wouldn't he want the attention and show he's trying. It also makes him look better as it makes the EU negotiators look like they're obstructing the process. OR the EU have received...

This could also be a factor in the ACL discussion. The shorter studs may help in playing our way but enabling quicker passing and movement, but also causes more slipping extending the knee a bit more than is ideal. Do that repeatedly and eventually something is going to give.

Pretty much echoes my thoughts. I'm not a religionist at all and feel it's more power hungry and greedy people playing on others greatest fear with full knowledge they'll never have to provide a scrap of evidence that what they say is true. But while religion exists there needs to be an...

Haven't heard the term 'slapper' in a long time.

But we've had a GE since the referendum. Surely therefore any parliament would reflect the importance of Brexit if the people wished it so. There was nothing to stop them voting in the one-issue partyUKIP to make sure the job got done if they'd wanted. They didn't - in fact they pretty much...

I have done that too (100% compound interest every time you pass go, which is cheap by today's payday loans) but by that point thankfully most of the time most are ready to just thrown the towel in. It involves me having to write stuff down and keep a record of what they owe etc and it just...

I thought it was an interesting thought. Just because two people of a different ethnicity genuinely look alike doesn't make it racist to highlight that point. We've pointed out in the past how alike Westbrooke and Bayliss looked. If one of the posters on here who's black joins in does it become...

Biggest loss of shareholder value in companies by a long long way is poor executive decision making. Average workforce making those kind of errors would at best be given a warning as to future conduct, most more than likely sacked. Exec though get huge pay rises and massive bonuses.

So what if a Labour PM in future had done exactly what Alexander tried to do and used this episode as their justification? Or as tony put it, if a post GE govt used is as a means to limit time on parliament discussing/passing legislation to prevent Brexit being cancelled? I assume you'd be quite...

Good call, as long as your health is OK. Someone I know got offered a huge deal more than theirs was worth to take it out and chose not to, which in 90% of cases would be the best thing to do at the moment. Found out a month later they had cancer and died two months after that. Family ended up...

For once I agree. Don't think the state should be running things like holiday companies. But mainly because the state would provide the cash to get it up and running and it'd end up being privatised again and the govt would once again get advice setting the IPO way below value and the private...

It does seem a huge flaw in the entire system that people can set themselves up to benefit from something failing by taking positions like short-selling. It was one of the first things that made me look into how the entire system works and whether it's fit for purpose. It should be at most that...